Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
p.1363 #1Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Beautiful colors, Joakim!
One more set from Chinatown:
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 35 Distagon by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 35 Distagon by edward karaa, on Flickr
One more set from Chinatown:
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 35 Distagon by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 35 Distagon by edward karaa, on FlickrOct 02, 2016 at 12:41 AM
p.1363 #2Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Edward, third one is a favorite. I like the composition and the connection with the main subject.
Oct 02, 2016 at 04:33 AM
p.1363 #3Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Thank you Joakim 
A few from Chinese opera backstage:
M262 35 Distagon by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
A few from Chinese opera backstage:
M262 35 Distagon by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrM262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrOct 02, 2016 at 07:48 AM
p.1363 #4Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
And a wedding shoot at the train station:
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on Flickr
M262 50 Planar by edward karaa, on FlickrOct 02, 2016 at 07:50 AM
p.1363 #5Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Ed, your images on the last two pages are beautiful!
Oct 02, 2016 at 09:02 AM
p.1363 #6Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
ocean2059 wrote:
Ed, your images on the last two pages are beautiful!
Much appreciated, ocean!
Oct 02, 2016 at 09:14 AM
p.1363 #7Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
I like #5 and the last of the Opera alot
Meander by unoh7, CV 21 @ 5.6
Fall Creek by unoh7, CV 21 @ 5.6
Evening color by unoh7, CV21 F/11
Colored Stream by unoh7, CV 21 WO
Cottonwoods by unoh7, CV 21 F/5.6
I managed to code my LTM to M adapter which this lens uses for the old 21/2.8 which must be corrected for colorshifit in the M9 and 240. At the same time I filed a mounting tab on the CLE 40/2, so it now brings the 35 frame lines up and I coded it as 35/2 v4 The hood on the Skopar is tiny, but it sort of works:
Turn Turn Turn by unoh7,CV 21 f/8
Meander by unoh7, CV 21 @ 5.6
Fall Creek by unoh7, CV 21 @ 5.6
Evening color by unoh7, CV21 F/11
Colored Stream by unoh7, CV 21 WO
Cottonwoods by unoh7, CV 21 F/5.6
I managed to code my LTM to M adapter which this lens uses for the old 21/2.8 which must be corrected for colorshifit in the M9 and 240. At the same time I filed a mounting tab on the CLE 40/2, so it now brings the 35 frame lines up and I coded it as 35/2 v4
The hood on the Skopar is tiny, but it sort of works:Turn Turn Turn by unoh7,CV 21 f/8
Oct 02, 2016 at 10:19 AM
p.1363 #8Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
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Oct 02, 2016 at 11:04 AM
p.1363 #9Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
An apple a day... S-006 and 30 Elmarit
Oct 02, 2016 at 11:24 AM
p.1363 #10Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Stunning opera shots Edward, I love the selfy ('selfie'?)!
Great film shots retrofocus.
Charlie - I'm another CV21 f4 fan and those shots are great. How do you find your M262 in comparison with your M9, knowing how much you have valued the latter?
Joakim - beautiful MF rendering of the apple tree.
Great film shots retrofocus.
Charlie - I'm another CV21 f4 fan and those shots are great. How do you find your M262 in comparison with your M9, knowing how much you have valued the latter?
Joakim - beautiful MF rendering of the apple tree.
Oct 02, 2016 at 06:53 PM
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p.1363 #11Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Thank you very much Charlie and David for the comments!
Retrofocus, nice shots especially no. 2.
Charlie, really like the blues, yellows and greens of the M9 sensor. Looks like it was designed specifically for nature shots
Joakim, the rendering of the S system continues to amaze me every time. Lovely colors.
Retrofocus, nice shots especially no. 2.
Charlie, really like the blues, yellows and greens of the M9 sensor. Looks like it was designed specifically for nature shots
Joakim, the rendering of the S system continues to amaze me every time. Lovely colors.
Oct 02, 2016 at 10:40 PM
p.1363 #12Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
lenticular11 wrote:
...Charlie - I'm another CV21 f4 fan and those shots are great. How do you find your M262 in comparison with your M9, knowing how much you have valued the latter?.
