the solitaire wrote:
Nice series there Don. But why use sunny 16 where the lightmeter on these FM2's is perfectly usable (once you figured out how much to overexpose for a given scene)
My girlfriend uses my FM2 and I still frequently use my FM.These are indeed very enjoyable cameras, and compared to an F or F2, they are smaller and better fit in a coat pocket, which might just suit your style.
Never thought about going wider then 20mm? This was shot with my FM and an RMC Tokina 17mm f3,5. A lens that I used a lot some 20 years ago. Sold it since...Show more →
The meters are accurate on both cameras, but shooting outside during the day using the Sunny 16 rule works well for me. For example, on a camera with ISO 400 film, I pre-set to f/16 and 1/500 and make slight adjustments to the lens aperture as I walk around (maybe opening up a stop or two if I go from a square to a narrow street). And when I come upon a good scene I usually don't have to make any changes---just focus and shoot.
Here are a couple of recent shots with a F2 Titan that doesn't have an internal meter:
CGrindahl wrote:
Delicious set of images Don, so much in the style to which we've become accustomed. I recall saying YEARS ago that these images belonged on the cover of an Alan Furst novel. It is wonderful to read that you have a book cover agent! That makes perfect sense to me. Great work. With one of these camera and the 50 f/2 AI you can emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson and become a full fledged street photographer...
I love where your adventure has taken you Don. Thanks for sharing your work on this thread. Clearly, it belongs here too. We have a number of friends shooting film with our favorite lenses, which I know you have in abundance. Keep them coming...
Lieutenant Z wrote:
superb set Lestor but it may be time to clean this Df sensor... :-)
Merci Philippe!
Indeed, I do not know if these are oil splashes like the D7k had or could they be dust spots when I changed the Focus Screen recently. Wonder what they could be? Perhaps time to give the sensor a good scrubbing
As I posted earlier I just got the 28mm 3.5 PC lens on Friday and that night I took it out for the first time. Here is a Pano I took that night. Not sure what I did wrong but once I merged the pano some of the perspective got messed up. This was done with camera horizontal and shift up. I have arca swiss p0 head that makes doing panos a bit easier. I was level according to camera but I know doing it with my ballhead isn't perfect.
The lines are straight in the shots but once merged got a little odd.
Overall I love this lens and how small it is. I am happy with how sharp it is. I expected worse when shifted. It also gives really sharp stars from lights. Almost too much in the main st area in pic.
All 55mm f/1.2 Nikkor-S on D810 - screwed up with the ISO, but you don't notice when you have a big old ND filter on the lens. At f/2.0 this lens is just great. I wished it worked as well at f/1.2
f/2.0 1/500s ISO 200 ND8 filter, NIK analog efex Pro 2
mysh wrote:
As I posted earlier I just got the 28mm 3.5 PC lens on Friday and that night I took it out for the first time. Here is a Pano I took that night. Not sure what I did wrong but once I merged the pano some of the perspective got messed up. This was done with camera horizontal and shift up. I have arca swiss p0 head that makes doing panos a bit easier. I was level according to camera but I know doing it with my ballhead isn't perfect.
The lines are straight in the shots but once merged got a little odd.
Overall I love this lens and how small it is. I am happy with how sharp it is. I expected worse when shifted. It also gives really sharp stars from lights. Almost too much in the main st area in pic.
Looks great! Stitching images can be difficult sometimes - I noticed this especially when stitching vertical shot with shift applied - the "wave-like" distortion can lead to weird looking results and sometimes the stitching program is refusing to merge the files.
The "sunburst"-effect can be used with some success, but just like in your example many small strong lightsources in the frame might be too much to handle for the viewer of the final image ;-)
Peter from WI, the last classic Mini's are my favorites - I really enjoyed looking at your shots. The most recent Mini's are looking like someone dropped a cup of yeast in the gas tank of a 2001-model ;-)
recent minis are super-sized blobs of altered Mini DNA - something went horribly wrong at BMW when they allowed the bean counters to drive the development of cars. As an end result you now get BMW 1-series sized Minis with really large tail lights to obscure the fact that they aren't small any longer
here are some more German cars - these two are of different generations. Again, the new car is twice the size and double the weight of the old one, or at least so it seems from the perspective
I know hedgehogs regularly visit our garden - given the stools they leave behind on the lawn.
There was a lot of noise coming from the undergrowth near my bird feeding station this evening so I was extremely pleased to find a very large pair scavenging for food.
Unfortunately, in the UK, hedgehog numbers are decreasing at a rapid rate and for that reason my wife and I run a chemical free garden to support wildlife as much as we can with selective planting. In the past we have even taken young 'hogs from the rescue centre and brought them up to weight before releasing them to the wild.
This was the only shot before they headed for cover and I left them in peace.
