Leica 90mm Summicron on my M6 |  

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Shout out to all the amazing photographer wives who tolerate us shoving cameras in their faces as they nap.

Honestly, with this pandemic going on switching to remote/online marketing is the best choice. Glad to see KEH adjusting and not cancelling on you.

Love KEH. Back in the 80's I lived in Atlanta and every day for lunch I would visit their retail store on 14th street next to Wolf. Bought my Nikon F3, MD and lenses over the counter. Been shopping with them since.

The grain of HP5 is growing on me every time I shoot it. it always seems to capture something that other films miss and I can quite nail what 'that' is (ALSO: "carrying the screen to one of the windows.... Sure" is the most accurate summary iso life i've heard)

A few decades a go while working in Atlanta I used an AOL dial-up connection and printed off some Mapquest directions thinking I’d drive over to KEH and have a look around. After all I’d been seeing their ads in ShutterBug and other magazines for what seemed like forever. I had no idea they were not a retail location and pretty sure I caught them by surprise when I showed up. I vaguely remember it was like I was in someone’s living room and not a camera shop as I had envisioned. Even though I was disappointed, they couldn’t have been nicer. Still a happy customer to this day.

idk if people comment intimate stuff around here but im gonna comment what i feel. Whenever these people for example Joe, Corey, Matt, or Willem or any creatives i follow on insta, posts new content or like this a new video it makes me less sad about what's happening on the world or like the reality outside, it's amazing how some people can really turn up your mood by just watching them like create stuff- im not saying this to like grab some attention or stuff but idk, it might look small or like sound lame but people who u admire can really turn ur mood around, idk if they know this but yeah im just gonna leave this comment here. Thanks for making me smile and like making life less scary for 12 minutes, it means a lot for me and/ or to some people. Stay safe Matt.

Man that cold open was the funniest thing I've seen all week.

Gosh! You just take the most precious images of your family. Always love seeing your work, guy.

Matt Day .. he is a photographer. I am always happy to see his work. And funny enough, at end of any of his videos I end up to watch one more. I like the way he thinks about photography and composes his shots. I found it quite an inspiration his work. Props for you Matt.

The Black Triology! One of my favorite books. So glad my photo mentor/teacher introduced me to his work. His deliberate juxtapositions on book spreads are iconic.

Really love hearing your way of thinking when taking a shot! Would love to see more of that in the future. Thanks /Robert

Never tried an 90mm on my M6 - thumbs up for doing this!

It's a fantastic lens and really not too big. I love my copy. And good for KEH being honourable.

Lovely images of your family Matt ... that lens is definitely for you!!!

Thanks for this Matt. Not long ago I started using Pan F more, and the 9cm Summicron is stunning. Yes HP5 makes it a different animal. My older version is the chrome one with detachable lens head. But it too has the built-on lens hood. I sure do agree with you about that being plus.

Currently pining after an M4-2 and this video has also peaked my interest in a longer lens for portrait work. Great video as always!

Love! You and your magic family!

6:39 the photo on the right is the album cover for a really really amazing trio album with guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Paul Motian. Three absolute jazz legends, a really beautiful photograph, and a fun fact for any jazz fans.

Been very happy with KEH been a customer for last 10 years. I always buy used and not new.

Great honest review. So glad you and KEH found a solution in these trying times.

Fantastic lens. Mine is from 1985 or whenever the first were issued. I used it twice and stored it only to try on M10R. Very good. Then I got the APO version and it is even better.

The people at KEH are awesome. Call, email, whatever- they are always helpful and knowledgeable. Plus they FEED MY ADDICTION 😳🙃

I've been hearing and seeing things about Ralph Gibson this whole week. I think I need to start something like his work. I love the idea of the 90

Great combo!

Thanks for the video. The 90mm f/2 Summicron was the second lens I purchaed for my M6. I purchased it from KEH in 2016. The 35mm f/1.4 was my first lens. The 35 and 90 make a great pair.

I use and covet the 90mm Summicron-ASPH on my M6 TTL because its results are STUNNING!

This lens is my favorite lens when I use with my Leica SL. Good rendering and smooth bokeh.

Interesting to see and listen to your experience. I'm impressed of your pictures/portraits of your family members - they are really good! 35 and 90 has always been the combo for my Ms. 35 as the allrounder, but 90 is a nice supplement both for landscape close-ups and for street-details.

90 is one of my favorite focal lengths. It can be tricky for those who don’t normally shoot with it, but you did great! Also love seeing some Gibson inspiration being flexed in your work.

KEH is awesome! Best gear for the money! They stand behind their gear.

Ralph Gibson is a photographic hero of mine. Great book!

Thanks for another great video! Definitely got some great shots even with it being so tough with the 90mm! Looking forward to Monday morning.

Fast Leica glass above the 50mm was not meant to be used full speed unless your subject was beyond 5 meters, and this particular Canadian Cron was for studio work with its sweet spot at f4,5 and sitting on a tripod. Too heavy to go around the streets with it and too demanding as far as DoF was concerned. I replaced mine 30 yrs ago with an Elmarit. As for the HP5 you are right about it, but try an Agfapan 25 in Rodinal and print glossy and people would think your picture was taken with a Hasselblad.

