Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, I share what you say but for me if one day I made a picture that I like and I can be relatively proud of it, say a certain ?good one?, I want that this picture was made by me not thanks by the tehnology of sensors, autofocus (I never used it), or software that improve the images like Topaz? Lluis > El 3 ag 2023, a les 23:35, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va > escriure: > > Lluis, I think the resulting image from a digital sensor depends very much > on how it is treated in processing. I do appreciate my legacy lenses with > a digital sensor; depending the artistic expression they can be made to > perform as on film or not. Images through film require a bit more pre > planning due to film choice and developer choice as those two variables > have a great deal of impact on the image. > > I guess my feelings are related to looking at some of the Impressionist > painters who might use pencil, oils, and gauche to create the look they > want. In silver you have film, developer, paper, paper developer, and > various post operations like toning or selective bleaching not to mention > intensifying a negative. > > Even on a film Leica there is such a tremendous availability of lenses of > all characters that the photographer's expression knows few limits. > > Going a bit further, I have been accumulating most of the published W. > Eugene Smith books and looking at his images closely. The impact of an > image has little to do with technical perfection and very much to do with > the content of the image and how it is composed. Which means I have come > back around to what you said, testing might be useful for certain > applications but the image is what counts. > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 3:40?PM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > >> The Elmar 50/2.8 was an excellent lens and the last version M was really >> superb. >> >> But I?m sorry Paul if I?m not a follower of tests with digital cameras, >> the sensors operate great performances and in MHO they don?t give a >> realistic image of the natural look of a lens made for film. >> >> Lluis >> >> >>> El 3 ag 2023, a les 19:35, Paul Roark via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va >> escriure: >>> >>> FWIW, I just posted a test shot taken at f/5.6 with the Elmar 50 f/2.8 >> on a >>> Sony adapted to Leica M optics. See >> https://www.paulroark.com/Elmar-f56.jpg >>> . >>> >>> My notes on the relatively new Elmar: "8x10 crop critically sharp at >>> f.6.7, f.5.6 acceptable. At f/4 sharp area is 80% of central square. >>> 4-frame pan beats Leica apo 35mm. On Sony a7c, with rubber hood, fits >> into >>> Sony RX1 case. Sony must have Ultra Thin sensor cover modification from >>> KoloriVision." >>> >>> Paul >>> www.PaulRoark.com >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 9:51?AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> >> wrote: >>> >>>> The Elmar was always a good lens especially by f5.6. My uncoated >> version >>>> certainly is. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 9:22 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at >>>> leica-users.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Right now the link works >>>>> >>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Flors_BN/2023F060426.jpg.html >>> >>>>> Leica IIIF, Elmar 5cm f 3.5, Ilford FP4 EI 100, Perceptol 1:1 >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome >>>>> >>>>> Saludos cordiales >>>>> Lluis >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information