Rail comparisons.

[hamey]

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I went up to the Hunter valley with some friends to photography BIG coal trains.

We used both mediums, I used Leica R8/9 with the 28-90mm and Kodak 100G slide film

and scanned with the Minolta 5400-2.

Two others used Canon Digital.

For some comparisons between Leica film and Canon 40D.

Shots one and two, are taken with the 28-90mm.

Three and four are taken with the Canon 40D, lens not sure but a Canon L lens.

The speed at this location was around 70 kmh.

 

Cheers.

[hamey]

Couple more.

 

First one, R9 and the 28-90mm, K100G slide Film.

Second taken with a Canon 40D.

Speed about 80 kmh.

The R9 was set to manual focus, Canon was on Auto everything.

Compered to the slide, the scan is not to bad.

 

 

Cheers.

[kenf]

Interesting comparisons! The R results are quite nice.

 

I'd very much like to railfan your country some day... Rail photography is most of what I shoot - my site is in my profile.

[hamey]

Hello Ken.

 

I am glad that you're also a rail fan, I have been shooting trains since 1968 and Leicas from 1973.

Compared to my other cameras that I have used over the years the Leicas especially the R are the best Cameras that I have used, the optics are just wonderful.

The M7 is super also.

Inclosed another shot taken with the R9 and the 28-90mm of four 82's (EMD's) with their Dynamic grids and fans howling, heading back to the Coal mines to fill up with 10,000 tons of Coal for China.