Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, gracias por sus felicidades. I work with two Leicas: an MP .85 for my 50mm and 75mm lenses and an M6 .72 Classic for my 35mm and 28mm lenses. Most of the time I keep a 4th generation 35mm Summicron on the M6 because I don't feel like wearing the weight of the 35mm Summilux ASPH when I'm working outside. The same goes for the MP on which I keep a 50mm Summicron. All my lenses are tabbed so I can focus by feel. I use a 50mm Summilux and the 35mm Summilux ASPH when it starts to get darker. I keep the 75mm Summilux with me most of the time but find I rarely use it. I recently purchased the 28mm Summicron because I found I needed the wider field of view and the speed in some tighter spaces. I also do my panoramics with a Hasselblad XPan II with the 45mm lens. Everything, except the couple dancing was captured on Tri-X developed in Xtol 1:1. The couple dancing was on Ilford Delta 3200 rated at 1600 at 1/30 at f1.4. I'm not afraid to handhold down to 1/4 second if that's what it takes. I don't use supplemental lighting other than what's there. I'm now scanning my negatives using a Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 with a fluidmount film holder. I bought this because I needed to scan the Xpan 24x65mm negs and wasn't happy with the results from my previous scanner and stitching in Photoshop. I've found the fluid mounting results in incredibly sharp negatives because of the excellent film flatness and it minimizes dust-spotting. I usually spend 3-5 hours Photoshopping my files to get them to where I want them. Sometimes I'll scan the negs twice: once for overall and once for problematic highlights or shadows. I use Vuescan as my scanning software. I hope this is helpful and not more than you wanted to know. Carl Message: 14 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:15:33 +0200 From: "Luis Ripoll" <luisripoll@telefonica.net> Subject: RE: [Leica] Some New Pix To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Message-ID: <001501c77bbd$c266c960$2101a8c0@luispersonal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Congratulations for your excellent work Carl, the overall quality is really high and there some outstanding pictures I've specially enjoyed http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/StonerKids071802_27.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/MO2005_R17_29_Raw3d_Final.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/MO09200654_30_2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/MO_0905_20_25_9_Final2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/MO_200602_10_11.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/FuzzyFew_R7_33_2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/CarlSanderSocolow/MataOrtiz2004R96_32_4_Final_2.jpg.html I would appreciate some details as camera used... Thanks for showing Saludos cordiales Luis