Critique - Leica or non-Leica Image?????

[schopke]

This Ford was parked outside the train depot in Virginia City. I was intrigued by the look of the building and the Ford. I tend to like abstractions of a scene. Taking just a piece of the station and a section of the Ford I felt the image told more of the story...leaving the details of the story behind the story to the viewer.

 

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I shoot with a Leica, with a Hasselblad, and with a large format KBCanham. Can anybody tell if this was indeed taken with my Leica and how can you tell? Please tell me what you think about the photo also.

 

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<img src="http://www.leica-gallery.net/photo-lib/image/large/ford-25144.jpg">

 

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Thanks all!

[bert_keuken]

My guess is it wasn't a Leica. Pentagonal out of focus highlights means a 5 bladed aperture, not common for a Leica.

[mark_sand]

Is that the reflection of your bellows in the extreme right (the cars left) chrome radiator housing?

 

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What lens did you use?

[doug herr]

Spotting a "Leica" or other brand image on the web relies on clues

like knowing what lenses have a pentagonal iris. The resolution and

bit depth of web images is a big limiting factor. If the target

display is the web, a Leica is gross overkill 99% of the time.<P>

FWIW the 21mm f/4.0 Super-Angulon-R has a 4-blade diaphragm.

[derek_zeanah7]

FWIW, I've seen out-of-focus highlights like that from the 80mm Planar

on my Hasselblad. That's my guess (at least the same design).

 

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Am I right?

[iván]

Hi, Rob:

 

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No easy task. I guess if it had been a MF camera the degree of detail

had been somewhat higher but then Douglas is certainly right: hard to

say based on a screen image . . .

 

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But <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?

photo_id=618886&size=lg">this one</a> IS a Leica photo. In fact one

of the first ones I made with my first M3.

 

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Regards, Rob. Good photo, of course, no matter what it was shot with.

 

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-Iván

[wilhelmn]

Holga with a +1 taped to it?

[marco_hidalgo]

Rob:

I think it was done with the Hassy, the pentagonal shape of the

out of focus is like the one Zeiss lenses do. No Leica lens have

such a diaphragm, neither do most large format lenses.

I agree with Bert.

[igor_osatuke]

judging by the out of focus diaphragm I also think this a Zeiss lens,

probably an 80.

[ken4]

it's a trick question!!! he used a holga.

 

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just kidding, rob. is that your car? it's nice!

[dlegaspi]

this is definitely not a leica. out-of-focus shapes are pentagons...

[schopke]

Get job! I am impressed. The image was indeed taken with my

Hassleblad and indeed it was taken with my 80mm Plannar. Good job...I

hope you all liked the image!