Ryan: Thanks, Really like your sets from the construction site!
Joe: Thanks, I think i shot 5 rolls of Porta 400 in and one Fuji 400H in Prague, so some is from the Fuji. My cron is the third version if I remember correctly I like it so far, flares a little bit to much sometimes but I do like its rendering
Also must say that I love that bench shot. Absolutely stunning!
Ron: Thanks! I def. recommend you to go there someday! Sure do offers good opportunities for photogs! I was lucky enough to have a friend who lives there atm as a guide to show me Prague and its 'gems'
Ron, another excellent green set! Cool find on the path! I kind of agree with you on the ZM50/2 Planar on being a good value. Looking at what's posted on this thread alone, I think this is probably one of the best lenses to start off on the M9 if not wanting to splurge on Leica glass. From the rendering and details of the 3rd shot, the ZM35C also looks like a very nice lens.
Joakim, very nice B&W set from Chicago. #1 is my favorite. Looks like its been raining all across America past few weeks
Heinz, excellent environmental portrait with the 50 Elmar! Love these two shots! The grain on #1 reminds me of Rodinal! Long live film! The boat shots are also very nice
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Malkovic, I have a 50CronV3 as well Love that lens but agree that we have to watch out for flare sometimes.
Thanks a lot for the comments and excellent shots guys!
Charles, love the beach shot. Not quite a duck, but close enough
Ron, very nice set - the keystone is my favorite.
Joakim, I really like the Union Station shot.
Ryan, really nice sets. My favorite is the bench and the bike with the 50 Lux II.
Joe, great street captures. The bench shot is my favorite. I really dig the symmetry in the composition.
Heinz, nice portraits of the painter although they seem to be a bit oversharpened.
joe88 wrote:
Such clarity with your pp. The compositions on the last set with the ZM35 is really nice, the rendering is definitely different from the 35Lux ASPH. Very contrasty and I think I prefer the rendering of the 35Lux ASPH. I think to solve you dilemma with having to carry two 35mm lenses, just carry the 35Lux and the 28Cron instead. If you need to stop down, switch to the 28Cron. What do you think?
Well, it is a possibility but the 28 Cron is different still. The clarity you speak of is partially PP, but it only works in the context of a lens that provides the base for it. I don't get such clarity/realism from Leica glass. I get better colors and a lot of other good things, but that sort of realistic look I only get from Zeiss glass. Which one I prefer is difficult to tell. Both have their strengths.
rscheffler wrote:
Luka, your CA crop is quite similar to what I frequently see with the CV 75 f/1.8
Ron, I discovered yesterday that Lightroom is amazing at removing the CA from 90 Cron shots. Try it it might work as well with your CV 75.
Full image:
Crops: Left, au naturel, Right, with LR fix
The settings are:
Defringe: All edges
CA, Blue / Yellow: -26
I've tried it on two dozens of shots now and it completely removed the purple fringing.
Joe, thanks, those are a couple really nice candids. I'm partial to the first one, maybe because the diagonal pole above his head points my eye right to him. The tonality feels like something you might see in a fashion spread.
joakim - thanks - nice set to start off with! I love the mood of #1 and the verticals of #2. Which lens did you use for these?
Heinz - before reading the image title and seeing the second image, I had the feeling the subject of your photos was an artist of some sort... not sure why. I like the B&W in particular. While it could be Flickr adding more sharpening, I don't mind it for this one. Gives that slightly gritty feeling of film. And I really like the blur in the second of the boat series.
Thanks Luka. That's interesting about the CA reduction in LR. I've been applying around +20 red/cyan CA adjustment for the 75 when I remember to do it. I completely overlooked the defringe option. It does appear to help, though not entirely remove the purple edges of branches against bright sky, etc. However, I noticed that when set to all edges (the only of the options that really seems to work), it kills the vibrancy/saturation of some image. Have you tried this on anything other than the snowy, relatively monochromatic Lofoten images?
But my observation is it depends on subject content. For example a scene with a lot of trees, branches, leaves, etc. i.e., with a lot of edges, results in a fairly visible loss of saturation. An image with a very shallow plane of focus and lots of blurred background does not lose much, if any saturation.
It appears the vibrancy and saturation can be reclaimed by adjusting the respective sliders.
And now that green has wrapped up, here's some blue:
Awsome blue set Ron! The last two compositions work best for me.
rscheffler wrote:
That's interesting about the CA reduction in LR. I've been applying around +20 red/cyan CA adjustment for the 75 when I remember to do it. I completely overlooked the defringe option. It does appear to help, though not entirely remove the purple edges of branches against bright sky, etc. However, I noticed that when set to all edges (the only of the options that really seems to work), it kills the vibrancy/saturation of some image. Have you tried this on anything other than the snowy, relatively monochromatic Lofoten images?
