Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/album08/05v18_0015 >> >>And 35 years from now, she'll probably look like this: >> >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/album08/05v18_0014 > So you are underexposing these shots a stop? Not consciously, Mark. That was the point of using a 1.4 lens ... to get an extra shutter speed _without_ under-exposing. Do they look a stop under? I'm not an expert at this, so if they look a stop under, I'll start rating the film a little lower. This was 400Tmax rated at 400 and developed in Xtol. Xtol usually gives me full speed, that's why I went with a reading of 400. Mind you ... this is the morning breakfast table and the light changes a bit when it's cloudy outside with the wind blowing. > I'm real fond of both of them especially the first one. > An interesting example of subject matter just about all the zone VI range. > The range of zone VI to zone VI! :) Yeah, I looked at the negative and thought "How is _this_ going to look?" ... After a long dark winter, people in Sweden are as pale as the cabinets in the background (unless they've cooked themselves in UV-boxes ... then they look grilled.) > Sometimes a dirty blond can look like a brunette in under exposure. > especially if its a strawberry dirty blond. > But these are zone VII blonds perhaps. Can't remember if it was before or after I followed they ammonia smell down they steps (happens when they do things to their hair). The youngest one does things to her hair about every two weeks. > Was the lens the 1.2 Nikkor? Or 1.4? It was the 1.4 Nikkor. Makes me want to start looking for a Summilux of the same vintage. Not that I'm a collector, but I feel we lose our perspective here at times. The New Summilux outshining the old Summilux (it probably most certainly does). BUT, in its day the old Summilux was a good match, if not better, than the old Nikkor. This old Nikkor is great, so the old Summilux must be too. I can afford one of those. I can't afford a new one. Even so, I'd be getting a great lens. ... Probably won't find one the price of a carton if cigarettes like the Nikkor, but still ... Daniel PS: Thanks for the encouraging comments about these and the square shot. It feels nice to hear them.