Charles, great expression and capture! It seems Tainan was a real treasure-trove for portraits.
Michael - also an interesting expression on your daughter. Seems like she may have lost interest in the aquarium? The ZM 21 f/2.8 is a good lens. Still one of the few wides I've used with virtually zero CA. I still want to give the 21 SEM a try against it...
Luka - welcome back and really like the second one.
Paul - interesting location and funny that no matter where you go, someone will appear to be texting or engrossed in their handheld device.
Continuation from the previous post:
50 Lux ASPH:
28 Cron:
And a reference for how much wider 21 is... the 21 Lux:
90 Summarit:
50 Lux ASPH:
At this point I went for the walk in the woods and came back a few hours later, and the light was a lot more interesting...
50 Lux ASPH:
28 Cron:
The last one isn't anything special, but the subject intrigues me a lot. It's a large rock with four depressions worn into it. The Huron were dependent on corn for a large portion of their diets, and apparently ate one pound per person per day... So the theory is the women of the tribe would sit here and at other similar spots grinding corn into flour. Considering that much of North America's touchable manmade history dates back only 200-300 years, it's pretty cool, IMO, to be able to sit at this rock and imagine the activities happening in this spot about 500-600 years ago, and the tremendous changes that were to come in the following centuries...
Thanks for comments.
As for 21mm, I haven't find it has CA 'yet'. Maybe I haven't use it much. I feel it offer more than adequate performance for me
Luka, welcome back, Hope to see something more from you! I enjoy the whole set.
Charles, This is a very nice portrait, You capture the moment, very 'lively' to me.
Ron, Enjoy the set and back story about it. I like the first two the best, especially those color.
Some more from that day:
50cron Rigid WO: live performance at Aquarium.
21 biogon Jelly fish I found B&W here is a lot more interested than color one.
Paul, Adam, Ron and Michael, thank you guys:
Paul, very interesting composition!
Ron, love the continuation of this series! Particularly like the texture and shape of the first two shots
Michael, very nice, particularly the last shot of the jelly fish
I'm seriously still on the fence about the 28cron.. For some reason I've taken a liking to the 28elmarit-asph, and I think I've made a mistake buying the cron. Gonna be troublesome selling the cron and finding another elmarit
I'm still on the fence, but that's my initial reaction over the last few days of shooting.
The cron really does have much better subject separation. And f/2 is very useful indoors. So it's not like I dislike it, it's just I think that the other one had more appeal to me as a simple compact wide angle.
Hmmm... I need to shoot some more with it though, and post some samples
Seriously though if anyone was second guessing the 28elmarit-asph, I wouldn't, it's so fantastic that I'm really considering switching back to it over the 28cron!
Michael, the 50 Cron continues to impress and I really like the jellyfish. It almost looks like a B&W negative image.
Nice one Charles, love the light in that scene.
Adam, sorry to steer you in the wrong direction. Yeah, I guess shooting with it some more might help, but won't ever make up for the size difference.
Here are some from an evening while visiting friends…
28 Cron except the second with 50 Lux ASPH and second to last with 21 Lux.
Adam, just go out and shoot with the 28 cron. It's such an amazing lens and in my view it isn't big at all. It's bigger than the elmarit but still relatively tiny. The 28 cron renders very nicely and I'm pretty confident that you're gonna prefer it over the elmarit if you continue shooting with it. If not, there's always a way to go back.
Ron, very nice pictures. I particularly like the last one.
Adam and Ron, thanks
Ron, really neat set of shots! Excellent lighting and B&W conversion too
Adam, I do feel the 28 Cron, is probably one of the best lenses out there, and I would give it some more time before you feel it's time for a divorce The 28 Elmarit, is a great small lens, but for traveling, I did get caught out with f/2.8 for low light shots, as I did not want to push the ISO too high.
Thanks guys, I'm going to keep shooting with it I think. Again, if I do sell it off to buy another 28elmarit-asph it won't be for a while, or until the timing is right.. I'm probably going to use it at least until after my pending trip to the USA.
Ron, don't worry, it was your photos that steered me astray, not you
Good shots again BTW! I love the dog, he seems well behaved. I can't get mine to stay still without treats. Even then, it's hard.
Tobin, I wasn't sure who Robert Frank was, but your photo was so interesting I decided to googled him, and realized that I've seen a lot of his work before! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Adam. If there is a common thread here, it's how the 28 Cron has won the hearts of many.
