Oh, that’s a nice copy (i.e. a Russian rip-off) of a lens I owned
for a short while in the early 1970s (because I could not
afford it earlier): https://kenrockwell.com/leica/50mm-f35.htm
@zerosapte Your lens is an M39, right (i.e. not an M42)?
Here are a couple of straight out of camera shots and their processed versions.
The lens is not contrasty at all but it’s quite sharp and full of character. Also a bit quirky to use, especially the focusing lever… it feels odd, but it’s fun.
Also a bit quirky to use, especially the focusing lever…
Ah yes, but it worked beautifully with Leica’s parallax viewer
My Industar 50mm (M42 version) is tricky in other ways:
easy to lubricate, easy to focus – but as soon as you step down
the aperture, the focus ring changes as well :-(((
This image of my mum and dad shows how this lens flares extremely easily. To be expected, though, due to it’s single coating. The flare is really unappealling and I can’t see how it can be used creatively. It is what it is.
However, with the terrible flaring, with the lack of contrast, with the quirky and somewhat stiff focusing there’s still something that I find very enjoyable about shooting this lens. On top of that I just love how it renders black and white images. Highlights and midtones have a “silvery” quality to them and generally the lens, despite it’s shortcomings, is very sharp and has plenty of character.
Here’s an image of my mum and my brother holding one of our hens.
I think the final look has more to do with the character of the lens than with any method. What I do is some pretty basic processing in RawTherapee followed by light post processing in GIMP.