Elmar 35mm & 50mm f3.5: An appreciation thread

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M9 with 3.5cm Elmar from 1938. Uncoated but still coping quite well into the light.

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And from the garden: 3.5cm Elmar 1938 on M9.

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Another from the garden: 3.5cm Elmar 1938 on M9. Against the light too.

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3.5cm Elmar (1948) + M10R.

 

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[Ecar]

M10M + 1926 "short" Elmar 50/3.5 (early "Goerz glass" version marked #1 that has just returned from a CLA), both wide open

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Edited May 29 by Ecar

[OSEGAL]

Great thread.! I love elmars and my RS 50. The rendering is round just like a round sound.

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Elmar 50 ltm rs

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RS Elmar 5cm wide-open.  TMY.

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Just got a leica ii 5digit and an elmar nickel without serial number

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[Chuck]

Any thoughts on whether Leica at some point will issue a "Elmar-M 35 mm F3.5" similar to what they did with the issuance of the Elmar-M 50 mm F2.8?

[lct]

8 minutes ago, Chuck said:

Any thoughts on whether Leica at some point will issue a "Elmar-M 35 mm F3.5" similar to what they did with the issuance of the Elmar-M 50 mm F2.8?

No, but I'd buy one in a heart beat. My dear Tessar 35/3.5 would have a competitor at last.

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elmar nickel 50 3.5 ca.1930?

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Elmar 3,5 cm Leica II Bj 1932 Kodak 200 Berlin KaDeWe

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50mm f/3.5 Elmar, Leica IIIf, Delta 100 on flickr

Edited August 24 by qqphot

[Alberti]

We show here only the screwmount 50mm/3.5, but there is also a BM version. 
[Leica Code ELMAR, ELMAR-M - ELMAM 11110 11610]

what is the difference? Is it the Red Scale in a new house? And has the LAK9 entered the formula?

Edited Thursday at 07:20 PM by Alberti

[lct]

See Marco Cavina:
http://www.marcocavina.com/articoli_fotografici/50mm_Leica_a_telemetro/00_pag.htm
English translation: https://tinyurl.com/53epueu4

 

[Alberti]

On 8/5/2023 at 2:52 PM, Chuck said:

Any thoughts on whether Leica at some point will issue a "Elmar-M 35 mm F3.5" similar to what they did with the issuance of the Elmar-M 50 mm F2.8?

I would rather expect a Summaron 35mm/f3.5n to fit in the line of products. To match the 28mm Summaron for instance. And yes, the schema/build would fit the philosophy of the new generation of lens re-designers.

[Alberti]

Thanks Ict:

”The same optical core was used for the Elmar-M 50mm f/3.5 (ELMAM / 11110), launched in 1954 together with the Leica M3”.

so this tells me - they bring up the 50mm framelines on a modern M?

I think I will select that BM version (even though I have a spare 50mm adapter).

Is it true the RS is not bettered by the then new Elmar 50mm/F2.8 wide open, even at F4.0? It looks so good with its MTF wide open even if it is just below 90%. 

Edited Friday at 08:40 AM by Alberti

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vor 25 Minuten schrieb Alberti:

Is it true the RS is not bettered by the then new Elmar 50mm/F2.8 wide open, even at F4.0?

From my own experience, the then new Elmar 50mm/2.8 wide open performs visibly worse than the RS wide open. It does get signifcantly better at f4, so that at f4 the Elmar 50mm/2.8 and the RS in my view have about the same performance.