Awesome shots Matt! Loved the one with the leg

love these!!

Love this! The 90 really makes sense if Leica is your camera system ie 21mm, 35mm, 90mm kit. Def not the walk around lens typically. Beautiful shots and lens.

Great video. I’ve been trying to spread some water cooler talk about how rad the M3 is paired with a 90mm. You need that finder magnification for great focus!

35 and 90 mm makes a perfect combo. I do 28, 50 and 90!

Man I like how you shoot with the 90, always looking at Ralph for inspiration, can never come close.

Hey, that's my go-to 35mm portrait setup right there ;-) Including the HP-5+. I also use it on my digital M262, and I can say it's really sharp. I find it records a whole lot of fine detail which I can easily emphasize by adding sharpening in Lightroom. More so than on most other glass. Love the 90/2 (non-apo) and it's pretty cheap to boot!

KEH is awesome. Got my beloved M3 from them. That 90 ‘Cron would be great. Or even on a Fuji... great shots Matt. When you nail focus, they look amazing. Those Elliot portraits and the one of Molly are fantastic.

I am happy for the fact that I found such a video on RU-vid! Really honest and inspiring. I can understand perfectly your trouble on composing with 90mm lens if you are a 35 or 50mm user. I have the same trouble but to the opposite! I am using a Zeiss Planar 1.4/50 on my apsc camera (80mm equivalent) for ages and when I need tochange to my EF-S 24mm (38mm equivalent)for wider shots I am always having trouble about what to include in the frame! Longer lenses demand different perspectives and composition techniques. As for the sharpness, I agree with you. I am always trying to unsharp my photos (with grain and negative texture on Lightroom) a little bit because the Planar is too sharp for my taste.

KEH should consider expanding to Europe! We're starting to see new companies dealing in used photo gear but nothing like KEH's offerings

I remember reading that Saul Leiter often shot his street photography on a leica with a 90mm lens. He got some pretty incredible results with it...

I was always hesitant about this lens on my M6. I’m now over the fence to get it

oh mannn i love the photo with the screen haha plus that in focus portrait of your son is amazing.

Man you got some stunning shots with that lens... especially combined with HP5. Great work as usual 🙂

The photos turned out so good

Solid review man

This is a great lens, especially for the price. It's worth mentioning that this version is the "pre-asph" which came out in the 80s and ran until 1998. It has great bokeh and background compression. It is a little heavy, but nothing too crazy. If you are looking for a 90mm and cant afford the APO, this is probably your best bet. Great video!

Great video. Been wanting to try this one but thinking focus will be tough with a 90. This gives me confidence.

Damn that coffee tattoo!! 😍😍🔥🔥

Got a bargain m6 from KEH. Saved a bunch of money. Could probably use a CLA but that's no biggie obviously. Shutter is a little off from time to time. Maybe a shot a roll will be a tad wonky

For once I have to disagree with you Matt. I think 90mm is *totally* your focal length! Or at least one of them. The shots you chose were beautiful - perhaps unusually graphical/geometric compared to your wider angle work and I love it. Of course, it is unusual for you but it seems to have pushed you to look at the world in a more Gibson/Leiter way and you did so superbly. Much awe, much respect.

Try the 75mm Apo if you get chance Matt. A lot easier to focus wide open than the 90. Plus complements your 35.

love that film, wish I had an M6

I was looking at the 90mm m mount minolta lens myself, form factor isn't great but for a 90 it is still very small!

Great video! If you could I'd love you to do a sl2 video with the 35sl and/or 90sl summicron(s) similar to this one

I've got a 90mm Elmarit myself and although I only use it seldom, I can't bring myself to part with it. Every time I bring it out for portraits I'm just amazed by it. But nailing focus with my kids is a daunting task. Sigh... That 0.7 second is just not long enough to nail focus with the long throw! ;-)

Great video 👍🏻📸 I really want to try this lens on my M240 and SL2-S. Greetings from Austria

Cool lens👍

Very very good video. Thank you. I have this lens.

good video, one interesting point you made about focussing with this lens, as a side note, with the 75 noct. they actually suggest it for the SL, or a digital M as the focus peaking and magnification of the Live view helps enourmously with focussing, esp. with using it wide open!; and don't worry about having a lot of out of focus images, it is the focal length which is doing it, any vibration causes motion blur, hence the out of focus, I shoot with a Nikon Z6 and using the 105 macro lens, you CAN'T hand hold it, esp. in macro range!, it just magnifies the vibration soo much!, but is a great portrait focal length, but everyone to their own taste, some like portraits, others landscapes.

Might as well keep commenting. That photo of Molly is so so good, especially considering the lighting

The 90 has been my long lens for wedding ceremonies, speeches, etc for a few years now too. I currently use it with an adapter on the EOS R and it’s WAAAAAY easier haha

My 90/2.8 Elmarit-M is positively diminutive compared to that Summicron and is, also, a fantastic lens! I bet that composing in those thumbnail-size framing lines was "fun" on that 0.72 M. I find it somewhat difficult through my 0.85 viewfinder...

