Ryan, excellent set of shots! Love the one of the county police I love the PP to the shots too.
Luka, great series, and comparison shots! I really like #5 and 6 The colours from the 28 Cron are just amazing.
Gregory, very nice series. I always love the variety to your shots!
KL, great set!! My favourites are #3 and 4 I really like the shot with 28 Elmarit too! We need some balance with all the shots with the 28 Cron
Malkovic, nice shot!!
Joe, great shots! The shot of the bike is superb!!
Ron, superb set of shots!!!
On a separate note - can anyone help me on this point -
I've seen silver halide prints up close and personal, and they are marvellous! So much detail and tone. How is it possible that digital B&W files with only 255 shades of grey (or so I think), can look so good too? If the question is super silly, apologies in advance!
Malkovic - I like that shot. The pole makes your mind want to split it into two shots
Joe - nice shots. Like them both...great rendering with the bike shot. Like what you did with the pp of #1
Ron - great set of shots! I like the first and last best. I love that type of architecture
KL - great work with the 28 Elmarit-M. You got tired of us raving about the Cron so you had to take the Elmarit out for a spin, huh ? The first shot is excellent. I would like to see that in B/W as well. The last shot is also great, plenty of luck there with that amount of ducks
lovely shots ryan! The last 2 are incredibly 3D.
Not pushing the Elmarit at all. I'll keep the little fella, as I have WAY too many lenses that one person deserves to have. Will stop acquiring lenses for now. Just be zen about things and enjoy what I have!
Ron, another beautiful set from the streets of Geneva. #1 & 3 are my favorites.
KL, nothing wrong with the 28 Elmarit ASPH I think printing brings in another set of skills to the equation, the printer, ink, toner, profiling, etc but sorry I'm not an expert on this. Probably Ron, Charles or Luka can chip in?
Ryan, the 3rd shot of the cones with the 50Lux is beautiful. Love the composition and rendering on this one.
Charles, excellent night shots with the 35Lux. Love the matching yellows on the column, lights and the car on #1. Nice color pp as usual
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Mirek, from your comparison of 28Cron and Zeiss, I can't really comment on the color rendition of the lenses but I can immediately identify the tendency of the Leica sensor to be greenish and Canon sensor to be reddish on LR3 with standard Adobe profiling. I think it would be easier to compare lens "color" with the same sensor rather than with different setups which could multiply other factors into the equation? Just my 2c.
singletrack wrote:
On a separate note - can anyone help me on this point -
I've seen silver halide prints up close and personal, and they are marvellous! So much detail and tone. How is it possible that digital B&W files with only 255 shades of grey (or so I think), can look so good too? If the question is super silly, apologies in advance!
Cheers all
kl
Are you referring to on-screen display or prints? If you mean on-screen my guess would be that a factor is the backlighting of the display, which is similar to viewing a transparency vs. a print. I.e. transmitted vs. reflected light. Also, a guess is many B&W images are actually desaturated RGB and may have subtle toning shifts, which will mean they're greater than just 255 shades. It also helps to have a full range, from black to white, which lends the impression of full tonality. Ryan's recent police car B&W is a great example.
As for prints... I don't print much, so it's not an area of expertise for me. If it's inkjet, many now print with various shades of gray ink in addition to black to allow for more subtle tonality. Again, there could be some colour in the images through toning, which will further broaden the range of shades.
Love the Lake Lucerne image in particular! Reminds me of some scenes around Lake Geneva, of which I'll have more in the coming days...
Ryan, great set! Yeah, the last two really make the subject pop, though I really like the traffic cones.
Charles - I get the feeling that fall is in the air! Very much like the alley.
Greg - nice 'soulful' image, but you tease us with only one!
Nice set Ron, #3 pops up for me on this set, the incline and green on the bench, the red sign and the lines on the right background completes this composition. Masterful!
Curious, what do you do for white bal for your images? Are you still on LR3? Do you use a Whibal card or the Leica WB profiles in camera or other? (I just got a WhiBal card and its a really excellent tool). Love the consistency you get with color pp. Share some more tips?
Charles - nice night shots. You should go to the spot in #4 again and wait for someone walking down the street....would be a killer shot
Gregory - very nice. Great emotion in that shot. I would like to see more from that set
Ron - Where are those shots taken? Beautiful location. The columns shot is great and #4 has a lot of 3D to me. I don't know why, but that column section on the left really sticks out to me. The Zeiss 50 Planar shots all look fantastic....I may have to look into getting one of those
Ron, very nice set. My favorite is #4. I really like the geometry of the scene.
Here's a shot I expect y'all to be very impressed with :
So you might think that I want you to be impressed with a BIF shot at f/2.. but no, that's not it. The thing is, I shot that blindly. I just turned the camera in the bird's direction (without looking through the viewfinder) and just pulled the focusing tab, in the right direction to a more or less random position and simultaneously squeezed the shutter release. I never intended it to be a serious attempt at a shot so I did not bother checking the focus on the LCD.
I mean, what would the chances be of randomly focusing and to actually get it in foucs.. So my jaw dropped when I saw that I had actually nailed focus perfectly.
I managed to do a pretty ridiculous thing yesterday. I took a walk with the M9 and the 28 Cron and shot for at least 20 minutes and took perhaps 10-15 shots. Several times I thought.. "Hmm, I thought this would be wider", but did not pay any real attention to it.
I switched to the 50 Lux after a while and when I wanted to change back to the 28 I picked up the 35 Lux from my camera bag. I was a bit surprised as I thought I'd left it at home. I kept looking for the 28 in the bag but it was nowhere to be found. Then it dawned on me - it wasn't the 28 that had been mounted on the M9, but the 35 Lux It was the 28 that I had left at home, not the 35!
I love the PP to the shots too.
. "I have grokked the tab".. I like that 