Please ignore my question - I thought for some reason that you had acquired an M262!
...Charlie - I'm another CV21 f4 fan and those shots are great. How do you find your M262 in comparison with your M9, knowing how much you have valued the latter?.
Please ignore my question - I thought for some reason that you had acquired an M262!
Oct 03, 2016 at 01:07 AM
p.1363 #13Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
I have both the 262 and the M-E and I love both. The 262 has better low light capabilities and is very responsive. But I enjoy shooting with the M-E a lot especially in well lit situations. If I could only have one though it would be the 262. They are about the same weight and the 262 has an amazingly simple menu. The camera I still use for almost all of my personal work is still the MM.
Oct 03, 2016 at 07:20 AM
p.1363 #14Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Hi all,
So I haven't been posting for a while (as usual) and have an insane backlog of photos...
Budapest back in late May
- by aFrIcanSH
- by aFrIcanSH
- by aFrIcanSH
- by aFrIcanSH
Side question: so post-Budapest I visit several other countries and amassed thousands of photos, and took forever to get them all edited. But whenever I revisit them I'm terribly annoyed with the white balance (or colours, but mainly white balance). There were days I just re-edited hundreds of photos at a go after work, just to get the colours right/better. Today I went through over 2000 pictures from my travels and reeled in disgust thinking about how many photos I ruined because I couldn't get the white balance right. Most of them are just casual shots as reminders to myself of all the places I visited, and probably won't revisit those pictures again any time soon (and there is no way I'm going to put myself through another round of tweaking). Do you guys have any tips regarding white balance? The Green-Magenta tint drives me nuts all the time, I don't carry a grey card everywhere, the M240's auto WB isn't fantastic and lightroom's auto option doesn't work wonders either. I've owned my M for over a year now, but I still miss shooting SOOC jpegs from my nikons and RX1(blasphemy!) - once I figured out in-camera what colours and contrast I wanted, everything I shot came out just the way I wanted.
So I haven't been posting for a while (as usual) and have an insane backlog of photos...
Budapest back in late May
- by aFrIcanSH- by aFrIcanSH- by aFrIcanSH- by aFrIcanSHSide question: so post-Budapest I visit several other countries and amassed thousands of photos, and took forever to get them all edited. But whenever I revisit them I'm terribly annoyed with the white balance (or colours, but mainly white balance). There were days I just re-edited hundreds of photos at a go after work, just to get the colours right/better. Today I went through over 2000 pictures from my travels and reeled in disgust thinking about how many photos I ruined because I couldn't get the white balance right. Most of them are just casual shots as reminders to myself of all the places I visited, and probably won't revisit those pictures again any time soon (and there is no way I'm going to put myself through another round of tweaking). Do you guys have any tips regarding white balance? The Green-Magenta tint drives me nuts all the time, I don't carry a grey card everywhere, the M240's auto WB isn't fantastic and lightroom's auto option doesn't work wonders either. I've owned my M for over a year now, but I still miss shooting SOOC jpegs from my nikons and RX1(blasphemy!) - once I figured out in-camera what colours and contrast I wanted, everything I shot came out just the way I wanted.
Oct 03, 2016 at 08:37 AM
p.1363 #15Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Chas, very nice photos!
To answer your question, I personally have two standard WB settings, daylight and Tungsten, just like with film. I don't shoot much so I normally tweak the WB further, but I could just stick to the standard settings without problem.
To answer your question, I personally have two standard WB settings, daylight and Tungsten, just like with film. I don't shoot much so I normally tweak the WB further, but I could just stick to the standard settings without problem.
Oct 03, 2016 at 08:44 AM
p.1363 #16Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Thank you so much Allen for providing your experience and insight.
I should also seek your own findings Edward, knowing your extensive mastery of M9, back in the day.
My question is from mainly idle curiousity since I have neither budget nor plans to move away from shooting the M9.
airfrogusmc wrote:
I have both the 262 and the M-E and I love both. The 262 has better low light capabilities and is very responsive. But I enjoy shooting with the M-E a lot especially in well lit situations. If I could only have one though it would be the 262. They are about the same weight and the 262 has an amazingly simple menu. The camera I still use for almost all of my personal work is still the MM.
