Ron, Joe, Phil, Edward and Zhangyue, thanks a lot on the opinion on the b&w shots! I personal like the first in b&w and the second in color more.
Pihil: great shots with the 21Ultron
Ron: a lot of great shots with the Lux 21, they don't help me at all to get this lens out of my head
Charles: nice to see your pictures again!
Edward: niche shot, I prefer overall the second one, but like the sand in the foreground with the first one more. It looks like the first one is a little bit to red and the first a bit to greenish. Something in the middle would be probably right?
This weekend I was really mad about my self! The alarm was set at 3:00 am, because I wanted to be higher up at the mountain when the dawn begins. I heard the alarm, I also turned it off, but wanted to have just "one more minute". Yeah, one minute! When I woke up again it was already 6:20 am. Well I still made that very long tour, but missed all the good light. On the other side I have seen capricorns, this happens very seldom, and I just want to believe, that I didn't met them earlier ;-). Very, very seldom this happens to me, well, I guess I needed this sleep.
This is a picture to document the path, which I have done very seldom in the past, because the D3 was in the backpack. The M9P I wear now always in a very small lowepro bag in the front of my chest and is therefore also accessible for documentation.
Ron, another excellent shot with the 21Lux, and yes, CV 50 1.1 is for sale but I don't know how I ended up with a cleaning mark on the rear element, so might have to keep it instead It is a sharp lens wide open, but right now it takes almost 2 weeks of daily lens changes to rotate my 50mm lenses, need to pair things down a little
Ryan, CV 50 1.5 looking good. Another excellent set. Those portraits or your daughter are superb! Especially love the rendering on that Nikkor 8.5cm f/2 Sonnar portrait lens! If only I can find a black one at reasonable price Canon 100 ltm seems really modern looking, nice and your M9 seems to be in perfect calibration, tack sharp pics with these longer lenses!
Doug, you have one really happy German family, and they keep growing
Peter, that shot is still great in that lighting condition. Right now, if its choosing more sleep or a photo outing early in the morning, I would choose sleep 100% of the time. Having a young family is a great feeling but it means less time or no time for photography unless its less than 20m from my front door. Really enjoy your pics from those hikes. Keep sharing!
Joe, it's part of my clever plan to position myself for the long haul. We all know cameras come and go, glass is for the long haul. This is the kit I Was headed toward, except for dreaming of a Noct someday. There's really not much else, unless it's an ultra-wide, and maybe a 135mm. But I am quite happy with this family as it is. Doing the math, I was a little taken back what my collection has added up to now. Yikes. No wonder it took me 2 years to build and some "sacrifice flies", as in sold Nikon long glass to reinvest in Leica. This was calcuclated though, I can always add more long glass later on the Nikon side. Lenses may not always be so available for Leica.
Peter, looks like a great hike. You're very dedicated to get up at that time of night... It's about when I prefer to go to bed.
I have done the very same thing as you, but back in March. The day before I photographed a day-long youth hockey tournament, then had to get up at 6am to photograph a running race... unfortunately I didn't notice when setting the alarm on my iPod that the volume had been turned down and I slept through it. I woke up wondering why it was light out, then the panic hit having realized I overslept by about 3 hours. In a rush, I got to the finish line literally about 15 seconds before the first runner came through. Got lucky there, but did miss the start of the race.
I still think for what you're photographing, the 21/3.4 will better match your expectations and pair more closely with the 28 Cron and 50 Lux ASPH. The 21 Lux is a very good lens, but IMO best used wide open. The SEM is the best technical 21mm lens available in M-mount (and perhaps for any 35mm system).
Excellent point about typically having your D3 in the backpack vs. having the Leica readily accessible. I typically either keep it around my neck or in-hand with the strap wrapped around my right hand/wrist.
Doug, it's definitely a journey. Expensive, yes, but certainly fun. 90AA is a lens I still have to try. Maybe I shouldn't to avoid the temptation...
Joe, that's unfortunate about the mark, though one would hope a reasonable buyer will appreciate the insignificance of that on image quality.
So, yes, wrapped up the ROM interiors, but here are a few from outside the 'crystal' addition:
First with 21 Lux and the rest with 50 Lux ASPH on the M9.
charles.K wrote:
...I must admit I do not err from using 2500 ISO on the M9P with the 50 Nocti for night shots. I have tried pushing 640 ISO, but I still find more color noise to contend with. I don't mind luminescence noise, but color noise with mixed lighting drives me crazy...
You mean that you don't have a problem in getting the right exposure by shooting at ISO 2500 at night? If so, I wonder whether I'm dealing with more problematic lighting — on the other hand I'll be the first to admit that I'm not experienced in this type of night exposure and, also, in the dynamic situation of walking along the street where most of the people are comments, or, now, talking to me once they know I speak the language, I'm easily distracted from concentrating on frequent exposure adjustments that I should be making.
