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    Right Now best body value for Leica M digital

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    <p><em>I understand from other online discussions that this can be a serious problem when using adapters on m43 or NEX bodies. The adapters are always made slightly "on the thin side" to make sure that infinity focus can always be obtained. This again means that the lenses are able to focus slightly past infinity, but also that - especially for wide angles - the focusing scale is not at all precise anymore. Please note: I am NOT talking about the DOF markings, just the distance scale itself.</em><br /><br /><em>Could you - or anyone else with first-hand experience - comment on this, please ??</em></p>

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    <p>Soeren, no, I haven't seen this as a problem with the GXR M-Module.</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Manila</p>

    Guess the lens??

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    <p>While Mark, the original poster, asks for the photograph not to be criticized, but only wants readers to guess the lens used, I have to agree with Ray and emphatically disagree with Richard. Mark then went on to ask whether the bokeh is good or bad, but bokeh depends also on contrast and gradation and the Mark states that he has done "exposure edits." Okay, it's a game, but posting a picture taken in flat light with muddy tones doesn't do much for enabling anyone to guess the lens that was used, as evidenced by the range of the guesses. In other words, this game turns out to be not too interesting.</p>

    <p>Ray is right: this is a photographic forum and to try to stifle discussion of the photographic aspects of the photograph, as Richard is trying to do, pushes this in an uninteresting direction — might as well be reading on the the dpreview forums. But then I don't think it's a good idea to post a picture here and ask it not to be criticized. Difference in philosophy, I guess.</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Bangkok<br>

    <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/5819837818/in/set-72157626881575542/lightbox/"><strong>Beijing – Layers<strong> </strong></strong><strong><strong> </strong></strong></a><strong><strong> </strong></strong><br>

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    Significant M9 Problem.

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    <p>Josiah, when I received my M9 in mid-October last year it had a crack in the sensor cover-glass, and Leica dealt with it within five business days — three weeks elapsed time including shipment and customs clearance in Germany and Thailand, where I was). Two weeks after that, the camera started to have an intermittent problem that resulted, each time it occurred, in some 4-8 DNG files that had a lighter-colored rectangle within the frame — I suspect that your problem is of a similar kind. When I spoke to Solms for the first time about this they called it a "processor fault" and told me that they would replace the camera.</p>

    <p>After sending them the camera and not hearing from them for some weeks, I called and they said that they couldn't replicate the problem and told me that the technicians thought that it was "a Lightroom problem". I told them I was using Aperture, not Lightroom, and insisted that in any case the problem could not have been caused by the RAW developer because, then, it would have not been intermittent and also would not have been visible on the LCD of the camera when reviewing the shots. Eventually, they were able to replicate the problem and told me that they would replace the insides of the camera rather than sending me a new one because there were some (minor) scratches on the top and bottom plates. I wasn't happy about that because I thought that the problem was probably caused by something done when Leica Service had replaced the sensor and wanted a new camera.</p>

    <p>It took three months before I got the camera back, and by that time I had lost confidence in Leica Service and sold it when someone offered me $200 less than I had paid for it, although he knew about the problems. I feel that Leica Service should have honored their original undertaking to replace the camera right off — I had sent them a few of the problem files — rather than having to replicate the problem and use my original top and bottom plates and making me wait three months in the process.</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Paris<br>

    <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/5117748797/in/set-72157625048893585/lightbox/">Paris au rythme de Basquiat</a></p>

    LCDs for framing images

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

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    <p><em>...how on earth can you compose your images outside? I use a 10D and a 30D...</em></p>

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    <p>Tim:</p>

    <p>I never used a 10D or a 30D but the LCD on my Ricoh GRD3 and GXR/A12 is 920,000 pixels, which has high enough resolutions to be useable even in daylight and, even in bright sun — I live in Bangkok — is visible enough to frame shots. Actually, for street photography, I prefer an LCD with Live View to a viewfinder for framing: I use the LCD for establishing roughly the edges of the frame and then look directly at the subject when pressing the shutter — this leads to a looser, more fluid style that I like.</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Paris</p>

    W/NW: Natural Beauty

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    <p>From <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/sets/72157624633044066/show/">Shophouse Demolition</a> series of 12 photographs. Of Chinese origin, shophouses of this type — called in Thai, literally, "row-houses" — are generally used by the owners who live upstairs with their family and have their shop on the ground floor.<br /> <br />These houses pictured here are being demolished to make way for higher value real estate development, a high-rise office building or apartment block, or a shopping center. Eventually Bangkok is likely go the way of Hong Kong and Singapore; and these types of structures will be replaced by high rises, and street vendors, such as those in the last frame of this series, will eventually be gone. At that point, walking in the city would become as uninteresting as in Singapore or Brasilia, where the modern huge blocks of high rise buildings are so far from each other that that walking makes no sense — unlike Paris, for example.<br /> <br />The prominent graffiti, seen in a few of the frames, which starts with "I'm black" is not a racial reference, but political. This is a statement against the "red shirt" democracy movement that was put down by the government in May 2010: "black" refers to the "black shirts", black-clad shadowy groups that included snipers and different elements of which may have been on both the army and demonstrator sides; "mob" and "red" refer to the red shirt demonstrators.<br /> <br />Ultimately, these pictures make me think about the nature of beauty, in that something that does not contain something unruly, something tragic, or something dangerous, remains merely pretty.</p>

    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GXR/A12 | 50mm EFOV | ISO 200 | f/8.0 | 1/200 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4845509665&size=large">Click Here to View Large on Black</a><br /> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4845509665_ece8d151b3_b.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="573" /></p>

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    Opinions re: used Ricoh GR D and GR D II?

