Love seeing the street shots from both Edward and airfrogusmc. Are you guys mostly shooting from the hip since a lot of these look very natural and candid.
Thanks but not hip for me. Just pre focus using the DoF scales, pre set exposure and watch and wait for the moment. Little different than hap-hazard shooting blindly form the hip.
Allen - great sets recently!
Katie - excellent portraits, the lens looks great too!
Edward - it certainly does look like life goes on and wouldn't know there was marshall law in effect.
Interesting discussions too about M framing. I hadn't given it much thought, but did a few group photos today with the 50 Lux and I guess I am seeing the same thing as Edward. Very tight on the right side, lots of extra space on the left (in landscape orientation). I'll have to look into it a bit more. I just remember when I first got the M that 50mm framing at very close distances was resulting in some image cropping that I wasn't expecting.
Unrelated, but yesterday while shooting with the M, I did a sequence on continuous advance of about 8 images. For the first 3-4 it was the usual ~3fps but then the camera surprised me by continuing at about 4-5fps. At first I was like wow, bonus , but then the red activity light kept flashing.... and flashing... I waited about a minute then 'rebooted' the camera. All ~8 images of the sequence were not on the card, nor did they appear later, nor was there a frame numbering gap as there sometimes was with the M9, with a zero KB file...
I'm definitely getting some odd occasional behavior, like when wanting to initiate live view with the EVF's button and nothing happens. Or lock ups every once in a while.
Yesterday's incident was the first one I can remember with the M240 whereby I lost images... and of course my GF immediately said "isn't that why you replaced the M9 with it??"
Some more beach abstracts of the same spot from different angles...
I personally never shoot from the hip. I even find it a bit unethical. I raise the camera to my eye, take my time to focus accurately, shoot and move on. Most people don't pay attention to me, or just tolerate me. But I want everyone to see what I'm doing in case they have any objection. Getting caught shooting from the hip could potentially get someone in all kinds of trouble.
Ron, fantastic abstracts. Love them all. They look like areal photos to me. I think the behavior of your M is in line with what I've read on LUF. I have not shot in C mode since my last DSLR so I don't even know if my M has this problem or not. If you were shooting in LV sensor overheat is most probably the cause.
Katie, Beautiful indoors natural light photography. Very artistic.
Now that you guys mention it, I do feel like the bottom right is tighter than the upper left sides, especially true at close distances with the 50 lux. However, I always attributed it to finder blockage and me not paying enough attention to the bottom of the frame. I probably should do some more controlled testing next time.
Edward, I've really enjoyed your street photos on the last couple of pages. With the current events in mind they also have a news value, I hope you stay safe. No single favorite but I like the result from the 50 Planar.
Allen, I find your street photos very inspiring for my own attempts at street photography.
Ron, very unique and great abstract set from the beach.
Katie, great family/domestic photos. From your last set I really like the one with the feet.
Adam, great set. Bummer with your 50 APO and all the trouble you've had with it but I hope you can enjoy it more now.
Ron - I've noticed some odd behaviour here and there with both M240 cameras. And I've also had my camera do a speed session, sounded like it was running at 1Dx speeds, but once the buffer cleared (about a minute), I noticed that I got maybe one in every three shots, or so it seemed. To be honest, I never switch the camera to C mode, It has been clicked into C by accident a few times though, so thats the one reason why I can't say that it happens all the time or not.
Great images guys!
I've shot from the hip, NEVER got good results, and kinda agree with Edward about the weird sneakiness. So now I just putting the camera up to my eye and shooting if I really want the image. A lot of the time, people will turn away if they don't want their photo taken. Never really been confronted, what do you all say when someone gets angry?
Joakim, thank you for your nice words!
Ron, again fantastic images that would be worthwhile printing very large.
Adam, I have never had anyone argue with me on the streets. When people realize I'm taking their photo, some ignore me, some smile and take a pose, some turn their face away, and in a couple of instances, they were very angry and wanted to beat me up However I have an answer ready in case I am questioned by someone: I tell them that I am doing a documentary project about life on the streets of Bangkok (or whichever other city I happen to be at). I believe this answer should be sufficient to calm people down, and I would also offer to delete the photo if it makes them feel better. Never had to explain this to anyone though. People seem to go directly into full assault mode when they're angry
I think if you do it enough you will get confronted eventually. It just comes with the territory. I just tell them what I'm doing and why I took the photograph. I do it in a non-confrontational way.
Anyone have any experience with the Canon f0.95 TV lens done with a converted "M" mount? I picked one up and it doesn't have the conversion done. Anyone had theirs done? Where did you send it for a CLA and conversion?
Thanks!
Tobin
