mfunnell
Shaken, so blurred
I had my new/old Leica M3 out and about with me over the weekend (it arrived on Friday).
All-manual shooting worked better than I would have expected, and after some fine advice from this forum, I eventually managed to load a film without being wrestled to a standstill.
It takes a nice photo, too:
#1 Sydney Motorcycle Show, on Saturday
#2 Another bike photo
#3 the crowd
(I know, the lens has rather a bunch to do with that, but the finder in the M3 is very nice and the camera focused my M-Hexanon 50/2 very nicely. All were shot at f2 1/100th)
And while a manual, all mechanical, camera with 50mm lens isn't exactly my first choice for wildlife photography, it can be pressed into service (my Canon dSLR and big white lens were many miles away):
#4 Male King Parrot
#5 Swamp Wallaby
These were taken at Church Point (a northern suburb of Sydney) on Sunday while visiting some friends of my parents. Of course, without a long lens you have to be able to get pretty close to the little critters. As with everything in New South Wales in the current political climate, this was accomplished using bribery and corruption:
#6 Even the wallabies are on the take
(All at f2, the first at 1/100th and the others at 1/50th, on different film.)
...Mike
All-manual shooting worked better than I would have expected, and after some fine advice from this forum, I eventually managed to load a film without being wrestled to a standstill.
It takes a nice photo, too:
#1 Sydney Motorcycle Show, on Saturday
#2 Another bike photo
#3 the crowd
(I know, the lens has rather a bunch to do with that, but the finder in the M3 is very nice and the camera focused my M-Hexanon 50/2 very nicely. All were shot at f2 1/100th)
And while a manual, all mechanical, camera with 50mm lens isn't exactly my first choice for wildlife photography, it can be pressed into service (my Canon dSLR and big white lens were many miles away):
#4 Male King Parrot
#5 Swamp Wallaby
These were taken at Church Point (a northern suburb of Sydney) on Sunday while visiting some friends of my parents. Of course, without a long lens you have to be able to get pretty close to the little critters. As with everything in New South Wales in the current political climate, this was accomplished using bribery and corruption:
#6 Even the wallabies are on the take
(All at f2, the first at 1/100th and the others at 1/50th, on different film.)
...Mike
