Edward - you gonna buy an old film M? If you happen to buy one, that may just push me over the edge with this beautiful M4 I can't seem to get off my mind. Or just tell me that film is dead and not worth the effort and I can move on to something else....
Gary Clennan wrote:
Edward - you gonna buy an old film M? If you happen to buy one, that may just push me over the edge with this beautiful M4 I can't seem to get off my mind. Or just tell me that film is dead and not worth the effort and I can move on to something else....
Film is dead, Gary!
It would be fun to shoot with the M4 but think about all the expenses of film, processing, scanning, you could buy an M10 with all that!
This said, I'm seriously looking at a nice M7 in good condition
M9 is a godsend for this stuff. A7 is no where near as fast. I don't want to interrupt the ski flow, so I need to whip it out . The camera lives under my second layer, a down vest. Hoods on, no caps. At f/8 even with the 90, if you get close it works. Why I have yet to see corrosion after so many days in and out of the cold, 65,000 shots on this sensor, I'm not sure. Maybe it's that I rarely clean it
Edit with flat light is tough. You try to get some contrast in the snow, the clothes get dark. I should resort to some close work with a brush: not my favorite use of time. But this kid and this thread deserve some effort:
We know what a hack I am in LR, but I suspect he will love it
Note his pole straps are hanging. In the old days that would draw a rebuke. Now I actually cut mine off, and prefer they don't use them. You only drop them once.
Can you believe I have taught this sport 34 seasons? One of them in Austria back in 84/85. Groups of 12, all day all week, in german! Luckily the less words you know, the faster they learn. Nobody sober after lunch in those halcyon days of tall beers and strudel. Now even mention such a thing, people are ready to puke. They think you can't ski sober after lunch. OMG. I just roll my eyes.
Thought I'd share an image from late yesterday taken in Salisbury, MA near the beach. The temps here in Massachusetts have been in the 60s so it's like Spring!
Leica SL, 24-90mm at 24mm, f2.8, iso400, 1/4000sec handheld. Camera's still new to me so I'm trying different apertures, etc