Lens Arrival: Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 – Film Edit.

I had a fast 35mm lens to adapt to GFX.

Culling The 50mm-ish M Lens Herd: Voigtländer Nokton 40mm F1.2 For M.

Like it a lot.

Worked great on GFX.

35mm M Glass On GFX Medium Format (2 of 2): Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical.

Sold it.

Why? I am glad I imagined that you asked.

After switching from M 240…

Vintage Digital: A Year of Leica M Type 240 Ownership Update.

…to GFX…

Week 1 WIth The GFX System: What I Have Learned So Far.

…I eventually also let go of my M film rig.

This Old Camera: Konica Hexar RF… Inevitable really.

So… I now have M lenses… and no M mount cameras.

Let me make one thing clear. Despite my nonsensical pursuit of cameras, great and small, new and old, film and digital, there is a small component… very small… of logic involved. And a rangefinder coupled lens without a rangefinder coupled camera makes no sense.

Take the rangefinder coupling out of the equation and there are a mess of similarly capable and less expensive lenses to consider.

It took me a while, but after careful consideration, I settled on the Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. The reasons:

A quality optic.
- Warm colors, nice bokeh, sharp enough wide open, well behaved stopped down… but I will not be doing that.
That wonderful film era lens build.
Fast.
- As fast as the Nokton 40mm I let go of.
A pleasant looking thing.
- What? That matters.

I also have a film camera to put behind it.

This Old Camera …& Lens …Again: Minolta X-700 – 50mm Rokkor f/1.7.

On the day of its arrival, I immediately put a roll of film through it.

The film.

Kodak Ultramax 400.

Developed at home with Cinestill CS41.

Developing Color At Home Made Easy: Cinestill CS41 2 Bath and TCS 1000

The sun dropped, but I had a bit of time before rehearsal started. With ISO 400 and f/1.2 at my disposal, I was not concerned. About exposure anyway. The weather was another thing. Grew up in the Northeast, and I hate winter. And annoyingly, winter temperatures are in town. So I ran through this roll of film in a local downtown area so quickly that I missed focus a few times in the dim light of dusk.

Here are the surviving images.