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This is my first post here so I thought I’d kick things off with a little bit about what led me (or back to) Fuji. I’m a gear head,  owned everything from my first mirrorless, an Oly E-P1, to a Leice M9/50 Summilux and everything from everyone in-between. In occasional reviewing of my images in my Lightroom library, the ones that usually made me want to see what kit I shot with were surprisingly all Fuji, X-100, X-100s, X-Pro1, X-E1, & 2. I happened upon a nice used X-T1 w/kit lens and couldn’t pass it up. Now, about my post here, a few weeks later I came upon a nice 1958, it's an M mount with infinity focus lock Summaron M 35/3.5 35mm f/3.5 Goggle Version E39. It came without eyes, and I modified the infinity focus lock to not do that. I shot a bit as is and the accumulated haze from the 57 year old glass gave it a nice vintage look IQ wise. Being the adventurous type, I disassembled the lens and cleaned the elements. Now the glass and camera are inseparable. I do occasionally shoot an adapted Nikkor 300mm, mostly for wildlife and moonshots but my everyday is the Leica. I also needed a hood and they're very expensive and sort of rare so I popped down to my local camera shop and they had an old Leica swing-away polarizer with bad glass, removed that and voila, some useful shade.
 
 
 

 

 

 
One before cleaning:
 

 
One after:
 

This is my first post here so I thought I’d kick things off with a little bit about what led me (or back to) Fuji. I’m a gear head,  owned everything from my first mirrorless, an Oly E-P1, to a Leice M9/50 Summilux and everything from everyone in-between. In occasional reviewing of my images in my Lightroom library, the ones that usually made me want to see what kit I shot with were surprisingly all Fuji, X-100, X-100s, X-Pro1, X-E1, & 2. I happened upon a nice used X-T1 w/kit lens and couldn’t pass it up. Now, about my post here, a few weeks later I came upon a nice 1958, it's an M mount with infinity focus lock Summaron M 35/3.5 35mm f/3.5 Goggle Version E39. It came without eyes, and I modified the infinity focus lock to not do that. I shot a bit as is and the accumulated haze from the 57 year old glass gave it a nice vintage look IQ wise. Being the adventurous type, I disassembled the lens and cleaned the elements. Now the glass and camera are inseparable. I do occasionally shoot an adapted Nikkor 300mm, mostly for wildlife and moonshots but my everyday is the Leica. I also needed a hood and they're very expensive and sort of rare so I popped down to my local camera shop and they had an old Leica swing-away polarizer with bad glass, removed that and voila, some useful shade.
 
 
 

 

 

 
One before cleaning:
 

 
One after:
 

Well, this will qualify as my official "second" post so here is my Nikkor 300mm 4.5 adapted X-T1 shot from my front porch about a week ago.
 

A couple more from the 300mm, handheld in daylight I set the shutter speed usually no lower than 500 and that hopefully keeps things pretty clear. 
 

 

 

 

Well, this will qualify as my official "second" post so here is my Nikkor 300mm 4.5 adapted X-T1 shot from my front porch about a week ago.
 

Same lens @ f1.4 & f5.6
#1: 1965  Asahi Pentax 50mm f1.4 Takumar
#2: 1965  Asahi Pentax 50mm @ f5.6 Takumar

#1: Leitz 5cm f3.5 Summaron 1935
#2: Leitz Summar 5cm f2 1938
#3: Leitz 50mm f3.5 Elmar 1939
#4: Leitz Summaron 3.5cm f3.5 1952

Well, this will qualify as my official "second" post so here is my Nikkor 300mm 4.5 adapted X-T1 shot from my front porch about a week ago.