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Steinheil München Quinar 2.8/135 in action
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The Steinheil Quinar is one of my favorite lenses and gives me great times.
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Cheers
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Mine too, fantastic lens! Nice picture !


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I love this shot...I feel the intense concentration coming from the bee as it hones in on the rose(colors are great)


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Thank you. Very Happy

Moira, imagine my own intense concentration...
There were a lot of bees and I made some shots in a row to try to get one. This one I discovered when looking at them on my screen... Lovely gift. Laughing
I like photography for those very special moments of intense pleasure.

Another one was there just before she arrived :
(sorry, she's blurred)


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Steinheil lenses are fantastic!
A bit like Leicas that are only known to people who are really into the subject.


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Nice photos, Olivier. Hopefully one day I can get hold of one of the Steinheil.


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great one Olivier, beautiful rendering!


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I can't do this yet as a film camera works out to expense to do these shots,with my hit and miss techniques Very Happy So I will admire your work and learn Wink I love the fact bumble bees are slower than the other bees.We don't get them in Australia but I have seen them in NZ.


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Very nice photo, lovely colours.


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Thank you for your kind words.

Loke, I was lucky with this silver steinheil quinar as I got it on the bay from a german professional store which mentionned some noticable internal haze. Surely because of haze there were very few bids and I got it for a good price, as far as we're speaking of a Steinheil.
At home, I had to apply some contrast to improve pics.
After a while, I tried to open it and clean lenses... and it worked great. There is no more haze.

Removing haze sometimes work well, but often is impossible. I didn't manage to service a hazy Piesker Picon 2.8/135. But it gives lovely photos anyway when I add some contrast in postprocessing.
The above pictures didn't need any PP, which is very rare, even with AF Canon L lenses.


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Love the bee shot ...


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Yes, what a lens, very nice captures.
Have my first Steinheil lens since one month and I love it! Smile
Will post some new samples from my Culminar 2.8/85.


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LucisPictor wrote:
Steinheil lenses are fantastic!
A bit like Leicas that are only known to people who are really into the subject.


indeed!


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Looks like a fine lens indeed in good hands Cool


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Thank you Hexi Cool

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