Leica M - Post your Portraits

[menos]

 

[Balto]

m6/voigt 40 1.4/neopan 400 @ 1600/available light


Turner Thorne by Thomas O'Connell, on Flickr

 

[taskoni]

M2, Tri-X

 

[menos]

Wonderful Raphael! I like the first shot a lot! Great expression and beautiful tones and creamy background!

 

[suraphat]

 

[raphaelaaron]

Wonderful Raphael! I like the first shot a lot! Great expression and beautiful tones and creamy background!

thank you!

 

[johannielscom]

Love it, Dirk! Nice portrait!

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

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Beautiful picture. Love the bokeh! summicron 2nd or 3rd edition?

 

[lawrence]

Superb shot, Jurgen!
There are lots of asymmetrical parts to the picture but what makes it so attractive is that they all fit together to make a very pleasing whole that has a compelling visual interest.

Completely agree. One of the best portraits I've seen for ages. Above all, it feels authentic.

 

[jcrutcher]

L1000516.jpg by rootbeer2004, on Flickr

 

[menos]

Love it, Dirk! Nice portrait!

Beautiful picture. Love the bokeh! summicron 2nd or 3rd edition?

Thanks Johan and Ron!
It's a W-Nikkor 3.5cm ƒ1.8 LTM - I have been looking for one for years and only a few days ago finally found one!

The moment, that really hooked me on this lens was, when I missed a very interesting millennium re-issue, that had been converted to Leica mount in Japan. This event really triggered a big interest into the lens.

Now that I have the original issue, I can only state, that I am absolutely speechless about it's performance.
The shot with the young man in leopard jacket shows the strong swirl, the lens can produce in certain situation (which I like), but it doesn't convey how extremely modern this lens already looks wide open with extremely sharp details and already very high contrast - a lens, developed in the early 1950's mind you.

A pity, small pictures on the internet cannot really show this, but here is a very simple shot, that really blew me away regarding the performance of this classic lens.

W-Nikkor 35/1.8 @ƒ1.8 + Mono:

crop:

This is not a 1:1 crop of the shot, but a 2:1 crop !
The JPG conversion really takes some of the detail away.
I have not experimented yet, how many meters wide one can print shots from this lens, but I have the feeling the W-Nikkor + Mono is a killer combo for resolution geeks

My endless journey for the perfect 35mm might slowly come to an end after finding this and I might possible sell a few 35mm lenses in the near future (not the Nikkor obviously).

 

[Leica All Day]

One from California....

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cheers, michael

 

[menos]

Beautiful Michael!

 

[Leica All Day]

Beautiful Michael!

Thanks a lot Dirk.....

 

[jurgen-vt]

Completely agree. One of the best portraits I've seen for ages. Above all, it feels authentic.

That's great to hear!
Thank you so much, Lawrence.
cheers, Jurgen

 

[jurgen-vt]

Love it, Dirk! Nice portrait!

I agree!
cheers, Jurgen

 

[ayazdani]

Monochrom and 35/1.4 FLE, ISO 3200

Chinatown, DC Portrait by Aziz ., on Flickr

M9 and 50 Cron, ISO 1250

H St. NW by Aziz ., on Flickr

 

[menos]

Aziz, you have some seriously good stuff on your flickr! Welcome to RFF ;-)

 

[inzite]

Scan-121216-0017 by inzite, on Flickr


Scan-121216-0015 by inzite, on Flickr

 

[ayazdani]

Aziz, you have some seriously good stuff on your flickr! Welcome to RFF ;-)

Thanks. I've actually been lurking here for a number of years. My old RFF name was Aziz, but I forgot my password and my email address I used for resetting the password was from a previous work email. I message the admins a number of times to change my email address, but they never responded.