Looking at Werner's beautiful shot above from Arles, here one of mine which has scratches directly in the film (not through post processing ). I made a mistake when rolling myself the film into a film cartridge - trick is to know which way to correctly insert the cartridge onto the film reel. By adding the cartridge the wrong way, the film came out of the cartridge the wrong way. I opened it up in the dark and re-inserted the cartridge the correct way - not knowing that the unexposed film was already scratched. Nevertheless, I got some good antique looking shots directly from camera with it:
Leica M6, Leica 35/2 pre-ASPH, Ilford HP5+ 400 film developed with D76 (1:1)
That's great with film! My admiration....great shot!
These things (mistakes etc) happened to me many times in these old days....in the darkroom....and i was mad many times.....not ready then to like coincidence...
Nowadays the post processing gives me the freedom to express the athmosphere and the feelings i had during the shooting situation. In this case it was unexpected cold and rainy, the light different than expected etc....so i tried to show that.
Still this kind off pp, i know, is always up to discussion - well i like it.
I have nostalgic feelings about film but there is no way back for me !
Werner_Utsch wrote:
That's great with film! My admiration....great shot!
These things (mistakes etc) happened to me many times in these old days....in the darkroom....and i was mad many times.....not ready then to like coincidence...
Nowadays the post processing gives me the freedom to express the athmosphere and the feelings i had during the shooting situation. In this case it was unexpected cold and rainy, the light different than expected etc....so i tried to show that.
Still this kind off pp, i know, is always up to discussion - well i like it.
I have nostalgic feelings about film but there is no way back for me !...Show more →
And that's absolutely okay, nothing wrong with it! I personally enjoy both - digital and film. I just went back to darkroom printing first last year and then started to develop my own B&W film. I wouldn't consider film "better" than digital, it is simply different. I find it hard/impossible to reproduce the same B&W look in digital. The M6 is a superb tool to do film photography - my first entry into the Leica camera world. Maybe I will go with a digital Leica in the future - I am eyeing with a Leica monochrome, but currently I simply enjoy the B&W film stuff.
Digital post processing is fun, too - but I really try to limit post processing as much as possible. I was never a big fan of PS and applying layers over layers....IMO I either like a photo unprocessed or I don't. I might tweak a bit the first but will disregard the latter. Cool thing is that we have so may post processing options to choose from. It all comes down to personal style and view what we do with it.
I always like your work, Werner! BTW, I dropped you a private message here a while ago, too.
Looking through my cabinet the other day I ran across several filters that I had bought back in my Canon days, including a 500D Close-up lens with 58mm threads, and there along with it was a 58 to 55mm adapter ring, which coincidentally, was a perfect fit for the APO Cron 90-M, which, along with the Leica M-Adapter-T mated it all to the SL. I don't know how much I will use this rigged up macro, but I have had fun playing around with it while trying to scrape up money to buy a real macro lens for the SL... if there ever is such a thing.
relms wrote:
Looking through my cabinet the other day I ran across several filters that I had bought back in my Canon days, including a 500D Close-up lens with 58mm threads, and there along with it was a 58 to 55mm adapter ring, which coincidentally, was a perfect fit for the APO Cron 90-M, which, along with the Leica M-Adapter-T mated it all to the SL. I don't know how much I will use this rigged up macro, but I have had fun playing around with it while trying to scrape up money to buy a real macro lens for the SL... if there ever is such a thing....Show more →
I found using extension tubes work very well, better than close up filters. Best would be to buy the 100/2.8 R of course
relms wrote:
Looking through my cabinet the other day I ran across several filters that I had bought back in my Canon days, including a 500D Close-up lens with 58mm threads, and there along with it was a 58 to 55mm adapter ring, which coincidentally, was a perfect fit for the APO Cron 90-M, which, along with the Leica M-Adapter-T mated it all to the SL. I don't know how much I will use this rigged up macro, but I have had fun playing around with it while trying to scrape up money to buy a real macro lens for the SL... if there ever is such a thing....Show more →
The 120S will probably be the closest thing for a while once the S-adapter is out. Or the Macro-T lens coming soon (though not ideal with the 1.5 crop).
A stitch with the MP and TriX developed in D76. Haven't had much luck getting decent scans from my negs and I'm getting back into leathercrafting so I haven't been active but its great to see everyone is still around . This is a pano from Everest base camp this January
The "thicker" 1.1mm cover glass is playing some tricks with field curvature. Especially in the first shot, there are some areas in focus that definitely should not be.
Photos during the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC. The first shows the gnarled trunks from some of the original cherry trees given by the people of Tokyo in 1912.
The second was taken nearby at the Roosevelt Memorial which also was colored with the cherry blossoms.
). I made a mistake when rolling myself the film into a film cartridge - trick is to know which way to correctly insert the cartridge onto the film reel. By adding the cartridge the wrong way, the film came out of the cartridge the wrong way. I opened it up in the dark and re-inserted the cartridge the correct way - not knowing that the unexposed film was already scratched. Nevertheless, I got some good antique looking shots directly from camera with it:
. This is a pano from Everest base camp this January
