ncd_photo
Nikon Fanatic
Greetings to one and all, this is my first post although I've been lurking for quite a while gleaning information from the old masters 🙂
A few weeks back I finally resisted the urge and visited the camera store to try out an M2 and a Contax G1. Well the M2 won and was married up with a new CV 35 2.5 Panckake from Robert White UK.
I was visiting Cambridge a week later to visit family pre-christmas so where better to try it out than the city where I first learnt the pleasures of photography.
First impressions:
The M2 is a lovely piece of engineering, despite being about 40 years old, it operates like new and feels very slick. I'm amazed how you can go virtually un-noticed while using this camera. The whole thing is smaller than the battery grip on my D80!
On my second roll of film the frame counter must of got knocked whilst in my rucksack and moved on about 7 frames - one thing to remember.
The CV lens is nice and compact with a smooth focussing action, however the aperture ring isn't particularly positive and got knocked from 5.6 to f16 whilst hanging under my arm - resulting in a few frames under exposed before I noticed - one thing to check in the future!
I shot a few frames into the sun and it does flare in direct sun, plus a strong sidelight results in a weird ripple effect at the opposite edge of the frame - noticed in a couple of shots.
Other than that I'm really pleased with my first two rolls. Shooting all manual with no lightmeter (just sunny 16 in my head) is refreshing to get back to after 2 years and 12,000 frames on a DSLR!
I've posted my favourites from the trip onto Flickr if anybody is interested. HP5 + and Neopan 400
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncd_photo/sets/72157594434871998/
Cheers
Nick
A few weeks back I finally resisted the urge and visited the camera store to try out an M2 and a Contax G1. Well the M2 won and was married up with a new CV 35 2.5 Panckake from Robert White UK.
I was visiting Cambridge a week later to visit family pre-christmas so where better to try it out than the city where I first learnt the pleasures of photography.
First impressions:
The M2 is a lovely piece of engineering, despite being about 40 years old, it operates like new and feels very slick. I'm amazed how you can go virtually un-noticed while using this camera. The whole thing is smaller than the battery grip on my D80!
On my second roll of film the frame counter must of got knocked whilst in my rucksack and moved on about 7 frames - one thing to remember.
The CV lens is nice and compact with a smooth focussing action, however the aperture ring isn't particularly positive and got knocked from 5.6 to f16 whilst hanging under my arm - resulting in a few frames under exposed before I noticed - one thing to check in the future!
I shot a few frames into the sun and it does flare in direct sun, plus a strong sidelight results in a weird ripple effect at the opposite edge of the frame - noticed in a couple of shots.
Other than that I'm really pleased with my first two rolls. Shooting all manual with no lightmeter (just sunny 16 in my head) is refreshing to get back to after 2 years and 12,000 frames on a DSLR!
I've posted my favourites from the trip onto Flickr if anybody is interested. HP5 + and Neopan 400
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncd_photo/sets/72157594434871998/
Cheers
Nick