Edited on Oct 03, 2016 at 02:07 PM · View previous versions
I should also seek your own findings Edward, knowing your extensive mastery of M9, back in the day.
My question is from mainly idle curiousity since I have neither budget nor plans to move away from shooting the M9.
airfrogusmc wrote:
I have both the 262 and the M-E and I love both. The 262 has better low light capabilities and is very responsive. But I enjoy shooting with the M-E a lot especially in well lit situations. If I could only have one though it would be the 262. They are about the same weight and the 262 has an amazingly simple menu. The camera I still use for almost all of my personal work is still the MM.
Edited on Oct 03, 2016 at 02:07 PM · View previous versions
Oct 03, 2016 at 01:52 PM
p.1363 #17Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
I feel your pain re getting accurate colours vis à vis WB settings.
I encountered this issue in a serious way after I purchased a Pentax P645D medium-format digital camera. I love it's IQ however the colour output was severely compromised by Phase One's well-known refusal to support decent camera profiles for the P645D and P645Z in Capture One Pro, my much-preferred RAW processor. (The 645D and 645Z cams are seriously cheaper competition to Phase One's own range of MFD cams deriving from earlier Mamiya models).
I resorted to buying an X-Rite Color Checker Passport with its WB and colour matrix cards and I now use that most times I shoot (with any digital cam) to calibrate my WB in post-processing. I've also generated colour-profiles for my various cameras (including my M9) although the process in C1 Pro is less straightforward than doing the same in Lightroom ( they use different camera profile file formats).
I'm currently wrestling with a similar problem to yours for some shots of a particular classic Citroën car, made using my Pentax K-1. When traveling in Europe recently I was storing both RAW and jpgs, the latter to share with family. Now back home I find that the red from the RAW files is quite different to what I remember and the in-cam jpg output more accurate(?).
Of course each RAW processor generates differences in RAW processing and there is a lot of latitude to user control, ranging from custom profiles for one's own specific camera body, and colour tweaks of profiles provided by the processing software, in addition to the usual WB, and more basic manipulations.
Apologies for the long-winded reply.
aFrIcanSH wrote:
Hi all,
So I haven't been posting for a while (as usual) and have an insane backlog of photos...
Budapest back in late May
https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7388/27434306925_ea5be1bc8f_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7293/26826947793_14d315e153_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7479/27451467585_8f41808328_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7074/27379860161_f1c28d8328_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
Side question: so post-Budapest I visit several other countries and amassed thousands of photos, and took forever to get them all edited. But whenever I revisit them I'm terribly annoyed with the white balance (or colours, but mainly white balance). There were days I just re-edited hundreds of photos at a go after work, just to get the colours right/better. Today I went through over 2000 pictures from my travels and...Show more →
I encountered this issue in a serious way after I purchased a Pentax P645D medium-format digital camera. I love it's IQ however the colour output was severely compromised by Phase One's well-known refusal to support decent camera profiles for the P645D and P645Z in Capture One Pro, my much-preferred RAW processor. (The 645D and 645Z cams are seriously cheaper competition to Phase One's own range of MFD cams deriving from earlier Mamiya models).
I resorted to buying an X-Rite Color Checker Passport with its WB and colour matrix cards and I now use that most times I shoot (with any digital cam) to calibrate my WB in post-processing. I've also generated colour-profiles for my various cameras (including my M9) although the process in C1 Pro is less straightforward than doing the same in Lightroom ( they use different camera profile file formats).
I'm currently wrestling with a similar problem to yours for some shots of a particular classic Citroën car, made using my Pentax K-1. When traveling in Europe recently I was storing both RAW and jpgs, the latter to share with family. Now back home I find that the red from the RAW files is quite different to what I remember and the in-cam jpg output more accurate(?).
Of course each RAW processor generates differences in RAW processing and there is a lot of latitude to user control, ranging from custom profiles for one's own specific camera body, and colour tweaks of profiles provided by the processing software, in addition to the usual WB, and more basic manipulations.
Apologies for the long-winded reply.
aFrIcanSH wrote:
Hi all,
So I haven't been posting for a while (as usual) and have an insane backlog of photos...
