Saturday my Wife returned from her business trip to the US. She brought with her a set of L-Mount extension tubes that I intend to use to do my own film scanning with my SL3 and one of my APO-SL lenses. Although my Valoi-32 scanning setup won't be here for a couple of weeks I decided to try it freehand. I scanned this image (Tri-X 400) from the latest roll, hand holding, not great lighting, manual focusing, and converted from negative manually in LightRoom. Far from ideal, but the resultant high resolution DNG file is still far superior to the low resolution JPEG files I get from the lab here. When my Leica IIIf comes back fully restored, my BoxLab stuff arrives, and my Valoi-32 scanning setup arrives I should be able to shoot film very affordably, with high quality. Well, that is the theory anyway...
Revisiting some travel photos I took last autumn in Tokyo, continuing my long term project trying to replicate the M9 tonality. I think I'm getting very close, it's not going to be the same, but I always desire the overall feel to the rendering.
Giovanni the Leica Store Milano manager shot as an optical condition test with my new 72 year old, wonderfully small, Summaron 35mm 1:3.5 adapted on my M11.
I still find it amazing how good these old lenses can be.
