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    Leica Autumn in England

    Nice colours. The storm hasn't hit yet and we usually get some of the worst of it down here, had some crazy big waves and high winds earlier in the year. It was a really lovely warm day yesterday.
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    Leica Zeiss 50 f1.5 Sonnar ZM | Location: UK | Ships: UK

    Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling Zeiss 50 f1.5 Sonnar ZM Prices £550 Location UK Ships to UK Description The legendary Zeiss 50 Sonnar in Leica M mount, including box and papers, in excellent condition perfect optics and working order, aligned with...
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    Leica This had better not be true...

    I own an M8 but its pretty clear where the company is going with the Boutiques, the T system, the waiting lists and drip drip supply. Its straight out of the swiss watch industry text book. Its funny actually over on another forum there was a big hoohah about my local dealer going out of...
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    Leica 24mm f/3.8 Elmar-M ASPH

    Its my favourite wide angle focal length by far, I have CV 21, CV 25 and the 28 Elmarit ASPH but the 25 has pretty much taken over due to my love for this focal lengths characteristics. I bought a second hand Leica 24mm viewfinder for 2/5 of what the current one costs new. The one I have looks...
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    Leica This had better not be true...

    Bill I have pretty much decided that Leica = film M and a handful of lenses for me. If I buy another digital camera in the future it most certainly will not be a Leica, regardless of this latest 'incident' they are fast becoming just like Rolex a luxury goods company trading on past glories but...
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    Leica This had better not be true...

    Well they are going to get sued by Leica as sure as night follows day for making this claim they way they have, and sorry but it sounds and feels like an extremely amateur operation for them to go about things in this way. If they had a detailed NDA signed up with Leica before they had...
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    Leica Will a Leica X1 or M9 take better pictures than a Canon 5D or 7D?

    Yeah I agree with that, I ended up with 3, Planar/Sonnar/Elmar-M but really can't afford to have 3. The Elmar-M is my current favourite. Its really great to have such a wide array of choices.
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    Leica Will a Leica X1 or M9 take better pictures than a Canon 5D or 7D?

    Oh its really simple for me. I like the rangefinder experience, a lot. Especially with a 50 mounted on my M7 0.85 I feel more connected photographically to the world around me than with any other camera I have used. I would like to invent all kinds of other reasons but really it just boils down...
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    Leica Leica M9 CCD - Skin Tones

    Thanks Duane, I decided sometime ago that if I was going to continue with digital I would have to use a colour checker. Your images really highlight just how important it is to get the colour right.
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    Leica Leica 180mm f2.8 Elmarit 2nd version

    Ken R was right though, for portraiture you get nice smooth out of focus areas and tight head and shoulder shoots with lenses like this one not super fast 50s or short teles. I agree she makes me smile, who couldn't at such a cute little girl :D
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    Leica B&W HDR - Aircraft portraits - Taken @ Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum

    It does and I really dig that outcome, nice one Kookie.
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    Leica B&W HDR - Aircraft portraits - Taken @ Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum

    I like them a lot but feel they would work better if there was slightly more separation from the surroundings either in terms of light levels or sharpness, this would make the aircraft really pop.
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    Leica Showcase Voigtlander 90mm F3.5 APO Lanthar

    Just to add a note I spent some time pixel peeping a lot of my images the past couple of days to help decide where I want to go next with my lenses. What I see from this lens is a really lovely bokeh and gentle rendition wide open, fine details are there in digital, on film it is a bit more...
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    Leica My Home Area

    Sorry I forgot to add its the east end of Weymouth bay on the south coast of England. It comprises of a number of small areas mostly residential except for Bowleaze and the two Haven campsites (Haven is a UK holiday camp company chain). It looks very different in vivid colour with all the...
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    Leica My Home Area

    All, join me on short photographic sojourn round my little corner of the world PrestonBeachRoad by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr BowleazeCove by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr BowleazePeir by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr The first photograph is Fuji Acros in ID-11, the lens a modern...
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    Leica Flowers in my garden

    Following an observation made on Flickr I have edited one of those above to make the background less distracting. Orchid_v2_Acros by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr Do you like what I did? Neil
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    Leica 35mm f/2.5 Summarit-M

    I think that is what people mean but its hard to pin down when was classical and when was modern. Personally I take it as lenses with high micro contrast are modern. You can see this looking at the 40lp/pm line on a lenses MTF plot (this to me is what micro contrast is others can argue wrongly...
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    Leica Leica R 35-70mm - any experience with it?