Budapest back in late May
https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7388/27434306925_ea5be1bc8f_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7293/26826947793_14d315e153_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7479/27451467585_8f41808328_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7074/27379860161_f1c28d8328_b.jpg- by aFrIcanSH
Side question: so post-Budapest I visit several other countries and amassed thousands of photos, and took forever to get them all edited. But whenever I revisit them I'm terribly annoyed with the white balance (or colours, but mainly white balance). There were days I just re-edited hundreds of photos at a go after work, just to get the colours right/better. Today I went through over 2000 pictures from my travels and...Show more →
Oct 03, 2016 at 02:07 PM
p.1363 #18Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
More yellow from me 
Fall Stripes by unoh7, on Flickr
Covered Path by unoh7, on Flickr
Riverside Fall by unoh7, on Flickr
These all with ZM18
I have to start paying more attention to the critical focus on this lens also, the big DOF is bigger in the center than the edges
Fall Stripes by unoh7, on Flickr
Covered Path by unoh7, on Flickr
Riverside Fall by unoh7, on Flickr
These all with ZM18
I have to start paying more attention to the critical focus on this lens also, the big DOF is bigger in the center than the edges
Oct 03, 2016 at 05:33 PM
p.1363 #19Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Hi David,
The M262 is identical to the M240, minus a couple of buttons, and the ability to shoot in LV mode and movies. The body is lighter due to aluminum plates instead of brass. The files are M240ish but the profiles are much more mature and the color balance looks much nicer. There is also less banding and slightly better high ISO performance. The jpgs are also much nicer, which I never shoot but make me a bit frustrated at times when trying to recreate the same color in the crappy ACR. The shutter sound in C mode is more quiet, sounding like a slow shutter even at higher settings.
Compared to the M9, I would prefer the M262 anytime. I really loved the rendering of the M9 in good light and it is indeed more unique but sometimes it was impossible to find a good balance and resorted often to b/w to avoid this issue. I highly recommend the M262 if you're looking for a pure rangefinder experience.
lenticular11 wrote:
Thank you so much Allen for providing your experience and insight.
I should also seek your own findings Edward, knowing your extensive mastery of M9, back in the day.
My question is from mainly idle curiousity since I have neither budget nor plans to move away from shooting the M9.
The M262 is identical to the M240, minus a couple of buttons, and the ability to shoot in LV mode and movies. The body is lighter due to aluminum plates instead of brass. The files are M240ish but the profiles are much more mature and the color balance looks much nicer. There is also less banding and slightly better high ISO performance. The jpgs are also much nicer, which I never shoot but make me a bit frustrated at times when trying to recreate the same color in the crappy ACR. The shutter sound in C mode is more quiet, sounding like a slow shutter even at higher settings.
Compared to the M9, I would prefer the M262 anytime. I really loved the rendering of the M9 in good light and it is indeed more unique but sometimes it was impossible to find a good balance and resorted often to b/w to avoid this issue. I highly recommend the M262 if you're looking for a pure rangefinder experience.
lenticular11 wrote:
Thank you so much Allen for providing your experience and insight.
I should also seek your own findings Edward, knowing your extensive mastery of M9, back in the day.
My question is from mainly idle curiousity since I have neither budget nor plans to move away from shooting the M9.
airfrogusmc wrote
I have both the 262 and the M-E and I love both. The 262 has better low light capabilities and is very responsive. But I enjoy shooting with the M-E a lot especially in well lit situations. If I could only have one though it would be the 262. They are about the same weight and the 262 has an amazingly simple menu. The camera I still use for almost all of my personal work is still the MM.Oct 03, 2016 at 09:29 PM
p.1363 #20Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
uhoh7 wrote:
More yellow from me
These all with ZM18
I have to start paying more attention to the critical focus on this lens also, the big DOF is bigger in the center than the edges
Something about the first image in this set I really like!
More yellow from me
These all with ZM18
I have to start paying more attention to the critical focus on this lens also, the big DOF is bigger in the center than the edges
Something about the first image in this set I really like!
Oct 03, 2016 at 09:53 PM