Allen and Phil, love those B&W work from both of you with your Monochroms!
Ryan, cute shots! The 75Lux works fantastic!
Phil, very sweet setup indeed Have you tried the 1.4x magnifier? I think it helps with the Nocti.
Ok, Leica HDR effects may be sort of a sacrilegious thing, but this photo needed some pop: Admittedly, it is candied up pretty good...
35 Lux stopped down to like f8
Topaz Adjust processed:
This HDR has been voted down at this point, in favor of the non-HDR post that follows I guess I just never normal processed this shot to give it a real try, because I now like the natural shot much more than this candied up HDR hack job I did. .
I started to share that Joe, (thanks on composition!) and the version I have loaded to Zenfolio didn't look right. I'll look again and see what I can find. Even I really don't care a lot for this image, but I do like certain aspects of it. the composition is what really saved the shot. Interestingly, I have been to this location 50 times before, but not quite sure I ever saw "this shot" in quite the way I did that day. My focal point was the best breaking water. Those water breaks are razor sharp.
It wasn't my best photo day, fighting to get a few shots between rains, and fighting stupid tourists smoking at the location. 2 smokers in less than 15 minutes. That really pisses me off in a public space with expensive camera gear out.
Ok, this one looks a bit better than what I didn't want to show at first...
Joe, your right, now I like this shot a lot... Thanks for pushing me a bit! :-)
joe88 wrote:
I don't own one but have tried it. It works fine for 50mm. Quite a few of my Nocti shooter firiends use the 1.4x to help with focusing.
I have the 1.4x and it is possible to still kind of see the 50mm frame lines. IMO, it's a hassle if you're like me and shoot a lot of different lenses during a single outing, especially anything wider than 50mm. As was posted here a while ago, I think by Charles, the best solution for me was to find the correct diopter correction match for my eyesight. This was great when my RF was perfectly calibrated, but now it seems to be slowly drifting and I really have to focus by intuition, slightly shifting the RF convergence away from a perfect match.
Doug, you could open up the right side of deep shadows a bit and tone down the top left slightly without having to resort to HDR-style processing. BTW, IMO, I was much more prone to HDR-like high clarity processing with my ZM glass.. it just seemed to suit the mood of the rendering more. I've mellowed out somewhat with my Leica glass.
Nice gears, Ryan (that's insane!), Phil, Edwin and Michael!
Joe, that Sonnar looks awesome! Both the lens itself and the images. Is there much focus shift stopped down a couple stops? You're charting a very interesting and fast paced GAS course for us to follow!
Have you tried the 1.4x magnifier? I think it helps with the Nocti.
...taken with the iphone 
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