Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Y'all - I've been off the LUG since last summer, when I had the experience of traveling around the Northeastern USA with a number of different things to shoot. I carried my 20D with four lenses and my M6, also with four lenses. Try as I did, I couldn't seem to shoot a single frame of film for the entire week long trip. I figured my favorite film rigs were history. Recently, however, I've found myself shooting Leicas with Film and feeling pretty good about the experience. Here are some examples... In this shot of a labor rally here in Chicago, the 15mm Voightlander and a CL loaded with Fuji (low contrast 4-layer portrait film) seemed ideal for dealing with wildly mixed light and close quarters (the vignetting is kinda cool, too): http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/stroger_labor_rally_21 In this early morning low angle sunlight streetshot in Brooklyn I felt that the ability of the Kodak 400CN to deal with a very wide lighting ratio without burning out the highlights was helpful (M6 w/50mm collapsible Summicron): http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/99_cent_3600_med_cntrst And this interior snap (M6, 21CV on Neopan in T-Max) also seems to hold detail across a wide range of brightnesses with that familiar grainy texture: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/Excercise_Program_1 On the other hand, this 20D shot (in the alley behind a fancy restaurant in downtown Chicago) kinda looks to me like it might have looked a little better if I had used one of those film rigs: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/alley_soccer_52_b_w_jpeg 'Course, the DSLR has been a great tool in a whole lot of other situations in the studio and out shooting live music... although come to think about it there was one time when the damn clack & whirr of the peskey thing prevented me from shooting at all during a recital of 20th century piano music. So, count me in as one of those who hopes that enough of these archaic tools and materials stick around for awhile... 'Meantime, I'm sure the digiworld will be catching up with the need for quiet, small cameras with optical viewfinders and wide dynamic range sensors (I'm sure the "grain simulators" will be improving as well.) Comments, of course, are welcome, I think... Bob Palmieri