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Finally getting around to sharing a few images off my M10. Here is one of a buddy's dog right before sunset. ISO 200 1/250th with the 75 summilux.

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Here are another two off the M10. One of a light fixture at a local restaurant at ISO 1600 and 1/180th with the 50 summicron and the other of my blue heeler at ISO 200 and 1/250th with the 50 summicron.

 

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Earlier I posted some 50 Summarit pictures with the M10 - but I found a 50 Summicron so-called "dual-range" from the 1960s, including the close-range adapter, and swapped for that.

 

The DR 50 works fine on my M10, probably because the extended camera lens mount now makes room for the stabilizing nubbin on the close-range "goggles," and also increases internal clearance of the DR's protruding focus cam. Clicks right into place, focuses to infinity fine, and focuses down into the magnification range of the 75mm lenses - image area about 258mm x 172mm. (75 Summicron APO does 254 x 166, Summilux does 288 x 192). Which was really the main reason I used 75s on the M9 - tight framing, especially in the studio.

 

Some snaps with the 50DR follow:

 

50RD, M10, ISO 200, no cropping

 

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Another studio shot - slightly cropped for composition (still getting used to the framing at 18-20 inches; the goggle parallax correction is good, but not perfect)

 

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Non-studio shot - hey, it's a Leica forum, and we haven't had any cat pictures with the M10 yet. (or have we?)

 

Our little always-worried Alli - ISO 12500, dim room light, f/2, no crop

 

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Plus - the chrome 50 DR looks cool on my chrome M10! ;)

 

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Plus - the chrome 50 DR looks cool on my chrome M10! ;)

 

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Andy - I've pm'd you to check on the way this fits on the M10 - but it occurs that others might be interested.  A couple of questions.

 

  1. GREAT to hear that this fits on the M10.  Any idea of this is a special model, or so far as you know will any iterations of this lens fit?  I've just bought one and hope it will be OK!  CameraQuest comments: "The DR will NOT mount on any digital Leica M8/8.2/9/10 that I have tried.  Something about the lens mount is not the same as most Leica M lenses." I reckon this can't be accurate given your experience.
  2. Are the goggles necessary for use with bodies other than the M3?  CameraQuest reports that they're not needed.
  3. Can you advise on the filter size?  I THINK it's E39 - is this correct?

Thanks otherwise for the inspiration :)

 

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1. Nothing special about my 50DR that I know of. I wonder if CameraQuest has actually gotten their hands on an M10 yet, and had time to test a 50DR, or if they just "assumed." But as I said in my PM reply - after 50 years of use, there may well be "sample variations" due to the bumps and knocks of life.

 

2. Yes - the goggles are not only required optically for correct focus in the close range, but there is an interlock on the lens focus ring to prevent trying to focus at long distances with the goggles, or close-up without the goggles. Without goggles mounted to depress an unlocking button, the close-focus range is locked out and can't be used. The goggles are required on any M body, for close-focus - including the M3, and including using LV or EVF. There may be some confusion with the 35mm lenses made with goggles for the M3 (the M3 had no 35mm framelines built-in) - but that is a whole different problem, having nothing to do with the 50mm close-up goggles.

 

3. 39mm is correct - and it takes the standard external clip-on lens hoods for 39mm lenses. I even used the 90/135 hood (12575, aka IUFOO), since the lens' field of view is tighter when focused close, and it doesn't vignette (but blocks the corner of the finder quite a lot).

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Moonrise - Wellington Water front, New Zealand

35Lux FLE, ISO 100

 

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