W/NW: Test Shots.

[Brian S]

Inspired by the Pixel Peeping Article.

1935 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F2 Sonnar enlarger lens made back into a Camera lens. This required transplanting the optics into an empty optical fixture in Contax RF Mount. Wide-Open on the EP2:

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and wide-open on the Nikon SP. Kodachrome 64, my last roll.

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Lens is RF coupled for the Nikon, used with an Amedeo Adapter on the EP2.

Pixel Peeping with the EP2 allowed getting the spacing correct on the optics.

SO: anyone want to share test Pictures?

 

[Brian S]

An M-Mount 50mm F2 Summicron made out of parts lenses. The front barrel had to be bored out to fit a front element from a Later Summicron. The trick was to get the spacing correct, otherwise the lens had the wrong focal length and would not agree with the Leica's Rangefinder:

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[Brian S]

Another lens test: 1956 KMZ Jupiter-3 in Leica mount, with the focus mount modified to focus closer than the normal 1m. Now goes to ~0.8m.
Wide-Open on the M8.

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