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11 hours ago, marcus01432 said:

And one more. The distant star of the show is the sacred Balinese mountain / volcano, Mt. Agung. Handheld on the M10-R. I should go out with the tripod and not the dog.

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Sign for "Les Saisons"; a bookshop in the Quartier Saint-Nicolas, La Rochelle, Charente Maritime.

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M11 at about F4

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'Le Belvédère'. The house in the small village of Montfort-l'Amaury. in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, where the composer Maurice Ravel lived from 1921 until his death in 1937.

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After his death Maurice's brother (and legatee), Édouard, turned the house into a museum and it was left, substantially, in the same state as it was when Maurice lived there. The 'Maison-Musée de Maurice Ravel' is still open to this day although, sadly, as we visited the hamlet on a Sunday the museum (which, to be honest, we didn't even know existed) was closed to the public.

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Wide open at F2!

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This one is at f/4.

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I must say than after a while using it, this lens' render also reminds me of the Summicron 40/2, which was in fact the Summicron 35/2 (II/III) derivate. Of course it is still absolutely faithful to 8-element (I), but that just shows how amazing a lens the eight element actually was.

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On 7/19/2024 at 1:08 AM, Erik van Straten said:

gelatin silver print (LLL35mm f2) leica mp

Amsterdam-Utrecht, 2020

This format is much better for my pictures.

Sorry Erik, but all your photos have disappeared. 

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In awe. Shiinamachi, Northwestern Tokyo. LLL wide open.

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Okinawa.

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Selling Marias in Portugal's pilgrimage town of Fatima.
M10-P + LLL 35.

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Fish restaurant. Faro, Algarve.
M10-P Reporter + LLL 35 wide open.

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LLL 8-E Safari on M11-D

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My 35 LLL Safari's front lens assembly started rotating. The retaining ring that keeps the front lens assembly with diaphragm together got loose. The only way to fix this is unfortunately to take the lens apart. I have experienced the FULL DOSE OF NON-EXISTANT AND UNCOOPERATIVE LLL CUSTOMER SERVICE. Left on my own here in EU. Probably because I did not purchase the lens through them, but from MAP in Tokyo. Their CEO David Chen said he will not share the detailed repair instructions to fix it (I am skillful) and I should return it to MAP or I could perhaps try contacting a local qualified Leica technician for assistance, as the parts and the tolerance would be similar to the original Eight Element Summicron 35mm f/2. 

So if you are in Europe and are buying Light Lens Lab second hand be aware that there is no aftersales care (unless you want to sent your faulty lens to China and deal with complicated EU temporary export papers) and you are ON YOUR OWN. Their only EU distributor Jo Geier quit selling LLL two years ago as they were apparently super difficult to deal with.

Luckily I fixed the lens by dissasembling it and tightening the inner retaining ring (it was badly fixed and stained with Loctite upon leaving the LLL factory, a common QC issue with this make as per online testimonials). Majority of other users will not be this fortunate or capable. Definitely my LAST CHINESE M LENS. I only persisted because I really like it. But it has AGAIN turned out what I had been preaching here on LUF all along - even though everybody keeps saying how these lenses are "built like a tank" it is just an outside feeling - innards can be very ill-made.
 

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9 hours ago, Al Brown said:

My 35 LLL Safari's front lens assembly started rotating. The retaining ring that keeps the front lens assembly with diaphragm together got loose. The only way to fix this is unfortunately to take the lens apart. I have experienced the FULL DOSE OF NON-EXISTANT AND UNCOOPERATIVE LLL CUSTOMER SERVICE. Left on my own here in EU. Probably because I did not purchase the lens through them, but from MAP in Tokyo. Their CEO David Chen said he will not share the detailed repair instructions to fix it (I am skillful) and I should return it to MAP or I could perhaps try contacting a local qualified Leica technician for assistance, as the parts and the tolerance would be similar to the original Eight Element Summicron 35mm f/2. 

So if you are in Europe and are buying Light Lens Lab second hand be aware that there is no aftersales care (unless you want to sent your faulty lens to China and deal with complicated EU temporary export papers) and you are ON YOUR OWN. Their only EU distributor Jo Geier quit selling LLL two years ago as they were apparently super difficult to deal with.

Luckily I fixed the lens by dissasembling it and tightening the inner retaining ring (it was badly fixed and stained with Loctite upon leaving the LLL factory, a common QC issue with this make as per online testimonials). Majority of other users will not be this fortunate or capable. Definitely my LAST CHINESE M LENS. I only persisted because I really like it. But it has AGAIN turned out what I had been preaching here on LUF all along - even though everybody keeps saying how these lenses are "built like a tank" it is just an outside feeling - innards can be very ill-made.
 

Sorry that happened to you. I always assumed that because they were in China and such a small company, sending it to them for repair wouldn't be worth the hassle. In the U.S., I would send mine to DAG, with the bright side being they could also adjust the coupling so that infinity in the rangefinder actually lines up at the hard stop, which the new ones rarely ever do.

Given what I read here at https://lightlenslab.com/policies/terms-of-service, they only warranty the copies sold directly by them, and any warranty on the lenses not sold by them has to be rendered by the reseller. In the U.S., that would be Popflash. I assume Popflash would use their usual repair/CLA place and then ask LLL for reimbursement via a credit on incoming stock. But I don't know that for sure, that's just a guess.

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10 hours ago, Al Brown said:

My 35 LLL Safari's front lens assembly started rotating. The retaining ring that keeps the front lens assembly with diaphragm together got loose...

Also, may I ask if you always used the matching IROOA hood with the lens? Wondering if that adds extra leverage on the front lens assembly (if the hood takes a minor impact or even from repeated use of holding the lens by the hood), in which case I may stop using mine.

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1 hour ago, hdmesa said:

Also, may I ask if you always used the matching IROOA hood with the lens? Wondering if that adds extra leverage on the front lens assembly (if the hood takes a minor impact or even from repeated use of holding the lens by the hood), in which case I may stop using mine.

The hood is off all the time.

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Also, the retainer ring is held with some gooey glue. It needed to be cleaned first. I have tightened it and assembled the lens without reapplying loctite or glue on the retainer ring but it got unscrewed again when I tried to remove the filter of the lens. So back to the old drawing board and this time blue loctite is the key ingredient...

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A lonely liquor store.

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Bairro Alto, Lisbon.
LLL 35/2, M10-P Reporter.
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