Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4

Frames.

Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, Life's Little Moments, Teaching point

We exist in single frames of time, but they pass quickly and seamlessly and so we are unaware of most of them; occasionally, the discrete click of a camera shutter marks the capture of one.

And so we are bestowed with the power to linger over a moment, a memory.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, and sometimes we struggle to remember… but no matter how we are affected, we can’t help but think that our frames are finite, our frames are numbered.

—Peter | Prosophos.

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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.

H – A portrait.

2012, Favourite, Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, Portrait, Teaching point

Look carefully at the rendering of the Leica 75mm Summilux (Canadian version)… it’s wonderful.

I sometimes struggle with this lens, as it doesn’t have the coatings of modern lenses and it is susceptible to flare.  Physically it’s large too.  And correct focus is notoriously difficult to achieve at f/1.4, because of the extremely thin depth of field (witness the focus here is on the near eye; by the time we get to the second eye, we are already out of focus).

But for portraits, I can’t think of a more appropriate lens in this focal range.

I should really do a Lens Report on this lens, as I’m often asked about it.  But I haven’t been motivated to because the qualities of the 75 Summilux that I most value are not easily appreciated via test charts.  Ideally, it’s best to just view images taken with it (however, when I wrote my report on the Leica 75mm Summarit f/2.5, I did include some comparison crops between the two lenses).

If you want to see more examples of portraiture with the Leica 75mm Summilux, please see here, here, and here.

(please click on the image to view)

↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.

C’s photo shoot, Part 5 of 5.

2012, Inspiration, Leica 35mm Summilux ASPH FLE f/1.4, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, Leica M9(P)/M-E (CCD Lives!), Photo Shoot, Portrait

The final images from C’s Photo Shoot series.

(There are a few more that may be posted at a later time.)

(please click on the images to view)

↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.

↑Leica M9 and Leica 35mm Summilux FLE @ f/1.4.

↑Leica M9 and Leica 35mm Summilux FLE @ f/1.4.

↑Leica M9 and Leica 35mm Summilux FLE @ f/1.4.