blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I took <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Go4P&tag=">Kitty</a> to <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Gos2&tag=">Leica day</a> and shot some Portra with the 50/1.2 Noctilux after my arm got to tired to hold the DMR. Kitty's pretty happy with the results, and doesn't feel insecure...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 One more...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliot_rosen1 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Those pictures look like they have more DOF than I would have expected at a close distance at F/1.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanz Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Bob, great color work, I read your DMR post and was wondering if Jerry at precision camera does CLA's? I need some work on a lens, I am in Houston but get to Austin about once a month or so. It would be great to get it done in state. Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 Eliot, the first one is cropped to 8x10 dimensions from 24x36; the second is cropped more severely (probably only 70% of the original long dimension), so I'm a bit further from the subject than it appears in both cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 Todd, Jerry does CLAs and does a great job; he often has a backlog though so you should ask how long it will take to turn it around. He CLA'd Barney for me, and he also removed the vulcanite and applied the new leathers to Barney & Kermit (I did Kitty myself, as MP leather is a lot easier to remove than M3 vulcanite). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanz Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 PS Eliot, I think the small size and unsharp mask may make DOF look greater than it really is. It helps that there's very little texture on anything in the first picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliot_rosen1 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Thanks Bob. I was thinking that if you were about 2 meters away at F/1.2 the DOF would literally be only a few inches, but we are viewing a cropped imaged at less than 8 x 10 inch size so those numbers would not necessarily be accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 Actually 2 meters or just a little more is about right in both cases (might have been about 3 meters in the second shot), and a few inches' DOF is also accurate; if you look in the first picture you can see that the far side of the subject's collar is already out of focus, and in the second shot there's also a really narrow range of focus. I think the incredible bokeh of the 1.2 Noct is actually deceptive, and it tricks the eye into thinking there's more DOF than there really is, because the transition is very smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 Here's an actual-pixels crop of my scan of the first shot; you'll notice that the subject's hair is out of focus; his suspender is pretty sharp but the collar is very unsharp everywhere - though the rendition is very smooth.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_morris4 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Bob, what did the models think of Kitty? Every once in a while I'll tell my daughter (now 11 years old) that I want to change my M2 into a Hello Kitty camera (but maybe a lavendar one), and she freaks out every time. It's funny. It's also nice to see that Jerry had some models and sets that look more interesting than what I had imagined when I read the ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham_morriss2 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I hope kitty wasn't camping it up too much! but she sure takes some nice photos (and were you inconspicuous? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 The models are all staff at Pioneer farms, which is a really nice venue (though it's outdoors, which in Texas in June is taking a chance). The guy in the first picture is a carpenter and woodworker, and is a really fascinating individual. He showed me lots of interesting stuff about how hand-hewn building members are made, and then pointed out a lot of details in the original 18th-century barn he was working in. The girl in the second picture is a guide and also a camera enthusiast; she was taking pictures with her Nikon. they also have a blacksmith, who has got to be the hottest human on the face of the earth today - he actually said that the good thing about the job is that it feels cool when he goes out in the sun! Everyone likes Kitty (though they like Kermit better, for some reason). Another guy working with the carpenter has an M3 and, upon seeing Kitty, immediately recognized her as "a real camera" asked all of us Leica nuts lots of questions about our cameras. My daughter LOVES Kitty - no freaking out at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 I *was* pretty inconspicuous, but then I'm small and non-threatening generally. I got probably more than 10 pictures in which the subject didn't even notice I was around until after they heard the shutter (yep, sorry about that - you can hear an MP shutter on a quiet afternoon...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feli Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Nice work. Very nice shot of the young girl. Looks like something from an old issue of National Geographic. Just for kicks, have you tried dropping the gamma in those shots by about 10-15%? Maybe it's just my monitor. I've been shooting Tri-X for years and keep forgetting just how lush color film is, especially compared to digital. Color neg has so much more tonality... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 nice stuff Bob! Like the girl shot, the shadowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattalofs Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Nice shots Bob. Great color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 Feli, the gamma difference might be our machines; I'm on a Mac - are you on a PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_graham3 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Bob, where was the Leica Day held, at some kind of dude ranch? Around here all a Leica Day is is the rep sets up a counter in the camera store. Try and walk out the door with anything you didn't pay for and expect a flying body tackle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 We had Leica day in the store (2 days actually - Fri & Sat.) but then there was a separate event Sun. at Pioneer Farms - an outdoor historical museum & working farm outside town. That's where the equipment was loaned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_bongard Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Bob, those shots are nice! How did you scan them? -Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_morris4 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Bob, did you get any pictures of the carpenter working? Also (and I know this isn't really the right place to ask), is Portra 400NC even gentler to the skin than NPH? It seems so in your pictures, but then I may just be used to NPH prints that are oversaturated in the printing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 Scanned on a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual at 1600 dpi, 16 bits. I did get a few shots of the carpenter and his partner working but haven't had time to scan them yet. Portra NC is the best film I've evers used for skin tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feli Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 >Feli, the gamma difference might be our machines; I'm on a Mac - are >you on a PC? I was looking at them on an LCD monitor. They look just right on my calibrated CRT. ;-) feli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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