While I love this lens and this body, the two of them just don't look right together.  This is why camera geeks need things like 2 different 50 Elmars.  Some day I'll get a nickel finish one and post it.

First roll of Minox film I've shot in years.   This is the latest from Blue Moon (ISO 100 B&W). 

 Looking forward to seeing the prints.

Great lens.  One of the oddest 35mm SLR's without a film knife I can think of.

This picture of Tony was shot with a Nikkor 28mm f2 from the early 1970's (on a Leica M-P) just after receiving the lens back from Gus at http://tlccamerarepair.homestead.com  (f2 @ 1/350th, ISO 1250).  It is great to have this lens back and it was worth the wait for Gus to rehab it.

The gadget in the shoe (of the dual shoe) over the viewfinder is the Voigtlander Wasserwaage.  You can see a bubble level with your viewfinder eye with a very slight eye movement.  It might be possible to see the bubble with no eye movement with some more training, but it works surprisingly well and helps level those 15mm frames.

This is a little gem of a Leica thread mount lens.  It was called the Zebra because of the polished focusing ring. It was a budget lens around the era of the Canon P.

My pal Bob in Chicago discovered this near perfect copy and "forced" me to buy it.  It is a really great lens once you stop it down to about f2 or f2.8.  At 1.4 it is pretty low contrast and "dreamy".  This one has the black f stop ring and a high serial number indicating it was made toward the end of production - my guess is 1961/62.  Interestingly, the serial number doesn't seem to fit any of the references I've found so it is hard to lock the date down.  This copy is calibrated really well to my Leica MP-240's rangefinder so it is a pleasure to shoot with.  These lenses were modifiable to rangefinder couple down to 1.5 feet, but I would hate to take a Dremel to the mount of this lens.    

From left to right: 100mm f3.5 Type 2, 100mm f3.5 Type 7 and 100mm f2.0 Type 2. My favourite is the 100mm f3.5 Type 2, it performs really well and it is tiny.

Left to Right: Canon 100mm f2, Canon 85mm 1.8, Nikkor 105mm f2.5 and the “unicorn” Nikkor 85mm f2 (this is the light weight version - the older chrome on brass weighs a ton more, but is easy to find for a lower price.)..

These are all capable lenses. None are easy to nail focus with a rangefinder camera wide open, but they all render very well. The Canon 85mm 1.8 is my performance favourite and the Nikon 85mm f2 is the nicest looking/feeling.