Love my 90mm APO Summicron and just made a video about it

Ohhhh your office backdrop is looking more and more pro-RU-vid too. 👌🏼

great review - thx Matt ! was the used lens the last version before the "aespherical" came out ?

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Hey Matt! Did you say you'd add a link to the KEH Video about how easy it is to sell your gear? Awesome video by the way!

The one at 9:30 is beautiful!

how did you scan the film? did you scan it yourself or did you do it with a lab?

Young Paper Boy Matt Day.

Do you know how they handle customers outside US? I can't find info about estimated shipping cost and terms of potential return of item regarding Europe.

Are shooting the 90mm with a 0.72 M6? If so, you are a very precise focuser. I usually use my Leica 90mm on the Xpro3 with the EVF exclusively. I think if I wasn't primarily a 35mm shooter I would go with the MP 0.85 for the longer reach.

can you put a filter on the lens? can the hood be removed?

How did you handle the smallish 90 mm frame lines? I always wondered if composing is super hard compared to an 85 mm on a SLR...?

I was trying to get some photos of my 3 year old in the backyard last evening, and feel it some much about holding still for longer than 0.3 seconds

Hi Matt, I was thinking of getting a 90mm f4 and I was wondering what u thought of using the frame lines for 90mm, awesome video btw love seeing people step out of their comfort zone

So glad you said it's not for you. Otherwise my bank account would have a problem, lol

that keh initiative is fantastic and very innovative

Ralph Gibson ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

That picture of Molly on the hammock is great. I was just skimming through my own copy of Black Trilogy and some of these do stand up to that style.

lets talk about that outfit tho u swagged out

Matt, I loved your family photos on Ilford HP5! I'm now inspired to do the same thing with my family. While I also like HP5+, I might go with T-Max 100 instead for the sharpness and tonal range. I'll probably use my M3 with 50mm (type IV) Summicron and my favorite Leica 90mm which is the Tele-Elmarit. It's an f2.8 lens (single coated, 4 elements/4groups) nicknamed the "thin" or "skinny" because of the narrow lens barrel. There are Canada and Germany versions and the lens has a really Leica-ish rendering quality that I absolutely love. Priced (currently) in the mid $300 range, It's the least expensive "real" Leica 90mm that you can buy that actually gives you the "Leica look".

Do you process your own film? if so what's your process? Maybe you can do a video on that>?

I may have "too many" 90mm lenses for my 0.58 M6TTL. None bought new, of course, and two bought from KEH. My main 90 is a 90/2.8 Tele-Elmarit "fat" from 1973. I was a little disappointed in KEH as they showed a picture of the more desirable "Thin" 90mm f/2.8 Tele-Elmarit-M that was introduced in 1974, but I've never been unhappy with the results of my "lesser" 90/2.8, so I'll keep it until I win the lottery and can afford a better lens. It lives in my little Domke bag with the M6. Later, when I got a Visoflex and bellows, I wanted a 90mm lens with a removable optical group, so I bought a LTM 9cm/4 Elmar from 1951 (according to the Leica Wiki) that I've only occasionally used, but it was pretty cheap from Tamarkin, so I keep it. It flares very easily, but makes for pleasant images, if you're not too concerned about critical sharpness. The optical group is so tiny! Using the 90/4 optical group on the Visoflex bellows is a bit of a challenge, so when I saw KEH had a 9cm Summicron 1st version (the one in your video is the 3rd version) I bought it (and the right parts to make it work with the bellows). My 90 summicron has no serial number, but, based on the looks, I think it might have been made in 1960. It's a very "gentle" focus lens. Not actually soft focus like the Thambar, just the limits of 1960 fast lens technology. 15 aperture blades does make for very smooth out-of-focus areas. It's fun on the Visoflex bellows with my Fuji XE-3 for macro images of flowers and other things where sharpness isn't very important. I wonder if the lack of a serial number means it's a very valuable prototype? I doubt it. I have the 1.25x magnifier for my 0.58 M6TTL, and without it, focusing any of the 90's is nearly impossible. Even if you have a .72 M6, if you want to stick with a 90/2, you might want the magnifier.

Yeah yeah amazing frames but where'd you get that blue/green jacket tho haha

This is my dilemma, I love Tri-X cuz it's a bit sharper than HP5, but the shadow detail oh HP5 is so clean! #filmshooterproblems

I still remember that you only use 35mm and 50mm lens to have consistency in your picture? change is good?

"Feel free to use URL shortener for these." haha

What aperture did you used?

I feel like your choice in background music has been heavily influenced recently by Animal Crossing 😂

How does the $5,000 Leica lens improve on the $200 vintage lenses on eBay? Even in the hands of a really good photographer here, I'm not seeing it in the results.

Is that Pre-ASPH?

I can’t get my Hp5 to come out right... always muddy looking. Maybe hc-110 is the culprit. 🤔

Look. We can talk about photography all day. What I want to know is where did that jacket come from?

I know this isn’t the point of the video but where is the hammock from?