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Feel free :) It might need to be summarized. Let me help you:

 

If you use:

Canon: your mama is ugly

Leica: your mother is charming and looks very young

MF: your mother left, this is too technical. Use the M8 next time.

Anything else: you use what??? don't tell your mother.

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BTW, I'll wager the picture was made with a 5D.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

 

Depth of field looks extended, shape is not 1:1.5.

 

Doubt it was made with M8, or on even this trip.

 

The IQ is admirable. There may be a twist in this one's tail when all is revealed.

 

Regardless Jack, an image to keep you motivated for a long time. Enjoy.

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I just got back home last night after loading my images onto the computer, here are a few more M8 images. There were UV-IR filters on the lenses for the last three shots. I did not have one for the 35mm Summicron.

 

 

This was taken in jpeg mode with the 35mm Summicron. Look at how the M8 holds the shadows and the highlights.

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This was the 24mm ASPH. This is a very sharp lens on the M8.

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Here I am using the second version Canadian 28mm elmarit-M. this was a $500 lens of Ebay. I was pleased with its performance.

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The same 28mm Elmarit-M Canadian shooting into the sun. These lenses were known to flare, but it doesn't seem too bad. A UV-IR filter was fitted too.

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No, but in my experience, this is mostly easily skipped anyway. It is just so much more peaceful to not even see most of the ignorant posts. I am one of those who find it harder to ignore such posts than I should (hello Guy, I guess we are similar there :)

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It's hard to ignore stupid posts by people with a agenda. i need handcuffs sometimes and stay off forums that make me crazy. Frankly this is the best place for me beause the international flare and people with the same interest. This Canon love fest is ridculous with the 5d. The problem is this is the most that some can afford so with that in mind in must be the best camera or they will defend it as the best one because that is what they can afford to buy and damnit it must be the best one even better than there big brother the 1dsMKII because i saved 3 thousand dollars. Anyway that is another thread on some other forum that i don't want to know about. LOL

 

I have been asked to join other forums and frankly i don't need the aggravation that comes with it. i made my camera choices and not looking back but forward with leica gear, it's what i like the most. Simply easy and less confusing for me. one word 5 letters with a red dot. LOL

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I'm not even going to guess what you bolted the Nikkor too :) But it worked!

 

Thanks for all the compliments on my El Cap image!

 

That Nikkor was bolted to a Linhof Technikardan 4x5 view camera. This shot was taken eight years ago around this same time of year. The lens was probably set to f22 and a few degrees of forward tilt were added to bring foreground and background into sharp focus, then a sheet of Fuji Provia was exposed for several seconds -- probably about 8 -- but I'd have to check notes to be sure. The resulting tranny was printed conventionally and I still have the first 16x20 C print on the wall right behind my monitor today ;)

 

I have since scanned that file on a cheap Epson flatbed at 1600 LPI for an effective 50 MP file or so, printed it out and IMO it looks to my eye even better than the original C print! FWIW, I am still looking for the direct digital capture solution that will give me the kind of quality and image adjustment flexibility that I get from 4x5 film -- I have yet to find it ;)

 

An interesting sidebar note -- as I was cloning out dust on the scan, I found a pair of climbers in yellow bivouacs on the side of El Cap waiting for the sun to hit them before they finished their ascent. Close inspection of the 16x20 print revealed them as well, but I never noticed them until I was able to inspect the scan at actual pixel resolution:

 

el_cap_clip_2.jpg

 

Cheers,

 

Jack

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An interesting sidebar note -- as I was cloning out dust on the scan, I found a pair of climbers in yellow bivouacs on the side of El Cap waiting for the sun to hit them before they finished their ascent. Close inspection of the 16x20 print revealed them as well, but I never noticed them until I was able to inspect the scan at actual pixel resolution:

 

el_cap_clip_2.jpg

 

 

Wow Jack!

 

After all the 100% crops evaluations you found a new discipline.. climberpeeping! :p

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Thanks for all the compliments on my El Cap image!

 

That Nikkor was bolted to a Linhof Technikardan 4x5 view camera. This shot was taken eight years ago around this same time of year. The lens was probably set to f22 and a few degrees of forward tilt were added to bring foreground and background into sharp focus, then a sheet of Fuji Provia was exposed for several seconds -- probably about 8 -- but I'd have to check notes to be sure. The resulting tranny was printed conventionally and I still have the first 16x20 C print on the wall right behind my monitor today ;)

 

I have since scanned that file on a cheap Epson flatbed at 1600 LPI for an effective 50 MP file or so, printed it out and IMO it looks to my eye even better than the original C print! FWIW, I am still looking for the direct digital capture solution that will give me the kind of quality and image adjustment flexibility that I get from 4x5 film -- I have yet to find it ;)

 

An interesting sidebar note -- as I was cloning out dust on the scan, I found a pair of climbers in yellow bivouacs on the side of El Cap waiting for the sun to hit them before they finished their ascent. Close inspection of the 16x20 print revealed them as well, but I never noticed them until I was able to inspect the scan at actual pixel resolution:

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Jack

 

Jack:

 

Here is the same area, 100% crop out of a 21-35mm image.

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Yours:

el_cap_clip_2.jpg

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Jack:

 

Here is the same area, 100% crop out of a 21-35mm image.

 

Interesting comparison Robert! It shows how good the DMR sensor is, but also how much the small sensors are hindered in capturing minute, subtle detail. What I want is a 3x3 array of those sensors for around 100 MP of LF capture area!

 

Jack

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Guy

 

I think some of the questions about the 5D that seem to drive you crazy stem from the fact that Jack was shooting a 5D while the rest of you were using M8's. It seems natural to ask about a comparison of the files. After all, there are a lot more 5D owners out there and it would be a handy point of reference.

 

Regards - Seth

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