Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Photos 1 and 3 are stunning. 1 for the colour, angle ......... eye- drawing impact. 2 for the quality of image, composition and subject. Welcome back. B. On 16-mrt-2006, at 0:30, bob palmieri wrote: > Y'all - > > I've been off the LUG since last summer, when I had the experience > of traveling around the Northeastern USA with a number of different > things to shoot. I carried my 20D with four lenses and my M6, also > with four lenses. > Try as I did, I couldn't seem to shoot a single frame of film for > the entire week long trip. I figured my favorite film rigs were > history. > > Recently, however, I've found myself shooting Leicas with Film and > feeling pretty good about the experience. Here are some examples... > > In this shot of a labor rally here in Chicago, the 15mm > Voightlander and a CL loaded with Fuji (low contrast 4-layer > portrait film) seemed ideal for dealing with wildly mixed light and > close quarters (the vignetting is kinda cool, too): > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/stroger_labor_rally_21 > > In this early morning low angle sunlight streetshot in Brooklyn I > felt that the ability of the Kodak 400CN to deal with a very wide > lighting ratio without burning out the highlights was helpful (M6 w/ > 50mm collapsible Summicron): > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/99_cent_3600_med_cntrst > > And this interior snap (M6, 21CV on Neopan in T-Max) also seems to > hold detail across a wide range of brightnesses with that familiar > grainy texture: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/Excercise_Program_1 > > On the other hand, this 20D shot (in the alley behind a fancy > restaurant in downtown Chicago) kinda looks to me like it might > have looked a little better if I had used one of those film rigs: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/alley_soccer_52_b_w_jpeg > > 'Course, the DSLR has been a great tool in a whole lot of other > situations in the studio and out shooting live music... although > come to think about it there was one time when the damn clack & > whirr of the peskey thing prevented me from shooting at all during > a recital of 20th century piano music. > > So, count me in as one of those who hopes that enough of these > archaic tools and materials stick around for awhile... 'Meantime, > I'm sure the digiworld will be catching up with the need for quiet, > small cameras with optical viewfinders and wide dynamic range > sensors (I'm sure the "grain simulators" will be improving as well.) > > Comments, of course, are welcome, I think... > > Bob Palmieri > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information