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Attached is a portrait I took of a friend of mine at ISO 3200 with a canon 5D and 135mm f/2 lens at 1/25th of a second - hand held. I was very impressed with it but would have liked more.

 

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Eric, that is a great shot regardless of hardware. It would be interesting to see if you can top that with an M8. But are you implying you were using just ambient light and no flash? If so, I am doubly impressed.

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Eric, that is a great shot regardless of hardware. It would be interesting to see if you can top that with an M8. But are you implying you were using just ambient light and no flash? If so, I am doubly impressed.

 

That's the 5D! It's amazing at high ISO.

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In Lascaux, photos with flash forbidden.

Thanks Leica ! (M8 +summicron 35, 1250 Isos, f:2, 1/15s)

 

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Tom Olsen, I realy, realy like your shot. One of the best in recent memory. (OK, at my age the memory is in question), but still a truly inspiring image.

 

Ha, ha! Thank you, John. I have been photographing for so long I can remember, - but have forgotten how long that is. Should be some 45 years soon. But I have far less experience with 'fumbling about' with PS. I see this photo of the twin towers in Kuala Lumpur is far better handled in PS. Especially sharpening.

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Thanks a lot, Roger and Jon,

 

The light just was like that and with a M8 with a WATE mounted on it was an easy take. Here's another. From the habour of Helsinki with this ex light ship, now restaurant. The dramatic sky turned into a hell of a rainfall which I was sure was going to drown the M8. It didn't.

 

That sky is really scary... it looks as if it's about to fall down by its sheer weight!

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M8, 35mm Lux ASPH, ISO 640, 1/90, f/1.4.

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Mustafa and Jon: Your photos are strikingly sharp. Can you say something about USM settings that you are using when shooting with M8 and presenting pictures on the Net like this?

 

Hi: I use no sharpening or 25% in CS3. Then I use the "save for web..." option, but I'm no expert believe me! In fact, for the towers, I started with a 20MB .tiff to get a 1MB .jpg - for sending to some friends; then downsized again using CS3 (save for web...) to post on the forum. I'm sure there are better options. Jon

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Another...Xmas Eve, the ice fountain outside the Casino in Monte Carlo

 

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Mustafa and Jon: Your photos are strikingly sharp. Can you say something about USM settings that you are using when shooting with M8 and presenting pictures on the Net like this?

 

Well the images are originally DNG, imported in Aperture and colours slighty cleaned up in CS3.

Then exported from Aperture for this site by saving them as small jpegs of less than 200k.

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Another two pictures from the same night.

Please note the shadow images of the lights in the second image... I thought the 35cronA should not have shown these...

640iso f2 1/16 first 1/60 the second

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Hi: I use no sharpening or 25% in CS3. Then I use the "save for web..." option, but I'm no expert believe me! In fact, for the towers, I started with a 20MB .tiff to get a 1MB .jpg - for sending to some friends; then downsized again using CS3 (save for web...) to post on the forum. I'm sure there are better options. Jon

 

I prefer to use no or little sharpening on files from my M8. I don't have this hefty CS3, but the LE version. I use this and the P1. I have turned off all sharpening in the camera - done the same on my 1Ds II - but while the latter's files needs a lot of sharpening the M8 files seens to me 'natural sharp'. As another and far more experienced Leica shooter here in Norway say; 'it's the optics. God damn it!'

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M8, 35mm ASPH, f/1.4, ISO 1250, 1/180.

 

M8, 35mm ASPH, f/1.4, ISO 1250, 1/8.

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