Ron has also suggested in p737 #14 that the downside of pushing M9 files often produces purple edges
So, how does everyone you come out on setting the high ISO in camera vs shooting at ISO 640 and pushing in post? Is the answer really that if you think your exposure at ISO 1250 – 2500 will be okay, you might as well set it in the camera, otherwise shoot at ISO 640 and push in post?
—Mitch/Bangkok Bangkok Obvious [WIP] Eggleston said that he was "at war with the obvious"...
Peter, thank you Amazing shot!
Ryan, wonderful series again! Your daughter is destined to be a model
My preference, is the 85 Nikon, though I suppose this is why I prefer the 75 Lux too
Doug, love the collection!!
Alberto, wonderful captures.
Joe, love the evening capture with mother of unsharp 50's!!
Ron, amazing series!
Mitch Alland wrote:
You mean that you don't have a problem in getting the right exposure by shooting at ISO 2500 at night? If so, I wonder whether I'm dealing with more problematic lighting — on the other hand I'll be the first to admit that I'm not experienced in this type of night exposure and, also, in the dynamic situation of walking along the street where most of the people are comments, or, now, talking to me once they know I speak the language, I'm easily distracted from concentrating on frequent exposure adjustments that I should be making.
For night street shooting, I will try to keep the ISO at 640, but there are times where it so dark, that I set the ISO at 2500. My pet peeve with the M9P is reviewing the shots at 2500 ISO, as the screen is terrible is really is no indication at all of how the shot will look. Call it blind faith, knowing the shots will look OK once downloaded.
Sorry for the re post, two night time street shots in Bangkok, in almost total darkness at 2500 ISO, with the mother of unsharp 50's E60.
Ron, very nice moment there! The exterior shots are also very well composed.
Rsolti, wow, beautiful colors and rendering from the Nokton II.
Doug, expensive tray you've got there
Alberto, lovely portraits of the kids. Smooth tonality.
Peter, thanks for you comments and fully agreed. Beautiful mountain shot! Sounds like my life story with alram clocks! The best way if you want to wake up at 3 AM is not to sleep in the first place
Joe, love the rendering of the Nocti.
Charles, the first shot is just fantastic!
Doug, great pic of the children . I have an M9, no M240 for me....yet
Joe/Charles, the Nocti you two have proves to be an excellent night lens. For night street shooting it must be one of the best lenses to have as you have shown
Ron, love the set from the ROM. The angles you captured perfectly...and what color! My favorite is definitely #3
What is this Rom Ron, that's a razor sharp lens! Well, the shots it produces are! Wow.
Are you using an adapter Ryan, it seems to work pretty well, tell me more about what you have...
Thanks Charles. It would take a bigger tray for your collection.
Edward, the shot glasses were optional with that tray at Pottery Barn. It may have been the Neiman Markus edition...
Why have a pier, if you can't fish off of it? I recognize low tide at the marsh of that area anywhere Ryan... Fond memories of Hilton Head and Savannah.
Doug, simply using a Voigtlander LTM-->M mount adapter. That pier is at the park for the Savannah aquarium....they don't want you catching their displays
Yeah, the tide over here in Savannah moves 8-10ft low tide to high tide....never seen such big difference anywhere else. If there was ever a hurricane hitting at high tide....oh boy
3D.Doug wrote:
oh, ok, well, how does focus work and aperture settings?
EXACTLY the same as your M mount, simply screw the LTM-->M adapter on the bottom of the screw mount lens and you now have an M mount lens. Everything works the same as you know with your M lenses. The only thing, the adapters aren't coded...which I could care less about, but some do. There are some manufacturers that sell dremeled LTM-->M mount adapters that are ready for nail polish/marker/etc to fill in for coding
So, are you physically converting the lens, by changing mounts, or is this truly an adapter so you can use a lens on nikon or canon, pop the adapter on, use it on M, then remove and go back to using on OEM camera?
Tough to get focus on a rangefinder at night Charles! . I don't envy you that. I like my little green nikon dot for manual focus sometimes, in really low light, especially with my 1.2 AIS NOCT mounted. That's a Nikkor Noct, not a Leica.
3D.Doug wrote:
So, are you physically converting the lens, by changing mounts, or is this truly an adapter so you can use a lens on nikon or canon, pop the adapter on, use it on M, then remove and go back to using on OEM camera?
. Well I still made that very long tour, but missed all the good light. On the other side I have seen capricorns, this happens very seldom, and I just want to believe, that I didn't met them earlier ;-). Very, very seldom this happens to me, well, I guess I needed this sleep
