LeicaPassion Posted March 16, 2016 Share #21 Posted March 16, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm sorry to learn that you have encountered this bump in life's journey. Absolute best wishes as you go through rehabilitation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 Hi LeicaPassion, Take a look here Lenses which ones to keep.... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Michael Geschlecht Posted March 17, 2016 Share #22 Posted March 17, 2016 Hello IWC Doppel, I am sorry to hear about your condition. Many years ago I was sick for a number of years with 2 different conditions. One after the other. Neither was understood & neither was thought to be curable. One of them went away on its own after severely damaging my life for 9 years. The second, which began shortly after the first went away, went away after Doctors gave up & I decided that: Since none of my Doctors knew what to do I would try to rebuild my immune system & see if my immune system could figure out what was wrong & repair itself & me. I changed my diet to as much in the way of fresh, unrefined foods as possible & began to moderately exercise. A lot of fresh, low carbohydrate vegetables & some fresh fruits combined with plenty of high quality protein were the basis of my diet. Not overly cooked. Little by little my health improved & a lot of what my Doctors all thought was only going to get worse has gotten a good deal better. I would hope you might reconsider your rush to "put things in order" and might wait a while & think about what you might be able to do to improve your condition. Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share #23 Posted March 17, 2016 Many thanks Michael, I've been reading and doing some research and am now eating no meat or dairy, just eating fish and vegetables low saturated fat from veg alone and a good amount of omega 3 through flax oil. I have D3 supplements and getting my blood tested to ensure my levels are high enough as well as some other key vitamins and I have a blender for green smoothies in the morning. I am also enjoying some of the well regarded spices with some dishes, I'm off alcohol for a while and no gluten. On steroids at the moment but no improvement yet Here's hoping Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kilmister Posted March 17, 2016 Share #24 Posted March 17, 2016 Good luck, IWC Doppel. The wife of a cousin of mine had MS diagnosed about 30 years ago and went vegan for a while. That seemed a long shot to me ... but it worked. After about two years she was declared clear and then slowly returned to a fish and veg diet, and then was OK to eat meat again. It is worth a try and I wish you all the best. In the meantime get rid of (or store) your heaviest lenses and keep the light ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted March 17, 2016 Share #25 Posted March 17, 2016 Good luck with all that IWC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share #26 Posted May 2, 2016 Well I'm starting to come back ! I'm walking okay, still weak, lost 1 1/2 stone haven't yet returned to work but I can now write, no longer slur speech and much less fatigue ..... Hoping to continue to mend. The house will be advertised next week and okay with reducing my horizons, having one feels good ! I've decided to keep an odd bunch of lenses in many ways but to me it feels right... 21 Elmarit, 28 Summicron, 35 summaron, 35 Summicron, 35 Summilux AA, 50 Summilux pre ASPH, 50 Noctilux Did decide to sell the Nocti and 35 cron mkiv but... Love em Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted May 2, 2016 Share #27 Posted May 2, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Good choices. I hope the treatment is effective. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted May 2, 2016 Share #28 Posted May 2, 2016 Well I'm starting to come back ! I'm so happy to hear that, Adrian, and I hope your recovery continues to build. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
menos I M6 Posted May 5, 2016 Share #29 Posted May 5, 2016 I do prepare for these assessments the scientific way, generating statistical data and then take it all personal, touchy feely from there, just to end up not selling a single lens at all and keep piling 'em up. … so can you! Take out Lightroom, filter all your 5 star keepers and filter according to EXIF data to see which lenses provided you the most keepers. Now you ask about those lenses that were not coded - well, you should make it a practice to keyword those lenses. for example: "35 f1.2 Nokton SN xxxxxx" would be a non coded lens for me or "16 f8 Carl-Zeiss Hologon SN xxxx" another, … All those lens tags are packed into a keyword group "lenses" and you can even easily sort each individual lens within that keyword group into a focal length group. This allows you an hierarchy like this: camera gear / lenses / 50mm / "50 f1.4 Summilux E46 Silver Chrome SN xxxxxx" In that 50mm keyword group will be a few dozen other 50mm lenses, which you can use in metadata. You will easily be able to filter then your best photographs (via your star rating in Lightroom), use a metadata filter for lenses without EXIF