Leica M - Post your Portraits

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Anthony Harvey said:
Superb shot, Jurgen!
There are lots of asymmetrical parts to the picture but what makes it so attractive is that they all fit together to make a very pleasing whole that has a compelling visual interest.
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Completely agree. One of the best portraits I've seen for ages. Above all, it feels authentic.
 
buzzardkid said:
Love it, Dirk! Nice portrait!
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Ron (Netherlands) said:
Beautiful picture. Love the bokeh! summicron 2nd or 3rd edition?
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Thanks Johan and Ron!
It's a W-Nikkor 3.5cm ƒ1.8 LTM - I have been looking for one for years and only a few days ago finally found one!

The moment, that really hooked me on this lens was, when I missed a very interesting millennium re-issue, that had been converted to Leica mount in Japan. This event really triggered a big interest into the lens.

Now that I have the original issue, I can only state, that I am absolutely speechless about it's performance.
The shot with the young man in leopard jacket shows the strong swirl, the lens can produce in certain situation (which I like), but it doesn't convey how extremely modern this lens already looks wide open with extremely sharp details and already very high contrast - a lens, developed in the early 1950's mind you.

A pity, small pictures on the internet cannot really show this, but here is a very simple shot, that really blew me away regarding the performance of this classic lens.

W-Nikkor 35/1.8 @ƒ1.8 + Mono:

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This is not a 1:1 crop of the shot, but a 2:1 crop !
The JPG conversion really takes some of the detail away.
I have not experimented yet, how many meters wide one can print shots from this lens, but I have the feeling the W-Nikkor + Mono is a killer combo for resolution geeks :D

My endless journey for the perfect 35mm might slowly come to an end after finding this and I might possible sell a few 35mm lenses in the near future (not the Nikkor obviously).
 
menos said:
Aziz, you have some seriously good stuff on your flickr! Welcome to RFF ;-)
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Thanks. I've actually been lurking here for a number of years. My old RFF name was Aziz, but I forgot my password and my email address I used for resetting the password was from a previous work email. I message the admins a number of times to change my email address, but they never responded.
 
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