Thank you everyone for the kind words and likes
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Joe, love the shot of the goose!
Manoj, superb series with the 50 Cron Rigid, and great PP'ing!!
Katie, love the color work, even though you are devout B&W. Great shot
Ron, excellent lighting and great timing. The warmth of lighting on the trees is just wonderful!!
Leonas, nice set!
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charlie, love the duo system!!
Joakim, wonderful street capture.
Michael, superb set and great PP'ing. Love the balance of blue/yellow!
Katie, powerful image of the longhorn
Luka, great to see you back, and excellent compositions
Gary, wonderful set of graphic images.
Edward, truly good luck with the M240 and would be great to see you here again!!! The M240 I really think would suit you well
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teeraash, superb portrait series with Tita
I just thought I might add a shot of her too, from the archives Aug 2012 with the M9 and 50 Nocti f/1.0. Amazing model and wonderful person
Hi Charles, what a superb shot and yes she is wonderful. Hope that I will catch up with her in Phuket this year. By the way, was the shot from Adam workshop in Bangkok?
Temps were finally above freezing for a while yesterday:
M240 & 21 SEM
Here's the same angle with a few different lenses:
50 Lux ASPH, 28 Cron, CV12
This was simply a muddy puddle in the middle of the road. The couple in the first image were very curious about what I was photographing. The just above water camera position helped obscure the murk and primarily reflect the scene, and disguise the size of the puddle, making it look like the entire road was flooded..
Unfortunately live view here was almost useless. Once again the LCD was too dim in the bright light to see much because of the angle I was holding the camera. While I could use the EVF tilted up, at such a low angle, I'd have to kneel in the water to bring my eye to the correct viewing position, which I wasn't going to do... so it was just a matter of guesstimating, as I often did with the M9. A tilting LCD would have been useful here. But that's probably a sacrilegious feature request for an M series camera... Maybe on the rumored T? Yet again during this outing, I found myself using the EVF way more than I would have expected.
I know I've used this technique in past images here, so hopefully it's not becoming too tiring.
Great set Teeraash! I too really like the B&Ws.
Good one Charles - interesting to see the different lens rendering with the same model in front of the camera.
Gary - love the reflections! Wish I had a building like that nearby. Looks like there are a number of angles and options to play with. And the Canon sure looks clean and modern. Nice for such a vintage lens. Another one I need to take out with the M240...
Luka - excellent! Love the first one and the snowy scene from up high. The trees are cool too. I love wandering around Central Park. Back in October for my last visit, I drove into the city, which I usually avoid, but was happy to find the road through Central Park essentially deserted and such a calm, peaceful drive compared to the rest of the city! Interesting to read your thoughts on the X1 as I seem to recall you were relatively unhappy/frustrated with it back when you first got it...
Katie - wow, those are big horns! Color and tonality looks wonderful in these.
Michael - great moments of your son. And the contrasting yellows and blues are great too!
Joakim - looking forward to more from this shadow series. Great tones!
Charlie - very nice examples of how decent the M9 can be in low light conditions.
Edward - haha, that didn't take long! I think you'll like the M240. It's definitely closer to modern cameras in performance and it should be a lot more intuitive to use quickly than the a7. I'm also liking the file quality from it better than I remember the Sonys at lower ISOs, even if dynamic range is slightly less.
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Unfortunately live view here was almost useless. Once again the LCD was too dim in the bright light to see much because of the angle I was holding the camera. While I could use the EVF tilted up, at such a low angle, I'd have to kneel in the water to bring my eye to the correct viewing position, which I wasn't going to do... so it was just a matter of guesstimating, as I often did with the M9. A tilting LCD would have been useful here. But that's probably a sacrilegious feature request for an M series camera... Maybe on the rumored T? Yet again during this outing, I found myself using the EVF way more than I would have expected.
Nice pics Ron. I have thought about getting one of those Hoodman loupes or right angle finders but I'm not sure they are compatible with the M240. Sure would come in handy at times.... PS - did you have to clean up any colorcast on the edges with the CV12 at all? I have heard it is much better than the CV15 in this regard...
Denoir and Gary really connected with your images.
Ron liked your lens comparison and thank you for doing all the lens tests with the Sony A7 you saved me a lot of hassle! The CV12mm looks very good on the M240 did you use cornerfix or did you use a pre-existing Leica equiv profile?
Leica M240 with Zeiss 25/2.8 ZM - ISO 1600 - London Bridge station handheld as no tripods are permitted
Teeraash, burningheart and Ron, thank you, and for all the likes
Teeraash, Tita I met a few years ago, and she was a natural as a model. About a year later I introduced Tita to Adam, for upcoming workshops. This shot here was about 6 months before the workshop in Bangkok
Ron, very nice. The 21SEM on the M240 seems to be a great match. I am using the EVF a lot now, particularly with the 21 SEM, 24 Lux, 50 Nocti f/1.0 and 75 Lux. It takes the guess work out, and you still have direct access to the RF, but with the EVF you can also check the accuracy of the focus and framing.
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I just put a black Leica dot on my camera and it works so much better now! Like night and day really. Problem is that it now only shoots in B&W…
Color is so overrated. I think you found your calling.
Gary and Nico - I use the 11134 21/2.8 non-ASPH code for the CV12 (and 15) and it seems to work quite well. On the M9 that particular lens code seemed to be one of the best for a wide variety of wide angle lenses. I'm not sure coding makes that much of a difference on the M240... I believe it helps to pull the focus back off infinity a bit. As we all know, color shift and smearing is worst at infinity, if it's going to be a problem. I think for the image above I set it at 2m. This is something I also found worked with the GXR M module to avoid edge color shift and slightly improve edge sharpness.
Nico - great set again. Love your sense of colour and composition. The ZM25 looks to be another lens to put on the acquisition list! Thanks also for your comment about my a7 reviews - glad it was of help.
Mike - very gritty and powerful. Congrats on the 75!
Gary - Very nice again with the Canon 50. So, you gonna be going to work or calling in sick to watch the game?
Thursday was a really dreary, drab day until mid afternoon when the rain we were supposed to get arrived as lovely snow. Yes, more snow! Seems to never end this winter... though now it's pouring rain and the basement is a bit wet... Went out for a coupe hours... wasn't too cold but around freezing and pretty wet. I was frequently wiping off the camera and EVF, lenses, etc. All worked pretty well though the camera did lock-up once. Not sure why and don't think I lost any images. By the end the OVF eyepiece was fogged up - always seems to happen in this kind of cold/wet weather - at least had the EVF as a fallback option.
Theera, great portrait set.
Charles, also a great portrait and very nice rendering from the Noctilux.
Ron, great use of angle with the puddle. It really looks like the street is flooded. From your last set the I really like the second one because it looks like a sketch.
Gary, great use of negative space in that b&w
nicoimages, well done on the #1. When is the London subway so empty?
Mike, nice portrait with the 75 cron. I'm a little interested in that lens myself.
I think you found your calling.
Went out for a coupe hours... wasn't too cold but around freezing and pretty wet. I was frequently wiping off the camera and EVF, lenses, etc. All worked pretty well though the camera did lock-up once. Not sure why and don't think I lost any images. By the end the OVF eyepiece was fogged up - always seems to happen in this kind of cold/wet weather - at least had the EVF as a fallback option.
