Re: [Leica] color noctilux autumn images

[Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspainewebber.com>]

marc,

thank you.

i was really pleasantly surprised by the 75 lux myself.  i was evaluating it
and was a little indecisive about keeping it, but those particular images
impressed me a lot (not in an egotistical way, of course!).  i then used it
for some of my daughter's dance birthday
    http://www.shinozuka-family.com/20011104dance/
and i really like many of those images as well.

to your second noctilux point,  i think that the first 2 images on the top of
the first page that you mention
   http://www.shinozuka-family.com/200110autumnlux1/
are not my best scans.   what i think happened to those and to the lower
ones on the second page
   http://www.shinozuka-family.com/200110autumnlux2/
is that i REFUSED to take the noct off f1.0, and on some images
i needed more than 1/1000 shutter speed.  so i said "to hell with it,
color neg has a lot of latitude" and let them overexpose by perhaps
a stop or two.  while someone might be able to get decent scans from them, i
found them rather difficult to get the contrast i liked.  they were actually
low contrast and saturation, and i think i dialed in too much in way of
compensation.  my experience scanning color images is still very limited.
in comparison, the 2 noctilux images on the top of the second page
   http://www.shinozuka-family.com/200110autumnlux2/
made--for me--very pleasing scans with soft colors and tonalities i really
like.

i might go back an try those others again.  but i've got 3 newly developed
rolls of HP5+ negs that are crying out to be scanned...  :-)

- -rei


> From: Marc Attinasi <marc@attinasi.org>
> 
> Seeing your shots of Kitty make me really _really_ want a 75 Summilux. The
> images are gorgeous, and I find the blur in the background much more
> appealing that that of the Noctilux shots. The backgrounds in the Noct
> shots appear distracting to me, rather than supportive of the image. Maybe
> it is an artifact of the scans, because I have seen other Noct shos that
> have a smoother background.  The out of focus trees in the backgrounds of
> the first two shots look very shimmery and unnatural to me. Maybe I am just
> subconsciously finding reasons not to want that world-renowned (and
> exceptionally pricey) optic!
> 
> Great Autumn shots, thanks for posting them.
> 
> - marc
> 
> Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> 
> > this is my final set in my latest round of scanning!
> >
> > i was motivated by the beautiful autumn we enjoyed this year.
> > so here my first color images with the noctilux, 75 lux, etc.
> > fuji reala.
> >
> > http://www.shinozuka-family.com/200110autumnlux1/
> > (3 pages)
> >
> > my personal favorites are the second page.
> >
> > link to those pages and all my stuff:
> > http://www.shinozuka-family.com
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