[Leica] An epiphany and a terminal fall color.

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

It appears you've tamed the beast and are capturing what you see.
Very nice image; best of luck as the machine becomes second nature to you,
Bob

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Having lost my darkroom and, by now, probably my darkroom skills, I no
> longer consider film, and therefore a fair collection of pocketable
> cameras, e.g. Rollei 35, are now paper weights until sold. So, what to do
> for the camera one always has with one--no, I don't have an iPhone and no
> intention of getting one.
>
> Before deciding to invest in a full-frame digital camera, I bought
> Lightroom and a "junk" camera, a Nikon Coolpix S610 to help me decide
> whether I would be happy in the digital world. Then came the decision as to
> which camera, and as I wrote before, remembering how much I loved my M6, I
> took the hideous financial plunge and bought an M9 body.
>
> Recently, I started brooding about the fact that I should start having a
> camera with me all the time, and am emotionally incapable of risking even
> cosmetic damage to a $7K device. Besides, the M9, while light, small, and
> handy, is just not, to me, a wear it all the time camera.
>
> What to get? Most cameras that produce RAW are expensive enough to cause
> marital problems and I don't think any could be called pocket
> size--possibly one of the Ricoh models, but I'm damned if I'll pay that
> price for a camera that doesn't come with a viewfinder.
>
> Finally, I started to reconsider that miserable little Nikon. It took
> about an hour to find all the menus, disable almost all automatic features,
> and get its behavior to approximate that of a film point and shoot. So, the
> only auto feature I left in is color balance, since that would minimize the
> amount of color adjustment needed in LR. Next, I set it to do only
> center-weighted focus, with a focus lock, which is also an exposure lock,
> when the shutter release is pushed to a point of resistance. It took me a
> long time to discover the menu for setting ISO manually. I then was pleased
> to see that ISO value always shows on the screen. Also shutter speed and
> stop show when the release is pressed to the resistance point. ISO change
> is the way to control shutter speed because the stop range is small. So,
> with all of these settings, the camera becomes usable! Finally, there is a
> macro mode, which will be helpful with flowers.
>
> I was surprised at how low the noise level is at ISO 3200--a bit better
> than the M9 at 2400.
>
> A tribute to the near death of this year's fall colors is here:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/herbk1/Last+fall+colors.**jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Last+fall+colors.jpg.html>
> --
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
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Bob Adler
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