Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/24

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Sonnar Test with B&W Film
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Feb 24 15:10:00 2009
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On Feb 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> Thank very much, this is very kind of you but I only load the camera  
> with film (normally TX, Plus X or Agfa APX100), an old lens to give  
> the  charachter I want to see, and that's all. IMO digital can't  
> give the same appearance as film, it looks very nice, i.e. on the  
> Steve Barbour's B&W, but is different than film.


that is very kind Lluis, though not deserved next to your beautiful  
work...

I find I obtain results with bw digital that I am unable to  
distinguish from my bw film images, for example the bw images in,

"I never wanted to be famous..."


thanks, Steve
>
> Thanks again for your kind comments
>
> Saludos cordiales
> Lluis
>
>
>
>
>
> El 24/02/2009, a las 2:23, Ken Carney escribi?:
>
>> Lluis,
>>
>> These are exceptional images.  Thanks for showing.  I thought my  
>> digital b&w
>> conversions were pretty good, but these raise the bar.  Beautiful  
>> tonality.
>> Maybe it is not possible to duplicate this with digital  
>> conversions, but it
>> is always good to have a target (I think that old dude Andrea del  
>> Sarto said
>> something like that...or Robert Browning...one of those guys anyway).
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
>>> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lluis Ripoll
>>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 5:38 PM
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Sonnar Test with B&W Film
>>>
>>> Now I have posted my test of the Zeiss Opton Sonnar 1,5/50 with  
>>> film,
>>> I like very much the rendition, I have not the digital skills to do
>>> this and IMO I don't think it would be possible, I'm still very  
>>> happy
>>> using my M's with B&W film
>>>
>>> On this site you will find the pictures, you can see up to the first
>>> you find in color, this one  and following belongs to my M8 test.
>>>
>>> http://photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=894775
>>> http://tinyurl.com/abrj3m
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are allways appreciate
>>>
>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] Zeiss Sonnar Test with B&W Film)
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Message from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] Zeiss Sonnar Test with B&W Film)