Leica LTM Summitar the star...

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
Testing some horrible Chinese stuff for a project in September... turned to B/W, it should do fine for some 1940s style

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Leica IIIcK, Summitar 50mm f/2, Lucky Color 200, 1/200th at...f/5.6 or f/8 I guess..
 
OK, not up to the quality of the bluebells above, but here are some on Ektar 100 - Leica II (1932) and 1946 (coated) Summitar, wide open & close-up:

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The camera has been in the car for a while, and suffered temperatures up to 34 deg C, and scanned by a poor quality minilab - add a dash of overexposure and the Ektar colours are even more whacky than usual :D
 
Another one from my uncoated Summitar. This time a SP. Shot w/ my Lumix GF1 and some flashes. The goal of the picture was to document the mustache before shaving it off... Mission accomplished.

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panodanno said:
Another one from my uncoated Summitar. This time a SP. Shot w/ my Lumix GF1 and some flashes. The goal of the picture was to document the mustache before shaving it off... Mission accomplished.
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how can I know my summitar coated or un-coated ? s/n: 701076

thanks :cool:
 
With that serial number, your Summitar was manufactured coated. If the reflections off the glass have any color to them, the lens is coated. But Leica's coatings of the time were soft, they could be easily cleaned off the glass if you cleaned too vigorously. Zeiss had a patent on hard coatings, which was still in force in Germany at that time, but not in the rest of the world (war reparitions). Thus Leica was stuck with soft coatings for some years.
 
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