data, enable a keyword filter for your 50mm lens group and even further dive into the numbers of which individual lens has produced you how many 5 star rated photographs from your entire library, … All it needs (very easily) is for you after each time you have loaded an SD card full pf photographs to simply tag your shots with the lens it was taken (just start typing "50" and Lightroom will show already a list of available keywords of 50mm lenses you just have to pick the right one from, … easy and very fast. To make tagging very easy in Lightroom I started the habit of doing a blank shot every time I change lenses - this way I know the the photographs in between blank shots are done with the same lens making tagging very easy. Why do all this (once it is set up it is really simple and easy to do with barely more an effort of just remembering to tag your photos)? Simple: - you know which lens produced how many keepers - you can also see a certain lens or camera body deteriorating over time in calibration and prepare maintenance and service in time - you can decide which lenses really do nothing for you and can get rid of them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramesh Posted May 5, 2016 Share #30 Posted May 5, 2016 IWC, very sorry to head about your illness. Suggest that you rank the lenses by frequency of usage and ease of use and keep the ones that rank highest. You could also look at selling some of your gear and getting the Q as it does take great pictures while remaining compact. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted May 5, 2016 Share #31 Posted May 5, 2016 Well I'm starting to come back ! I'm walking okay, still weak, lost 1 1/2 stone haven't yet returned to work but I can now write, no longer slur speech and much less fatigue ..... Hoping to continue to mend. The house will be advertised next week and okay with reducing my horizons, having one feels good ! I've decided to keep an odd bunch of lenses in many ways but to me it feels right... 21 Elmarit, 28 Summicron, 35 summaron, 35 Summicron, 35 Summilux AA, 50 Summilux pre ASPH, 50 Noctilux Did decide to sell the Nocti and 35 cron mkiv but... Love em Great to hear an update, and to hear of such great progress. May it continue and get better every day! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted May 5, 2016 Share #32 Posted May 5, 2016 Yeah but the 35aa might be the favorite but the least used becsuse of its worth. These stats mean nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaPassion Posted May 5, 2016 Share #33 Posted May 5, 2016 Delighted that you are improving. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieg Posted May 5, 2016 Share #34 Posted May 5, 2016 Many thanks Michael, I've been reading and doing some research and am now eating no meat or dairy, just eating fish and vegetables low saturated fat from veg alone and a good amount of omega 3 through flax oil. I have D3 supplements and getting my blood tested to ensure my levels are high enough as well as some other key vitamins and I have a blender for green smoothies in the morning. I am also enjoying some of the well regarded spices with some dishes, I'm off alcohol for a while and no gluten. On steroids at the moment but no improvement yet Here's hoping My wife is training to be a nutritional therapist, and a lot of the things they are involved in might be of use to you. I suggest looking for a suitably qualified nutritional therapist near to you and invest a bit of time with them.... Michael's post #22 is well worth taking note of I think. All the best. P.S Keep the AA, even if you sell the 75mm lux!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share #35 Posted May 5, 2016 Here's my logic.... For what it's worth. 12mm VC, just too wide to be anything other than novelty, fish eye really, fun but not really a lens I need, the 15mm VC II is terrible on magenta cast and I really don't have the desire to play with corner fix software tbh, so kept the viewfinder, might just might buy the VC mkIII at £500, just missed the £50 cash back The 18 is a stellar lens, but it's worth quite a bit, very tricky to get right or interesting without something in the foreground. Plus getting off level throws the perspective very quickly. I prefer 21 in terms of wide enough most of the time and not too bad at dragging bake the centre and affecting the perspective and scale of the shot. I ended up with two 21's as I wanted to try the mandler Elmarit and I'll keep over the ASPH, why ? Well it's not a sharp wide open and stopped down to somewhere near 5.6 BUT if you have something in the foreground it does have a perspective or lack of distortion ? To recreate that immersive 3D of being their better than the ASPH, plus it's about the same size, all in all either are great, the ASPH ids worth more so going. Then there is the 24 Elmarit a superb lens, really immersive and lovely BUT I simply don't use it enough...... The 28 summicron is stellar, bright sunny days with the M9-P and yyou can see what the MTf curves really mean, plus the colouring is wonderful and the balance of uber sharp and soft out of focus is a lesson in matching classics and