Leica M Monochrom: best pics

[Alberti]

With a trick I get the thumbnail larger but the res stays low - even with a 2480 pixel file size added (so below the site max) . .
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[airfrogusmc]

 

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[rhl-oregon]

filedata/fetch?filedataid=111155

 

[jsrockit]

Yes, that's quite nice...

 

[Derek Leath]

Twisted
by
Derek Leath,
on Flickr

dl__images on instagram

 

[rhl-oregon]

FWIW I’m finding the new paradigm for posting images in threads difficult, to use the least controversial word among many that come to mind.

It appears a straightforward improvement at first—just upload from iPhone camera roll or Files, no more having to link from RFF gallery or maintain Flickr account—but after posting, I ask, Where did my text / captioning go? Why is this 2mb image a thumbnail? Then, digging into edit mode, I multiply errors and redundancies and clog up the page in the effort to scske up the image and locate what I wrote as commentary. Sheesh.

Sorry to disrupt this image thread to complain about the head smacking results of trial and error, but: If any of you Monochromists have figured out this new paradigm (and are not bound to Flickr), please share your practical wisdom. Thanks.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Hey Robert,

I use pbae and post a link from there to here. I copy and past the link. Seems to work.

 

[Derek Leath]

ShoeMaker
by
Derek Leath,
on Flickr

 

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[JohnWolf]

Last of summer's harvest. M246 | ZM 50 Planar

 

[Rob-F]

These shots are with my newly acquired M9M, using the Voigtlander 15mm and 15mm Finder (A new purchase from the Head Bartender):

My initial impression is that the camera wants to underexpose. I saw it while shooting, and so I used + exposure comp settings to correct it. Although the camera could have been over-reacting to the bright sky in two of these shots, even the one of the tree needed a +0.66. Also I had to tame the contrast in Aperture in the two brightly sunlit shots with a large area of sky. On the plus side, I was pleased with many of the shots, where the camera nailed the exposure quite well, and the pictures seemed rather "cinematic." I'll see about posting a couple of those.

No exposure comp on the next two, and nothing done to them in Aperture:

On this one I used +0.3 exposure comp, and it is with the 50mm Version 4 Summicron:

 

[Richard G]

Beautiful Rob. I love the tones of that first one especially. The 15 will underexpose because so much sky is included in the metering field. I find this is a factor at 28mm too, depending on the scene. It’s not a bad thing with the Monochrom as shadow detail can be brought up miraculously. Some actually set the Monochrom to -1 exposure compensation as a default.

 

[Rob-F]

Beautiful Rob. I love the tones of that first one especially. The 15 will underexpose because so much sky is included in the metering field. I find this is a factor at 28mm too, depending on the scene. It’s not a bad thing with the Monochrom as shadow detail can be brought up miraculously. Some actually set the Monochrom to -1 exposure compensation as a default.

Thanks, Richard. Yes, I think the bright afternoon sky was part of the problem. It wouldn't be the first time!

 

[Alberti]

Yes, that's quite nice...

Well, it's also quite cruel

 

[Alberti]

oops

M9M, Brussels Stripstad