new love for the R-D1 - 1959 35mm Summaron

[menos]

As the R-D1 + 35 Summaron is such a compact and light package, I have it sticking around in my bag together with my preferred camera and lenses everyday since coming back to China.

Here are 3 shots on the way to work last morning:

"couple reflecting and reading"

"couple walking and riding"

"waiting for the light"


What really hits me about the Summaron, is how sharp and detailed it is in the center for such an old granny and what it does to the edges and background (the slight smeary tunnel thing).
I really like, how it separates wide open, while backgrounds are still fully perceivable.

 

[rover]

Very nice indeed.

 

[back alley]

time to sell your 'preferred' camera, i think...

 

[menos]

Very nice indeed.

Thanks Rover!

time to sell your 'preferred' camera, i think...

Nah Joe - the M8 looks like it becomes "my M8" more and more, as it's paint really wears quickly ;-)

I usually like the easier to focus rangefinder better (more contrast in difficult light, despite a measly 0.68 magnification), I like the files better up to ISO1250 and I like better, how it feels more like my M6 than the R-D1 despite the very important missing rewind.

There is nothing like the R-D1 files' pushing behavior though without the horrible Leica banding and high ISO artifacts.
I just printed a few ISO12800 R-D1 photos at A4 and they indeed look like my pushed TriX @ ISO3200 - I love that!

Oh and thanks for the compliment ;-)

 

[ashfaque]

Wonderful images, Dirk. I'm not photography literate - just posting to thank you for sharing these fleeting moments of daily lives in China. 🙂

Ash

 

[menos]

Wonderful images, Dirk. I'm not photography literate - just posting to thank you for sharing these fleeting moments of daily lives in China. 🙂

Ash

Thank you Ash, glad, you like 'em ;-)