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Leica, bitches. Anonymous
Leica! M8 with Noctilux. I love my life.
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>> Anonymous
Original resolution or GTFO.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Go take good pictures with it. Don't just fucking take pictures of your gear.
>> Leica, bitches. Anonymous
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FGSFDS

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>> Anonymous
duh, way to fail at DoF with such expensive gear
>> Leica, bitches. Anonymous
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ever focussed with a noctilux? its mayhem
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
too bad it's an m8. otherwise, way to spend 10 grand!!!!! i'm going to go work now. i make 11 bucks an hour and can't afford a dslr.
>> Anonymous
>>143749
Enjoy your poorly engineered digicam.
Think of the great film scanner and bricks of film you could've bought with that six grand.
>>143755
>>143755
>>143755
>> Anonymous
>>143758
Well, 'grats.

Now you know you've got one of the world's best cameras, essentially the same as the ones used by everyone from Cartier-Bresson to Koudelka to Harvey to Frank to Winogrand to Erwitt, with the added advantage of digital capture... go take some awesome photos with it.
>> Anonymous
is it for Macroshitography
>> Anonymous
what is so great in them, can /p/ explain
>> Anonymous
>>143784
To Leica Ms in particular, it's pretty much the ergonomics and the quiet shutter.

To rangefinders in general, it's the easy focusing in low light, how the viewfinder doesn't black out, theoretically high-quality wide angle lenses, and no mirror noise.

To any M-mount rangefinder- of which the Leica Ms are only one of many- there's the insanely wide and excellent variety of lenses available, from $10 for some cheap Russian copy of a Zeiss design to ~5,000 for a Noctilux.
>> Anonymous
That red circle with the tag "Leica".
>> Anonymous
>>143787
*theoretically higher-quality wide angle lenses than SLRs

Sorry. The difference is mostly theoretical these days.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>143789
I don't think there's a 12mm rectilinear wide for any 35mm SLR, but you can get one for rangefinders.
>> Anonymous
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>>143796
O RLY
>> Anonymous
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>>143796
Also, the long discontinued 12/5.6 F-mount Heliar, but it can be considered cheating because it requires permanent mirror lockup.

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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>143811
35mm. I believe the Sigma 12-24 is only for cropped digital.

>>143813
Fair enough. Although given that the mirror has to stay locked up, your SLR isn't really an SLR anymore. So yeah, cheating. :)
>> Anonymous
>>143814
10-20 is for cropped digital, 12-24 isn't.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>143815
Huh. I stand corrected, then.
>> Anonymous
>>143816

Fucking owned.
>> Anonymous
>>143796
I was thinking more along the lines of retrofocal vs. nonretrofocal designs, but yeah. Ultrawides are rare, but then again so are people with an actual use for the things.
>> Anonymous
>>143822
Non-retrofocal ultrawides are a bad idea anyway, 12mm lens + 24x36mm frame = Enjoy your vignetting due to light striking the surface at an acute angle (and if it's a digital sensor, you're 100% fucked unless it has microlenses specially adapted for ultrawides).
>> Anonymous
>>143851
Doesn't happen on film.

>>143749
I know the Nocti is tough to focus but how did you miss focusing on anything at all in that shot?

Also I was all smug because I touched a Noctilux + M8 the other day and here you come and burst my bubble ;_;
>> Anonymous
Id rather own M6 and 35mm f/1.4.
>> Anonymous
ITT: People with more money than sense
>> Anonymous
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Size and weight of ultrawides are also a notable difference. Pic is a 14mm Sigma for Nikon vs a 15mm Voigtlander Heliar for Leica.
>> Anonymous
>>144807

At least half that mass is electronics, gears and actuators. I have a Takumar 50mm 1.4 in M42 mount (for SLR) that could pass completely through an EOS mounting ring. It's about 1/4 to 1/3 the volume of my friend's Canon 50/1.4, and behaves just the same except for autofocus and auto-aperture.

Better images too, if you ask me.
>> Anonymous
>>144814
The Takumar 50/1.4 is supposedly one of the best lenses ever made, though the EF 50/1.4 is still really, really great.

And yeah, this is one of the reasons I hate what autofocus has done to cameras and photography.

But here's a MF 17mm F-mount lens:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TAMRON-ADAPTALL-2-17MM-1:3.5-ULTRA-WIDE-NIKON-AI-S-MNT_W0QQitemZ280210052031QQcm
dZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0803181464a28715

(First result for "nikon ai-s ultrawide" on Google).

Still larger. I'm pretty sure that, all other things being equal, rangefinder lenses are smaller than SLR lenses. Does anyone have a pic comparing the 35 Summilux-M and 35 Summilux-R? That'd be more indicative.