Two day away from this thread and so many wonderful pics. Suddenly, there is Leica Favor in this Forum, Both R and M thread are two fastest moving thread now
Ron and Edward, you guys post too many wonderful images to comment individually.
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Ron, Both wonderful set. I enjoy the way you control light and your good taste about contrast and color.
Edward, the train in Bokeh is my favorite.
Winston, Another wonderful BW shot. focal point is well defined in image with dramatic ship 'bokeh' in background. As long as stable composition with shape and lines: excellent composition as always.
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Ron, the fist set in this pg is my favorite images you posted recently. They are just outstanding. The last one of 2nd set is also my favorite. I spend quite a time look your images You make Leica color files shining.
Edward, I really like the fist one in the first set with blue workers sit around station and smile to you. full of live, I envy you can do this. People are so friendly with your camera and have eyes communication with you in many of your images. I never feel the same when I was in China. Most people stare you before you even lift your camera, I don't know why people in my country become such unfriendly now days.(maybe I was mostly in the city, rural place might be better)
I also like the one may people liked: the guard on station facing the train.
Winston, I like that portrait
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Ron, Thanks for the comparison. I can't pick my favorite as they are all pretty.
Edward, Another nice set, looks like you are following that red shirt guy I can imagine you were doing the 'photo hunting' on street Wish I can spend a day or two at San Francisco doing the same thing.
lenticular, I wonder how you can focus? use different body focus? or use distance scale and focus bracket?
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Edwards, I like the first one in 1st set and last one with pretty lady in red dress. Nice perspective. I know the guy must be the one in previous pg
Ryan, Beautiful portrait from Noct.
Ron, Nice lighting series. I like the 28cron composition the best.
Some of them are totally blur because of hand shake. f2.8, ISO640 with 1/10ish shutter. The room is very dark and quiet. I feel the shutter design is very poor. I will have many more sharp fotos if with M3 shutter.
Now question for you guys, I use 'soft' setting, even with that, I feel I need push it quite hard to fire,(make the images easily get blur) however, if I use timer, a light touch is enough to fire the shutter. Do you guys have the same feeling? or my M9 need some service?
The sound is also loud compare NEX7 I had. What a pity. Leica's shutter is no longer discrete even compare to most P&S camera. I think HCB won't use Leica M on street.
In fact, I can get away with photographing people because I pretend to be a tourist It works most of the time. Also these photos are mainly of poor people, they are nice and more accomodating. Middle and upper class people will not be as easy to photograph.
Very nice shots of St. Augustine by the way. No. 1, 5 and 6 are my favourites. Neat b/w conversions and I especially like that people are part of the photograaph without being dominant.
Your M9 is normal, by the way, nothing wrong with it. I hear the M will have an improved shutter noise. Not really lower, but it will much faster, somwehat like a DSLR.
Ron, beautiful warm glow in those shots! Excellent stuff. I find the Nocti f/1.0 handles back lighting well, as it does not lose any detail, and is easily PP'd.
Edward, loving your street series, and excellent consistent PP'ing
Michael, love the first and last shot Even in stealth mode, some M9's are harder in depressing the shutter than others. There is a definite variation. My older M9 was easy and light, and yet my M9P requires more pressure. I have had to change my technique for low light shots.
I spent Monday afternoon in one of the poorer areas in Bangkok, shooting with my friend from FM forum, Helimat. Here are a few shots, all with the 35/2:
Great sets again. What strikes me about your photographs is that even though the people are in a poor area, they are often smiling. That, or you are able to bring smiles to their faces and capture it with your interactions. Very well done!
Edward - really difficult to pick a favourite - all are good. The people have interesting character, for sure.
Winston - like the detail of the dragon. As I've mentioned in the past, I could spend all day photographing in temples.
Michael, - like the first one the most. Completely in agreement about the shutter release/sound of the M9. Same behavior with my camera in S/C mode vs. ST. I have the release set up for soft & discreet. It would be great if Leica could release a firmware update to add a zero second option to the ST menu, instead of just off/2/12. The off setting is great if it accidentally slides over from C, but yes, I found it odd at first that one would have to barely touch the release to activate the ST. But it also makes sense because it reduces potential camera shake if only using the 2 second delay.
Regarding the sound of the M240. The ~30 minute video by Thorsten Overgaard of him and Stefan Daniel lying on the floor of Daniel's office at Photokina will answer your question. To my ear it sounds like a quick 'snick' rather than the drawn out clunk-buzz of the M9. In that St. Augustine church environment, I too would have felt extremely self-conscious shooting the M9. NEX would have been better, but the GXR in electronic shutter mode would have been best - absolutely silent. Compromise perhaps would have been an RX1? (though only 35mm). It's one of the first things I noticed about the M9 when I got it, and wasn't so happy that the 'silent' advance setting of my Canon 1DIII, especially with live view activated, was quieter.
My comments: can't find any banding with these and all ISOs here looks better than his earlier ISO 320 samples. I noticed that while he's still using the same camera, these images at with FW 0.1.9.0 rather than 0.1.8.1. FWIW, the later images by Jono Slack were shot on FW 01.10.0 and a 'much' later serial number camera. The one of the girl on the couch again shows promise with highlight recovery, though no miracles will happen with totally blown details. In this respect, film still has a nicer highlight rolloff. Most of these files are again in the Adobe 2010 process, for some reason. If you reset them and change to 2012 process, you'll find, especially with the girl on couch photo, that highlight transitions are much better with much less clipping. The head & shoulder portrait is a difficult one, IMO. The skin tone just never seems right, to my eyes. I suspect though that there is some ambient light pollution in the image due to her skin tone transition to very yellow around the side of her head.
During the Toronto visit with Andrew, we stopped by the trendy Distillery District for a look around. There was another group doing a photo walk at the same time.
28 Cron - photo walker from other group photographing steam:
21 SEM - photo walker from other group photographing a somewhat gaudy sculpture:
Great sets again. What strikes me about your photographs is that even though the people are in a poor area, they are often smiling. That, or you are able to bring smiles to their faces and capture it with your interactions. Very well done!
+1 Great shots again.
Edward, you really find your camera I feel the passion from your photos. I especially like the smiles from those kids. Beautiful, bring smile on my face.
Charles, Edward, thanks for feedback on M9 shutter.
Charles, your experience with different shutter feeling from different body make me think it is even more unacceptable for $7000 camera. How that is possible for QC. My M3 has the exact feeling/sound with a few ones I tested at Camera show recently. Consider that is 50 years old design. I was think there might be some challenge for 1/4000 shutter before, but most sony, Fuji MILC has the same speed with much quieter/pleasing sound.
I also agree I need improve my technique to avoid blur. Sometime, I am not ready, and the chance of getting foto is so short within 1/10sh of sec. Like the one old man in church, I did not even have time focus right. But if I familiar with lens(21biogon) bump location, I should be able to get a in focus shot even without focus with 21 focal length.
I no longer chimp due to its poor electronics and mostly no time for that. But give me another chance, I can do better. I learned many things from trip like this. How to hold camera more stable, confirm lens performance before the trip, always bring enough Battery. Though all those lessens learn from failure
Wish I can spend a day or two at San Francisco doing the same thing. 
Since my holiday in Melbourne last Nov, I have not been doing much shooting. This is one shot taken this morning at a temple:
