M9 Alive and ....well- Post Your Pics Here!

From the Gallery. The fill light has a shadow going too. M9 and ZM 35 C Biogon. Take it with me to work every day. Last case of the day, still toting camera, came out into the evening sunlight and saw this. The camera you have with you.....

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Klaus, you're getting very good noise control at 1600. My pictures are mostly terrible at that ISO, and this fashion picture is dominated by darker tones. Do you over-expose slightly to control that?
 
I managed to get out and shoot with the M9 again, this time to work with a lens I've hardly used and that often gets a bad rap: the Voigtländer Ultron 28mm f/2. A set of test photos and pixel peeping showed the usual mentioned flaws (corner darkening wide open, unsharp corners until two-three stops down); happily no focus shift on this example that I could see.

However, that doesn't stop it from producing some lovely results, in my opinion:


ISO 200 @ f/3.5 @ 1/90 sec



ISO 200 @ f/2 @ 1/125 sec​

The DNG files were processed in LR 4.2. No adjustments other than adding a little vignette effect and then a border treatment (with Flare). #131 was a square crop of the top 2/3 of the frame. #132 is uncropped.

Comments are always appreciated.
 
Richard G said:
Klaus, you're getting very good noise control at 1600. My pictures are mostly terrible at that ISO, and this fashion picture is dominated by darker tones. Do you over-expose slightly to control that?
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Hi Richard,

I tried to copy and paste the histogram for this shot but obviously this doesn't work that easy...
Try to expose "properly" i.e. as much as possible w/o blowing the highlights, digitally: too the right of the histogram.
Unless you have to rescue the exposure (i.e. you have underexposed >0.5 stops), there is relatively little noise.
If you do underexpose then noise will be pretty obvious when you try to save this with software.
 
icebear said:
Hi Richard,

I tried to copy and paste the histogram for this shot but obviously this doesn't work that easy...
Try to expose "properly" i.e. as much as possible w/o blowing the highlights, digitally: too the right of the histogram.
Unless you have to rescue the exposure (i.e. you have underexposed >0.5 stops), there is relatively little noise.
If you do underexpose then noise will be pretty obvious when you try to save this with software.
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Great. I'll try that, thanks. I have never used the histogram in the field but some test shots are probably the way forward.
 
Godfrey, Your presentation is always nice and the earlier images you posted here were really nice! I like these as well. The second one "The Look"looks hot off the file 🙂

JCrutcher, I also like the toning, that it is at 1600, taken with a favorite lens, and from the Mission District! (I lived for a time at 25th and Bryant many years back 🙂

David
 
M9 alive on Thankgiving weekend

M9 alive on Thankgiving weekend

My M9 seems to be very much alive and well paired with a summicron 50 🙂
 

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Richard G said:
Great. I'll try that, thanks. I have never used the histogram in the field but some test shots are probably the way forward.
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Hello Richard,
obviously there is also the bracketing option which I completely forgot to mention. Play around with it in difficult situations ( 3 or even 5 variations of 0.5 stops) and later on evaluating the shots at home, you'll get the idea which exposure will give the best result.
 
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