My M6, another shameless excuse to post photos

Colin, about the Fuji Frontier SP2000, do you actually own it or only have access to it ? There is one small photo-lab / shop near my university, where they use a SP1500 (with some standard-settings like dpi72 scans) and I would like to know, what this machine is capable of ... 🙂
 
Colin, about the Fuji Frontier SP2000, do you actually own it or only have access to it ? There is one small photo-lab / shop near my university, where they use a SP1500 (with some standard-settings like dpi72 scans) and I would like to know, what this machine is capable of ... 🙂

hah, just access, im a poor college student 😀

I am not familiar with the differences between the machines but on the sp2000 I took many shots from my Mamiya 6 (many shot hand held), scanned them at max quality (40meg bmp) then enlarged to 50x50 inches. Stunning quality.
 
hah, just access, im a poor college student 😀

I am not familiar with the differences between the machines but on the sp2000 I took many shots from my Mamiya 6 (many shot hand held), scanned them at max quality (40meg bmp) then enlarged to 50x50 inches. Stunning quality.

Just access is enough, lucky you 🙂 ! BTW, you caused severe GAS attack .... 😱 ordered an M6TTL (black, 0.85x) myself. 😀
 
Just access is enough, lucky you 🙂 ! BTW, you caused severe GAS attack .... 😱 ordered an M6TTL (black, 0.85x) myself. 😀

Sorry about that :X


Well things go on I guess. Today I was out and shot another 6 rolls of film so there should be some substance there. Most of the pictures were taken with the 35mm Leica lens, maybe half a roll with my Zeiss 50. I found the 35mm lens to suit my current fancy of being in closer, less squared off compositions and more angles and dynamics. We will see how successful I was in some days, there was one case I shot half a roll of XP2 at 200 because I forgot to reset the ISO thing on the back after shooting some color. Expect another photo type essay, this one however will be more in the reportage style, I will spend some extra time writing this one up and tinkering with it.
 
I'm put off by your sentimentalism and tool-worship.

You need to remember that providing a narrative for one of your own photos is a taboo and comes across as pretentious. You can caption a photo but you cannot write a paragraph explaining what 'you think' is happening in the picture. Leave that to the viewers.

No hard feelings, just some tough advice from someone who was like you once.

Nonsense. I enjoyed the narrative as much as the images. Do what ever works for you, with titles, captions or an entire story or just untitled images. If it's interesting enough (both words and or pictures) it will find an audience.
 
Avotius
I have rarely seen anything more ridiculous than this: "I'm put off by your sentimentalism and tool-worship.

You need to remember that providing a narrative for one of your own photos is a taboo and comes across as pretentious. You can caption a photo but you cannot write a paragraph explaining what 'you think' is happening in the picture. Leave that to the viewers."

Your narrative was fascinating. The photos were superb.

I'm an Australian. Did you read or hear the speeches of our prime minister kevin rudd to the university students in Beijing? What did you think?

Btw, I came across your posts in a search for the M6 - I am flying through Hong Kong early in May and you really have set me on a mission for that camera ;-)

congratulations - the HCB of china!
 
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Avotius
I have rarely seen anything more ridiculous than this: "I'm put off by your sentimentalism and tool-worship.

You need to remember that providing a narrative for one of your own photos is a taboo and comes across as pretentious. You can caption a photo but you cannot write a paragraph explaining what 'you think' is happening in the picture. Leave that to the viewers."

Your narrative was fascinating. The photos were superb.

I'm an Australian. Did you read or hear the speeches of our prime minister kevin rudd to the university students in Beijing? What did you think?

Btw, I came across your posts in a search for the M6 - I am flying through Hong Kong early in May and you really have set me on a mission for that camera ;-)

congratulations - the HCB of china!


Thanks! I dont think I am anything of the caliber of HCB, but the reference is very flattering. The M6 is great. I was so worried that manual everything would slow me down, yesterday I took 6 rolls in 1.5 hours. Guess that shows whats what for me and this camera.

The speeches kind of ring a bell, im trying to remember, I think they were a few months ago? Cant really remember, looking for them online now.

Found it, reading it now.

So far from the half I have read it is kind of fluff, a lot of words strung together to make people happy.

Ok finished it, its rather dry as most political speeches are, as for his comments about the Olympics and Tibet, that is something I would rather not discuss online (wink) here. To speak frankly, there are a lot of things the "FT" (wink) people dont understand about that place, as someone who grew up in the Seattle area (quite liberal) and spent a lot of time in the Tibetan areas and who has communicated with many people there.....well lets just say not all things are as they seem.

But I agree about some of his points, time to lift some shrouds.

I dont care to photograph too many "political" points here, the picture of the little girl with the kite is a exception, but as it has been pointed out before, the Olympics is not a political agenda passing organization (contentious).



Anyway, get the M6, go photograph a lot!
 
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Well I got my film back from my little shoot the other day. We only have one and a half hours to shoot and in my photos you can tell they were rushed. I didnt do a good job, missed focus, wrong shutter speeds, etc....rather annoyed with myself right now.

Right off the bat though I can comment on the 35 summicron v3 and the 35 f2.5 skopar pancake 2, the skopar is without a doubt a heavy contrast lens, highlights easily over and under the enlarger I am not seeing much information in them. The Leica highlights are duller, easier to control, and the lens is overall less contrasty. Because the large majority of shots are with the summicron all my errors are seen with that lens, so right now is not a good time for me to be objective about it. The shorter focus throw of the skopar seems nice though but the summicron is more easy to use, though for some reason, two of my shots have my finger in them....that never happened before!
 
hey, the narrative is for us photographers. Who else are we going to talk with? Do you think we are going to tell people walking into a gallery about this stuff? We need to have the dialogue amongst ourselves. I wouldn't expect that you would explain all this to your mother, family, or anyone else coming into a gallery. We've all been there.

RFF isn't for the unwashed masses... its for us!

I'm glad that I got to know you through this set of photos. Keep up the great work!
Gary
 
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