Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
p.1330 #1Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
M8, Summitar, RM Filter o
n the IR shot.
Jun 18, 2016 at 10:50 PM
p.1330 #3Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
AbramG wrote:
Alan. I hope someday I can capture people half as good as you do.
Thank you.
Alan. I hope someday I can capture people half as good as you do.
Thank you.
Jun 19, 2016 at 06:03 AM
p.1330 #4Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Took the Q to the Dan test at my dojo last night 
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Jun 19, 2016 at 07:15 AM
p.1330 #5Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Nice randori shot kmanz! Perfect timing and movement blur. Which grade are you? I'm a 2nd dan myself.
Jun 19, 2016 at 09:21 AM
p.1330 #6Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Hi Edward. Thanks for the comment. I'm 2nd kyu myself. Last night was the 2nd Dan test. It was really great to watch
Jun 19, 2016 at 09:59 AM
p.1330 #7Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
kmanz wrote:
Hi Edward. Thanks for the comment. I'm 2nd kyu myself. Last night was the 2nd Dan test. It was really great to watch
Yeah, these tests tend to be quite spectacular, though very exhausting for the practitioners
Hope you get your black belt soon!
Jun 19, 2016 at 10:05 AM
p.1330 #8Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Park Architecture by Werner Utsch, on Flickr
Jun 19, 2016 at 11:32 AM
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p.1330 #11Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
MM + 50mm Summicron v5 + 35mm Summicron ASPH at a wedding
I am fond of this first one. This is the groom and his son. They were the only two in the room. Dad helped his boy get dressed.
Son: "Dad, what is that?"
Dad: "It's a handkerchief."
Son: "What's it for?"
Dad: "If a woman cries, you can wipe her tears away."
I am fond of this first one. This is the groom and his son. They were the only two in the room. Dad helped his boy get dressed.
Son: "Dad, what is that?"
Dad: "It's a handkerchief."
Son: "What's it for?"
Dad: "If a woman cries, you can wipe her tears away."
Jun 19, 2016 at 07:39 PM
p.1330 #12Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
oye...web compression. they look way better than what is displayed above 
Jun 19, 2016 at 07:45 PM
p.1330 #13Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
2nd part of my Petzval/Leica M test. Shot wide open at 1.9. This time with an actual person before I arrange for the models.
Late afternoon sun, swirl settings minimum 1, 5 and 7. The lower the settings, the more of the image is sharp.
No matter the setting, it is always sharp in the center - displayed in the crop of the eyes where you can see the reflection of the palm trees etc sharp.
I'm gonna say it. I love this lens and the different looks it allows me. It's going to work great for what I have in mind.
Late afternoon sun, swirl settings minimum 1, 5 and 7. The lower the settings, the more of the image is sharp.
No matter the setting, it is always sharp in the center - displayed in the crop of the eyes where you can see the reflection of the palm trees etc sharp.
I'm gonna say it. I love this lens and the different looks it allows me. It's going to work great for what I have in mind.
Jun 19, 2016 at 09:15 PM
p.1330 #14Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Wow, lots of great work! Allen, love your sets! Duane, likewise and jealous of the 35 Lux pre-ASPH. Would like to try one but just haven't found one at a good enough of a bargain. Huss, the lens has an interesting look, though the stronger settings kind of seem excessive, at least to me, for any kind of regular use. I'd be interested in your thoughts why you got the 58 instead of the 85? More swirl?
Trawling the archives, I don't think I posted these... I was in Duane's neighborhood last October on a road trip to Atlanta. Instead of taking interstate highways all the way down, my GF and I decided to hit the Blue Ridge Parkway at about the midway point and take it all the way to the end. Really lovely road and very peaceful drive; a great contrast to the intense traffic of the eastern interstates. With it being the very beginning of October, we were maybe a couple weeks too early for peak fall colors, but a welcome tradeoff seemed to be fewer other tourists.
For those that don't know it, the parkway is a 469 mile long, two-lane road, 45mph speed limit, with no level intersections with other highways and generally is tree-lined with minimal urban vistas. See Wiki for more.
But it also happened that the time we budgeted - three days to Atlanta - coincided with hurricane Joaquin. Though the hurricane never made landfall, it greatly affected and strengthened another storm over the southern US states that resulted in massive flooding in some areas of South Carolina. Due to this, we never had blue skies on the drive down. Just progressively more rain and a lot of fog/mist/low cloud cover, which offered its own beauty. Unfortunately the storm worsened considerably on the third day of the drive, to the point where the parkway was closed by the National Parks Service south of Asheville. But we were crazy enough to go up Grandfather Mountain and walk across the Mile High Swinging Bridge in seriously driving rain (too intense to bother shooting with the Leica since everything would have gotten wet in two seconds)... We were a bit disappointed to miss the parkway south of Asheville because it promised to be very scenic from all the guides, etc. Something for a future trip.
