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M11 Thambar-M @2.2 (no filter)

It is a tough lens to master & it produces challenging digital files but a most interesting experience! First few shots, with my patient little daughter accepting to "pose" just before dinner. She was the only one to show some compassion to her dad letting him test the Thambar on a real subject despite the empty-after-school stomach !  :) 

So nice to have this "continuous aperture" without clicks, producing a "perfect circle" when stopped down

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4 hours ago, fil-m said:

M11 Thambar-M @2.2 (no filter)

It is a tough lens to master & it produces challenging digital files but a most interesting experience! First few shots, with my patient little daughter accepting to "pose" just before dinner. She was the only one to show some compassion to her dad letting him test the Thambar on a real subject despite the empty-after-school stomach !  :) 

So nice to have this "continuous aperture" without clicks, producing a "perfect circle" when stopped down

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I think you've used it very well here, a classic glamour shot! Bravo.

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11 hours ago, cheezytomatos said:

how do you know if your thambar has a focusing problem :)

 

The Thambar is associated to so many jokes, I appreciate the "experience" that this lens brings either to its fans or detractors :) :)  It is really a "specialty" lens. As I generally prefer sharp ASPH/APO lens, the Thambar pushes me to the opposite extreme and I find that contradictory and funny! 

Yet when closed down (starting f6) the Thambar starts to progressively behave like a normal telephoto and its rendering is similar to most "normal" classic lens - though surely not an APO, it is still an almost 90 years old design if I am not mistaken

Surely it is soft focus wide open, but I still easily identify the correctly focused pictures that I take and those which are not. In fact it is more the excessive glow, haze, "light bleeding" that characterise this lens. An example to illustrate what I am saying:

Taken at f2-f3, we see the light bleeding but I guess there is still focus looking at the grass

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Closed down, probably between f5-f6 it behaves more "normally":

Stopping down even more, will increase sharpness 

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On 12/19/2022 at 5:21 AM, fil-m said:

The Thambar is associated to so many jokes, I appreciate the "experience" that this lens brings either to its fans or detractors :) :)  It is really a "specialty" lens. As I generally prefer sharp ASPH/APO lens, the Thambar pushes me to the opposite extreme and I find that contradictory and funny! 

Yet when closed down (starting f6) the Thambar starts to progressively behave like a normal telephoto and its rendering is similar to most "normal" classic lens - though surely not an APO, it is still an almost 90 years old design if I am not mistaken

Surely it is soft focus wide open, but I still easily identify the correctly focused pictures that I take and those which are not. In fact it is more the excessive glow, haze, "light bleeding" that characterise this lens. An example to illustrate what I am saying:

Taken at f2-f3, we see the light bleeding but I guess there is still focus looking at the grass

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Closed down, probably between f5-f6 it behaves more "normally":

Stopping down even more, will increase sharpness 

I agree. Wonderful images, that prove the point, very well.

My Thambar-M behaves well, as a classic/vintage 90mm, stopped-down. I would not have spent the money for a lens that could only be a special-effect lens. (I bought my Thambar-M pre-owned, for much less than the new price, but even so, it was not an easy financial decision to make.) 

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Finally got mine back from servicing.

indoor with a strong back light:

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Outdoor can be quite surprising too:

all shots on M3, Thambar ltm, sfx200

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same as above

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m3, Thambar 90 ltm, jelly 400

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m3, Thambar 90 ltm, superia 400

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I got to compare an original Thambar in great condition with the remake. Sharing my shots below, nothing scientific, but I tried to shoot the same scene with both lenses. To be honest, I can’t tell them apart so Leica did such a great job with the remake. Remake on top, Original on bottom. 

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Same as above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Last two, same as above.

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