Author: Martin Bluhm

Martin Bluhm

I shoot film with small, medium, and large format film cameras and have my own darkroom where I make silver gelatin prints from film and digital negatives. My main focus is in micro/macro, infrared, and B&W photography. Additionally, I enjoy teaching workshops in selected topics of photography.

5 Frames… With a Leica M3, Summarit 50mm f/1.5 LTM and ILFORD PAN F (EI 50 / 35mm format)

Aug 12, 2020

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Leica’s 50mm f/1.5 Summarit, which comes in M- or LTM mounts — I bought last year a mint LTM lens copy which I can use with an adapter on my Leica M3 — is often reviewed as an old vintage lens not being sharp enough in the center of the frame wide open. Even though…