[Leica] 13 sample portraits using my Elmar 90 f/4 LTM on a IIIf

[smithjeffery at mac.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Brian,

Thank you so much for finding these photos. I like the Strawberry Lady, and 
I think your cousin Katy shows exactly what I'm hoping for in a portrait 
lens like this. The reflections in Katy's eyes are sharp as a razor, and the 
background OOF very fluffy. Love the Schlitz beer (I liked Schlitz...as I 
recall, they hired a new brewmaster, his beer wouldn't produce a head, so 
they plunged into bankruptcy). Father and Bob Braunstein are also sharp 
around the eyes. 

Thanks again. It looks like I lucked out with this one. I hope my results 
can approach what you have taken, even 49 years ago (when I was 22, I would 
have been too intimidated to photograph the Strawberry Lady).

Jeffery


> On Jul 18, 2021, at 3:50 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> I poked around and found 13 pictures that I am certain were taken with my 
> Elmar 90 f/4.
> I almost always shot it wide open, but I never wrote that kind of 
> information down so I can't be sure.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/elmar90f4/
> 
> Most of these pictures are from a trip I took to Paris in the summer of 
> 1972. This is because on that trip, I had only the Elmar 90 and a 35 with 
> me, and obviously none of these was taken with a 35. So I didn't have to 
> stop and ponder what lens I had used.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/elmar90f4/
> 
> All Tri-X at ASA400 (the ISO wasn't created for at least another 10 years 
> after these pictures were taken). Developed in HC-110 and scanned on a 
> Nikon LS-4000.
> 
> It is unusual for me to post pictures of anything but my grandchildren, 
> but I have done other stuff, too....
> 
> I tracked down the parents of the two boys shown in picture #7 and sent 
> them each an 8x10 print. Back then it was common to use US paper sizes for 
> European frames, but a decade later it was all A4.
> 
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