don_essedi

Liked, especially the first one

The very last thing I'd want to do would be to provide "explanatory information" to make my " pictures meaningful and interesting" to the viewers of No Words They're on their own. A recent pic of mine in No Words in the thread Dog Walkers, if I did want to provide provenance and explanation, I'd do that in Street and Documentary. After posting the pic I thought about the taking of it. I think the explanation for its existence would require about 800 words.

I haven't found much info on this lens beyond basics, nor reviews, but it is different from the original. *** ***

QL17 Gold100

Once you have resolved (per AlanKlein) the legal ownership, I'd partner with someone in the business of scanning.

J8 is a favorite of mine. Nice to see it working well on other mirrorless cameras. x-E1 J8

Isolette III Reala

Canon A35F Solaris 100

GIII & Reala

I guess I need to learn to edit posts with images :cool: Ok, done.

The Jupiter 8 is one of my favorite lenses for 35mm film. I was pleased with its performance on my X-E1 -- the first digital camera I've bought since maybe 2006. Steve Gallimore had written: "Two of my favourite manual lenses on my X-E1 are the Konica 40mm f1.8 Hexanon (pancake, so 'normal size' with the adaptor) and the 'modern' 7artisans 35mm f1.2, which is a native Fuji X-mount lens with a vintage optical formula (CZ Sonnar)." I have the Mark II of the 7Aritsans, but haven't had much chance of using it since it arrived due to a week+ of thunderstorms, The weather is finally clearing, so should have some examples soon. The Jupiter 8 is a Sonnar design.

If photographers requests critique, by your terms, it would mean they did not know "whether they got it right or not" and want opinions about it. If you think your photo is "perfect" why would you request a critique -- besides enjoying others chatting about your work?

I use several slideshow screensavers on a hw calibrated display, one each for landscape, street, portraits etc for the shots I consider my best. New ones are added and the casual and continual viewing of them in the context of what I consider "personal best" sometimes reveals flaws and process errors I hadn't noticed (and sometimes the new ones put to shame the ones I had thought were really good). In a way, it is the last stage of my post workflow.

Thanks Steve To recap, having moved from a very familiar inner city to an unknown outer rural area (my backyard is 4 acres of hickory and oak forest, rather than a 20 ft wide plot of grass and hedge), I needed to do a lot of photography to get to know what would work for me and that got unnecessarily expensive (and slow) on film. I am considering using a digital camera for color, reserving b&w (which I prefer) for film. The color rendering of the x-trans sensor for jpegs is excellent -- or, at least to my taste (which is the opposite of Ken Rockwell's), and the white balance is perfect or nearly so. I set up the camera with the Astia sim, color and shadow set to 0, and sharpness, highlight tone, and noise reduction set to -2. Prep for web display amounts to adding an s-curve (or a gamma adjustment) and resampling with bicubic sharper. For my old film lenses I bought KF Concepts' adapters for M42, M39, and Minolta MD. The depth of the MD and M42 adapters as well as the weight and size of the lenses (esp M42) led to most often choosing the smaller and lighter lenses. Besides the Takumar 35 and the 55, I found the Minolta 24mm f2.8 and 45mm f2 to be good choices, but the shallow M39 adapter and the size and weight of those lenses is where I found the most joy, especially the Summar and Jupiter 8 (which has got me interested in Sonnars). I added a soft shutter release (I prefer I higher shutter button) and just read that there is a thumb rest for the camera. I think that will be useful to me. Regards, Don

Hi, Steve, I was surprised my only interchangeable lens 35 is the Super Takumar f3.5. Here are a few shots:

1935 Leica III Model F, Summar, Kodachrome

One of the better deals would be a Canon QL17 GIII with a non-functioning meter (for the price drop). The GIII is a fully functional manual camera w/o the meter and battery. If you like it and have it cla'd, the meter might be repairable, it which case have it adapted to 1.5 voltage. I bought one a long time ago, bgn from KEH, and never did have the meter repaired. It is still a fave of mine. Very nice lens, too.

North Coast Photo, Carlsbad CA