skinnfell Posted September 24, 2012 Share #1 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) In the promtional video for the new M, magnum photographer Jean Gaumy talks about how wonderful it is to photograph in france with the new M. Â Obviously he has gotten the M a bit beforehand to shoot some shots for the ads and this video. However, in the video he is fondling a lens that I cannot identify. It looks like a fairly long lens, but has a modern-ish wide-angle-ish hood, and what to my eyes look like a focussing tab. Â Its too long to be a 90, possibly longer than the Apo-telyt 135, which has a built in hood . Looks fatter than any R lens I know of. Â So what is it? Is it some weird rare leica lens, or a brand new lens yet to be announced? Why so long and with a wide angle hood. A zoom lens? Â The screen shot appears at roughly 0:33 and the lens is quite clearly visible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skinnfell Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share #2 Â Posted September 24, 2012 and here is a better screenshot. In fact it looks like it has TWO focusing tabs. one at the base and one just below the aperture.... Now I am really intrigued. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 24, 2012 Share #3 Â Posted September 24, 2012 I wonder if we could possibly see two lenses mounted back to back. There used to be an accessory which did exactly that. I think it was supposed to save storage space in the bag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipus Posted September 24, 2012 Share #4 Â Posted September 24, 2012 The coupling ring (14838) but black or something home-made? I don't know what the lower thing is on your shots but could the lens with the hood be the 35 Aspherical? Later (at about 00:57) it looks different; is the other lens a 50 Summicron perhaps? Â Just a wild stab in the dark. Â Edit: Here's a screenshot. Note the slight unevenness in the black ring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 24, 2012 Share #5 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Wowzers. Nice find skinnfell. Â What I find bizare is if it is a coupling ring then the back of the lens looks awfully peculiar. I still wonder if Leica are "up to something". Nikon bought out an AF extender that enabled all manual focus lenses to be AF...The M is really only a Prototype.... Â You can obviously call me crazy I totally welcome it and It's probably explainable but I am not the sort to stop my mind wondering. Â I keep coming back to the lens in THIS pic. What is it?????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 24, 2012 Share #6  Posted September 24, 2012 The coupling ring (14838) but black or something home-made? I don't know what the lower thing is on your shots but could the lens with the hood be the 35 Aspherical? Later (at about 00:57) it looks different; is the other lens a 50 Summicron perhaps? Just a wild stab in the dark.  Edit: Here's a screenshot.  Ahhh, that's definitely a coupling ring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipus Posted September 24, 2012 Share #7 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I keep coming back to the lens in THIS pic. What is it?????? Â That looks like it could be a 35 Summarit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 24, 2012 Share #8 Â Posted September 24, 2012 hmmm....looks different to a 35 summarit to me. It's quite long and that bare area looks different to everything in the line. It really looks like there's some kind of extender or something on it to me. Hence the thought about the Nikon AF extender. The front of it looks extrermely compact too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 24, 2012 Share #9 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Edit: Here's a screenshot. Note the slight unevenness in the black ring. Â However, we see clearly that the black ring or tube holds two lenses and that the lenses are arranged back to back. You can see the yellow focal length numbering and the depth of field scales. I can't quite make out the focal lengths but I would think the lower one was 24mm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 24, 2012 Share #10 Â Posted September 24, 2012 However, we see clearly that the black ring or tube holds two lenses and that the lenses are arranged back to back. You can see the yellow focal length numbering and the depth of field scales. I can't quite make out the focal lengths but I would think the lower one was 24mm. Â looks like 28 and 50 to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipus Posted September 24, 2012 Share #11 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Agree, the upper one on the image I posted is likely something beginning with "2". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnfell Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share #12 Â Posted September 24, 2012 The top looks an awful lot like the summicron 28.It could be some sort of home-made device, with a lens mount in each end, like two rear lens caps glued together, but without the grip ribbing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipus Posted September 24, 2012 Share #13 Â Posted September 24, 2012 The top looks an awful lot like the summicron 28.It could be some sort of home-made device, with a lens mount in each end, like two rear lens caps glued together, but without the grip ribbing. Â Yes, that could be it. With the 12452 hood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 24, 2012 Share #14 Â Posted September 24, 2012 In the movies we keep seeing sleuths turning nearly uniformly grey blurs into crisp images. Where are the sleuths when we need them? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 24, 2012 Share #15 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Squinting v hard it looks sorta like 28 and 50. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 24, 2012 Share #16 Â Posted September 24, 2012 Damn it. Scuppered again. I was really hoping that was a new lens. Â Can anyone say what that is on the leaked M10 pic though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted September 25, 2012 Share #17 Â Posted September 25, 2012 A home made lens holder to carry two lenses back to back ? Â I have looked at my 28 Cron and it does indeed look the same, so the space if the markings on the 50 look right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravastar Posted September 25, 2012 Share #18 Â Posted September 25, 2012 If you look carefully (and use your imagination a bit) you can just about make out the ripples in the reflections in the adhesive tape holding the two lens caps together . Â Â Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted September 27, 2012 Share #19 Â Posted September 27, 2012 Yes, it definitely is a Summicron-M 28 mm 1:2 Asph (with hood) and a Summarit-M 50 mm 1:2.5, with their rear caps glued together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Albertson Posted September 29, 2012 Share #20 Â Posted September 29, 2012 A home made lens holder to carry two lenses back to back ? Â It's no mystery, just two lens caps taped together, back-to-back. I use gaffer tape for mine, some people epoxy them together. They save bags of time when you're changing lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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