Two Days with the Summarit 50 f1.5

[raytoei]

I spent 2 days with this lens this past week,
paired with my chrome M6.

My lens is not without issues, firstly there are oil
on the blades, and has small scratches in the front
and back elements. This makes for a rather
soft image wide-open, and it tends to flare quite a bit,
but otherwise a low contrast image maker.

Against a back-lit situation, the flare tends to wrap
around the foreground subject, especially when wide open.
Sometimes, white brightly lite objects tend to overwhelm,
leaving the image with large blotches of white. The original
hood tends to be quite expensive and large, I use 2 40.5 filters
without any glass and taped it around the rim as a improvised hood.

Here is an example of side-flare, which I think is a result of
the characteristics of the lens + oil in the blades + scratches,

Stopped down a bit, the lens is very usable, despite the
age of the lens, which is of the '50s vintage.

The following are shot from f2 onwards.

Hotel in BKK.

Conference Notes. Bkk

Lady with Husky Voice, BKK.


All were shot with a LTM version of the Summarit 50 f1.5
Film used is the Legacy Pro 400 (Fuji Neopan 400)
Pushed to ISO 1600 and developed in XTOL 1+1

raytoei

 

[shepherdmoon]

heard about the flare issue of the lens. its performance is below zeiss and voigtlander equivalents in the 50's. anyway, sonnar lenses is not for sharpness but for unique mood, which is shown in your nice images.

 

[Srono]

heard about the flare issue of the lens. its performance is below zeiss and voigtlander equivalents in the 50's. anyway, sonnar lenses is not for sharpness but for unique mood, which is shown in your nice images.

summarit is actually not sonnar lens

 

[shepherdmoon]

maybe i am wrong, sorry. i mean those 50mm f/1.5 fast lenses during the 50's

 

[raytoei]

stopped down, this time with the Kentmere 400 film,
pushed to iso 800.

raytoei

 

[ALFREDC]

This lens is meant to be shot wide open.

Try it indoors with multi light source situations, and shoot into the light. The effect is dreamy.

 

[esmallits]

it's magical.. but like magic.. it's easier to fail than anything else....

M9P - Summarit 50 f1.5

 

[macchiato]

Alfa classic.. Your car?

 

[sinned79]

here's mine shot in color (Porta 400).

using the same lens (with original leica yellow filter) shot wide open on my Konica Hexar RF.

scanned using my epson v330...

 

[oceanpriest]

u shoot color film with yellow filter?

 

[sinned79]

u shoot color film with yellow filter?

just trying out haha