1bwana1 wrote:
I hope this one doesn't disappoint anyone, it is the only image I managed to make today.
I must have traveled this small street over 25 times. Yet, I never noticed this shadow pattern before. Maybe the round post sign was recently placed, maybe it is the time of year. But when I saw it today I knew I had to shoot it. So I staked out my spot. Problem is that it is very quiet back street and foot traffic was lite. I watched as the shows continually changed fearing I would lose the light. Then the perfect subject walked by. Patience pays off sometimes.
Another from Morocco last month. A goatherd at a Berber market, usually strictly off limits to photographers, but we were accompanied by a dear Moroccan female friend who charmed the locals and managed to gain limited permission for us to shoot. Q3 43, ISO 640, f/5.6, 1/250s.
I just got back my second roll of film shot on my bargain Leica IIf. I tried some Kodak Tri-X 400. Turns out the camera has developed a light leak that shows if I leave the leans cap off and the shutter cocked for a while before shooting. So I will be sending it in for service, and new shutter curtain, and probably new RF mirror. So much for bargains. !
I just love this camera. It does change what I shoot, how I shoot, and how I compose. The glow from the uncoated lens and the grain adds textures and emotion that I just don't get out of my much loved M11. This time around I was experimenting with Tri-X to compare with the HP5 I shot in the first roll. I was also trying to tune my eye to exposure without a meter so shot in a wide variety of lighting conditions. More of learning exercises rather than trying to do serious project work.
These images are just low quality JPEG scans. When my scanning setup arrives in the next few weeks I will re-visit with high quality DNG scans.
1bwana1 wrote:
I just got back my second roll of film shot on my bargain Leica IIf. I tried some Kodak Tri-X 400. Turns out the camera has developed a light leak that shows if I leave the leans cap off and the shutter cocked for a while before shooting. So I will be sending it in for service, and new shutter curtain, and probably new RF mirror. So much for bargains. !
I just love this camera. It does change what I shoot, how I shoot, and how I compose. The glow from the uncoated lens and the grain adds textures and emotion that I just don't get out of my much loved M11. This time around I was experimenting with Tri-X to compare with the HP5 I shot in the first roll. I was also trying to tune my eye to exposure without a meter so shot in a wide variety of lighting conditions. More of learning exercises rather than trying to do serious project work.
These images are just low quality JPEG scans. When my scanning setup arrives in the next few weeks I will re-visit with high quality DNG scans.
Not surprising a seventy year old Leica would have pin holes in the cloth shutter. I go back and forth between HP-5 and Tri-X but as I'm reaching the end of my supply of both, I may go back to using TMax for a while. Pictures are looking good and I've been enjoying the M11/ 35 Summilux combination.
1bwana1 wrote:
I hope this one doesn't disappoint anyone, it is the only image I managed to make today.
I must have traveled this small street over 25 times. Yet, I never noticed this shadow pattern before. Maybe the round post sign was recently placed, maybe it is the time of year. But when I saw it today I knew I had to shoot it. So I staked out my spot. Problem is that it is very quiet back street and foot traffic was lite. I watched as the shows continually changed fearing I would lose the light. Then the perfect subject walked by. Patience pays off sometimes.
madNbad wrote:
Not surprising a seventy year old Leica would have pin holes in the cloth shutter. I go back and forth between HP-5 and Tri-X but as I'm reaching the end of my supply of both, I may go back to using TMax for a while. Pictures are looking good and I've been enjoying the M11/ 35 Summilux combination.
The camera, the lens, and me, were all born in 1952. That is 74 years ago this year. I also have many holes in me. The amazing thing to ne is just how good this camera looks, and how smoothly it operates. Way better than me. I am going to have the shutter fabric replaced and intend to shit this camera and lens the rest of my life. Then pass it to a child or grandchild.
1bwana1 wrote:
The camera, the lens, and me, were all born in 1952. That is 74 years ago this year. I also have many holes in me. The amazing thing to ne is just how good this camera looks, and how smoothly it operates. Way better than me. I am going to have the shutter fabric replaced and intend to shit this camera and lens the rest of my life. Then pass it to a child or grandchild.
A nice light morning, checked to see if "my" agave bloomed yet, not quite, but still a nice scene. The agave has grown for more than a decade, put up this stalk in a few weeks it will flower and die. With the light being nice I went vintage- this is a Leica 50 mm thorium summicron from 1954 on a M11 EV1. The thorium summicron in addition to its render from having lanthanum thorium and lead glass in color is a great BW lens as it was primarily used at the time it was assembled. Converted BW image from the color DNG with cobalt.
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