bruni wrote:
Rafael - I made a low offer on a Nikon S 35mm f2.5 rangefinder lens. The adapter is tiny for those on a Z7. It's in wonderful condition, not the pristine perfection of your lenses of course, but pretty good. Anyway, I made the offer last week thinking it was hopeless and I'd be outbid in a second but I woke up today and here I am, 300 euros poorer. So I'm probably not going to 'commit any more deeds' for a while. Now I have to buy the adapter.
Colin- is that how everyone is in London now, no masks, no social distancing? I can't go to Manchester without tests and a 14 day quarantine yet in London everyone's walking around like nothing is happening? The girl In the 5th photo has very prominent veins in her legs - is that an IR effect?
Normally on a nice day the Southbank would be rammed wall-to-wall with people. It wasn't.
London was as quiet as I have ever seen it.
The crowd you see were a bunch of bikers attending a BLM protest in Westminster.
Chances are the people sitting very close to one another will be partners.
It was near a food and beer kiosk. I have images from that vicinity that will make you cringe.
In the UK 2m means 1m to a lot of people and when the 2m rule becomes 1m (next week) then we will all be rubbing shoulders with each other again.
My wife and I walked the banks of the river for a good few hours and people were generally very good at keeping distance. Kids on bikes - well that's a different story.
Face masks are only mandatory on public transport. I would say less than 1% of people wore them in the streets.
Samy - do you remember standing in one of those parapets in freezing conditions in December a couple of years ago?
The weather last Sunday would have been more to your liking.
Samy - do you remember standing in one of those parapets in freezing conditions in December a couple of years ago?
The weather last Sunday would have been more to your liking.
bruni wrote:
Rafael - I made a low offer on a Nikon S 35mm f2.5 rangefinder lens. The adapter is tiny for those on a Z7. It's in wonderful condition, not the pristine perfection of your lenses of course, but pretty good. Anyway, I made the offer last week thinking it was hopeless and I'd be outbid in a second but I woke up today and here I am, 300 euros poorer. So I'm probably not going to 'commit any more deeds' for a while. Now I have to buy the adapter.
Colin- is that how everyone is in London now, no masks, no social distancing? I can't go to Manchester without tests and a 14 day quarantine yet in London everyone's walking around like nothing is happening? The girl In the 5th photo has very prominent veins in her legs - is that an IR effect?
Congratulations Ben on the purchase of the 3.5cm S mount, the wide angles or teles in S mount are good because they have focusing helicoids, the 5cm S mount most often don't. Either way the wide angles are hard to find and relatively expensive, so that 3.5cm F/2.5 is a great buy.
I have only bought LTM rangefinders, not the S mount ones, but finding LTM Nikkor wides is not easy or cheap, looking forward to your photos with this lens.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Congratulations Ben on the purchase of the 3.5cm S mount, the wide angles or teles in S mount are good because they have focusing helicoids, the 5cm S mount most often don't. Either way the wide angles are hard to find and relatively expensive, so that 3.5cm F/2.5 is a great buy.
I have only bought LTM rangefinders, not the S mount ones, but finding LTM Nikkor wides is not easy or cheap, looking forward to your photos with this lens.
Thanks Rafael - I had some LTM lenses and I was looking out to replace them but no 35s were coming up. I saw this S mount and decided to make the minimum bid thinking I would never actually have to buy it, but if I did, fine, I'd give it a try. The adapter is equally as small as for LTM and size was the main consideration. The other problem being is that it's harder to source lenses now that I'm in Italy.They charge ridiculous duty on goods coming from outside the EU, so I'm restricted to sellers in Europe whereas before I could buy from anywhere and most of my purchases were from Japan or the US.
Colin - I wouldn't be shocked. I'm not concerned about people being together, I'm more concerned about the incoherence of the restrictions and, more particularly that they're keeping me from my beloved Manchester. I'm being selfish I guess. Here in Rome it was 37 degrees in the shade today. Here there's a regulation that you have to wear a mask when you enter a restaurant, or any public place, but of course, in the case of bars and restaurants you can take it off when you get inside. So today I went to lunch and we had to put on masks to be allowed to enter the restaurant, even though no one inside the restaurant was wearing a mask (it was a restaurant at the beach outside Rome). We walked the 12 feet to our table and then took the masks off. We had lunch normally, as everyone else was doing. I just wander what the epidemiological point of wearing the mask for those first few paces was. If America can make an exception for Nigel Farage surely the UK could let me in?
I had long been curious about differences in performance across the different versions of the 55mm 1.2, there are at least six.
