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jojomon11 wrote:
Wonderful stuff all, esp. Edwards I always love you raw street scenes and cityscapes!
Thanks Ron
Yes the difficulty for me is the iso esp. in a very dark church or outdoors in the evening. Pushing iso on the MM causes banding on some of my shots, esp. in the darks and shadows, but the M I had no banding issues. I tried a Bescor adjustable led light panel for lighting and it seemed to work very well for me, but the weight made it top heavy somewhat, but it was worth it for some of the images I took.
I tried to make my PP flow with the DSLR I had also, and yes it was quite difficult for me as well, even B and W's for both PP looked totally different than what I expected, I def. prefer the Leica rendering over the DSLR thats for sure!
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Hi Phil, that's interesting about the MM. I recall Joe saying he's also seen banding with it, while others haven't. I'm not surprised though, since it's just an M9 with a modified sensor... I'm still getting some banding, but for the most part it seems to be fairy under control as long as I don't push the camera too hard or constantly review images while it's writing to the card. While I think the amount of 'low level' banding with the Panasonic Gold SDHC cards is better than what I was getting with the Transcend cards, because it's more random when there is banding, meaning it's less discernible, my feeling is the amount of banding is a touch higher overall (if comparing black frames pushed 3-5 stops in post, which isn't normally a realistic form of post production). So far, sticking to ISO 640 and pushing in post seems to work well at minimizing banding. I wonder if with the MM that would equate to the same technique, but topping out at ISO 1250?
I've been curious about the LED light panels... to use one on the M9 for some fill light. But so far I've found the cheaper ones tend to have a green color cast and the more compact ones are fairly useless in brighter ambient light... For indoor/night use it might be worth trying...
In fact, this image was done with an LED video light... not mine, rather, the other photographer always brings one and it does come in handy. Here I was the 'light stand' holding the light for his shot, but also grabbed a few.
Regarding the problems you were having with focus consistency and the 90mm lens... I also tried and pretty much gave up on using the 1.4x magnifier. I think with it you spend too much time trying to perfect the focus and end up over analyzing it... Without the magnifier, the RF patch more or less pops into alignment when all is perfect. I found that a diopter correction eyepiece helped a lot, thanks to Charles's suggestion and experience.
Edward, thanks for the nickname. Great Planar presence in the flag series, particularly the first one.
Joakim, I love the light and shadows and am a sucker for doors and windows.
Jawad. Thanks for the follow up and context. I think you were right to select the first examples as it works better overall.
Adrian - I agree the 50's star-shaped aperture is kind of annoying, but sometimes can be used to good effect. But if I had the choice, would prefer a rounder shape.
nibutto - congrats and hopefully it will be a long and fulfilling photographic relationship! Looking forward to seeing more. That's also a lens I don't think we've seen much from in this thread. At least for me, the pre-ASPH 28s are an unknown area.
Adam - thanks - I can see that 50AA lens flare example could be problematic. Have you been able to determine if the problem was fixed? Interesting collection of images.
Fursan - great set and like the birds & silhouette!
Here's another random one from the wedding...
The one at top was with the 21 Lux, the one above was 21mm, but don't remember if it was the Lux or SEM...
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