wow, I didnt expect I would start such a flury.
Ski mask is more of an inside joke, but looks interesting to me in the end. Almost like a burglar decided to take a shot of himself because he couldn't resist shooting with a leica. Kinda lame if you want to think of it, take it with a grain of salt. It was more or less a properly exposed image with consistent contrast.
Now what havent i been impressed on.
99% of it has been the flare on the lens. I also shoot with my IIIa and uncoated summar and get more consistent contrast than this lens. I couldnt find a nice hood yet but figured that a pair of genuine orange and green filters would do ($25 for the pair, mint condition) to help even things out for the time being.
I LOVE the feeling of the camera. the brightness of the rangefinder blows me away every time. And things like the rewind that most people complain about havent really bothered me yet.
I never meant to say that it wasn't the camera alone that I havent been impressed with yet. But its all new to me and I have to get used to it. My metering has been absolute **** the first 3 rolls with a lot of corrections in the scanning dept (probably enhancing contrast flaws and grain). Im using the Voigtlander VC II that ive had for my IIIa eons ago. Worked perfectly fine on that camera but Im thinking its the film that's tripping me up. Ive put 2 rolls of foma 400 and 1 roll of neopan 400 which i cooked because I dont think the meter works well in half stop increments (had it set to ~250 iso).
In the past I liked the foma 100 but never tried the 400. I have a roll of 100 in now to see what happens. If not then I'll just end up purchasing some Tmax like everyone else as it seems to be very forgiving.
I didnt mean to offend, or get anyone's hair up. Nor end up typing out a wall of text (ha). I think i was just attributing my lack of having that "golden" shot on the haze on the front element. But in reality i have a lot more trial and error to learn the quirks a bit better.
Also i think a hood would be a good idea. Whoever suggested that, i'll order one from KEH today.
thanks for all the feedback, Heres some of what I've got thus far.
all of these look pretty decent, but i cant get over how in the last shot the two people in the middle have WAY less contrast than the woman on the far right for example. A lot of shots exhibit this effect. Most of which were corrected but end up losing detail.
