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Having a dip!

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Ten Colors images with a Pre-war lens.

Today i wanted to test the 50/f2 Leitz Summar lens.
According to the serial number registry, this lens was
made in 1938 and uncoated. Early uncoated lens are
full of character and aberrations such as flare and coma,
resulting in blurry images which are unsharp and
low in contrast. Since most images produced by modern
cameras and lenses are sharp and clear but ultimately
look very similar, this 1938 lens should provide some
interesting images.


True to its character, the images are low in
contrast and saturation, colors are muted but seem
to be a bit on the warmer side.Post-processed
with a bit of added contrast the images are
pretty interesting.

This is an underrated and often ignored lens. It is cheap
but hard to get a decent sample.

(Technically, these images was captured on the Leitz Summar
lens on the Epson R-D1 at ISO 800 - 1600. The images were
post processed by adding contrast and a simple white
border, and off coss resized for web viewing)

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Could you share some of your workflow? I saw your flicker postings and you have some great photographs but I am even more captivated by these level of detail you are able to capture.
Thanks,
Carlos
 
lightwriter said:
Could you share some of your workflow? I saw your flicker postings and you have some great photographs but I am even more captivated by these level of detail you are able to capture.
Thanks,
Carlos
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Hi Carlos

Thanks for the compliment. My workflow is simple; shoot RAW, import to Lightroom, I have two filters that I generally use (one for colour, one for BW).

Colour - warm the picture slightly, sharpen a bit, up the clarity and contrast too - voila!

Sometime I play around with more settings, such as on the picture above I increased the exposure on the tree trunk a little and used a graduated filter to increase the exposure in the bottom quarter of the picture and decrease in the top quarter.

Hope that helps - or have I confused things further?!

Cheers
 
ped said:
Hi Carlos

Thanks for the compliment. My workflow is simple; shoot RAW, import to Lightroom, I have two filters that I generally use (one for colour, one for BW).

Colour - warm the picture slightly, sharpen a bit, up the clarity and contrast too - voila!

Sometime I play around with more settings, such as on the picture above I increased the exposure on the tree trunk a little and used a graduated filter to increase the exposure in the bottom quarter of the picture and decrease in the top quarter.

Hope that helps - or have I confused things further?!

Cheers
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That does indeed help. I think the biggest problem is that I've been using the Epson RAW converter as I do not have Lightroom.
Thanks for the prompt reply.
 
lightwriter said:
That does indeed help. I think the biggest problem is that I've been using the Epson RAW converter as I do not have Lightroom.
Thanks for the prompt reply.
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My pleasure. I really like Lightroom; I had a play with Aperture but I thought 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'

Here's another pic


The £9000 Turntable by chiscocks, on Flickr

I think the high ISO noise on the R-D1 is beautiful, and it suits the nature of vinyl!
 
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