Leica M Monochrom: best pics

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MM ~ VC 75/2.5
 
Nice catch ... how long have you been waiting for that bird 😀 ?

Thanks Klaus and I didn't wait. I was walking across the bridge on Wabash and I saw this gull starting to fly in my direction. I was already pre focused. I quickly framed and shot. Not much different from shooting street for me.

Nice set BTW.

Strong portrait Vince.
 
Please Vince

Please Vince

Now that you are posting the M246 shots could you do me a favor and shoot a few with some classic glass like a pre-asph 35mm Summicron, 2.8 Summaron, an old 50mm Summicron or a 2.8 Elmar? Even some old Zeiss stuff would do fine, like a Planar.

I'm just curious. You know, lenses that had black and white in mind in the first place.
 
Now that you are posting the M246 shots could you do me a favor and shoot a few with some classic glass like a pre-asph 35mm Summicron, 2.8 Summaron, an old 50mm Summicron or a 2.8 Elmar? Even some old Zeiss stuff would do fine, like a Planar.

I'm just curious. You know, lenses that had black and white in mind in the first place.

If I had some of that glass, I would! But my list of Leica lenses is rather short at present: 35/1.7 Ultron, 50/2 Summicron, 50/0.95 Noctilux, 75/2.5 Summarit, and 90/2 Summicron (the 2nd version screw mount with the extensible hood). I did have a 21/2.8 Elmarit, a 50/2 Summar and a 50/1.5 Xenon, but I sold all of them recently (and that 90/2 Summicron may go too).
 
Tring to Find a Middle Ground

Tring to Find a Middle Ground

Vince:

After looking at you last 'on the job' portrait, I'm trying to figure out if the 246 is a new style of black and white, that is breaking ground into a new era, or if the slick look is lens dependent. I don't think that it's in amount of the 246's detail but lack of more gradual transitions in value.

Here's an old posting from the mono and old glass, a Summaron.
You can clearly see what I'm talking about. This has almost no post processing, it's not slick or sterile at all. Is it the old glass or the CCD sensor?

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