And Finally, my favorite shot from Lower Antelope Canyon in Page Arizona. This is a must do shoot for anyone interested in fine art landscape photography. Very spiritual as well as very lovely. Shot with Nikon D2X and 17-35 Zoom.

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How about a modest set up shot with digilux2 ambient light. Great little walk around camera

Dear Kurt

How is the flare with the 15mm?

Nice shot, BTW, did you need do do some processintg fro haze? Do you use a haze filter? Is that a "stealth 1Ds? Not showing on profile
Flare on my 15mm leica is a bit worse than I thought, but then I do get pretty close to sun and pick some bad angels.

BTW, 280mm f4 took precedence from 2x focus modle, but one of these days!

Regards
victor

Victor, at first the flare caught me by suprise. But once I remembered to watch out for it, I usually found a way to alter my shot or use my hand as a shade to eliminate it while shooting. It is probably one of my favorite lenses to use....it is incredibly sharp and it resolves detail from corner to corner quite wonderfully.

I was using nearly all Leica glass with a 1DS before I received my DMR. I had to modify the mirror to use the 15 (and a few other lenses), but the results were worth the effort. I sold it before picking up the DMR. I still wouldn't mind having it around though, for full-frame landscapes.

I did have to mess around with the haze in photoshop. One of the strengths of mating Leica lenses on the DMR is the strong metering and white balance. I would have liked to have been able to use the DMR on my trip to Norway last summer. There are a few shots with haze and blown highlights that I could have captured more acurately with the DMR.

I've been looking at those 280/4s also. It would be so easy to add it to the small bag with the 180/2.8.

Kurt

I am wondering if it makes sense to use a light orange filter to reduce haze at the time of shooting, and then to correct the colours in RAW processing... Does that just go back and forth equal amounts, or could it actually remove some haze from the image?

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Spring shot from today with the DMR and 35mm summilux ... f2.

Good question Carsten. I'm not certain if one way would work better than the other. For me, haze has always been a hard thing to undo. But sometimes you don't have the opportunity to come back on a day with no haze.

Personally, I always try to capture the image as close to as I see it first in RAW. From there, it is subject to my internal filter as to what I'd like it to look like as a final image (as we all have a unique way of seeing things). I tend to bump saturation and color up a touch on most shots as that is a look I prefer.

Kurt

Spring shot from yesterday, 1D and 50 2.0 Summicron

River bed in autumn. Arca Swiss 8x10 Velvia scanned.

Beautiful shot, Arne.

kidigital wrote:
Good question Carsten. I'm not certain if one way would work better than the other. For me, haze has always been a hard thing to undo. But sometimes you don't have the opportunity to come back on a day with no haze.

Personally, I always try to capture the image as close to as I see it first in RAW. From there, it is subject to my internal filter as to what I'd like it to look like as a final image (as we all have a unique way of seeing things). I tend to bump saturation and color up a touch on most shots as that is a look I prefer.

Yup, I do the same. Your post just triggered the thought. If the orange filter cuts haze (doesn't store as much blue), yet doesn't distort the colours too much (perhaps yellow then), it might actually be possible to revert, without the haze. The question is two-fold I suppose: 1) is the haze latently there somehow? 2) how much colour would be lost this way.

Helping out the second item is the fact that long-distance shots are often pretty monochrome anyway. It would be interesting too to shoot two shots, one normal, one with filter for the far parts, and then combine them with layers. If one was willing to go mostly monochrome, then it would even be possible to shoot with a red filter and change the red to blue afterwards.

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Waves, Teneriffe. 10D, 90 mm Elmarit

Looks like my first car! except was black 1950 chevrolet.
Funny, front looks like 50 chevy, but rear fender is like 51? Maybe somebody fooling around

Say, you guys with shots all over the world. Own a private plane?
Arne great shot! That 90 elmarit is neat no?

Victor

5D + CZ 35-70/3.4 (using macro at 35mm)

Thank you Victor. The 90 mm Elmarit is a very good lens, altough lately I find myself using mostly the Canon 90 mm TSE or the 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit when photographing in this range.

Sintra (Portugal) at dusk. 10D, 35 mm Elmarit-R.

One of those lucky days where the clouds cooperated! Leica 21-35 & 1Ds:

Coastal landscape, Norway.
10D, 19 mm Elmarit-R.

Arne, I love that wave shot. Meget bra!

I think she likes him!

Albi, France Contx 645 80mm zeiss, P25

Medieval festival.

Arne, love to see that 8x10 blown up large on a wall. Amazing.

Just to show the other end of the $ extreme here's a shot with my 20d and Steinheil Munchen Cassar S 50/2.8. The lens cost me $20 Cdn and I probably overpaid but it's interesting. It's a M42 mount from an old Tower camera from the 1950's (I think). The shot is nothing special, I was just playing around trying out my Katz Eye split prism focus screen.