pfogle
Well-known
Well, my stuff arrived this morning, so I cycled home from work through the snow/rain to check it out.
I got the 40mm Nokton and the 28mm Ultron.
First impressions - this camera grows on you, and I'm only talking about 1 day! It's brought up a lot of forgotten skills - I'm having to re-learn to focus and expose, after using EOS stuff.
There's one obvious hot pixel, which I'm not sure if I should complain about... otherwise it works a treat. I'm just printing a 12x8 matt of the living room, b/w at 800 ISO, f2.8 on the Nokton, and it looks great.
Apart from that, it's very hard not to fall in love with this camera (being a digital and b/w addict) and, since it's so transparent to use, to fall in love with photography again.
It's a great camera to carry around, after the EOS experience, you forget it's there till you need it - apologies to all you Leica people for rambling on!
Phil
I got the 40mm Nokton and the 28mm Ultron.
First impressions - this camera grows on you, and I'm only talking about 1 day! It's brought up a lot of forgotten skills - I'm having to re-learn to focus and expose, after using EOS stuff.
There's one obvious hot pixel, which I'm not sure if I should complain about... otherwise it works a treat. I'm just printing a 12x8 matt of the living room, b/w at 800 ISO, f2.8 on the Nokton, and it looks great.
Apart from that, it's very hard not to fall in love with this camera (being a digital and b/w addict) and, since it's so transparent to use, to fall in love with photography again.
It's a great camera to carry around, after the EOS experience, you forget it's there till you need it - apologies to all you Leica people for rambling on!
Phil
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Sean Reid
Guest
Good for you. Enjoy it.
Cheers,
Sean
Cheers,
Sean
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Natalia
Guest
Phil, make sure to post some shots in your RFF gallery.
peter_n
Veteran
Don't worry about rambling, Phil - everybody does it here - we're all enthusiastic!
Enjoy your new kit - sounds awesome!
Enjoy your new kit - sounds awesome!
vincenzo
Established
Hot pixels is an issue to me too although its hard to criticise the RD-1 when my creativity has gone through the roof since getting one! Try a jupiter 3, it produces great files on the rd-1 and at $30 if its a dud one u can use it as a loupe!
Designer
Keven
Congratulations on getting your new gear, Phil.
Keven
Keven