Uhooru Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Welcome to the Friday Pic O the week thread. Here's another opportunity to show you favorite pic for this week to the planet, so don't be shy. I'll start with a photo from the Orange County (CA) Fair. Let's see yours! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_levy3 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Summicron 35mm, M10. 1956 VW Beetle, immaculate in and out! License plate obscured for privacy reasons. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Across the Napa River just before dawn, with the M262 and 35mm f1.4 Summilux FLE. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur_mcculloch2 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Is that yours michael_levy|3? It does look immaculate! Has it been upgraded to 12v. Brings back memories of my younger days and travelling to Green Patch beach in a 1963 VW with a trailer that had a fridge, tent, all the accoutrements of civilised camping. The easiest way to change the spark plugs was to undo the motor bolts, pull it off the drive shaft, and jack the body up, allowing the motor to be pulled out - took about 15 minutes. Uhooru, that's a great shot. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Leica D-Lux 109 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_levy3 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Is that yours michael_levy|3? No such luck, Arthur. We were on a walk, and the owner was showing it off (very proudly) to some friends of his. The inside looks as good as the outside! I don't know if he has done any engine or electrical upgrades, but he does use it to get around! The minimal set of dials and knobs inside was just great: I am so turned off with the instrument collection and computer panels in most new cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 As with last week, I'll start with another FrankenLeica. This one was one of the most expensive to build and the cleanest of any I've done over the years - and if I could have just one back for what I sold it for it would be this one. ... 3 “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 I haven't been shooting much the last few weeks, so here's a re-post from several years back. ... California state capital building. Leica R6, 180mm Elmar-R f/4.0 - K-64, B&W conversion via Nik. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur_mcculloch2 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 That's a good shot, billblackwellphotography. Likewise, the 'lurgy' (aka flu) has kept me in bed, now for more days than I need. But some shots with my M6, FP4 (I'm about to mix up BillBowes confection, based around catechol and I have yet to 'field test' my newly acquired debt, an M type 240 (all second hand, of course). So the photos (they have lots of dust, I've now adopted, on advice from this site, developing in my en suite, after a good steaming). As you can guess, more pub/club shots shots. I was particularly intrigued by the sponsorship by a funeral 'family' business to the bowling club, since most of the members are only a hairs breath away from their maker. Ah, capitalism, isn't it magic. Arthur (apiarist1) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viktor_gruber Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Olympus 35sp. Stormy day. Leica M4-P. Mexico, Hotel. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur_mcculloch2 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 victor_gruber, the second shot is great. Really liked it - great composition - you could read into it many stories. Never been to mexico. Were you holidaying there. Great shot. The b&w is good, I like it, and the horizon is askew, and the sense of impending (or passing) storm is evocative. Tell me about it, particularly what looks like a bird flying (though it would have to have been a large one). Thanks for the photos - they are good. Arthur (apiarist1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Leica 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Cool photo, Barry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viktor_gruber Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 victor_gruber, the second shot is great. Really liked it - great composition - you could read into it many stories. Never been to mexico. Were you holidaying there. Great shot. The b&w is good, I like it, and the horizon is askew, and the sense of impending (or passing) storm is evocative. Tell me about it, particularly what looks like a bird flying (though it would have to have been a large one). Thanks for the photos - they are good. Arthur (apiarist1) Arthur, thank you for your comments. In Mexico we are staying (already three times) in Riu Jalisco Resort(Hotel) all inclusive. We like this hotel. It is combination of colonial and modern styles. I made some nice pictures during our vacation in 2017 at this place. About b&w picture. I was lucky to be at the right time and at the right place. That was the only time when I could see the darkness was moving from the city to the ocean. Usually the storm is coming from the ocean. That view was fantastic. I also took some color panoramic shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bowes Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Swapping out the back of the "new" green Fed-2 seems to have solved my light leaks. Here are two from the local Friday Farmers Market. Fed-2 / N-61, Kentmere100, OA & V800 scans. Aloha from the Mainland, Bill 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bowes Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Warm weather here in Puget Sound is providing an excellent harvest. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stric Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 MP, 35 mm 'cron (4), Acros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Another re-post ... Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA - Leica MP, 28mm Asph. Summicron 1 “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhooru Posted August 12, 2018 Author Share Posted August 12, 2018 Cool photo, Barry. Thanks Allen, likewise.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 (edited) Bill, that customized M2 is/was just awesome. Heck, you even had the 35mm f2 ASPH customized to look like a lens from the 60's. To bad the production model doesn't look like that, wow. That is just gorgeous. Instead of re-introducing old models like the 28mm f5.6 and 90mm f2.2, Leica should be offering current models dressed up like this, kind-of like they did with the 50mm f1.4 in a limited version. From yesterday, with the MP240 and 21mm f3.4 Super Elmar.. Edited August 13, 2018 by Greg M 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Thanks, Greg. Actually, the 35mm Summicron pictured is a LHSA (1968-2003) special edition offered at the same time as the MP Hammertone model. They were offered separately or packaged as a kit along with a matching Leicavit M. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 LHSA MP Hammertone kit. The lens came with a matching 12504 shade painted with the same hammertone finish, but I actually preferred the standard black chrome 12504 shade (as pictured below). But it would also take the standard square shade, as pictured with the M2-6 FrankenLeica - which also had a Leicavit. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur_mcculloch2 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Stric? 'Photo no longer available'? I'll parody a right wing ratbag politician from Oz (some of you may know her, or of heard of her, Pauline Hanson): 'please explain'. victor_gruber, now that's a taunt, 'some color panoramic shots'. Eh? Post them. Would look forward to them. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1). As an aside, Bill Bowes, your shots have been so immaculate (it's the only word I can use - meets I'll my tests for good b&w: clean white, deep black, and a range between). If this is down to your developer, well, I'm looking forward to using it. Mixing up this weekend, and have some FP4 to test it with. But Allen Herbert, that's so well done. If I were pernickity, the grain is an immediate distraction, on the one hand, but the theme just takes that over, and the grain just adds to the subject. If you can search this out, look up Martin Heidegger's writings (and yes, I know his history, and his liaison with Hannah Arendt - I know the complexity, ambiguity, and disdain), and his essay on the temple. Your shot evokes some of that. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stric Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hmmm... something didn't work the first time I posted it. Here it comes again (MP, 35 mm 'cron, Acros) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bowes Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Thanks Arthur. Since 1967 most of my b/w (and color) work has been with the Zone System in my brain. . . not a complete versions of Adam's creation, but a modified, by me, version. The advent of PMK-Pyro by Hutchins, and several other fine pyro mixes, greatly advanced using the Zone System even for 35mm or MF. Use your "normal" approach to exposure for the starting point with the OA. Tune as you go. Aloha from the Mainland, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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