roguewave Posted January 22, 2011 Share #1 Posted January 22, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Anyone have any experience with this lens? What are the best LTM adapters, which also allow coding. I have template for coding. I'm getting ready to do some portraits & want an antique feel that has some gentleness in the rendering. I'm going to shoot wide open with the M8 & M2 (for film). Any advice would be much appreciated. BTW are there any coupling issues or mismatches with the 2 M bodies? Thanks. Ben Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CharlesL Posted January 22, 2011 Share #2 Posted January 22, 2011 If you search Flickr for serenar m8 you'll find a couple dozen photos. They are not all f/2 lenses (Canon made several focal lengths at that aperture), but you might get an idea of what's going on. The morning rose photo, I hope, qualifies as a flower portrait. I used a US$20 aluminum adapter. Used with care (for example, increase torque slowly when rotating to remove), it has worked fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted January 22, 2011 Share #3 Posted January 22, 2011 Ben, You haven't mentioned which focal length Serenar you're intending to use but for the adaptor I'd recommend John Milich's adaptor that has the pits already milled into it so you just fill them with black and white paint in the pattern you choose. If I was going to use the 85/2 Serenar then I probably wouldn't go to the expense of the Milich adaptor because 6-bit coding would only be needed to write the focal length into the EXIF file. Again, if it's the 85/2 Serenar then it has a classic low-contrast look and works well for head-shot portraits although it's a little soft wide open. It's certainly not the lightest lens though. Mine has quite a heavy focus throw (probably needs the grease on the helical replaced) which rotates through 340 degrees with the closest focus at about a metre and the aperture movement is very smooth. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share #4 Posted January 28, 2011 Pete & Charles, thanks. I'm probably going to "borrow" a friends 75Lux for the project.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesL Posted February 3, 2011 Share #5 Posted February 3, 2011 I will also mention the IR filter issue for the record. Some photos from a Serenar 85/2 on an M8 - no IR cut filter rigged onto the lens - had a huge spike at the highlight end of the red histogram. It was difficult to do color balance on these photos. My crude method was to reduce the color temperature to a very low value while raising the tint strongly toward green, away from magenta - passable for a landscape. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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