Leica S Image thread

[alan.y]

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S35 S70 S007

 

 

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[djmay]

Leica S 006, 30 mm Elmarit-S, Isartor, Munich

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[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

A couple from this morning

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[jip]

I have been testing the Novoflex Bellows with APO-Digitar 1:4,5/90mm Schneider lens.

 

(Don't mind the amount of 'tripod gear'... I was just too lazy to take the panorama head of before mounting the bellows...)

 

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Leica M (Typ 240) with 50mm Summicron-M

 

Leica S-E Typ (006) Novoflex Bellows with Schneider Kreuznach APO-Digitar 1:4,5/90mm

[Jozsa]

what would you say about the quality of the lense, Schneider Kreuznach APO-Digitar 1:4,5/90mm, compared to a Contax macro or leica ?

[jip]

I haven't compared... but I can say the APO-Digitar is amazingly good. Plus the bellows give you tilt/shift capabilities... which is nice for increased depth of field etc. 

[ynp]

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I haven't compared... but I can say the APO-Digitar is amazingly good. Plus the bellows give you tilt/shift capabilities... which is nice for increased depth of field etc.

Thank you for the reporting. Very interesting light solution. We use the Apo-Digitar 90mm on our P3 Sinar camera for copying work and it's a very nice lens.

[mgrayson3]

The S does lovely B&W, too!

 

Untitled by Matthew Grayson, on Flickr

[ZHNL]

70 Summarit wide open with S2

[topoxforddoc]

Jamie Cullum - last Monday at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival

 

S(006) 70/2.5S - ISO 800 LR5.5 & SEfex

 

PS - sorry if this is a double post, as I have put this on the People section too

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Yesterday me and Nuk had the pleasure of working with Yuu Ki. She was absolutely fantastic, she needed next to no direction and was fun all day long..........Although this is a digital picture 99% of the shoot was done with a old medium format film camera........cant wait to get the rolls of film developed

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[mgrayson3]

Trying out a new (to me ) lens, the Contax 140/2.8. Here it is at f/4. Too little light, so ISO 800. Grainy, but fun. This is at the close focus limit, which is a bit far, so it's no threat to the S 120 Macro, but it's also about 1/20th the price. 

 

 

--Matt

Edited May 9, 2016 by mgrayson3

[jip]

The 120 F4 is the concurrent of the 120 f2,5

[mgrayson3]

Of course, but the Contax 120 is not available in AF, and that makes it further from my use case than the 140/2.8. As wonderful as the OVF in the S is, and it's the best I've seen, I can't manually focus to save my life. Perhaps with a different screen....

 

But the 140 is fine for architectural details. This is a fairly tight crop... Not a successful photo, but as a lens test it was fine. 

 

 

Best,

 

Matt

Edited May 10, 2016 by mgrayson3

[menos I M6]

Matt, I find the 140/2.8 not a nice lens for high contrast details as of it's very high uncorrected CA. This is exactly where the 120/4 APO excels.

You should really check out the manual focus screen (in my opinion it should be the standard screen in the S.

 

The 140/2.8 is nice from f5.6 on and of course as a portrait lens or in combination with the 1.4x Mutar in a pinch for some flexibility.

[mgrayson3]

Dirk,

 

Psychology is a funny thing. I agree that the 140 is problematic - there's a reason they are so inexpensive. But as a first Contax lens, requiring the purchase of the adapter, inexpensive was important. Now that I have the adapter, the marginal price for other Contax lenses is much lower. Illogical? Sure.

 

With a Q covering wide and high ISO, what I was missing was a portrait lens longer than the S70. Would I prefer the Leica 120? You bet!

 

Well, enough justification. If I can't make good pictures with it, it will be my own fault. I hope to have something worth posting here soon.

 

--Matt

Edited May 10, 2016 by mgrayson3

[mgrayson3]

It was a pleasant sunrise, so here's my mongrel Leica collection: First the S(006) with Contax 140/2.8 @f/4

 

 

Now with the 70 Summarit, also @f/4

 

 

And, for the 35 equivalent view (i.e., 28mm on Full Frame), here's the Q. This is more my standard FoV, and I hope to have something like it on the S soon.

 

 

--Matt

[mgrayson3]

And now with an honest 35mm lens on the (006), we can get some perspective. This is a full color shot - no desaturation. I just like scenes that are naturally almost B+W. Well, the sky is blown out because I didn't correct for metering off a black building, and my camera seems to like overexposing Contax lenses, but there really wasn't much color anywhere. This building is quite close to the WTC - one of the closest that survived.

 

 

--Matt

Edited May 11, 2016 by mgrayson3

[mgrayson3]

Back to the 140/2.8 @f/11. B&W with green channel boosted giving it an IR look.

 

 

--Matt

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[mgrayson3]

It was raining, so out came the 70 Summarit. It;s nice having a waterproof setup.

 

Freedom Tower looking ominous

 

 

--Matt