Instead of testing all my lenses, decided to compare the first version, a 972XXX series, and the last, a 400XXX ai.
The 55 1.2 all the way to the left (not the 5.8cm) compared to the one all the way to the right, both are like new.
I compared them with shade and on a Z6, so flare is not in play and resolution is 24MP, no Z7 to make the comparison more critical. Could not use the non-ai in my D810. Photos are at 100% on Flickr
Bottom line is that at the 24MP size with a shade there is no difference that I can see, the oldest lens is as sharp as the newest and small focusing differences with the Z6 make more difference than the lenses do. If anything the newer lens is collimated for close distances than the old one, just a guess.
Here are some samples at 1.2 and 2.0, compared at all apertures and the lenses were nearly identical.
No critical test here, but good enough for me to use any of these lenses with the same expectation.
gbohannon wrote:
Ben - that is one of the lenses that will get you hooked! Be careful, it is a slippery slope after that one!
Nikkor rangefinder lens family portrait below . A couple of them missing. On loan to a camera club member.
Shot with 55mm f/3.5 Micro
George
George - they are gorgeous, eye watering. Mine is the silver version on the left, but the size is like the smaller lenses on the right. I can't see if there's a 35 there, but it looks like those. It's a VERY slippery slope, especially after seeing those beauties all together, but at 300 euros a pop, I'm reasonably safe from temptation. Ha ha...famous last words....especially hanging around here.
bruni wrote:
George - they are gorgeous, eye watering. Mine is the silver version on the left, but the size is like the smaller lenses on the right. I can't see if there's a 35 there, but it looks like those. It's a VERY slippery slope, especially after seeing those beauties all together, but at 300 euros a pop, I'm reasonably safe from temptation. Ha ha...famous last words....especially hanging around here.
Ben
In that picture from left to right are LTM mount - 10.5cm f/2.5, 8.5cm f/2, 5cm f/1.4, 2.8cm f/3.5, 3.5cm f/2.5 (mounted on the Monochrom), 5cm f/2 (with Nicca hood), 3.5cm f/3.5 (mounted on 262 with Summaron-Elmar hood), 5cm f/3.5 with Nicca hood and 13.5 f/3.5.
The S mount are 2.8cm f/3.5, 3.5cm f/2.5 (foreground), 3.5cm f/3.5, 5cm f/1.4 mounted, and 8.5cm f/2.
Oh yes Colin, I was quickly scrolling through the page and this scene brought immediate memories back of that walk across Tower Bridge. This is around that time. Good memories of that evening!
Samy - do you remember standing in one of those parapets in freezing conditions in December a couple of years ago?
The weather last Sunday would have been more to your liking.
Woohoo found it! Sure to make my heart skip a beat. George, polished collection of Nikon RF gear indeed!!! I have that square Nicca hood, but haven't come across the rounded one, looks like its on the 5cm f3.5.
gbohannon wrote:
Ben - that is one of the lenses that will get you hooked! Be careful, it is a slippery slope after that one!
Nikkor rangefinder lens family portrait below . A couple of them missing. On loan to a camera club member.
Shot with 55mm f/3.5 Micro
Left to right are LTM mount - 10.5cm f/2.5, 8.5cm f/2, 5cm f/1.4, 2.8cm f/3.5, 3.5cm f/2.5 (mounted on the Monochrom), 5cm f/2 (with Nicca hood), 3.5cm f/3.5 (mounted on 262 with Summaron-Elmar hood), 5cm f/3.5 with Nicca hood and 13.5cm f/3.5.
The S mount are 2.8cm f/3.5, 3.5cm f/2.5 (foreground), 3.5cm f/3.5, 5cm f/1.4 mounted, and 8.5cm f/2.
saph wrote:
Woohoo found it! Sure to make my heart skip a beat. George, polished collection of Nikon RF gear indeed!!! I have that square Nicca hood, but haven't come across the rounded one, looks like its on the 5cm f3.5.
Yes, the round one is on the 5cm f/3.5.
Also, FYI the Summaron-Elmar hood fits the 3.5cm f/2.5 - f/3.5 LTM Nikkors perfectly. Search for FOOKH hood
saph wrote:
Looked up the FOOKH. Nothing less than $100 and there's a set of 3 black ones for $1150. This is an expensive hobby
Keep looking. Got mine for $45 plus a few $ for shipping.
Yes can be expensive but patience and constant looking pays off for relative bargains. But hey, how much does a boat or motorcycle cost? Plus upkeep, gas, insurance. And they don't last 70 years and be in this condition either
. A couple of them missing. On loan to a camera club member.
