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Morning walk with M9 and Summaron-M 28

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On M10p. Wonderful little lens!

 

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I was wary of this lens - could it be as good as I’d hoped?  It is.  And more!   Taken with CL this morning.

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29 minutes ago, kentishrev said:

I was wary of this lens - could it be as good as I’d hoped?  It is.  And more!   Taken with CL this morning.

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Where is this? Gives me a nostalgic vibe as I spent a lot of my childhood living in Kent around the Egerton/Charing/Headcorn area.

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2 hours ago, tom0511 said:

I dont know why but that 28 Summaron seems to give digital images an anlog fingerprint...I love it

This is a serious misconception the way that, in the early days of digital, photoforum-wallahs used to say of any digital B&W image they liked, "This is just like Tri-X." Although I like the Summaron 1:5.6/28, for landscape this lens usually renders substantially better on film, as I illustrated in a comparison of the same landscape in a thread a few years ago, whose title I don't recall.

On digital, I prefer this lens for street photography: its problem is that its relatively high contrast needs to be tamed in the highlights: for example, it's a higher contrast lens than the Summilux-35-FLE. In the thread I just referred to someone said that produces better "color depth on film than on digital", but I wonder whether because of its relative high contrast. Here are two digital shots in midday, harsh, tropical light:

M10 | Summaron 1:5.6/28 | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/60 sec | Chiang Mai

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M10 | Summaron 1:5.6/28 | ISO 800 | f/5.6 | 1/350 sec | Bangkok
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Recent snowfall in California mountains. Leica MP and Cinestill 800t. 

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Am 25.11.2020 um 16:36 schrieb Nowhereman:

This is a serious misconception the way that, in the early days of digital, photoforum-wallahs used to say of any digital B&W image they liked, "This is just like Tri-X." Although I like the Summaron 1:5.6/28, for landscape this lens usually renders substantially better on film, as I illustrated in a comparison of the same landscape in a thread a few years ago, whose title I don't recall.

On digital, I prefer this lens for street photography: its problem is that its relatively high contrast needs to be tamed in the highlights: for example, it's a higher contrast lens than the Summilux-35-FLE. In the thread I just referred to someone said that produces better "color depth on film than on digital", but I wonder whether because of its relative high contrast. Here are two digital shots in midday, harsh, tropical light:

M10 | Summaron 1:5.6/28 | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/60 sec | Chiang Mai
 

 

M10 | Summaron 1:5.6/28 | ISO 800 | f/5.6 | 1/350 sec | Bangkok
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OK, I think I have to say it more precise: I dont believe the Summaron makes digital images looking totally the same like film.

I meant the "imperfections" of the lens and the images it produces remind of the images in film times. For example the vignetting, the not perfect corners, ... etc.

I allways wonder if a scanned film image is (still) an analog image or a digital one?

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^ So, would a scan be anything else than a digitalization of the film image? — making it a digital image. However, scans (whether made by a scanner or a digital camera) largely preserve the most important characteristics of film, including highlight rendering, gradation and grain structure; assuming one doesn't destroy these aspects of the image, through brute force, is there anything either philosophically or in practical terms that goes beyond this? 

Now, I've read posts arguing that a scan made with a scanner preserves the analogue properties while a camera scan does not; that the latter is "merely" a digital image, without the analogue properties. That has not been my experience: I find that scans that I've made with Imacon Precision III scanner look very much like camera scans that Ive made with a Leica M9M or Leica M10, using an enlarger lens
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