From the first day, somewhere in the northern part of North Carolina:
M240 & 180/3.4 APO-Telyt-R
Near Doughton Park around mile post 242:
M240 & 90AA, 50 Lux ASPH
Doughton Park:
M240 & 50 Lux ASPH, CV35/1.7M, 21SEM
Moses Cone Manor, AKA Flat Top Manor mile ~294:
M240 & CV35/1.7M
I found, as with pretty much every road trip I've done, the dilemma was whether to stop, whether it would get better just around the corner, or a little later down the road, meanwhile keeping the overall travel budget in mind. We probably could have spent a week or two just on the parkway, with frequent stops and exploring the various hiking options... As usually seems to be the case on these drives, a lot of time was spent in the car driving (and enjoying the drive itself), with the budgeted time being somewhat too little for the inevitably frequent stops.
Trawling the archives, I don't think I posted these... I was in Duane's neighborhood last October on a road trip to Atlanta. Instead of taking interstate highways all the way down, my GF and I decided to hit the Blue Ridge Parkway at about the midway point and take it all the way to the end. Really lovely road and very peaceful drive; a great contrast to the intense traffic of the eastern interstates. With it being the very beginning of October, we were maybe a couple weeks too early for peak fall colors, but a welcome tradeoff seemed to be fewer other tourists.
For those that don't know it, the parkway is a 469 mile long, two-lane road, 45mph speed limit, with no level intersections with other highways and generally is tree-lined with minimal urban vistas. See Wiki for more.
But it also happened that the time we budgeted - three days to Atlanta - coincided with hurricane Joaquin. Though the hurricane never made landfall, it greatly affected and strengthened another storm over the southern US states that resulted in massive flooding in some areas of South Carolina. Due to this, we never had blue skies on the drive down. Just progressively more rain and a lot of fog/mist/low cloud cover, which offered its own beauty. Unfortunately the storm worsened considerably on the third day of the drive, to the point where the parkway was closed by the National Parks Service south of Asheville. But we were crazy enough to go up Grandfather Mountain and walk across the Mile High Swinging Bridge in seriously driving rain (too intense to bother shooting with the Leica since everything would have gotten wet in two seconds)... We were a bit disappointed to miss the parkway south of Asheville because it promised to be very scenic from all the guides, etc. Something for a future trip.
From the first day, somewhere in the northern part of North Carolina:
M240 & 180/3.4 APO-Telyt-R
Near Doughton Park around mile post 242:
M240 & 90AA, 50 Lux ASPH
Doughton Park:
M240 & 50 Lux ASPH, CV35/1.7M, 21SEM
Moses Cone Manor, AKA Flat Top Manor mile ~294:
M240 & CV35/1.7M
I found, as with pretty much every road trip I've done, the dilemma was whether to stop, whether it would get better just around the corner, or a little later down the road, meanwhile keeping the overall travel budget in mind. We probably could have spent a week or two just on the parkway, with frequent stops and exploring the various hiking options... As usually seems to be the case on these drives, a lot of time was spent in the car driving (and enjoying the drive itself), with the budgeted time being somewhat too little for the inevitably frequent stops.
Jun 20, 2016 at 10:09 AM
p.1330 #15Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
airfrogusmc wrote:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/airfrogusmc/airfrogusmc032/L1000839_zpsdi0spwxg.jpg
I wasn't aware that Currywurst made it over to the States. Never seen it when I lived in the US. Something recent, or maybe an East Coast thing (I've only ever been out west).?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/airfrogusmc/airfrogusmc032/L1000839_zpsdi0spwxg.jpg
I wasn't aware that Currywurst made it over to the States. Never seen it when I lived in the US. Something recent, or maybe an East Coast thing (I've only ever been out west).?
Jun 20, 2016 at 02:41 PM
p.1330 #17Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Shot this interior of a custom Corvette at a local Fathers Day car show.
Jun 20, 2016 at 08:21 PM
p.1330 #18Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
New pup. Seems happy.
Leica M, Zeiss ZM Diagon Alley 35mm 1.4
Leica M, Zeiss ZM Diagon Alley 35mm 1.4
Jun 20, 2016 at 09:01 PM
p.1330 #19Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Yeah, I saw Kebab, Salat and Currywurst on the menu and thought Allen had made a trip to Germany.
Some more random shots from Blue Ridge Parkway:
M240 & 90AA, 50 Lux ASPH, CV35/1.7M, 21SEM
Some more random shots from Blue Ridge Parkway:
M240 & 90AA, 50 Lux ASPH, CV35/1.7M, 21SEM
Jun 21, 2016 at 08:28 AM
p.1330 #20Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Thanks Ron for sharing these Blue Ridge Parkway photos. It reminds me why this area is such a great place to live. Hooking up our Airstream and heading over to the Dilsboro area to "camp" the next couple days along the Tuckasegee River to relax and maybe some fly fishing.
Jun 21, 2016 at 08:40 AM