Just for point of reference there is a one stop difference in exposure between the 246 and the original MM and the new M 10 M.
M10M ISO 160 at 1/500 of s second at 5.6 is one stop hotter than MM and M 246ISO 320 at 1/200o of a sec at f 5.6. For the same exposure it should have been ISO 160 at 1/1000 of a second at f5.6. Seems to be the same light in all three.
Mitch Alland wrote: genji wroteI like these "straggly plant" images a lot, Mitch. BTW the Paolo Nozolino book arrived yesterday and it's superb, as expected. Also, I have an opportunity to purchase a DR Summicron 50—can you suggest anything I should look for or be aware of?genji - Thanks for the kind words. On the DR Summicron: apart form checking the obvious mechanical things, you can easily check for haze by shining an iPhone light through it. Also, unscrew the front element and check that the hand-engraved number on the back of it matches the lens number on the front. BTW, this front element can be used on the old mechanical Visoflexes. Then check that the lens focusses to infinity without the cam hitting something in the camera. For the M10, I can send you a picture on what needs to be slightly filed down in the lens — I used a sharp chisel. Also, check that, with the goggles, the rangefinder image is lined up both at the near and far close-up range. Apparently, this can be adjusted on the goggles, but I don't know how. Does this lens have the nice, little leather case for the goggles?
Very difficult to get twenty images together, like Nozolino's book, that make sense; that represent and express reality. I feel it's worthwhile to think about why one photographs. In an interview, which I can't find right now, Nozolino said, But you can't photograph a moment of happiness.. Here's an excerpt from another interview, translated from Portuguese:
Question: Can we then say that the intensity, the shock and the black, which
so intensely characterize your work, are not a rhetoric or an
aesthetic, but a necessity?
Nozolino: That's what I think is worth showing. It is the materialization of what I see,
feel and experience every day. The pictures are the equivalent of this. I don't
see any interest in a picture of a couple kissing under a palm tree on a
tropical beach. That's a false happiness. The dark images are reality.
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Thanks, Mitch. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to “borrow” the DR Summicron 50 for a week so there’ll be plenty of time to examine it carefully and shoot a bunch of test pictures. I don’t think it comes with the goggle case. I’d be grateful if you could PM me the picture showing what needs to be filed down.
Nozolino’s remarks about “happy pictures” remind me of something Kafka wrote:
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
burningheart wrote: LBJ2 wroteAny chance you have the opportunity to take this same composition with both the M10M and the M246 to compare?I was testing and comparing the viewfinders with my 50 Lux both with OVF and EVF. The shot above was when the sun was out. The shots below SOOC I took was when it was overcast with a chilly ice cold wind blowing and I wasn't overly concerned with composition or critical focus. No means scientific or properly setup for testing all were just handheld.
MM1 - ISO 320, 1/2000s Lux 50 f5.6
M246 - ISO 320, 1/2000s Lux 50 f5.6
M10M - ISO160, 1/1500s Lux 50 F5.6
Very interesting. It seems like the M10M provides a bit more dynamic range in the dark areas when comparing the M10M shot with the M246. The increase in resolution can likely only bee seen in a magnified image of the M10M (impossible to see here in websize). Hard to tell the difference in tonal range between the last two shots and the first one from the MM1 since the light was different.