p.9 #3 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
Nice R80 images Jack! You nailed the focus on the second!
A couple of my own R80 images to complement Jack's! Both wide open as well...minimal PP and no sharpening
Gregg
p.9 #4 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
Thanks freaklikeyou!
As always, it's luck, timing and luck, again.
This is what I saw 3 minutes before running upstairs and grabbing my camera. Light was setting just right, and I am no 'strobe' or umbrellas photog, just a guy chirping my way into a shot.
p.9 #6 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
I've posted these in the "Leica-R lens thread" as well...
It's been really bad weather here the past days, so I've not been out that much trying out my new lens. Finally I got myself a 85mm-ish lens: The 80 Summilux-R for the A7:
p.9 #8 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
It is a pity, you have really made some outstanding images with it. The bird shots really display the Mandler character as I see it. But I also understand your point. I went through a clean out phase some time ago and let go of some fantastic glass - I simply wasn't using it enough.
The R80 really has a unique signature but I feel it is a bit long a lens on the Ricoh GXR - the only camera I have to accommodate it. I am too slow for working that lens effectively so it was a brief love affair with the R80. I have also realized I am more of a Planar type of guy. It is a bit too expensive just to keep around for the odd shot so I will try to trade it in for a 50 Summarit which will be more in line with focal length and size for my kit. The R80 balances really well on full frame but I am probably not investing in full frame anytime soon.
p.9 #12 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
So, I finally managed to bring out the R80 on the Ricoh GXR. Visited a friend and played around with his beautiful daughters. It was hard nailing focus and the kids were seldom still but I got a few keepers.
I love the lens but it isn't easy to work it on the GXR. I was let down by the slow buffer and missed quite a few I am sure I would have gotten away with, had the buffer been larger.
p.9 #15 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
Early this week I made a lens trade for a 90mm f/2.8 Leica Elmarit-R Version 2 I didn't even know when I made the trade that this lens was a Mandler design. I had to look up the serial number to find out what it was. The adapter for my Sony A7r just arrived today and this is the first landscape shot taken with the lens.
p.9 #17 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
kosmoskatten wrote:
It is a pity, you have really made some outstanding images with it. The bird shots really display the Mandler character as I see it. But I also understand your point. I went through a clean out phase some time ago and let go of some fantastic glass - I simply wasn't using it enough.
The R80 really has a unique signature but I feel it is a bit long a lens on the Ricoh GXR - the only camera I have to accommodate it. I am too slow for working that lens effectively so it was a brief love affair with the R80. I have also realized I am more of a Planar type of guy. It is a bit too expensive just to keep around for the odd shot so I will try to trade it in for a 50 Summarit which will be more in line with focal length and size for my kit. The R80 balances really well on full frame but I am probably not investing in full frame anytime soon. ...Show more →
thanks! i was sad to see the lens go, but hopefully someone else will use it more and i can replace it with a 280 apo when the kids are bigger.
lovely portraits with the R80, i have always wanted it's sister the m75. i too could never really get along with that focal length on aps-c.
This lens has me a bit torn between getting a FF camera for it and/or letting it go. I am not sure my eyes are up to the task anymore. I knew pushing past forty would be a grueling ordeal...
p.9 #20 · Through Walter Mandler Glass (on FF Only)
Nikon D3X with Mandler's 3-element Elmar 90. This is a Visoflex lens, so I can remove the head and attach it to the OUAGO focusser. Two OTQNO extension tubes were added for closeup capability. I don't usually shoot tabletop wide open, but you all want to see OOF areas, right? Even this far out of the envelope, sharpness is biting. It's hard to believe this design is 50 years old.
