Summicron 50 GF-1

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Originally uploaded by rkolewe

Perfect.

Summicron on GF-1

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Panasonic GF-1, Summicron 50mm with Voigtlander VM adapter

Like a lot of people, I'm waiting for an M9; in the meantime, playing with a Panasonic GF-1. I can't tell whether the focus is a bit off in these (though at f/8 it shouldn't matter that much), whether it's camera shake (1/60 sec here, others 1/50, but what's that old rule about the shutter speed never being longer than the reciprocal of the focal length for handheld shots, and 50mm on the GF-1 is equivalent to 100mm, so...), noise (iso 800 here, but others are iso 400), or whether the Summicron draws just a bit soft (or is that another way of saying diffraction...) with this sensor.

Positive!

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

The point of the Leica Year exercise was one film, one lens, one year.

I can't do it anymore.

I put colour film in the M6 (Portra NC 400) and I'm in love. This stuff is luscious. I haven't been this excited about colour in a long time.

I did it.

Before they're scattered to the four winds

Sold the D700 today. The lenses are up next. There will now be an interval when the only digital camera I own is the one in my phone. (I even had to borrow back my long ago given away and now venerable CoolPix to take this shot.)

Leica, I hate you

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

Ok. I've been shooting TriX with the M6 since June, almost every day (certainly every day on average) and this is destroying my life. I stopped using the G10, and sold it a few weeks ago. (The long term value of a digicam tends to zero. I sold the G10 just before the G11 became available. Good move.) For a while I was shooting the D700 on weekends, because I love colour, but it's soooo heavy, and I just put colour film in the M6, and now I'm really reluctant to haul D700+24-70+70-300+++, like 4 kilos of camera and lens and shit? And now there's the M9, and I just got a 90mm Elmarit-M 2.8 on eBay. If anybody wants a D700 kit drop me an email. It's only a matter of time before it winds up on craigslist first eBay second, and I order an M9. I've decided that I hate 35mm film (strange since I really like 120 and 4x5) but I love the Leica. Trouble. This is trouble.

Pushing it.

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

Roll 8, pushed two stops to ISO 1600. Love the grain.

In the dark

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

I definitely have a predilection for shooting in the dark. This is why I really like the D700. But it seems that film doesn't do too badly in the dark, either. This is straight Tri-X at ISO 400. The next roll I'm pushing to 1600.