Elmar 35 - "hazy" or "moody" ?

[Luddite Frank]

Not really a fair question, given the prevailing weather... 🙄

Some shots from chasing a recent Steam excursion in Northeast Pennsylvania.

 

[Luddite Frank]

And a few more...

Camera is a 1934 Leica III, Elmar 35, with FIKUS hood, Kodacolor 200.

 

[FPjohn]

Very good. Which aperature(s)?

yours
FPJ

 

[Luddite Frank]

If I recall, between 6,3 and 12,6.

I usually try to shoot the Elmar 35 around f 9.

With the hood on the lens, it's a lot easier to leave the aperture alone and vary the shutter speed for changing light.

I was trying to keep shutter speed around 1/200 for the moving train; above 1/60 for static shots.

I love shooting "steam in the winter"....

LF

 

[tonyj]

Great shots LF !

You've really captured the feelings of a bygone day. The weather looks to be pretty miserable, but in reality it adds something extra to the moody, misty atmosphere.

I've got goose pimples just looking at those photos - must put on an extra sweater and a scarf before I take another look. 😉

Good job!

 

[Luddite Frank]

Weather was just cold enough to make snow instead of rain; not terribly "miserable"... 🙄

We've chased some trains in Jan / Feb, temps around 0 Farenheit; now THAT's miserable! 🙁



For the record, I got out the flashlight yesterday, and did a "haze check" on my user LTM lenses.... this Elmar 35 is QUITE hazy; not so much when you look straight through it, but when you put the flashlight to it... yipe ! 😱

I'm putting together a short list of lenses for Sherry Krauter to CLA... 😎

LF

 

[Luddite Frank]

Same train, more shots

Same train, more shots

Same train, same day, different power for the return trip.

Still Leica III, Elmar 35/FIKUS, Kodacolor 200.

 

[MaxElmar]

Very nice. Was the train from Steamtown? Was that Moscow station in the first photo? Regardless, great work...

 

[Luddite Frank]

Very nice. Was the train from Steamtown? Was that Moscow station in the first photo? Regardless, great work...

You nailed it, Chris ! 😎

That is the station at Moscow; I 've been wanting to shoot one of the "through-trains" there, to catch the "drama" of the train blasting through at 40 mph 😉...

On the local excursion, the train just eases up to the station, so there's no big stack plume 🙁.

I'm very fortunate to live close to Steamtown and the old Delaware, Lackawanna & Western mainline.

Only down side is that Steamtown has scaled back their excursion activity due to budget tightening and "equipment issues". Word is there will be no more excursions until spring '10.

I'm waiting for a another roll from the same trip, shot at the Crescow station, where it was snowing the beat the band...

Thanks for the kind words. 🙂

Regards,

LF

 

[Nando]

Wonderful photos! I very much like my 1936 35f3.5 Elmar. Its so compact and truly makes my IIIf a pocketable camera. I took the following shot wide-open, I think.