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Nice pictures.
Digital capture is something I have always wanted to get into with all my photographs, slides and 8mm from the late sixties and seventies.
Two questions (very off topic!)
1. were the two photos taken with the same film ? The bottom photo seems like an Agfa colour balance (?) to me, and
2. it would be interesting to see a "today" era shot of the bottom picture to see how much urban development has taken place !
Digital capture is something I have always wanted to get into
It can be quite the chore from a time standpoint, not to mention a surprisingly steep learning curve to get great results.
The Nikon 9000 is held in high regard but pricey and VERY hard to find. The Epson 750 is a 90% solution at about 1/3 the cost... it was my choice.
Thank you.
I must correct the shooting year on the top one as its from France 1982.
The bottom is from Rom 1981.
So it must be 2 different films but AGFA I can agree with that. Whatever my grandparents bought before they went on holiday.
Back when my grandmother on moms side died she left alot of boxes of slides but we could not watch them in a big format as there were no screen to set up. So being curios I found out that the HPG4050 scanner could get these slides on pc which is the best format these days.
The above is France in 1973.
Those are great pictures; very evocative -- thank you for sharing them !!
I bought my wife a Panasonic DMC-ZS3 awhile back for our anniversary. She loves it. I think it's pretty awesome for what it is. The lens is made by Leica. It's sort of a cross between a camera and a camcorder. It's pretty cool. EATS through the batteries though.
Jon
Being on a bit of a RF kick, I also picked up a Hasselblad X-Pan and I am looking REAL HARD at a Leica M6 or M6TTL.
As there are several M users here, either 6 and/or 8, I am stumbling over glass.
My choices are:
1.) Leitz -probably in the f2 range.
2.) Voigtlander (Nokton) -brilliant in f1+ range at great prices!
3.) Zeiss -ZM... big fan of Zeiss having shot them on the Hassy MF cameras.
With a mu43 adapter, I can throw any of them on the PEN as well! Any thoughts?
An M6 is far from a bad choice— I've owned one for a couple of years (Had a go with an M9 the other day, feels nowhere near as solid).
A nice used leica lens is a good choice: The prices (especially for standard focal lengths) become almost comparable to new Zeiss lenses. The Zeiss lenses are sharp, as is the Nokton, but the Leica glass, as I'm sure you know, is, on the whole, absolutely unique even wide open.
As far as I know, all M-mount lenses work with an adapter on the PEN, but remember the focal length doubling sensor size.
A word of warning, though: Just as with B&O, once you buy a Leica, it will most likely become catastrophically addictive.
A word of warning, though: Just as with B&O, once you buy a Leica, it will most likely become catastrophically addictive.
Never was a truer word spoken 🙂
I use a Leica M6 and am slowly accumulating lenses. Frankly, the camera body is ultimately the least expensive item in your Leica kit. In the digital world, it is also likely to be the item you keep for the shortest time because of the onward march of technology. It will also have the lowest retained resale value. In contrast, the lenses will last, literally, for decades. There is no tricky autofocus, just mechanical perfection. If you plan to move to an M8, 8.1 or M9 digital body in the future, it will be helpful to purchase lenses now with 6-bit encoding to allow the body to configure itself for the optical characteristics of the attached lens. Such coding can be added later by the Leica factory, but at a cost.
Build quality and optical performance of Leica lenses is exemplary. There are generally three price points, mainly driven by speed: Summilux (f1.4) $$$; Summicron (f2) $$; Summarit (f2.5) $. (I'll ignore specialty lenses such as Noctilux in this summary.) The first two are assembled by hand and feel rock solid. The Summarit line was intended to have lower production cost because of reuse of key elements across the focal length range (35mm and 50mm share components, as do the 75mm and 90mm) thus reducing production costs. The Summarit line (I have a 75mm) does not have the physical feel of the Summicron, but is still an excellent lens and at a comparatively agreeable price.
A quick thanks! It seems that the M6 (TTL or otherwise) is held in high regard... and the value retention is amazing!
Thanks to your posts and some more research... I went from being sold on the Voigtlander glass to being sold on the Leitz glass! One quick question: Any thoughts on going straight to the M mount glass or trying the older Screw mount w/ a Leitz (or similar) adapter?
Unless you have a specialty lens you want to set up the camera for (ex. You have multiple bodies with specific lenses mated for specific uses) I'd personally avoid adaptors. They never seem to have the same quality feel as the original equipment. M lenses are just about as diverse in both types and quality these days as the Screws but also have a lot more usefulness with all the M cameras, both analog and digital, floating around. I love the M6, but with the great deals on the M8 I'd give it some serious thought. A shutter twice as fast as the M9 ( which still is fast compared to the M6) and a imager that is great for all but the widest lenses. Either way don't forget to get a great custom leather case from Luigi. You may only do it once but you'll never forget the experience ;)A quick thanks! It seems that the M6 (TTL or otherwise) is held in high regard... and the value retention is amazing!
Thanks to your posts and some more research... I went from being sold on the Voigtlander glass to being sold on the Leitz glass! One quick question: Any thoughts on going straight to the M mount glass or trying the older Screw mount w/ a Leitz (or similar) adapter?
Jaff, here are some example shots of the Canon EF 50mm F1.0L.
I just got this lens, I actually bought a Canon 5D mk2, just so I could get this lens... 😂 So I'm once again back with Canon. But Canon is an excellent camera, it lack the finesse of the Leica though.
Anyway, this lens is a killer!
So anyone up for some "Bokeh"? All shots at F1.0.
Some in Black and White... The DOF is just crazy, and such wonderful rendering of the out of focus areas.
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