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Eddie,

I love the first two shots. Timeless ... great stuff..

Keep the cron, dump the lux. I've had the same dilemma and dumped the cron in favor of the

lux and regretted it ever since. My thinking was with the lux I'd have the quality of the cron

with the luxury of an extra stop when I needed it for the light or the seperation.

Fact is that the cron has such a beautiful signature that the lux cannot match. I'm looking to

trade mine back for a cron.

Marc,

Whoaw.... what a fantastic shot.... simply wonderful..

Who gives a .... what that guy thinks. Opinions on camera's are about as personal as they can

get. They only people who's opinion matters to me have a similar working and photography

style as me. He shoots like crap, nothing I would aspire to, so who cares.

Vuk,

It really depends on the light your going to be shooting in. I'm a 100% Tri-x man myself

and from your pan F shots the ones that I prefer have really shallow DOF. Given the

circumstances that might not have been feaseble on the Tri-X. On screen the difference

between Pan F and Tri-x is really hard to see. Tri-X pulled to 200 or 100 is sufficiently low

grain for me.

Given this subject matter though I might prefer the Pan F if the light allows.

Just tune down the output a but with a -1 compenstation and balance the flash with the

available light. That will avoid any of the nasty flash charateristics you get and works in all

situations unlike bounce flash. The SF20 and other small flashes are provide really good

results if you know how to use them that beat bounce flash. Even when you bounce there

really is no substitute for balancing your flash (as much as possible). That way you at least

have a small flash that fits into any shirt pocket. A really nice feature to have if you don't

use flash that much.

I have a very simple one that may be of no use to you depending on what you shoot. For

me the 35mm is the 50mm+more of the enviroment. Here are two shots. First is on the

35mm at about the same distance as the second shot. If I want to focus on what they are

doing I shoot the 50mm, if I wanna shoot where they are it's the 35mm. The difference is

pretty close though.

35mm summicron (4th version)

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and here is the 50mm (summilux)

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Thanks guys, I was soooo drunk when I posted that. I had to type with one eye closed...

just had to post that before falling into bed to tell the wife how much I loved her. You can

understand how welcome that was :-)

Gup,

This particular shot is was with the Leica. I shoot both Hasselblad and Leica.

When it works, it works right?!? In this case it does. There is no recipe for a good

photograph. Nice shot

whhoa, I am totally surprised I managed to post that.... Totally drunk, sorry, will go to bed

now. Had a fantastic dinner tonight, might post some shots on that later.....

I browse this forum every single day, probably for most of the last couple of years and I

just love it. Sometimes I get a bit sick of all the BS questions surounding issues about the

VF in the M7 vs the MP camera and about the bokeh in X lens vs Y lens but still I come

back evey single day. No other site or forum has managed to to capture my attention as

this one has. Mostly I guess it's because of the common interest we have in photography

binds us in a unique way. Therefore I share with you a completely trivial shot just because i

l know there are likeminded souls out there...

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Craig,

Yours is FANTASTIC!

Ollie,

Funny that you should say that. I tried various crops too cause I was disappointed with the

half face of the boy, but none of the crops worked. After a while though the image as a

whole started growing on me, don't know why, but it has a sort of 'Arbus' feel for me at

least.

Sometimes a shot can grow on you, this one did on me. Initially dismissed it now makes a

nice 8 x 10 in the office

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Leica M2 / Summicron 50mm / Tri-X

The Summilux is the pre-asph version (black paint)

Thanks

Bas

M7 / Summilux 50mm / Tri-X

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and an other one

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Key is to look at size ratio between foreground and background items. With wide angle

lensses the further away items should be displayed disproportionately smaller. With tele-

lensses you get the reverse. This off course doesn't make it any easier. 35 and 50 are so

close that it is very hard to tell the difference even on close focus distances. With items

further away it becomes almost impossible.

In this case I would guess that both are shot with a normal to slight tele perspective. In the

first there is almost no size difference between the kid in the foreground and the kid in the

background eventhough there is quite some distance between them.

The Leica flash is soooo small it tucks away nicely in a shirt pocket. Considering that I use

flash only in absolutely must situations that is a nice feature. Would be nice to have a

bounce version, but it does the job well as it is, although a bit hot. Standard with me is a

-1 compensation.

Never had a problem in two years. With the M6ttl you are constantly searching for batteries

since there is no off switch. Drains in the bag, (at least with me)

Andy,

I'd recommend the Epson 4870 or whatever the lastest version of that scanner is. It works

fine and produces real good quality if you want it. Definately good enough to print decent

size of 6x6 negs and most certainly good enough for webwork.

Have a look here if you want. All scanned on the Epson.

http://users.skynet.be/am031079/iphoto/test%20iphoto.html

I use flash rarely and when I do I use a D40 TTL flash, preferably bare bulb. How good is

the TTL flash? Well How Long is a chinese? The TTL works accurately and setting the flash

exposure through the ISO dial is easy and quick. Fill flash outdoors is good and easy,

especially since you can go to 1/500 if needed. The Metz gun is a good flash so no worries

there either, but I do think you'll need the SCA module to use it with the 503CW.

For studio flash a TTL set-up is not required. You'll be wanting to do manual there for the

control. TTL in a studio is useless. Now that I know more about photography in general I'd

have to say that a good auto flash is just as good and simple to operate as a TTL flash,

especially on a Hasselblad. On the Hasselblad your not constantly going to change your

exposures like you might if you'd use a 35mm in a more reportage style. My style is pretty

arranged and so TTL gives me little to no benefits.

You gotta explain this to me. you get a change to shoot these cheerleaders and you decide

to make a composition in Portrait mode filled with 80% blue sky? Any sane male would go

landscape and fill the frame. What where you thinking?

Some of the later 500c allow the user to change the screen as well. You can see two small

sliding thingies on the sides that you can move out of the way to pop out the screen. The

old standard screens are very dim. I have an new accute matte in mine. Makes a big

difference. Screens can be pricey though.

Rich,

Love the colours in that shot. Simple but lovely. What film if I may ask?

Bas