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Leica M10 P, Summicron Rigido 50mm f2 del 1961

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M10-D, 1964 Leitz Canada 135mm f2.8 Elmarit

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Tele-Elmarit-M 2.8/90mm (1984) on M11.

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50mm Summilux v1 1960 + M10-P

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M10-d with 1955 Canon 50mm f1.8 ltm.

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CONTAX コンタックス Carl Zeiss S-Planar 60mm f/2.8 T*, M10-P

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On 5/31/2025 at 6:13 AM, mmanda said:

I bought this Industar 69 28mm F2.8 lens from the Ukraine.  Its an M39 mount so obviously not rangefinder coupled. Was playing with it on my M10 in our yard using my EVF. Its a bit hard to focus as everything looks out of focus through the EVF with this one.  I probably wont use it much, but its a bit of fun.  I had to crop these otherwise I have some very severe vignetting going on.  Was nice to just buy something from the Ukraine :) 

Here's a few cat pics...

 

 

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Why wouldn't an m39 lens not be rangefinder coupled?
I have a good number of m39 lenses and when mounted, with an m39 to M adaptor, on my M9-P (no evf) these are definitely rangefinder coupled.
An illustration and to adhere to the wishes of the threadstarter @farnz :)

M9-P and 75mm Voigtländer Color Heliar f/2.5 (m39 mount lens)

 

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vor 22 Minuten schrieb Bart D:

Why wouldn't an m39 lens not be rangefinder coupled?
I have a good number of m39 lenses and when mounted, with an m39 to M adaptor, on my M9-P (no evf) these are definitely rangefinder coupled.
An illustration and to adhere to the wishes of the threadstarter

The wrong M39 adapter? There's one for the 28/90 mm focal length. If you use a different one, such as 50/75, you can screw in the lens and attach it to the M. But it won't actually work. Just a guess....

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31 minutes ago, espelt said:

The wrong M39 adapter? There's one for the 28/90 mm focal length. If you use a different one, such as 50/75, you can screw in the lens and attach it to the M. But it won't actually work. Just a guess....

As far as I know, this would only bring up the wrong set of lines in the viewfinder.

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On 5/31/2025 at 5:13 AM, mmanda said:

I bought this Industar 69 28mm F2.8 lens from the Ukraine.  Its an M39 mount so obviously not rangefinder coupled....Its a bit hard to focus as everything looks out of focus through the EVF with this one...I had to crop these otherwise I have some very severe vignetting going on...

Have you seen that there is a sub-forum dedicated for photographs of our feline friends?

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/420216-cat-thread-open-to-all/

4 hours ago, Bart D said:

...Why wouldn't an m39 lens not be rangefinder coupled?...I have a good number of m39 lenses and when mounted, with an m39 to M adaptor, on my M9-P (no evf) these are definitely rangefinder coupled...

Although the Industar 69 does have an E39 thread it should be noted that it wasn't designed to be used on a FED / Zorki / Leica type camera.

Firstly it doesn't have the neccessary R/F cam so can't be focussed by using the rangefinders of the cameras mentioned. Secondly the back-projection distance is shorter than that used by the aforementioned cameras so even using a 'guesstimate' as far as camera-to-subject distance concerned is difficult. Thirdly it was designed to be used on a half-frame (18x24) camera and, as such, it doesn't have the covering-power neccessary for a full-frame body - hence the severe vignetting mentioned by mmanda.

A bit more about these lenses can be found here for anyone who might be curious;

https://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Chajka

Anyhow; another snap of a cat taken on an Old Lens. Here's Scrap tucking-in. Camera was the M-D Typ-262. Lens was my 50mm f2.0 'Summ-bar'(*). 1/125 f2.0 @ ISO 800;

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* A 1937 50mm f2.0 Summar whose front element seems to have been 'cleaned' by a heavy-handed clot using a Brillo Pad. It's rendering can sometimes remind me of photographs taken with the wonderful Leitz 90mm f2.2 Thambar...

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5cm f1.5 Nikkor S-C 1950

Leica M3

Kodak Portra 160

 

 

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Apropos the knackered Summar mentioned in post #15176 (and just for fun) I've rattled-off a couple of snaps for the sake of comparison to show something of what I was trying to describe. First - sort-of serving as a 'normal' datum - was shot using a 50mm Summicron v4. The second was taken with the knackered 'Summ-bar'. Camera-subject distance was dictated by Summar's MFD and both lenses were set to f4.5;

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OK; it will never be used for normal snapping (😸) but there's something about the truly terrible rendering of the Summar which rather appeals!...

Philip.

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3 hours ago, pippy said:

Although the Industar 69 does have an E39 thread it should be noted that it wasn't designed to be used on a FED / Zorki / Leica type camera.

Firstly it doesn't have the neccessary R/F cam so can't be focussed by using the rangefinders of the cameras mentioned. Secondly the back-projection distance is shorter than that used by the aforementioned cameras so even using a 'guesstimate' as far as camera-to-subject distance concerned is difficult. Thirdly it was designed to be used on a half-frame (18x24) camera and, as such, it doesn't have the covering-power neccessary for a full-frame body - hence the severe vignetting mentioned by mmanda.

Ah so, it's not the m39 mount that is the culprit here.
Thanks for the information!

M9-P and 90mm Voigtländer APO Lanthar f/3.5

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Just a happy dog after a walk by a river.

M8 1972 35mm Summilux V2

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Some large fungi

M8 35mm Summilux V2

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2 hours ago, tommonego@gmail.com said:

Some large fungi

M8 35mm Summilux V2

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Its called "Dryad's Saddle" (Polyporus Squamosus), Tom.

 

1946 Carl Zeiss Jena 85/2 Sonnar in LTM with M9P.

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Out of focus sampler, FYR

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Tokyo Opt. Simlar 5cm f1.5, M10 Monochrom

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35mm Summilux pre FLE

Leica M2

Kodak Portra 160

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CL Kodak Schneider 28mm Curtagon, I started photography with a Kodak Retina Reflex III, my fathers, have always had a soft spot for the lenses. My original copy of this lens had been dropped, this one is definitely better.

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50mm Summilux v1 1960

Kodak Portra 160

Leica M3

 

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