[Leica] IMGs x 3: Portraits

[Brian Reid]

I continue to be entranced by these great pictures. 

These are exactly the kind of shots that I have tried to take for my
entire adult life. The first 10,000 images I shot were on a Minolta
Hi-Matic 7 and then a Leica IIIf, always with Tri-X and always developed
in HC-110 (or D76 before HC-110 existed). I can't say that mine were as
good as these, but this is what I was attempting to do. 

Except that Tri-X didn't give me anything close to this resolution. I
think the best I ever got out of Tri-X on my IIIf was about 100 to 125
lines per millimeter. I've read lots of apologetics about the resolution
of 35mm film and how it has better resolution than any digital camera,
but I am reminded of the quote from Chico Marx, speaking to Margaret
DuMont in the movie Duck Soup: "Who are you going to believe? Me, or
your own eyes?" Doug's A7 has 24 megapixels, and its resolution runs
rings around anything I ever got with film and LTM Elmar lenses. Maybe
if I had used Pan X and Diafine, like my architect friends did, or if I
had used sheet film, I could have had this kind of sharpness in film
images. But I don't like flash, so I needed Tri-X. 

Show us more, Douglas. More. 

On 2020-01-27 5:47 pm, Douglas Barry wrote:

> I recently been persuaded to join the committee of my local literary, historical and cultural society. Bad mistake letting them know I used to do a website during my sporting years, but apparently I've reduced the average age of the committee by ten years according to a local wag :-) Anyway, I'm now the Webmeister for them and that turns out to mean official photographer too.
> 
> We recently launched our 27th annual publication of lectures known as Proceedings - 2019 with Irish government minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor as principal speaker, so here are three portraits I took with my Sony A7II for the site.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Proceedings+2019+344.jpg.html
> 
> David Hussey, Mary Mitchell O'Connor, and Noel Tierney
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Proceedings+2019+333.jpg.html
> 
> David Hussey
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Proceedings+2019+Paul+Quinn+396.jpg.html
> 
> Paul Quinn holding a copy of Proceedings
> 
> All can be seen larger if desired, and comments or criticism welcomed.
> 
> Douglas
> 
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