modern. Add to this the fact it was my first lens on the M8 and I have 12466 hood that needs a home and it's a keeper. Then there are the 35's, spent time with most and bought and sold a few along the way. The summron is wonderful, small, light and easy to focus. Paints in a reportage kind of way, love it on the M9-P and REALLY love it on to Monochrom, add to this my copy is Mint, serviced and they don't fetch much secondhand, silly to sell... Then AA is stunning in many ways, sharp with a clarity that is almost insightful, the colouring is magical, in a low light noctilux kind of way, very saturated and rich but not modern pink ! The Leica 3D is delivered in spades and it's my favourite lens, Neil you'll be glad to here it's used frequently, so.... The 35 summicron mkIV, It should But at f4 it's magical, my copy is mint German and was recently serviced at Leica. It's small neat and sat on my M9-P as I type. An unnecessary indulgence that does get used. 50's ? I use them less than most, so I don't need four... One is just fine, so the summilux a late coded and serviced E46 non ASPH is lovely, a bit of focus shift but beautiful brokeh, neat, classic rendering and fast, so that's a keeper..then the Noctilux, heavy, slow to focus and amazing but too indulgent, so in the shop for sale...... Then I think n think, every time I use it I'm in awe, most if not all of my pictures are lovely, over 50% keepers and the look wide open, wow, beautiful. Another indulgence but I was smiling ear to ear when I got it back from the shop and peeled the for sale label off ;-) So there you have it ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stein K S Posted May 7, 2016 Share #36 Posted May 7, 2016 Well I'm starting to come back ! I'm walking okay, still weak, lost 1 1/2 stone haven't yet returned to work but I can now write, no longer slur speech and much less fatigue ..... Hoping to continue to mend. The house will be advertised next week and okay with reducing my horizons, having one feels good ! I've decided to keep an odd bunch of lenses in many ways but to me it feels right... 21 Elmarit, 28 Summicron, 35 summaron, 35 Summicron, 35 Summilux AA, 50 Summilux pre ASPH, 50 Noctilux Did decide to sell the Nocti and 35 cron mkiv but... Love em Hi and all the best! Seems you are doing fine.... go, go, go... PS: you obviously keep a very very nice lens setup that can go anywhere... but did you really let that old favourite of yours I believe... the 35 cron IV go.... Ohhh no... The very best from Stein Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiafish Posted May 9, 2016 Share #37 Posted May 9, 2016 Always tough. With leica lenses, selling them always gets a good return, but then remorse sets in and repurchases occur. I've bought and sold the 24/3.8 Elmar ASPH twice, and again find myself wanting one. Ditto the 50/2 v4-5 Summircon which I've owned twice and now the 35/2.5 Summarit, which I bought, sold, and then bought again and am now considering selling it again since purchasing the 35/1.4 Lux ASPH. I know that if I sell the Summarit, I will find myself wishing some day in the future for a smaller and lighter 35mm Leica lens, but then the money I could get for it now will help scratch a 90mm or 24mm itch in my lens lineup. First world problems of course. I could be very happy shooting everything for the rest of my days with just about any modern Leica 35mm or 50mm lens. They are all outstanding, and none of them have any significant flaws. Even the 35 and 50 Lux are smaller and lighter than equivalent quality SLR lenses such as the Zeiss 55 Otus or the new Canon 35 L mk2. I guess I'll sell the Summarit after all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share #38 Posted May 11, 2016 I think I might treat my 21 Elmarit to a code and service at the same time. Then all my current lenses expect the Summaron and Summilux 35 Aspherical, which Leica can't code are done. I also think I will need to send back my Noctilux, it fell off my lap and had a small bounce on the carpet (wooden floor underneath) no marks but it did throw the lens off the camera. All looks perfect, except the infinity end stop now binds and I cant turn the focus ring to infinity. Focuses perfectly close and medium range. I dont recall any binding wide open, any comments here would be appreciated Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/257960-lenses-which-ones-to-keep/?do=findComment&comment=3042795'>More sharing options...
menos I M6 Posted May 11, 2016 Share #39 Posted May 11, 2016 Ugh, that s…s :-( While it's at Wetzlar, treat it to a coding if it doesn't have it already - it makes choosing between shooting with all out vignetting or a bit correction so much easier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JMF Posted May 11, 2016 Share #40 Posted May 11, 2016 Ugh, that s…s :-( While it's at Wetzlar, treat it to a coding if it doesn't have it already - it makes choosing between shooting with all out vignetting or a bit correction so much easier. Dirk, my 50 Noctilux e58 is 6 bits coded yet still shows vignetting ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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