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M7 Summilux 35 Asph

 

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Marc superb :) a great shot !

Not easy because of light condition and speed

Beautiful grain

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Henry

 

Thank you very much Henry for your encouraging comment! I also was very happy about this lucky shot. For this kind of pushing I really like the effects of the HCD 80/50 combination.

 

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Versailles castle

 

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Ilford D100

MP 50 Summicron

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Snow!

28mm summaron, portra 400 w/ SF-24D flash

 

Adam, this is what I call a perfect street photo!!!

 

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Otto difference is visible if you have the habit to take 2 same pictures (one in digital and one in film) in parallel as the example you have in the n°2411 post of this thread.

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/other/286747-i-like-film-open-thread-131.html

 

The “gradation” of “black and gray” is not the same for both, as the digital “smooth” with its software the edges, lines and spaces.

 

Edges and lines in film are not smooth because we have grains (and no software) , these grains are impressed by the amount of light coming to impress the film, we will have a grade and scale more accentuated in film than in digital (“density” of silver grains or “number” of silver grains less or more impressed by the light) and so no possible smoothing for film.

 

We have a "grading" scale, more progressive and “not flat” like in digital

(see post n° 2611 post , I copy you below).

 

Look at the edges , lines and spaces of M8 and compare with the edges and lines of film images of fog

(look at crop of fog of 2 images, one M7 and M8)

They are smooth, not grainy like a real fog, that's what I have with digital !

For printing,

Obviously with these smooth edges, if you enlarge the photo on inkjet, it will be clear and this will please you.

Meanwhile, if I enlarge my image with an enlarger and I print on photographic paper, these lines will be less clear but for me this is what differentiates the 2 images , may be blurred but some like me , will appreciate a picture that has a certain shape and a certain charm as in the days of Henri Cartier Bresson.

 

Sorry to be too long and thank you for reading :)

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Henry

 

I agree with you to the extent, that grain in film photography as an artistic tool to reach certain esthetic effects, has vanished in digital photography and replaced by noise, which has a non-esthetic quality.

I'm afraid though, that the most beautiful films in that respect, like AGFA 50L, a Tungsten film, and AGFA 1000RS, both slide films, were already gone before digital photography formed a real threat to analogue photography.

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Kodak Portra 400

Summilux 35 Asph

Leica M7

 

fog and autumn dead leaves

 

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Ancient courtyard in Montreuil-Bellay, Pays De La Loire. MP, Summaron 35mm, Acros 100, Rodinal.

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Wonderful mood in this photograph Keith. I have relatives just around the corner from Montreuil-Bellay (Loudun).

 

Is that the natural vignetting of the Summaron?

 

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Thanks, Philip. No, the vignette is entirely due to tweaking the scanned file in Perfect Photo Suite 9 B&W (ditto for the slight sepia tint).

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Street photos in the manner of Adam but with less "decisive moment" (Henri Cartier Bresson) :)

 

"The French House" :)

London 2014

very special as scene, people stay up front of the pub

 

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Kodak Portra 400 (uncorrected)

M7Summicron 28 Asph

 

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Unbelievably good!

Did you scan the Acros negative as color film?

 

Thank you! In my earlier reply to Philip, I wrote

Thanks, Philip. No, the vignette is entirely due to tweaking the scanned file in Perfect Photo Suite 9 B&W (ditto for the slight sepia tint).
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On reflection, the bit about the sepia tint is wrong - I added it as a final operation in LR5 /Develop/Split Toning by adjusting Highlights: Hue =39 & Saturation = 30.

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Number 107, Rue Victor Hugo in Montreuil-Bellay, Pays De La Loire. MP, Summaron 35mm, Acros 100, Rodinal.

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Number 107, Rue Victor Hugo in Montreuil-Bellay, Pays De La Loire. MP, Summaron 35mm, Acros 100, Rodinal.

Keith, I think Acros 100 is "soft" , suitable for pictures as the buildings in b&w

Very well balanced film :) good combo with Summaron and MP

Thanks for sharing

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