rsolti13 wrote:
Nate - nice to see some of your work over here. The second shot of the guy in red is awesome! I also like the panned car. I noticed that all of your shots at night were at base ISO with the 35 Lux...what a combo, eh? What film camera(s) are you using these days?
Thanks, shooting my Leicas (M2/3/4) and Zeiss Ikon often and occasionally my Fuji GW690.
charles.K wrote:
Ryan, thanks Yes, Thailand is a fascinating place to experience! Really nice set of shots! My fav is #2. Beautiful rendering with the 50 Planar.
So I guess that's a no on the Singha?
Thanks everyone. Some great photography on this thread.
Denoir , first of all thanks for the comments. I try not to analize my own work to close for fear of what it might reveal about t me . But I love your shots and for the record I think your right.
No tripod for the Noct shots at night.
My pal keven calls me the human tripod.
We have been shooting a lot together and having another set of eyes street shotting has been awsome.
Gary Clennan wrote:
Does this apply only to the M9 or is this fix for the M8 as well?
I didn't think this lens had any problems on the M8. Somewhere I read a M8 update was in the pipeline for release next month. My 18/4 ZM went from being unusable to perfect on my M9 after this update.
According to exif Paul is using an M8, and the CV15 has always been decent on it. On the M9... not so hot IMO, but from samples posted on the Leica forum, much better with the new firmware. I have yet to try the new firmware though.
I agree with Paul - it's a bargain of a lens for quite good performance.
M9 & CV15 - previous firmware version, plus CF and some additional touching up..
rscheffler wrote:
According to exif Paul is using an M8, and the CV15 has always been decent on it. On the M9... not so hot IMO, but from samples posted on the Leica forum, much better with the new firmware. I have yet to try the new firmware though.
I agree with Paul - it's a bargain of a lens for quite good performance.
rsolti13 wrote:
Luka - nice sunrise shots....awaiting your US pics
Thanks Ryan. Well, my bags are packed and my flight is in a couple of hours. I'm bringing along the M9, M6, ZM 18, ZM 25, ZM 35/2, 28 Cron, 35 Lux ASPH, 50 Lux ASPH, 90 Cron AA, 5DII, ZE 21, ZE 50 MP, ZE 100 MP & Canon 70-200 f/2.8.. plus a big pile of Tmax 100, Trix 400 and Ektar 100 film..
A minute ago I was very tempted to just throw out the 5DII and lenses and just go with the M9 & M6.. but then I remembered that I can't go without a backup camera... I mean what if I bump it into something and knock the rangefinder out of alignment. That would be a disaster. So I have to have backup. And thus backup lenses - the three heavy Zeiss ZE primes. And then adding a 70-200, although big and heavy, doesn't change things much..
I think Charles perhaps got the right idea to have a second M9 for backup...
Neither can I, but I don't have much of a choice. I'll be away for almost a month going to large number of national parks (Rocky Mountains, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Arches, Canyonlands, Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Death Valley & Yosemite). Equipment failure is not an option, so I have to have back up. I shoot digital and I don't have a second M9, so it has to be my 5DII and subsequently I have to bring lenses for it as well...
In practice the 5DII kit will just be in the car, unused, and I'll use a small Domke bag with the M9 and three lenses (28/50/90) most of the time - and the M6 on occasion. The 5DII can perhaps be useful for tripod based night time photography.
Luka, have a great trip Looking forward to your shots!!!
I do feel for you with the added weight for backup. My travel kit now is the M9's, 28 Cron, 35 Lux II, 50 Lux, 75 Lux and 90 Cron AA. For street shots, just the one M9 and a pick of one lens, usually the 35 Lux, 50 Lux or the 28 Cron, usually in that order.
Another must travelling with the M9, is a spare lens correction dioptre, if you are using one. In my case I use +1.0 correction, and it had inadvertently unscrewed on a trip to Melbourne recently while the M9 was on my shoulder, which rendered the M9 useless for me, as I could no longer focus properly. Then the issue, was trying to get another one, which was out of stock in Australia. I now have spares
Of course this is a month extensive trip, with a lot of landscapes and variety of subjects, so as Ron suggests, it is not an excessive gear list! Good luck!!!
Have fun Luka... I don't think that's an excessive amount of equipment for this type of trip. I'm sure you can put it all to good use. At least in my experience, based on what I like to photograph, I could not imagine going on such a trip without a lens longer than 100mm... I would also throw in the 1.4x TC.
I would suggest thinking about a plan to secure equipment left in the car, even in a park/remote location. If you can, see if you can find a Pacsafe wire mesh and lock it down to the interior in the trunk. http://www.pacsafe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id=11
And if possible, disable the remote trunk release and lock the fold down seats... of course it depends on the car.
denoir wrote:
You have to differentiate between quality and quality. Leica lenses and cameras are built like tanks.. tanks that have been assembled by moderately talented monkeys. The optical design and the materials used are all first rate but the assembly is definitely not.
It was not like this before, definitely not... I have three M2's and five M3's, all have seen almost half a century of use since I started with photography in 1963. Still five of them have the factory "L" seals intact and the shutter speeds still measure +/- 30% of the nominals except one stuttering below 1/8 sec.
Before Leica were being produced 98% for professionals in mind. Today, as one of the forum members put it somewhere "A $7000 Nikon or Canon is made for professional use, a Leica is made for a hobbyist/collector, and is built accordingly."
Yes, Thailand is a fascinating place to experience! Really nice set of shots! My fav is #2. Beautiful rendering with the 50 Planar.
