Ryan, Kyle thank you Ryan, I will contact the monks and keep in touch for future visits to different temples They do have the website to view, but I will also forward some prints to all them
Ryan, loving your film shots!!
Kyle, great shot! Love the feel to it
Luka, wow... stunning shot! Love it
Great images and especially so from charles.K and Denoir but I keep asking myself, how much better than Canon Nikon lenses is this stuff. There are some extremely talented photographers out there (above 2 included) but in the big wide world, can the general public really tell the difference? Probably not.
We have been thinking of investing in the Leica M9 but with the capital investment required, even with a small range of lenses, we are undecided whether our clients would ever be able to tell the difference betweek Leica and Canon/Nikon etc.
Yes we would like to move to Leica but with the chronic shortage of the new lenses and the archaic technology in the M9 we will probably hold off for an M10....whenever that might be.
It is not all about "able to tell the difference" . . . the M series is a distinctly different shooting experience. Furthermore, the size of a dslr kit, and the sound can be cumbersome.
Pressing the shutter of an M9 is good for the photographic soul. Can't say that about my 5dII (Also love my M7 and Mamiya 7).
As a business expense, it may be hard to justify. But for some of us hooked on rangefinders - impossible not to justify.
M9 - 75 'lux. Nice studio camera! Just wish it had a pc outlet. Lighting is a little dark around the eyes, but just grabbed the M to see how it would do.
75 lux again. (If this is too revealing, not a problem to pull it. Not a provocative shot, but I could not find posting rules)
Gregory - I'm curious, what was the exposure problem with the M9? I've set mine to use the rotating dial for exposure compensation and find I need to double check that fairly often because it has a tendency to get bumped. What I found curious about the M9 (and maybe this is the same for the M8), is that dialed in exposure compensation will also apply to the meter readout when in manual exposure mode. Interesting selection of images. The more I see of Calgary through your eyes, the more it reminds me of parts of Hamilton. The tiger-striped headband and shades is classic.
Gregory, how do you like that 12mm? I had a chance to grab one recently but I told myself to let my 21mm do for now. I had the 15mm for awhile. What do you have it coded as?
Morfeus, that made me laugh out loud! Not at you but the situation. I'm sure anyone who has shot a leica for any extended period of time has been there.
Now, on to more important things...the color from the velvia, love it!
Thanks you guys. Iv been burning the midnight oil keeping up with work, and bunch of street shooting.. post processing. I had amaizing day street shooting yesterday. Well except for the small matter of being hasseled by the local police. I don't want to say to much, before I go down on monday morning and file an offical complaint.But I will say, I did keep my cool, No, I wasnt arrested, but I was intimidated enough to erase a couple of images from my M8. I said in the past that even at gun point I wouldnt delete a image. But being cornered by no less than six gun bearing uniformed officers I felt... threatened to do so.
Not that great but such is life of a street photographer. This was a clear Charter of Rghts vilolation.
More on that later.
First some M9 images.
And yes i love the 12mm ASPH, If I remember I set if for the TRi wide profile.
I like the moped, hug and the last one is a bit creepy...
Sorry to hear about your hassles with the cops. You know of course, that anything you delete, you can recover using recovery software, so long as you don't shoot anything else on the card (if you did, it could overwrite the deleted files, but if there was still a lot of space on the card, it might not).
I can see from your one photo that you were very close to the cop. They might argue you were interfering with their work, or intimidating them by taking photos at uncomfortably close distances. It's certainly a gray area, but what should be black and white is that no one has the right to force you to destroy your personal property (your photos). But that's easy to say here on a the forum, which is a completely different environment from being confronted and intimidated in person by armed individuals.
I encourage you to file the complaint. If they hassle you about it, you could try contacting the photo editor at either the Herald or Sun and tell them what happened. If it interests them, they might pitch it as a story possibility to the news editors. I suggest contacting the photo editors because they may possibly have had similar experiences to you, and will sympathize with the experiences of a fellow photographer a lot more strongly than a non-photo editor. Of course a consequence of going public like this would be potentially making yourself persona non grata in the eyes of the police, which could complicate your street photography. It's a tricky situation and shows the degree of power police can exert, both physically and psychologically.
IIRC there are websites dedicated to police harassment of photographers that might be worth a look.
Ron
Edit: I see you added more! Very, very nice! I find it takes me a lot of effort to interact with people in this way.
Gregory, I like your night shot of the motor scooter (seventh image) best.
Here are some image from my last trip to Berlin. All shot at Görlitzer Park with M8 + Summilux 50 Asph:
By the way my M9-P (and a 3,4/21) arrived on friday. First test shots look good. Maybe the rangefinder needs a slight adjustment, but before sendig it to solms I will do some more tests.
