The Millenium trilogy (girl with the dragon tattoo) and the hunger games trilogy.
I don't like movies as much, but will probably watch the HG to see how it holds up. I loved Lisbeth Salander in the movie, but not the deviations from the books.
No, picked one up locally in NYC. I eyed the 30mm lens, but those go for >$3k, which would mean thinning down the Leica set a bit. I'll see if the shoe fits before I invest more into this system. Something tells me I am going to love the format. /swoon
KatieInTexas wrote:
The Millenium trilogy (girl with the dragon tattoo) and the hunger games trilogy.
I don't like movies as much, but will probably watch the HG to see how it holds up. I loved Lisbeth Salander in the movie, but not the deviations from the books.
Xpan is the bomb. Congrats!!!
Lol! I was thinking camera books, like e Ansel Adams trilogy (camera, negative, print) or a more modern set
VladiD wrote:
No, picked one up locally in NYC. I eyed the 30mm lens, but those go for >$3k, which would mean thinning down the Leica set a bit. I'll see if the shoe fits before I invest more into this system. Something tells me I am going to love the format. /swoon
Good, because I still want his . And keep us updated!
zalmyb wrote:
Mike, I'm really liking what I see out of the pentax 67. How are you enjoying it? And what lenses do you have (I'm drooling over the 75mm 2.8...)
That is a complicated question. I have only ever rented it, but the prices to buy on KEH are obviously compelling. It's basically a 35 SLR on steroids. It's big, heavy, and has a shutter that sounds like an cannon (you need mirror lock-up below 1/FL). That said, the lenses I have used (the newest 55mm and 105mm) are incredible, especially the 55mm. The 105mm is also incredibly underrated, as it crushes most backgrounds wide-open. I found loading the camera to be a pain, but in reality it's a pleasure to use in most other ways.
redisburning wrote:
just in case you're looking for more praise of your photographs, it was yours with the gw690 that ultimately pushed me to get that over a hasselblad.
as always, it is nice to see more shots from you.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
Really? You can pull off 1/30th with this thing? Kudos to you! I MUp'd anytime I could, even if the VF blacked out. You must have steady hands. Granted, I am not saying "tripod required" here.
While I am making (apparent) controversial statements, just push Portra 400 one stop instead of using Portra 800.
corposant wrote:
Really? You can pull off 1/30th with this thing? Kudos to you! I MUp'd anytime I could, even if the VF blacked out. You must have steady hands. Granted, I am not saying "tripod required" here.
While I am making (apparent) controversial statements, just push Portra 400 one stop instead of using Portra 800.
I am off to find a fallout shelter. Tata!
I'm just saying that if you have a 90mm lens and shoot at 1/60th it's not the end of the world and doesn't require mirror lockup from what I've experienced.
I thought I had steady hands but it's damn near impossible to get a sharp shot on the M9 with anything other than double the FL. It drives me crazy!
TWoK wrote:
I thought I had steady hands but it's damn near impossible to get a sharp shot on the M9 with anything other than double the FL. It drives me crazy!
Now you sound crazier than I do. How is that possible?
corposant wrote:
Now you sound crazier than I do. How is that possible?
No idea at all, but I'm not the only one to notice it. I don't know if the the shutter isn't dampened well or it's just easy to see or what, but it frustrates me. In the end though it doesn't matter. Either way I'm crazy!
Hand-held sharpness at slower speeds is worse than with other LEICAs Images shot with the LEICA M3 or LEICA IIIf are sharper than the LEICA M9 at slow speeds hand-held.
This is because of two things.
First, the LEICA M9 doesn't have a real Leica shutter. Instead of the soft, quiet, slow horizontal cloth shutter of real LEICAs, the LEICA M9 has a noisy, multi-bladed vertical metal contrivance that looks like it came out of a Voigtländer. It potentially generates more sharpness-robbing vibration.
Most importantly, the LEICA M9 shares the same defective, notchy shutter-button design as the LEICA M7. Instead of having the silky-smooth continuous trigger-pull of better LEICAs, the LEICA M9 instead has notches, or jerks, inserted into what is supposed to be a smooth shutter release. The shutter button of the M9 requires overcoming a couple of progressively stronger detents, and this leads to blurrier images.
Specifically, I have to shoot at a shutter setting of twice the lens' focal length to get perfectly sharp shots, versus about half the lens' focal length with traditional LEICAs.
I need to shoot a 90mm lens at about 1/180 or faster on the LEICA M9, while I get the same results at 1/45 on a real LEICA M, like the LEICA M3 or LEICA M6 TTL. Even the LEICA M4-P gives sharper results, as it also has a proper shutter release trigger pull, without notches. I also get these same better results with a Contax G2.
I'm unsure if the very high resolution of the LEICA M9 makes it easy to see this, or if it's the M9's extra vibration and notchy shutter push-in. I look at my LEICA M3 and other images scanned to the same resolution on the same monitor as my LEICA M9 images, so I suspect it's the flaws in the LEICA M9. ...Show more →
corposant wrote:
Really? You can pull off 1/30th with this thing? Kudos to you! I MUp'd anytime I could, even if the VF blacked out. You must have steady hands. Granted, I am not saying "tripod required" here.
While I am making (apparent) controversial statements, just push Portra 400 one stop instead of using Portra 800.
I am off to find a fallout shelter. Tata!
There's video of one of the guys from the PDML balancing a nickel on its edge on the focusing screen of a 67 and firing the shutter. The Nickel doesn't fall over.
It's loud but extremely well damped. I found I could handhold my old 6x7 at 1/(35mm Equiv FL). So 1/60 with the 105. Even did 1/30 a few times, but I have unusually steady hands (my record for handholding an acceptably sharp shot is 0.3 seconds with the NEX-5N and ZA E 24).
. And keep us updated!
