M10 - the Image Thread

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[MikeMyers]

Just having fun with my M10

Biscayne Bay, Miami, a Seawall

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[MikeMyers]

Sometimes things happen very quickly, and I don't have time to spend fiddling with the camera.  This used to happen all the time with my M3, but I've gotten into the habit of using my M10 very slowly.  Then @jonoslack suggested a few things, set the ISO to auto, set the shutter to Aperture priority, and let the camera take care of those details. 

My building had a fire-alarm today, so everybody went out, then the fire department comes to check things over, and give us the "all clear".  I wanted to do something like what I did ages ago, when I was capturing news stories.  The photo below was the result.  I also learned another lesson - leaving a 35mm lens on the camera would be preferable to leaving my 50mm in place.  

This was my "best" photo, but thankfully nothing more exciting was going on, and I could go back upstairs and start preparing for dinner.

My personal rules - always have the camera handy, with a fully charged battery and an empty memory card, with a lens that is most likely going to be what I'm likely to use, and have the settings pre-set as @jonoslacksuggested.  Also, "timing" is everything, and try to think of the picture I want to take ahead of time.

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[tappan]

M10-P 
18mm SE
100 ISO
16 seconds exposure. F3.8.
Boston moon/clouds

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M10 + 35 FLE

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M10 and summarit 35

 

[MikeMyers]

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Today's sunset looked good, but not great.  I put my 135mm Tele-Elmar on my M10, took a few images, and then processed in DxO PhotoLab 5.  The helicopter came by at just the right time, but a bird at the top left was playing camera shy.  

Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida, taken just as the sun went behind the buildings.  Camera still set with the settings from @jonoslack viewfinder (not Visoflex), and the camera determined the exposure.

My D750 is getting lonely and dusty.....

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Edited January 22, 2022 by MikeMyers
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[MikeMyers]

11 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

Today's sunset looked good, but not great.  I put my 135mm Tele-Elmar on my M10, took a few images, and then processed in DxO PhotoLab 5.  The helicopter came by at just the right time, but a bird at the top left was playing camera shy.  

Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida, taken just as the sun went behind the buildings.  Camera still set with the settings from @jonoslack viewfinder (not Visoflex), and the camera determined the exposure.

My D750 is getting lonely and dusty.....

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I've got a question about photos like this - when I edited it, I made the dividing line between water and land horizontal, but a friend of mine told me that is was wrong, the buildings are leaning to the right.  Now that I see that, I can't "un-see" it, but when the buildings are perfectly vertical, the "horizon line" looks wrong, like the whole scene is tilted.

So, do I make the photo technically perfect, or do what I did above, and make the photo "look" level?

The reason for this is I was 9 flights up in the air, and not looking at this scene head-on.  I saw it from an angle, which explains the problem.  Or, do I "cheat" and twist the image so both the verticals and horizontals appear properly, with the image having been distorted as if it was "modeling clay"?

[RonSmith]

25 minutes ago, MikeMyers said:

I've got a question about photos like this - when I edited it, I made the dividing line between water and land horizontal, but a friend of mine told me that is was wrong, the buildings are leaning to the right.  Now that I see that, I can't "un-see" it, but when the buildings are perfectly vertical, the "horizon line" looks wrong, like the whole scene is tilted.

So, do I make the photo technically perfect, or do what I did above, and make the photo "look" level?

The reason for this is I was 9 flights up in the air, and not looking at this scene head-on.  I saw it from an angle, which explains the problem.  Or, do I "cheat" and twist the image so both the verticals and horizontals appear properly, with the image having been distorted as if it was "modeling clay"?

I would make the buildings straight. 

Unless you were looking at the shore dead on, you will inevitably be closer to one side than the other.

[MikeMyers]

Thanks, Ron.  That sounds logical, and I guess I've been wrong about this for years - I adjust things to look right to me, and in this case, it was really an "optical delusion", meaning it was right, but my mind mis-interpreted it.

I never thought of it this way before - me bad.

I will re-edit, and re-post the image correctly this time, but I predict people who weren't aware that I wasn't looking at the shore dead on, will think the image isn't level...    😞

[tappan]

100 ISO
1/500th at F2
M10-P
1955 Summicron 50mm 5cm F2 Type 1 
 

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M10 + 50 Summicron v3

 

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Grotty & Grimy Perspex window glow.

M10 + 35mm Summicron Asph @ f/5.6

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[MikeMyers]

I posted this earlier, and based on suggestions from people here, and in the DxO PhotoLab forum, several small changed have been made.  I'm still uncomfortable that the edge of Biscayne Bay appears to be "tilted", but now I know that's a result of my shooting from the 9th floor of my building, and seeing the edge of the water at an angle, with the left side closer to me than the right side.  I ought to have used a tripod, but I rested the camera on the balcony railing.  I take no credit for the exposure - that's what the M10 in non-live-view did, which I think this means it is "center-weighted".  I'm thrilled with the way the M10 sensor captured all the detail and color in the buildings - at first, I thought they were just black silhouettes, against the sky.  I'll post a snapshot of what I saw before editing....

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Edited January 23, 2022 by MikeMyers

[RonSmith]

2 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

I posted this earlier, and based on suggestions from people here, and in the DxO PhotoLab forum, several small changed have been made.  I'm still uncomfortable that the edge of Biscayne Bay appears to be "tilted", but now I know that's a result of my shooting from the 9th floor of my building, and seeing the edge of the water at an angle, with the left side closer to me than the right side.  I ought to have used a tripod, but I rested the camera on the balcony railing.  I take no credit for the exposure - that's what the M10 in non-live-view did, which I think this means it is "center-weighted".  I'm thrilled with the way the M10 sensor captured all the detail and color in the buildings - at first, I thought they were just black silhouettes, against the sky.  I'll post a snapshot of what I saw before editing....

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That looks better Mike. 

[nodrog]

A shot taken this week while the sky was still blue. Slightly cropped. 

M10R + 21 Zeiss ZM Biogon

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[aral70]

good morning everyone a question about the iso?
I have a Leica M10-P but the ISO 100 are true or simulated?
today I was using them to take pictures and a friend told me not to use them because it is simulated!
sorry for my writing but i'm a bit ignorant and i use google translate to write!
have a good day!

[nodrog]

1 hour ago, nodrog said:

A shot taken this week while the sky was still blue. Slightly cropped. 

M10R + 21 Zeiss ZM Biogon

Ugh sorry wrong forum! Maybe an admin can move this to the correct one?

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[ejk64]

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january 2022 biarritz _ golf & ocean ...

leica m10-p"reporter" + summarit-m75 /2.5

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M10 + 21/2.8 Elmarit-M

 

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