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    <p>Lex:</p>

    <p>Considering only RAW files, which is all I use, I feel strongly that each iteration of the GRDx cameras hasrepresented improvements, with the current GRD3 being the best. When I first got the GRD2, I missed the look of the GRD files for B&W, especially the coarser "grain" but, once I started using Silver Efex, I preferred the GRD2 by far. Now, I have both the GRD2 and GRD3, but only use the latter, which I prefer, although the GRD2 is still a good camera. I'm sending you a personal message on the latter.</p>

    <p>Here are a some of pictures with the GRD2 and GRD3:</p>

    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GRD2 | 40mm EFOV tele-converter | ISO 400 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2289152354&size=large">Click to View Large on Black</a><br>

    <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2273/2289152354_050d76d39f_o.jpg" alt="" width="863" height="862" /></p>

    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GRD3 | 21mm EFOV wide-converter | ISO 400 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4100136823&size=large">Click to View Large on Black</a><br>

    <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2561/4100136823_8c3b8e6753_o.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="574" /></p>

    <p>Paris | Ricoh GRD3 | 28mm EFOV | ISO 400 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4507264633&size=large">Click to View Large on Black</a><br>

    <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4507264633_092b77d95f_b.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="574" /></p>

     

     

     

    W/NW: Portraits

    in Leica and Rangefinders

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    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GRD2 | 40mm EFOV Converter | ISO 800 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2995960438&size=large">View Large on Black</a><br /> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3044/2995960438_458e9d44c8_o.jpg" alt="" width="575" height="863" /></p>

    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GXR/A12 | 50mm EFOV | ISO 400 | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4232641013&size=large">View Large on Black</a><br /> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2768/4232641013_fefcbe7c63_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

    W/NW Picture of the Week #5

    in Leica and Rangefinders

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    <p>Today, I looked in again on this thread and can only say that I now see, in the light of the self-righteous posts made subsequently, how appropriate it was to write that no response was necessary. Firstly, as Barry stated, no mature adult would feel insulted by a statement suggesting that only one picture a week be posted in a picture of the week thread. Secondly, only people looking for an argument would consider officious a suggestion made by a thread initiator rather than a moderator: now, that is truly legalistic and, yes, officious — as well as taking oneself too seriously. Generally, though, I never cease to be amazed by how people writing on an internet forum don't hesitate to write in an offensive manner at the slightest imagined slight, as they would never do speaking to someone face to face.</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Bangkok</p>

    W/NW Picture of the Week #5

    in Leica and Rangefinders

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    <p>Knut:</p>

    <p>There's more to this than the idea of narrow regulation which you refer to as insisting on "juridical terms": there is also — or at least there should be — the sense of community in which, through respect for others, it is abundantly clear that one does not post multiple pictures in a thread called "Picture of the Week", in which others have disciplined themselves to chose the <strong>one</strong> picture that they will post in the thread for that week — indeed, it is this selection of one picture that makes the concept of a picture of the week thread interesting. To post two, or a whole batch of, pictures is simply to exhibit obtuseness or a lack of respect for others, as it undermines the concept and the implicit cooperation of this type of thread. To respond as Charlie Lemay has is simply rude.</p>

    <p>Incidentally, on the Nikon Forum, where the Picture of the Week thread is called "Nikon Wednesday Pic", there are currently 150 posts in this week's thread, and none one has posted more than one picture, which goes to show that the picture of the week concept is not difficult to understand and that, perhaps, there's more sense of community and respect for others on that forum.</p>

    <p>Actually, as I won't be able to post this Sunday, I was going ask someone else to be the first one to post this week; but, having thought about the general issues raised by your post, I'll go further and stop posting to this thread altogether in the future, not only because of the issue of multiple posts, which are becoming more frequent, and the attitude this reveals, but because the total number of posts , about 25 per week on the average, has become so low that it makes posting here much less interesting. (There's no need to reply to this post).</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Bangkok</p>

    W/NW Picture of the Week #5

    in Leica and Rangefinders

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    <p>Yee Kim/Charlie LeMay/John Simoes:</p>

    <p>While some people will say that having anyone post pictures to a thread is a good thing, please note that the value of a Picture of the Weeek thread is that it forces the photographer to chose the picture that he or she liked the best that week and that, if you want to post multiple pictures, you can always start a W/NW thread. Therefore, it would be best in the future to select only one picture to post in the Picture of the Week thread.</p>

    <p>—Mitch/Bangkok</p>

    Rangefinder vs. Live View

    in Leica and Rangefinders

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    <p>People seem to like what they are used to, but when I started shooting with the Ricoh GRD over three years ago, after using a Leica M6 for many years, I found that, for street photography, framing with the LCD was better in terms of encouraging a "looser" and more fluid shooting style. My approach is to use the LCD for roughly establishing the edges of the frame and then looking directly at the subject when pressing the shutter — it's actually much more direct than looking through a viewfinder.</p>

    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GRD2 | 21mm-e converter | ISO 400 | f/2.8 | 1/73 sec | <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3036750688&size=large">Click here to View on Black</a><br>

    <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/3036750688_e1bcd69445_o.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="648" /></p>

    <p>Bangkok | Ricoh GRD2 | ISO 200 | f/2.8 | 1/660 sec | <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3026623393&size=large">Click here to View on Black</a><br>

    <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3026623393_136a379b05_o.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" /></p>

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