Regarding the dog - he's not mine (I'm more a cat person) and is very friendly, if he likes you. While I could get him to stay still for the most part, the funny thing was he would anticipate the photo and try to look away, or blink. In the first image he's squinting a bit. Other shots from that sequence are more obvious. My friend said it's probably because he was anticipating a flash from the camera, which he apparently doesn't like.
Thanks for comments.
Charles, those two 24lux shots have very nice color. Love those yellow.
Ron, like your reportage style shooting on the whole set. That is very handsome dog, he has very naive eyes
Tobin, That is a awesome shot, I like the BW tone and lighting. Really nice.
Adam, I wish I had a 28cron on hand
Ron, great photo story of the indian village. The second from last in the first set and the second one in the second set are my favorites. I also like the vivid discussion you captured in the second b&w photo.
Luka, the red & black photo is excellent.
Michael, some very good color and b&w photos where I like the two from the live performance the most.
Charles, great b&w portrait and the 24 Lux photos from Bali also impresses.
Tobin, very nice portrait.
Since I bought the 35 Lux I realized there have been occasions where I definitely could have made use of a ND-filter. For my DSLR I'm using the Lee filter system but I don't want to go down that road for my M9 where I feel a single 2 or 3 stop filter would do, at least for now. My favorite cir pol filter brand is B+W and that is what I have been looking for in ND filters as well but they seems to be out of stock in any swedish store. So before I buy one online, is there any other brand equally good I should look into? Also, is there a difference between a E 46 mm filter and an ordinary 46 mm filter?
Still inspired by the amazing shots on this forum, nice work everyone, I am trying to make my Leica system work as well as you guys do!
This is shot with an M9 at ISO 400 90mm Summarit at f5.7 1/45 sec hand held
rscheffler wrote:
Thanks Adam. If there is a common thread here, it's how the 28 Cron has won the hearts of many.
Regarding the dog - he's not mine (I'm more a cat person) and is very friendly, if he likes you. While I could get him to stay still for the most part, the funny thing was he would anticipate the photo and try to look away, or blink. In the first image he's squinting a bit. Other shots from that sequence are more obvious. My friend said it's probably because he was anticipating a flash from the camera, which he apparently doesn't like....Show more →
That's a really cute story, thanks for sharing. I showed my fiance the photos and told her what you said about him, she was very amused.
Ron, great photo story of the indian village. The second from last in the first set and the second one in the second set are my favorites. I also like the vivid discussion you captured in the second b&w photo.
Luka, the red & black photo is excellent.
Michael, some very good color and b&w photos where I like the two from the live performance the most.
Charles, great b&w portrait and the 24 Lux photos from Bali also impresses.
Tobin, very nice portrait.
Since I bought the 35 Lux I realized there have been occasions where I definitely could have made use of a ND-filter. For my DSLR I'm using the Lee filter system but I don't want to go down that road for my M9 where I feel a single 2 or 3 stop filter would do, at least for now. My favorite cir pol filter brand is B+W and that is what I have been looking for in ND filters as well but they seems to be out of stock in any swedish store. So before I buy one online, is there any other brand equally good I should look into? Also, is there a difference between a E 46 mm filter and an ordinary 46 mm filter?...Show more →
B+W is the only brand I use. Honestly I bought a few Leica filters, and they're rings are poor quality, and the glass rotates around if you try cleaning it. If you can find the b+w nano filters in your size as general use, go for those.
E46 and 46 are the same as far as B+W is concern, so you're fine just buying 46mm filters.
BTW, I have a ND, it's called "46 ND 0.9 8x" and it's perfect for a summilux in bright singapore daylight.
telluridestock wrote:
Still inspired by the amazing shots on this forum, nice work everyone, I am trying to make my Leica system work as well as you guys do!
This is shot with an M9 at ISO 400 90mm Summarit at f5.7 1/45 sec hand held
Nice shot.
I'm looking to get a 90summarit, to see how much I use 90mm FL before I invest in a 90 Summicron APO...
I have a 75summarit and really like the images I get from it (from the limited testing I did). It's like old film bokeh with sharp contrasty subjects. Pretty decent colors as well.
Might trade my 75 for a 90, if I can find someone who's keen... Harder here in Singapore though, lots of Leica snobs find the summarit series to be "inferior". Honestly if they had metal rings rather then rubber, a lot of people would be buying them up and loving them!!
