Leica M Monochrom: best pics

I'd hang myself out of the window and would claim, the UC-Hex looks good on anything ;-)
I just love this little lens.
Now I only wish, Konica would still be around and would have made a slightly stretched to ƒ1.4 version of the same lens - I would simply love it, aberrations, light falloff and distortion or not ;-)

Not much time recently for shooting, but got a new lens and had to try it on the MM - 1936 Leitz Summar - I have a feeling, all these vintage lenses will shine on the MM!


portrait - 5cm f2 Leitz Summar from 1936 + Leica MM by teknopunk.com, on Flickr
 
I am heavily in shifting different lenses through the MM mount, to get a feeling, how they look different from the M8.2, M9 and film
 
menos said:
I'd hang myself out of the window and would claim, the UC-Hex looks good on anything ;-)
I just love this little lens.
Now I only wish, Konica would still be around and would have made a slightly stretched to ƒ1.4 version of the same lens - I would simply love it, aberrations, light falloff and distortion or not ;-)

Not much time recently for shooting, but got a new lens and had to try it on the MM - 1936 Leitz Summar - I have a feeling, all these vintage lenses will shine on the MM!
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What a lovely portrait, Monochrom or not. An intelligent photograph.
 
Dirk, the vintage lenses on the Monochrom are stunning! (that's all i shot with when i got a chance to try it and they melted my heart...) do you by chance have a 35 pre-asph Lux? i really really want to see what that does.
 
The two main lenses I'm using with my MM are my 50 lux pre-asph and 28 elmarit asph but I find myself leaning towards the lux all the time. The images it's producing are just amazing.
 
malland said:
You are right that I've lifted the shadow too much in the dodged area that I didn't see because I didn't view the file at 100% when I was dodging. The trouble is, of course, that the image is much too large on the Retina at the 100% view to make dodging conveneienty. Now, I don't know whether this is a Retina issue or just a Lightroom issue.

EDIT: Since writing the above I had a "chat" with Adobe Techncial Support and was told that "Lightroom 4 has not yet been tested with the MBP Retina." Looks to me that this is a Retina problem, but I have not been able to find anything on this in a Google search.
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I know I'm going in a slightly different direction than where you started and we might be looking at two different things, so I should clarify something just in case. The banding that is revealed when lightening a near-black area is often related to the sensor. This is independent of any post processing... it is there even if we don't lighten it enough to see any detail.
 
Richard G said:
What a lovely portrait, Monochrom or not. An intelligent photograph.
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Thanks Richard ;-)

cam said:
Dirk, the vintage lenses on the Monochrom are stunning! (that's all i shot with when i got a chance to try it and they melted my heart...) do you by chance have a 35 pre-asph Lux? i really really want to see what that does.
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Hey Cam, Yes, I do have, but since I have the UC-Hexanon 35/2, all the other 35mm lenses, I have collect dust - the UC-Hex is THAT nice.

I will do some shots with the pre ASPH Lux, once I find back to it again.
I also find, that with the MM now providing nice quality in real low light, I don't grab the super fast, heavy lenses anymore.

Here is another with the MM:
Avenon 21/2.8 Superwide:


curvy exit by teknopunk.com, on Flickr
 
jtm6 said:
I know I'm going in a slightly different direction than where you started and we might be looking at two different things, so I should clarify something just in case. The banding that is revealed when lightening a near-black area is often related to the sensor. This is independent of any post processing... it is there even if we don't lighten it enough to see any detail.
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Looking at this area at 100% in the DNG file before the heavy dodging (2.3 stops) there is no banding.

—Mitch/Paris
Bangkok Hysteria (download link for book project)
 
malland said:
Looking at this area at 100% in the DNG file before the heavy dodging (2.3 stops) there is no banding.
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That's what I mean. Bringing up the shadow detail can reveal the banding even if it isn't visible in the original image. This depends on the camera and there can be different causes, from either power supply ripple affecting the sensor to the sensor itself.
 
Some recent concert shots with the Monochrom :

Ravi Coltrane
ISO4000 , 2/90 'cron
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Stanley Clarke
ISO 1600. 1/50 noct'
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Chick Corea
ISO6400, 2/90 'cron
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mfogiel said:
@ icebear

Chick Korea is unrecognizable ! I think he has slimmed down 40 kilos!
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I can't judge about that. It was the first time ever I was so up close to the stage, I basically could have touched his knee when he was switching from the piano to the keyboard. I put my camera down on the stage to change lenses.
 
jtm6 said:
That's what I mean. Bringing up the shadow detail can reveal the banding even if it isn't visible in the original image. This depends on the camera and there can be different causes, from either power supply ripple affecting the sensor to the sensor itself.
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I've just downloaded the new LR4.3 Release Candidate from Adobe Lab, which includes support for Retina display. When I re-processed the picture with this version the banding no longer occurred; so this not a M-Monocbrom sensor issue as you suggest.

—Mitch/Paris
Bangkok Hysteria (download link for book project)
 
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