M9 Alive and ....well- Post Your Pics Here!

Our photographs are like our children or our boats. They are important or interesting or pretty to us. Maybe not everyone will agree on that. And it is hard to judge what is appropriate. Look at the mangled human bodies in combat photography. Go back and look at the war serieses on PBS, WW II, Korea and Vietnam. It wasn't pretty. Not every photo can be a beauty queen or a floral bouquet.
 
Just another sunset slut. I get a great view of the sunset out of my window over the Columbia each night. The sun is making its march up to where it will be setting directly in front of me on 21 June and then it marches off to my left, south by the compass. Sunsets are cliched but I fell victim to tonight's. The first is with the Canon 28mm LTM f/2.8, the second with the Canon 50mm LTM f/1.8. Reduced in size and sharpened in GIMP.

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Out for a walk in Ilwaco, WA the other day. I am not sure whether crab season is over or whether these pots have been pulled to not hinder the rebounding Humpback whale migration.

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So you ask, what does your new 35mm Canon LTM f/2.0 (black) look like? Strange you ask. I just happen to have a photo. We have had stormy weather here for the last few days, blowing and rain, snow and sleet, joy in the PNW, the land of drizzle. As the weather is variable I strayed not far from home. Indeed, this is my back porch across the West Mooring Basin and west out to the mouth of the Columbia River and the Columbia River Bar.

Leica M9. f/8.0

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Two bells and all's well. The West Mooring Basin Harbor at 9 PM. The sun is all but set, off to the far left is an orange dot. That is a sodium vapor light on a fishing boat coming in with a load of fish to wholesale. Sodium vapors are favored over mercury lamps, the silver ones. I guess the sodium vapor draw less current. Across the Columbia are the lights of the towns in Washington state. It is that time between dusk and dark. The time of mystery and magic. M9 with a Canon LTM 35mm f/2.0.


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Laughter. Here's a couple of friends having a good laugh. The fellow on the right is almost a hermit and dying of cancer. The woman on the left and I would stop by once a week to meet with him and have lunch, take-out from a local sea food joint. He let no one into his home, even his daughter only rarely, so we were glad he let us in once a week to have some laughs and lunch.

Leica M9, Canon 28mm LTM f/2.8.


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"Don't Tell Me . . . " Here is a photo of the Fierce Leader, docked in Ilwaco, WA. The lens is a '51 KMZ Jupiter 12 35mm f/2.8 at f/11. Jupiters seem to work very well on the M9. Don't tell me Soviet lenses are crap. So far I have gotten some good ones. I do not buy the cheapest and I buy from a dealer with a 98% or better rating. This lens came from a fellow with a 100% rating.


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"Don't Tell Me . . . " Here is a photo of the Fierce Leader, docked in Ilwaco, WA. The lens is a '51 KMZ Jupiter 12 35mm f/2.8 at f/11. Jupiters seem to work very well on the M9. Don't tell me Soviet lenses are crap. So far I have gotten some good ones. I do not buy the cheapest and I buy from a dealer with a 98% or better rating. This lens came from a fellow with a 100% rating.
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I had several J-12. Black and just aluminum. One black one was from the last batch made in nineties. Loaded with oil on aperture blades. On my last visit to Moscow I was given Russian Biogon. J-12 from the first batch. It is sharp on M-E 220, just prone to flare, but eBay has wide shade for it. I cleaned and relubricated it. It is very smooth. And I have 7artisans focus tab on it.
 
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I had several J-12. Black and just aluminum. One black one was from the last batch made in nineties. Loaded with oil on aperture blades. On my last visit to Moscow I was given Russian Biogon. J-12 from the first batch. It is sharp on M-E 220, just prone to flare, but ebay has wide shade for it. I cleaned and republicated it. It is very smooth. And I have 7artisans focus tab on it.
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This '51 is clean and sharp. I like the color. I just tested it against five other lenses from 35 - 50mm and it did well. (https://cameraderie.org/threads/lens-test-quick-and-dirty.53628/#post-470446) I have three J8's. One is a real honey. One I damaged and the third is in the shop for a CLA.

The only problem with the Soviet lenses is that QC is spotty. You know the old adage, "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us." As I said above, I do not buy the cheapest nor from the less than stellar sellers. It is cheaper in the long run. Jupiter made/makes good lenses.
 
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