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Summicron 35mm, M10. 1956 VW Beetle, immaculate in and out! License plate obscured for privacy reasons.

Bring down Clarity, Increase Haze, Reduce Vibrance and Saturation. Adjust contrast especially of the sky.Add vignetting. Result looks like an old plate camera picture.

Do you mind explaining this one - how did you add 75mm framelines?

35mm Summicron. Cropped quite a bit.

Thanks Arthur. The shot was part of a Physics Photo Walk at TRIUMF in Vancouver. 20 photographers took part here, as part of a global event: Global Physics Photowalk 2018 We each get to submit five photographs to the competition. The top selection gets submitted to the international competition. I don't think there is a prize. Interesting side note: I was going to take a photograph close to one of the accelerators, but my M10 refused! I got the message "Bottom cover open". Turned out I was standing in a strong magnetic field - as soon as I moved away from the field, the message went away.

First one, 35mm Summicron, second one 50mm Summilux

I have a 35mm and 50mm and an M10. I mostly use the 35mm Summicron. It is more compact and lighter than my 50mm, and very versatile. I bought the black M10, because I do not want the camera to be too obvious when I am on the street. But sometimes I wish I had chosen silver for the more classic look.

Montreal

If you live near an Apple store, you can schedule a visit with one of their "genius" people. They are pretty helpful in such matters. It is a free service/

Rural Vermont. 35mm Summicron, M10.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I have made my first small book, and I am happy with the results. I used Red River Premium Matte double-sided 32lb 11 by 17" paper. I composed using Quark Express - it has good printer control. I used a bone-folder to fold the pages, and a long-arm stapler to staple. After printing a side, I hung the pages over-night to dry. No discernible bleed-through. It is hard to show the result, but here is a picture I took with my iPhone. I plan to get more ambitious with respect to number of pages and binding.

Thanks - appreciate the feedback...

On a quiet intersection, in the middle of a residential area of Vancouver (detached, single family houses), is a small coffee shop. M10, Summicron 35mm.

In case you missed it, several Leica firmware updates have been released (Downloads // Support // Service & Support - Leica Camera AG). There is one new feature for the M10 that I like: -- An estimation of the selected aperture is now shown in the EXIF data The notes claim that this is done by comparing the external brightness with the brightness measured through the lens. This one I find interesting: "– Auto-ISO adjustment Auto-ISO now defaults to ISO 200 for the base ISO, to maximize dynamic range performance." I tend to use ISO 100 a lot - perhaps that is a mistake!

21mm Super Elmar, Vancouver, BC, Laneway off Main Street near 4th Avenue.

Yesterday, while I was walking around taking pictures, I stopped for coffee. I was using my 75mm Summilux and a Visoflex. While I was sitting there, I saw opposite me what I thought was a good photo opportunity. I set a not-completely shallow depth of field, carefully framed the shot, looking all the way around the edges, focused, and took a couple of shots. One is below. 1/90 second. But, dam! the result is nowhere sharp! I think the culprit is camera shake - the 75mm lens is less forgiving than my most-used 35mm. I think my pictures are improving as I slowly internalize everything I am trying to learn, both technical and artistic. Now I have to add a new though: remember to hold my camera correctly! Does anyone have some practical suggestions on turning all these requirements into automatic behaviour?

Just off Victoria Drive, in Vancouver (East Side) are a number of lovely Victorian style houses, many with amazing gardens. This doorway caught my eye. Summicron 35mm, M10.

To be honest, I don't think I have worked enough with it to answer this. It is great for street-architecture, because I can avoid parked cars. Seems to be edge-edge sharp, and it is surprisingly good close-up. One "problem" with it is that its field of view is wider than the viewfinder, so I use it with a Visoflex EVF. The Visoflex is good, no noticeable lag, useful display, good focussing aids etc. but I still prefer looking at a scene naturally rather than on a screen. BTW, I could of course use Live View, but I never take pictures that way, unless I am using a tripod.

M10, 35mm Summicron. Bustop, Vancouver.

Moon over Burrowing Owl vineyards, Okanagan, BC, Canada. M10 with Super-Elmar 21mm lens.

M10, 35mm Summicron. My apologies: I posted an image in #22 instead of #23. Anyway, here is another one from the same neighbourhood in Vancouver. The Cafe was hosting a fundraiser.

Leica M10, 35mm Summicron. Part of my Vancouver transformation series. The middle building housed a popular neighbourhood Italian restaurant. Buildings like are being torn down and being redeveloped as part of the City of Vancouver's "Cambie Corridor" plan. The new building will still be low-rise, but will be (I think) 3 stories high - commercial on the ground level, condominiums above. The problem is that businesses like the restaurant operate on margins that are just not big enough to pay the rent and taxes that the new owner will be able to get. So, instead of a place where locals can hang out, we will get a dentist or an accountant or a lawyer. Useful, but it will deplete the lively village feel that this part of Cambie Street now enjoys. I wanted to capture some of this in the picture: people, lovers, bicycles, cars. Your comments, as always, would be appreciated.

M10, 35mm Summicron. A Unicorn at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival.

Actually, I am now thinking that the box of paper is defective: it is cut short. However, I still should be able to print borderless.

I just received my Canon Pro-1000 printer. I bought some Ilford Galerie paper to try some black and white printing, and I ran into a problem. The box says 8.5 x 11" (216 x 279mm), which I assume is the same as US Letter Size. So I set that as my size, loaded the paper and tried to print (from Lightroom). However, the printer refused to print: it claimed that the width of the paper was wrong. And indeed, it is: it actually measures 8.25". So I created a new custom size, and used that. The printer lets that go through, but adds a border, even though there is no border in Lightroom. I would like to print borderless at 8.25 by 11. Is there some way to do this? My setup: Mac running OS X (latest); Lightroom version 7.3.1 and Canon pixmaPro 1000. Any help would be much appreciated.