24mm Elmarit portrait

[Sam]

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My wife and her guitar this evening in the living room. Enjoying this recently acquired lens.

M240 / 24mm Elmarit @ f/2.8

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[Timkr]

It’s a much under appreciated lens.

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[Sam]

I have always liked the 24mm which I shot quite often in my film days. 

[OR120]

11 hours ago, Sam said:

My wife and her guitar this evening in the living room. Enjoying this recently acquired lens.

M240 / 24mm Elmarit @ f/2.8

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What's the song?

[Sam]

99 bottles of beer on the wall. 

[Ko.Fe.]

Since OP choose to post it here, instead of https://www.l-camera-forum.com/forum/8-people/

Any wide lens will make it disproportional. On this picture it is one shoulder, hand and another shoulder, hand.

 

[lct]

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Difficult to use wides for portraits. Worse problems are oblong skulls, big noses and bulging eyes though. The OP's model escaped this dreaded fate fortunately.

[M11 for me]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb lct:

Difficult to use wides for portraits. Worse problems are oblong skulls, big noses and bulging eyes though. The OP's model escaped this dreaded fate fortunately.

and is it the lens or how the image is composed? That photograph is really beautifull. I would not have assumed that it was taken with 24mm. I would have taken 35mm at least.

[Sam]

The 24mm is not a portrait lens for obvious reasons. This wasn’t a portrait session, but a casual snap of my wife with a lens and viewfinder I just acquired. With a bit of care with framing the distortion can be controlled to a certain degree and a decent people-shot can be made. At least to me it’s decent and exceeded my expectations for a pretty wide angle lens. 

[andybarton]

Every Leica owner should have a copy of this lens in their bag. Mine is pretty much always on my M240.

 

This is a very nice shot indeed.

[Sam]

Thank you Andy. So far I’ve not found anything not to like about the lens. Crazy sharp, draws beautifully, and I really like the focal length as the 24mm was a fav back in my film days. I guess I could gripe about using an external viewfinder but I can shoot it reasonably well without one. 

[andybarton]

I usually just wing it with the whole of the viewfinder frame, but use Live View when necessary.

I do have an external viewfinder of 24mm, but it's a PITA focusing with one viewfinder and composing with another. I don't have the EVF.

[Sam]

I have an EVF and Voigtlander viewfinder. The EVF is a last resort because of the lag when you shoot. The Voigtlander is quite crisp and looks really cool on the camera, but with practice winging it seems quite effective

[stuny]

Very nice.  F-chord fingering with a kapo, making it F-sharp

[Sam]

50 minutes ago, stuny said:

Very nice.  F-chord fingering with a kapo, making it F-sharp

You're very observant

[becker]

Isnt a barred E shape chord, which she does, it seems, in the 2. fred not always a F sharp, with or without kapo ?  the kapo is fixed the first fred 😉 

[stuny]

Becker -

The F chord is basically a barred E chord.  Assuming the guitar is at concert pitch, fingering an F chord with a kapo on the first fret will make the resulting chord sound like an F# chord

[fotografr]

Very nice portrait with a great lens.