Good catch about the drop in saturation. I turned off defringing and the CA reduction was as good. I use the Lofoten shots as the CA is best visible in high contrast areas. Here's a more colorful shot though.
And the crops:
1) Plain 2) LR CA reduction only, 2) LR CA reduction + defringing
Ron, the last 3 blue pics are amazing. outstanding!
Luka, great shots as usual and thanks also for the PP know-how transfer!
charles, gorgeous luscious tones
Joe, wow lovely shots - the bench is my favourite. Tx for the tutorial on film scanning and film shooting in general!
Ryan, great pics as always.
Phil - nice work - i like the street scene best, i think it was the 2nd shot.
Joe, Ron, Joakim, Malkovic, Luka and KL, thanks guys
Ryan, very nice set again. My favourites are the 35 Lux.
Joe, very nice bench shot! This shot draws you eye in I love the second set! Superb PP and composition.
Ron, outstanding sets of shots! I love the green set, particularly #1 and 4. The blue set are outstanding!!
Heinz, excellent portraits!
Luka, love that shot! Thanks for the info with LR PP. Very nice shot of the train Very interesting comparisons with the corrections!
Ron, excellent blue series, all nice, really love the first one from the first set! I keep wondering how you always seem to find random people walking into the composition of your pics . The second set is another masterclass in composition, color and diagonals, simply superb work!
Luka, nice train shot and thanks for the CA tips for LR3.
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A few "rare" color shots from me, be gentle with comments, please
my my Joe! Love the 1st and 3rd best!!! Outstanding! On the 1st, suggest burninng in the right bottom edge just a little to darken the building there. It's a great pic!
Ron, another great set of the blue series!! My favourite is #2
Joe, excellent set of colour shots! You are really picking to most difficult time for colour with night shots and artificial lighting I really like #2 and 4 with the 50 Lux.
Thank you for the nice comments. For the oversharpening: it is really Flickr that f*cks them up. I found a sharpening routine for my film shots that is quite nice, a bit on the edge, but I like it. On my screen they do not look oversharpened, but after uploading to Flickr the certainly do. Have to play a bit more on that.
Film is wonderfully ...difficult for me! A shot (taken with M2 and 50 summilux)
It was taken with Kodak Portra VC 400. It looks a little bit too grainy (even for ISO 400). I really enjoyed using the M2 - so quiet and the full mechnanical feel is wonderfully nostalgic for me (my dad let me use his M3 many many years back when i was a kid).
I think i over processed! Thx Joe for the tips! I took the same shot with the M9 and 50 summicron. I have not done a face-2-face comparison yet.
Very nice, kl. Which version of the Lux is that? I do not find it overprocessed but you could try to desaturate purple a tiny bit. This could help a bit in the shadows, that do have some purple cast, at least for my eyes.
Also, I was always afraid of using the de-noise slider in LR because it made my images unsharp on digital. On scanned film I found that this is not the case, at least not to that extent. But, hey, it is film and some grain really also is very nice.
Joe - great color images. I really like the mood and depth to #2 and the motion of #4. Looks like you (or whoever you were with) drove into NYC. Brave man I've done it... prefer not to though.
Regarding the random people walking though the scene... well, to be honest, for this one I asked them to. Being impatient that evening I wasn't going to wait squatting over a puddle. The few people walking along were all going around to the right to avoid 'ruining' my photo, so I had to ask...
One nice thing about the M9 for this - the lens is very close to the bottom of the camera to give a nearly ground/water level perspective (at least compared to what I'm used to with a 1D series body), though I had to pay close attention not to dip it in the water. Here live view would have been very nice. I was totally guessing where to point the camera and couldn't tell if it was level, etc.
Hi Heinz, i used the latest versino of the 50 Lux. I have no clue how to colour process- fiddling with the white balance seems to be dissastrous (beyond + or - 5). I'll try reprocessing when i get the full Tiff files. I only had jpgs for yesterday (as a sampler of the commercial scanning service i am using now).
kl, if you get the tiff's import them in LR (if you use it) and convert to DNG, makes them 30% smaller.
The jpg could have been already processed by the lab (automatically), but they use one of the best scanners you can get, a Nikon Coolscan 9000. So the tiff's should really be a lot different.
I like it so far, flares a little bit to much sometimes but I do like its rendering 
