Noir

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

Roll number 6 survived xrays...

That took a while

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2
(some perspective correction)

Not that I haven't been shooting, but that I haven't got film back from the lab, having been away. So a couple of rolls to catch up on. Here's number five.

I've decided that when necessary I will crop and adjust these images (sometimes it's just too painful not to) but I will say more or less what I've done.

Why is this?

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Nikon D700, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6

Another set of "colour weekend" shots, from a walk along the CN right of way, and the construction site of the the new underpass at Queen and Dufferin. It seems to me my colour shots are generally much stronger than my black & white. Interesting.

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

Here.

I don't know about this one.

Roll number 3

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

Here.

Time to do some high-res scans and a few prints.

Colour weekend

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Nikon D700, 24-70mm f/2.8.
Photoshop composite of two images.

Just don't look too closely at the timestamps.

Seconds

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Leica M6, Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2

A bit of a gap, since I lost a roll of film. Not loaded properly so the film advance didn't. Sigh. So strictly speaking this is roll number 3, but we'll call it number 2. Now up on flickr, here.

A few observations. Looking at the images I find myself wanting to crop, which is something I almost never do with the D700 or G10 or 4x5. I guess I'm not used to composing in the rangefinder yet.

Another thing: shadow detail seems to be nonexistant. I think this is an artifact of the scans but I'm not sure. I'll have to make a hi-res scan myself to see.

And... the D700 with the 24-70 feels like even more of a behemoth now. Also I haven't touched the G10 since the M6 arrived. It may be for sale soon.