2012年5月13日日曜日

Old Leitz lenses on Digital body

Elmar 135/4,5 Elnst Leitz Wetzlar lens with no coupling with body equipped range finder (distance meter) originally is set on Canon Digital SLR body with hand made adapter covering from 1200mm close up to infinity utilizing ASAHI PENTAX helidoid adapter ring.
Thank to this specially manufactured adapter system, this lens could get a life with fully handy and useful performance after 70 years since it's production at Wetzlar in German Empire period before WW2. All the old Leitz lenses are set comfortably on Canon digital body except relatively newer 200/4 Telyt.
Because of a Canon narrower imaging format area, the focal length would be extended to 150mm, it shows still good unique depictions, this is caused by not only lens design but also the naked lens surfaces without coating. It's true the capability of ray transparency might be inferior to recent multi-coated lenses, but it has unexplainable fascinations, the picture obtained through this non coated lens has still has something that can not be done by modern lens, probably why the coating material might block something important to make the picture alive. As a usual manner, lack of color contrast could be compensated by color contrast adjusting by software, Photoshop. I rather Old Non Coating lens than modern multi-coated with computer designed ones.

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