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Archive 2015 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica

  
 
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


I just received my LOMO LC-A 32mm Art lens in the Leica M mount. I bought it for fun use on my MDa (an M4 w/o vf or rangefinder) as this lens is really meant for film use due to the close nodal point of the lens and the sensor on digital Leicas. It's why most non Leica wideangle lenses don't work too well. Magenta borders and edge smearing.
What it does do is give one crazy super saturated colours and various colour shifts.
I' m looking forward to using it with film but could not resist trying it out on a digital M240. Like putting ketchup on a prime rib...

(fyi it is nicely made out of brass and glass, is rangefinder coupled, comes w a 2 year warranty - but how can u tell if it is broken? - and is the cheapest new M lens available)
















This is what the lens looks like on the camera








Jul 04, 2015 at 06:20 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Cool I haven't seen photos from that lens on a Leica M before


Jul 05, 2015 at 12:31 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Wow! Crazy rendering! I want one too!


Jul 05, 2015 at 12:44 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Doesn't everyone put ketchup on a prime rib?


Jul 05, 2015 at 02:02 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


I did this YEARS ago.. I have one for the M240 and one for the Nex-A7 series cameras.
Built them for my wife, she uses the LCA lens on trips.
I made mine out of lens caps and FEMO.



Jul 05, 2015 at 02:39 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


adamdewilde wrote:
I did this YEARS ago.. I have one for the M240 and one for the Nex-A7 series cameras.
Built them for my wife, she uses the LCA lens on trips.
I made mine out of lens caps and FEMO.


I'd love to see what yours looks like! Is it rangefinder coupled?



Jul 05, 2015 at 04:11 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica



philber wrote:
Doesn't everyone put ketchup on a prime rib?

Quel sacrilège !!!



Jul 05, 2015 at 05:37 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Desmolicious wrote:
I'd love to see what yours looks like! Is it rangefinder coupled?


Nope, I'm not that skilled. Though I did toy with the idea of doing up CAD work and having a CNC shop make me a prototype (it wasn't the cost, but more the fact that my wife didn't want to use the lens on the M240). She much preferred using it on her little NEX camera (because the crop factor made it more similar to a 50mm lens). And I made the one for the NEX camera a few years before the M-mount one.. So she was more use to the crop by that point. She actually doesn't even use the LCAs anymore, since she's so use to it on a crop camera (she won't even use it on the Sony A7 cameras).

I had one broken LCA, that's the one I used to make the NEX one. And later I took one of the 3 working LCAs, the most beatup one. The one that has an M mount was a little more difficult, as it is somewhat recessed. And the one that has an E-mount, was much easier to make.
The E-mount my wife uses regularly, so it's on her NEX. The M mount I would have to find (think it's at my studio still, tested with strobes a long time ago).

Optics wise, it's not bad. Pretty sharp when you nail focus and theirs no stray light to cause flare.


BTW my wife took a look at your images, and said that you need to purposely miss focus a bit, it'll make your images more authentic


HAHAHA... Again I said I used body caps and FEMO. Trust me, mine's not that cool. But I love the idea that LOMO made this.. I just couldn't justify the price, since I rarely if ever use the ones I made.

Weird thing is.. Mine doesn't have that purple fringing you get from wide angle lenses.. Not on either of my systems.



Jul 05, 2015 at 09:54 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


adamdewilde wrote:
BTW my wife took a look at your images, and said that you need to purposely miss focus a bit, it'll make your images more authentic


Too funny! On the LOMO website, even from the pros they hired to demo it, most of the snaps are blurry. So I thought that maybe that's how it's gonna be. But no, this lens can take 'sharp' pics. I guess I need to mis-focus a few times if I want legit results!
(Which I'm sure will happen once I use it on my MDa)



Jul 05, 2015 at 12:55 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


That's tiny! Smallest lens for Leica?


Jul 05, 2015 at 02:53 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


AmbientMike wrote:
That's tiny! Smallest lens for Leica?


Yep. It allows you to slip an M240 into a large pocket, almost as if it did not have a lens on it.
I checked it on all my M bodies and found:

Mounts and removes easily on:

M240
M3
MDa

Mounts but a bit of a struggle to remove:

Bessa R3A

Does not fit at all:

Both my Minolta CLEs

Chickened out trying to fit because I love it too much and it is the best camera ever made:

Leica M5

(FYI on the M240 it pulls up the 35mm frame lines)
I also tested the focus accuracy with my M240 and there are no issues there.



Jul 05, 2015 at 11:39 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Wondering how it would compare to the sharp 35 Summaron for size? Probably wouldn't get the funky rendering, though, colors more subdued imo


Jul 06, 2015 at 08:15 AM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


AmbientMike wrote:
That's tiny! Smallest lens for Leica?


Nope, there's a 28/4 that's even smaller. A lot more expensive though

http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2012/02/new-gear-super-triplet-perar-28mm-f4-smalles-m-mount-lens-ever



Jul 06, 2015 at 09:19 AM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Cross processed to give it more of that LOMO look..



And I just noticed this! A crop from the pic above showing a dragonfly! Man, is this LOMO lens passably sharp if you catch something in the middle of the frame!




Jul 07, 2015 at 11:53 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Like ketchup on prime rib - the LOMO Art lens on a Leica


Desmolicious wrote:
Too funny! On the LOMO website, even from the pros they hired to demo it, most of the snaps are blurry. So I thought that maybe that's how it's gonna be. But no, this lens can take 'sharp' pics. I guess I need to mis-focus a few times if I want legit results!
(Which I'm sure will happen once I use it on my MDa)


Yeah it's sharp when you nail focus. Considering..



Jul 09, 2015 at 01:17 PM





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