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Nice! I may eventually end up with a CL, but I will wait awhile and see how I get on with the old GXR.Good to see GXR photos posted again! Almost tempts me to hunt up another ... but I have the Leica CL now, really don't need to buy another camera!
Pulling up one of my old favorites from 2011:
enjoy!
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It's interesting to compare the two cameras.Nice! I may eventually end up with a CL, but I will wait awhile and see how I get on with the old GXR.
I have the same lens ... it's a really nice, tiny little thing with excellent optics. The early ones were made in Wetzlar and are identical to the Leica Elmar-C 90mm f/4 except for the lens bezels that say "M-ROKKOR" and have the standard JIS 40.5mm filter thread instead of the DIN filter and hood setup.A couple of shots taken with an old Leitz 90/4 M-Rokkor on the GXR. ...
Another old repro of a sunflower field in Lansing, NY. Ricoh GXR + Contax G 28/2.8 Biogon. They keep rotating sunflower fields so hard to keep track when going back to re-shoot.
Carl, This is a beautiful image. I have a chance to buy Contax G 28 (Miyazaki coverted to M),whats your opinion about this lens. Asking ptice is aroung 600+ GBP. Thanks.
The M mount converted Contax G Biogon that I used for this and other shots with the GXR performed very well with the A12 mount sensor. Unfortunately it has serious problems on full frame Sony sensors (corner/edge smearing) so unless you intend to use the biogon only with M mount APS-C sensors like the GXR A2 mount design it won't be very useful with modern, FF cameras.Another old repro of a sunflower field in Lansing, NY. Ricoh GXR + Contax G 28/2.8 Biogon. They keep rotating sunflower fields so hard to keep track when going back to re-shoot.
Carl, This is a beautiful image. I have a chance to buy Contax G 28 (Miyazaki coverted to M),whats your opinion about this lens. Asking ptice is aroung 600+ GBP. Thanks.
I will give it a miss because I have sevaral lenses in that focal length and many others collected over past 25 odd years.The M mount converted Contax G Biogon that I used for this and other shots with the GXR performed very well with the A12 mount sensor. Unfortunately it has serious problems on full frame Sony sensors (corner/edge smearing) so unless you intend to use the biogon only with M mount APS-C sensors like the GXR A2 mount design it won't be very useful with modern, FF cameras.