Ron, colors and composition are great, even in the reportage style firefighter shots. As for the 85/4, it's not impossible to get an out of calibration copy. Luckily mine is perfect, and probably due to the f/4 max aperture, I rarely miss the focus with it.
Thanks guys. I appreciate your comments.
Douglas, Very cute baby!
Ron, welcome back, another wonderful set. wonderful color. favorite is #1 and last one.
Marcsery, I really love the composition of last one.
edwin_sn, wow, really nice PP, what is your recipe?
Two from Xihu Lake. Hangzhou is one of my favorite city in China. My wife (at the time was my girl friend) and I visit there several times when we were still in college. Unlucky, this time, the weather is very bad and air condition is also not good due to construction, and massive cars around the city. The photo totally lack some of clarity I see often in US, Sad
zhangyue, thank you... no recipe on my PP. In LR4 i just slide clarity, shadow, and highlight to my liking and sharpen it a bit in mogrify when i export to jpg
Wow Dan, that's a great portrait and location.
Michael, I like the second one... looks like an interesting place. My GF recently suggested we should visit China, but I think her interest is more culinary than photographic...
Edwin, very nice!
Just a few with the Voigtlander 40/1.4, all wide open. I really like this lens for it's stronger background busy-ness and glowy-ness wide open...
Nice Ron - looks like my house after a party! There seems to be an incredible amount of detail in that 21SEM shot. Did you do much sharpening/clarity adjustment to that image?
Dan - the image is not showing up for some reason....
On hindsight, I would have preferred a DSLR like a 5DIII, D4 or 1D4. Shooting RF all manual with a surgical mask on caused my glasses and the VF to fog up and I could not find the focus patch. Add to the excitement of seeing the newborn, even 1/250s was not enough to prevent motion blur on some shots. Luckily I had a GH2 with me and the AF saved some shots.
Wow Joe, congrats! Good to know about the fogging potential in this situation.
Bruno - great set!
Gary, I'll have to crash one of your parties!! Love the rendering of these images, especially the jack-o'-lantern. Re: 21SEM - just ran it through Photo Mechanic with the default sharpening, which for this kind of scene might be a bit too much. The lens is very sharp and my feeling so far, with limited use, is that it's also a higher contrast lens, somewhat inline with the 28 Cron and definitely more so than the 21 Lux.
Marc, nice portraits of the kids. The last one is still my favourite
Edwin, simply beautiful!
Ron, I like the still life set. Nicely composed and the lighting/exposure is perfect.
Gary, the first one is a master piece The pumpkin shot has nice color and contrast.
Bruno, outstanding street work as usual.
Joe, congratulations!!! Amazing shot too!
Dan, very strong set! Could work very well in b/w as well. It's curious that the color shift in the corners is not at all disturbing.
First two are of uncle Hermes, haven't seen any Leicas in there though
Third, the boy saw me taking the photo, but luckily didn't tell his dad
Fourth is of my cup of tea at Starbucks
Love the rendering of these images, especially the jack-o'-lantern. Re: 21SEM - just ran it through Photo Mechanic with the default sharpening, which for this kind of scene might be a bit too much. The lens is very sharp and my feeling so far, with limited use, is that it's also a higher contrast lens, somewhat inline with the 28 Cron and definitely more so than the 21 Lux.
