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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Casual Portrait with Summilux 50 asph
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Mar 3 02:11:38 2008
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Geoff,
I have -2/3 dialed in on my Nikons all the time. I think it is a digital
thing!! If you shoot RAW it shouldnt matter, though - my advice is never
shoot jpg, always RAW.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> Thanks Alastair, it seems to be a consensus. I am not yet ready to
> surrender that all of that first EV all of the time. More practice
> required. Gee I wish it had the EV comp on an analog dial on top. I
> hate menus. I got a case for it with a flap that covers the display.
> Two advantages. No left eyed nose grease and stops me chimping too
> much.! Really I need to get used to the metering patterns and use the
> AE lock like on my M7. Don't need no stinkin' histogram when I'm
> shooting.
> Cheers
> Geoff
> On 03/03/2008, at 4:39 PM, <afirkin@afirkin.com> wrote:
>
> > Lovely: my only comment with the M8 is that overexposure can spell
> > death to a photo and if like me you don't chimp and check after
> > each image I'd set the exposure to -2/3 at least: I run on -1 ev
> > most of the time.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --- hoppyman@bigpond.net.au wrote:
> >
> > From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
> > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Casual Portrait with Summilux 50 asph
> > Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:14:25 +1000
> >
> > Folks, My first steps learning to manage exposure with a new M.
> >
> > This is with the Summilux M 50 asph wide open. Now it has become a
> > short portrait 67mm or so!
> >
> > <http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/93634580>
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/29trdn
> >
> >
> >
> > The subject is my beautiful daughter from the shadow side.  Just a
> > quick casual shot obviously.
> >
> > I'm completely biased of course, but I love this one.
> >
> > Just look what the lens does on the 10MP sensor!!
> >
> > Now to get better at the exposure control without throwing away too
> > much at the highlight end.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers, Geoff
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Replies: Reply from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] IMG: Casual Portrait with Summilux 50 asph)
In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin@afirkin.com) ([Leica] IMG: Casual Portrait with Summilux 50 asph)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] IMG: Casual Portrait with Summilux 50 asph)