Desperatly need a body for my Noctilux and 28mm 5.6 Summercrome

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

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Having the following digital Leicas - TL2, Monochrom & SL - while I may be tempted by an EVF based M camera or a new M-D, I think my interests lie elsewhere in the long run. The 135mm format is really where the best images and gear are available at reasonable cost. The only fly in the ointment is the X1D.

 

If (when) Hasselblad up the format of the X1D (a 100MP 6x6 sensor would be hard to resist, if they could manage heat and all the other praticalities), I’d be very interested, particularly if they produced a fast 80mm and a really nice wide.

 

For the moment, the SL and Noctilux is my walkabout camera, with 28 Summilux in a pocket. For outings where I just want a camera better than my iPhone, then it’s the TL2 with 28 Summaron (effective 42mm - very useful).

 

I think your Noctilux will end up in a dry box, Neil. No need to buy the 28 Summerchrome (is that the Summaron, Summicron or the Summilux, out of interest? - minor details, I know, but they are actually very different).

Maybe I jumped the gun a little when I sold the SL but WTF its gone now and I aint buying another one......

At the end of the day the camera is just a tool to take pictures, I'm blemished that I am pretty good at doing that

Getting a big ass paraffin budgie tomorrow  morning so on my way home...............cant wait its been a grind this hitch :( 

 

Neil

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[satijntje]

Why not try a Hasselblad X1D with the Kipon Adapter.

You will get some vignetting with the Noctilux but generally speaking it is not too bad.

And you can get a X1D for less then 8k on the second hand market, but they are all nearly as new.

Just a non-Leica idea (the M10 has been proposed several times i guess)

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Why not try a Hasselblad X1D with the Kipon Adapter.

You will get some vignetting with the Noctilux but generally speaking it is not too bad.

And you can get a X1D for less then 8k on the second hand market, but they are all nearly as new.

Just a non-Leica idea (the M10 has been proposed several times i guess)

 

Hi Simon

You are correct, quite a few folks have suggested the m10...........As for the X1D I want to wait and see if they come out with a newer model at a later date

 

Neil

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Its the only thing I have right now that I can screw my Noctilux into apart from my Sony and that is a piece of .........

 

My gut feeling about the M10 is I won't get it.................its sexy if your into sexy cameras and size wise its up there but something a miss.  The sensor is the same as the SL and TL2 and although the files are ok they really don't have that in your face WOW factor that the big boys have.

 

One of my mates on here recommended looking again at the XID or trying a Contact 80 f2 lens on my S007 which I may still do that as they are reasonably priced.

 

Now if I still had my MM this thread wouldn't even extinguish..........I could have screwed that onto the noctilux and had some fun with that (Not sure if that sounds okay or not) If it was coming from Gary Glitter it defiantly wouldn't :)  

 

Neil

Maybe you’re just a non-RF, non-EVF, optical through the lens photographer who is most creative when looking on a ground glass. You wouldn’t be the only one. Especially these special bo-keh lenses like Noctilux that are made for the rangefinder might well blossom much more when you could look through them before the shot

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Maybe you’re just a non-RF, non-EVF, optical through the lens photographer who is most creative when looking on a ground glass. You wouldn’t be the only one. Especially these special bo-keh lenses like Noctilux that are made for the rangefinder might well blossom much more when you could look through them before the shot

 

John

Are you suggesting that i adapt the noctilux to my Chamonix..............send me a link to the hardwear please. We have very creative rig welders on the rig, maybe they could bastardise a light fitting or something like that to make it work :) 

 

All joking apart, shooting large formate has sertainly opened my eyes to completion and seeing the picture............theres just something about putting that dark cloth over my head that is amazing.....rong made but amazing :)

 

Neil

[otto.f]

No an M-to-Canon adapter on a 5D

[farnz]

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Neil,

 

Whatever you do I hope you don't sell your Noctilux because the pictures you take with it are lovely.  Also I know that you'd regret selling it because the Noctilux is such a unique and lovely lens.

 

Pete.

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Neil,

 

Whatever you do I hope you don't sell your Noctilux because the pictures you take with it are lovely.  Also I know that you'd regret selling it because the Noctilux is such a unique and lovely lens.

 

Pete.

 

Pete

Like Kip said already Ive sold 10 of them already..........but the one I have now is special as its the one that I managed to ring its neck and still get amazing pictures......... Remember the Crocks story :)

So no plans to sell it just now.

 

Neil

[MT0227]

Neil,

 

My suggestion would be to either (1) get a very lightly used SL and get back to what you had, I'm sure you can find one pretty easily; or (2) get the M10 with the VisoFlex 020 EVF.    I find the finder on the M10 excellent, using the contrast method to achieve focus seems to work well in good lighting (I have progressive glasses too).   I demoed the VisoFlex on my M10; it doesn't turn the M10 into an SL, but does a real good job and I think you would find it helpful to achieve critical focus when needed.   I also have a eye doctor appointment soon and plan to bring my M10 to find the optimal corrections necessary to see as sharply as possible. Since you have the M6, the M10 should feel the same in your hands..they both have the same width and depth, the M10 stands a bit taller.     

[Paul J]

John

Are you suggesting that i adapt the noctilux to my Chamonix..............send me a link to the hardwear please. We have very creative rig welders on the rig, maybe they could bastardise a light fitting or something like that to make it work :)

 

All joking apart, shooting large formate has sertainly opened my eyes to completion and seeing the picture............theres just something about putting that dark cloth over my head that is amazing.....rong made but amazing :)

 

Neil

 

 

Speaking of bastardised combos - I've always wondered if you could take a small M lens and put it deeper inside the much wider lens mount of an S (with the Mirror locked up and using live view) and make an adapter to hold it in place at the right flange distance.

 

i reckon it might work get ya welder mates to make it!

[farnz]

Speaking of bastardised combos- I've always wondered if you could take the small M lens and put it deeper inside the lens mount of an S (with the Mirror up and use live view) and make some adapter to hold it in place at the depth of an M body?

 

i reckon it would work get ya welder mates to make it!

 

You're needed, Mark Norton.

 

Pete.

[IkarusJohn]

Maybe I jumped the gun a little when I sold the SL but WTF its gone now and I aint buying another one......

At the end of the day the camera is just a tool to take pictures, I'm blemished that I am pretty good at doing that

Getting a big ass paraffin budgie tomorrow  morning so on my way home...............cant wait its been a grind this hitch :(

 

Neil

 

I shudder to ask what a "paraffin budgie" is!

 

Your post reminds me, Neil, of my school motto - vestigia nulla retrorsum  (never a footstep backwards).  A dumb idea, if ever I heard one.  While it is generally not a good idea to try to revisit the past, it is even dumber not to admit a mistake and rectify the position.  This forum is full of people who've re-purchased equipment they realise they should never have sold ...

 

Anyway, good luck with your Sony   I doubt you'll have it long!

[ropo54]

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I shudder to ask what a "paraffin budgie" is!

 

 

[Paul J]

I shudder to ask what a "paraffin budgie" is!

You don't collect Parraffin Budgies, John?

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Can’t behave I just wrote that............ that is not the Neil David Williams that I remember. It must be the medication I’m on [emoji41][emoji41][emoji41][emoji41]

 

 

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[michaelwj]

I still have no idea what a summercrome is

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Hallo,

Look here: Leica M

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Summaron

[michaelwj]

Summaron

Dar, forgot my