u/thafred

The only lens I ever regretted selling was my Collapsible Summicron, sold it over 10 years ago and I still don't know why I gave that away...

Now after looking for old crons for some time (DR, Coll., rigid) I found a very nice DR Summicron V1 with googles for a total steal (under 500€) and after finding out the issue with digital Ms and seeing the Leica forum thread about solving it, I simply took a file to the lens and filed the cam a bit.

Close focus accuracy with the googles isn't impacted at all (see image) but my M10 is able to focus to infinity now instead of being stuck at 10m.

Really happy with the image quality and character of this old beauty. Also the build quality is far and above over any Leica, Voigtländer or Zeiss lens I ever had, simply wow.

Regarding resale value, I really don't care because I will never again sell this lens! Tools are made to be used and loved and I do very much love this piece of Glas.

Re2 image quality: the character is unique but my Color Skopar 50 f2.2 is so similar in every metric (and focuses also to 50cm), will post a comparison soon so you guys can see what a terrific lens this is compared to the Goat DR 50!

And thus it became the most beautiful tiny modern 50mm!!

Bought this hood on ebay for my new favorite 50mm. There are multiple listings with the same product image (last image in gallery) so just search for skopar 50 f2.2 hood and pick the cheapest option (I paid approx 70€ for it)

The color Skppar doesn't come with a bayonet on the front and usually uses a screw in hood. This hood is mounted via a worm screw that tightens a felt ring around the lens. Little screwdriver is supplied and works very well with the tiny screw to fix the hood in any position you want.

A filter can be used on the lens with the hood mounted and I cannot detect any additional vignetting.

Caveats:

1.the white dot wasn't filled with paint so I had to do this myself to be able to see the set aperture.

2. If you push the hood all the way in, your aperture ring with rub against the hood. With a bit of patience I managed to mount it with a half millimeter gap and this resolves the rubbing.

3. The little screw does come separate and you have to get it into the tiny hole, take your time when setting up the hood!

4. No lens cap supplied and the VC cap doesn't fit inside the hood.

5. If you want to change filter you have to unmount and reattach with the screwdriver, nothing you want to do in the field.

Hope this little review helps, good light everyone!

I've been having the issue that my M9 runs out of battery all the time. Bought some third party batteries and many of them only held charge for a few cycles and then became basically useless. (Going from 100% to low charge in a few pictures)

A few days ago I tried using my contact spray (WD-40 brand) on the battery contacts and lo and behold it worked! Getting a few hundred shots again using the same batteries that only worked for a few photos before.

Really happy that worked out and thought I'd share this here.

TLDR: if your M9 charge drops faster than usual try contact cleaner on the battery contacts.

Made this image years ago when I found out of trichrome photography. Love how accurate the colors turned out (flourescent lighting in the laundromat and orange street lighting) Really itching to try this again with one of my Large format cameras!