Yeah it's worth looking into Allen if you just want to post images elsewhere. It's not what it used to be as far as community goes but the service itself is adequate for sharing. The only thing I don't know for sure is how their compression works. Most of the time images look just fine but every so often they seem to be extra compressed.
That being said the service is cheap / free for what it is and it's a decent choice for posting here.
I would love if Google photos could be used as an image host. I still need to look into the capabilities of that platform.
"Scanning" old film shots with the BEOON, the photo below made me think that its worthwhile to shoot transparency film occasionally: had I shot this with the M10, I would have underexposed by ⅔rds of a stop and lifted the shadows enough to show some detail inside the doorway; but in the Ektachrome slide there is no detail in the deep shadow — and there's the rapid fallout of light in the top-right of the frame, under the roof of the verandah we're standing on. This dark area is what accentuates the color of the shot. Color negative film would, in this shot, also not have the same look. So, shooting this with the M10, you would to have to be very conscious of wanting this light fall-off. My feeling is that if you shoot and scan transparency film occasionally, you can keep this look in mind much more easily when you process a digital shot.
I should add that digitalizing slides with the M10 on the BEOON is fast and easy. My feeling is that the dynamic range of the M10 handles even dense slide easily, and most of the file only a little adjustment in LR is needed.
M6 | Summicron 35v4 | Ektachrome E100S
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Mitch Alland wrote:
Never thought I'd post a picture of a camera, but here is the M3 that I bought last December from an eBay store in Japan, for a $300 less than a camera of similar condition (Ex++) listed by Tamarkin. The viewfinder is perfect: the yellowish tinge of the rangefinder patch against the blueish viewfinder field makes focusing fast and accurate, not to speak of the size of the rangefinder patch. The only defect is some scuffing on the top plate, but I don't even see that without my reading glasses.
The Voigtländer 28/35 finder lives on the camera. No longer being produced, I bought it some years ago for US$85; there are still some new ones listed on CameraQuest for $600!
I was looking hard to find this viewfinder but no luck - or it was totally unreasonably priced. Instead I found a very good deal on a Braun Burnberg 38 mm external viewfinder which I intend to use on my M3 with my 35 mm lens (I will just estimate for the 3 mm difference between FL of viewfinder vs. lens). I didn't want to spend $$$ for a simple 35 mm viewfinder and which wasn't a cheaply made one.
Some street photography with M3 and expired Kodak 125 PX film, developed in Xtol with 50/2 lens (version V). Exposures estimated using adjustments of the sunny f/16 rule. Love the viewfinder of the M3 in combination with 50 mm FL!