That said, I never did find an orphaned Titanium 35 Lux. But after I located a Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH Titanium orphaned from its Leica M7 Titanium set, I thought the possibility wasn’t so unattainable anymore. It was a crazy idea, since I didn’t think anyone was going to sell the camera and the lens separately. Initially, my search started as a desire to find a Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH Titanium orphaned from its Leica M9 Titanium set. Over the months, I had been on the fence with the idea of getting a Leica M9 Titanium set.
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Even so, I haven’t figured out how to digitize slides with a medium format setup, since much of what I am doing relies on adapting either a Nikon ES-2 Film Digitizing Set or a number of ragtag Leica film copying paraphernalia dating back to around the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
So at the moment, I’m still waiting on a Leica S-mount to Hasselblad H-mount adaptor, which I have been informed is an item that must be ordered specially from authorized vendors.
Unfortunately, Leica does not make a 1:1 S-mount macro lens. After that, I got myself a Leica S2 - certified with a replaced CCD sensor. First I got myself a Hasselblad H3DII-39 and Hasselblad HC Macro 120mm f/4 lens. For that reason, my deep dive ventured off the beaten path into the world of second hand TTL medium format CCD sensors. The fact that the M9 is a rangefinder, there is no practical way in which I can acquire focus with any precision when digitizing film. So over the many months, I’ve been trying to find a way to digitize slide film (and even negative film) on the Leica M9. Everything else were cropped frame, topping out at 6 megapixels. To my dismay, only the Leica M9 has a full frame CCD sensor of sizable resolution. In fact, you could say that I’ve went off the deep end digging deeper into the troves of formerly unloved CCD digital cameras. Ever since I discovered how much better Fujifilm Provia 400X and the current version Kodak Ektachrome E100 rendered when digitized on the Fujifilm S5 Pro, I’ve been hooked on CCD sensors. You could say I had an obsession with CCD digital sensors.
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