{"id":38334,"date":"2024-02-20T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=38334"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:27:39","slug":"50mm-f-1-5-summarit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/02\/20\/50mm-f-1-5-summarit\/","title":{"rendered":"50mm f\/1.5 Summarit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fast flare.<\/i><\/p>\n

For an index of all Leica-related articles click here<\/a><\/I>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe 50mm f\/1.5 Leitz Summarit.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

1972\/3 saw me as a member of Leica Postal Portfolios which was a photo interchange\/critique club where you circulated a large box of 12″ x 15″ prints by mail, adding yours and critiquing those of other members. It seems that it exists to this day. There were some 12 members in my group, a friendly bunch of Leica fanatics. You learned a lot and made some great friends. We all did our own processing and printing. <\/p>\n

One of those friends loaned me his Leica 50mm f\/1.5 Summarit lens which was as fast as they got back then. Two stops faster than my pedestrian f\/2.8 Elmar, it was based on a 1930s Zeiss Xenon design (Leitz paid Zeiss royalties) and, while coated, still flared pretty mightily at full aperture. And full aperture it was when I headed out on the street to the nearest telephone booth:<\/p>\n

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\nCall girl. The Summarit at f\/1.5. TriX.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

I actually rather like the way the flare works here, enhancing the feeling of night. I just “rescanned” this with the D800 and it’s come up better than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fast flare. For an index of all Leica-related articles click here. The 50mm f\/1.5 Leitz Summarit. 1972\/3 saw me as a member of Leica Postal Portfolios which was a photo interchange\/critique club where you circulated a large box of 12″ x 15″ prints by mail, adding yours and critiquing those of other members. It seems … Continue reading 50mm f\/1.5 Summarit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leica","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41968,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38334\/revisions\/41968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}