Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Jul 31, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > I am not Lluis, Steve, and I am no expert but I have recently gone back to > film for, say, 10-15% of my shooting. Why? Because it has some ?je ne sais > quoi? to it?tonality, magic, whatever. Agree Nathan, but maybe the experience is entirely, "in the brain". I suspect if we put up 50 digital images; and 50 film images and tested our ability to tell the difference, we would be right, probably as much as 50 percent of the time. Steve > And there is a distinct pleasure in shooting my Leica M2 with period > lenses like the 50mm Summilux from the 1960s or the 90mm Tele-Elmarit that > still deliver such superb images. It may not be wholly rational, but > nobody is paying me to take pictures?I have a good day job which provides > me with a decent living?so I can take pictures in whatever way pleases me. > > I am going to spend a day with Lluis in his summer home, Sitges, about 30 > km south of Barcelona. The plan is to walk around with him, and hopefully > use his invisibilty cloak and his charm to get some decent shots of my > own. I plan to shoot mainly film?I will take a digital camera with me to > supplement the M2, but most likely it will be just the Ricoh GR or perhaps > the Fuji X-T1 with just one lens, the tiny but superb 27mm. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 31 Jul 2016, at 18:07, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Lluis, a question to run by you, now an expert, if this same image has >> been shot digitally, would you have had more power to fix it, the way you >> would like? >> >> many thanks, >> >> amities, >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> >>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:56 AM, lluisripollphotography >>> <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you Nathan, I forget it, as you say I have other images to work >>> >>> Un abrazo >>> Lluis >>> >>> >>>> El 30 jul 2016, a les 7:15, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> va >>>> escriure: >>>> >>>> Lluis, I am sure you can do something using Photoshop heroics and other >>>> voodoo but given how many great images you have in your files, it just >>>> does not seem worth the effort. >>>> >>>> Un abrazo, >>>> Nathan >>>> >>>> Nathan Wajsman >>>> Alicante, Spain >>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >>>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>>> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: >>>> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>>> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >>>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >>>> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >>>> YNWA >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 30 Jul 2016, at 02:30, lluisripollphotography >>>>> <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Please take a look to this picture from 1992 (please view large), I >>>>> like very much the expression and the moment but the picture is bad, >>>>> beside the negative is dirty and I would have to clean, the picture is >>>>> undefined, out of focus, I think I can?t anything to improve it? any >>>>> idea? >>>>> >>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Vintage/Vilanova_Vintage/199202007LR5.jpg.html> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c will be appreciated >>>>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information