    I shot last weekend with a 50 on my M7 and 25 on an R4a. It was more weight but I really liked having two cameras to hand. Will be interesting to hear your experiences with those lenses.
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    Leica Flowers in my garden

    Ed, scanning B&W doesn't worry me that much its the colour that would worry me and on this the lab is really really good. The C-41 scans look spot on in terms of colour balance to me but I found that after hating having to fiddle with M8 DNG files in ACR a lot I got used to it and could work...
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    Leica Flowers in my garden

    Yeah its on several frames unfortunately, like a thin faint band. I need to inspect the negatives to determine if its on the negative or just the scan. I doubt its a scanner flaw though as its only on the last several frames of that roll I have seen this effect. TBH I don't know how I feel...
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    Leica The Marina

    My parents have been there on holiday a couple of times and I would love a big yacht. Took part in Sunseekers pre-season boat show last month (pictures to follow), its an incredible feeling like you have died and gone to heaven.
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    Leica Showcase Voigtlander 90mm F3.5 APO Lanthar

    Wow this thread is well over due an update so here are a few pictures of the flowers in my garden this spring Tulip_Acros by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr Orchid_Acros by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr Bluebells by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr All taken with an M6, CV 90 f3.5 APO Lanthar...
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    Leica Flowers in my garden

    Hi all just thought I would share a few pictures of the flowers in my garden this spring Tulip_Acros by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr Orchid_Acros by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr Bluebells by Neil Haughey - NJH, on Flickr All taken with an M6, CV 90 f3.5 APO Lanthar, Yellow filter...
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    Leica Bokeh Comparison - Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux ASPH FLE and Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 Nokton (MC)

    The resolution difference is much more pronounced than I would have expected, I wonder how that pair would fair on a high res film scan.
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    Leica 60mm Macro Elmarit

    Its funny you posted this today as I started looking into this lens this morning after realising one can buy a nice condition R8 for peanuts. I would like to get a lot closer than my CV 90 f3.5 does with its 0.9m minimum focus distance but I just can't stomach the insane price for the Leica M 90...
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    Leica New (to me) M9

    The whole spirit of M seems to me to be about tiny lenses with 39mm filters. I have the CV 21, Elmarit ASPH 28 and CV 90 f3.5 all tiny lenses taking 39 mm filters. I also find the Sonnar whilst 46mm thread is surprisingly light and compact for an f1.5 so its become my go to general purpose lens...
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    Nikon Nikon Df

    Brian I wish I hadn't clicked into thread, been following this camera a bit more recently. The way that sensor hangs on to nice colour and tonality at high ISO is just mind blowing, I can see now why when it came out there was such a frenzy about it using this sensor and why the pros who shoot...
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    Nikon Nikon Df

    A friend of mine is one of the most avid motorsport photographers in the UK, not a pro or anything he just attends an inordinate number of events and posts most of the pictures on the net. We talked a few years back about technique and he always uses a prefocus into a set shooting trap for the...
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    Leica A Wifie

    Ain't that the truth. My better half freezes as soon as the camera is pointed her way, very very difficult person to photograph and that is only on the days when she doesn't mind the camera being around. Lovely shot OP.
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    Leica Comparison of M8 vs M9 for Monochrome Conversions

    Maybe but I shot a roll of Acros a couple of weekends back and was blown away when I got the scans back. It just looks incredible but not dark like a lot of Leica digital B&W so I think its more of a film vs digital thing. BTW I bought myself a 10x pack of the Acros as its my new love and will...
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    Leica Comparison of M8 vs M9 for Monochrome Conversions

    Thanks Brian, maybe its because I have been shooting film again rather than digital but I see the same thing in a lot of MM images. Just to much dark and not enough highlights to make the image pop in general IMHO. Many seem to like dark looking images though. I know that the metering in Leica...
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    Leica Comparison of M8 vs M9 for Monochrome Conversions

    The brightness difference is very surprising, Brian are all these shots metering the same from the camera? I greatly prefer the M9 images in this set but that is entirely due to the M8 ones looking to mid tone heavy, a lot of the M9 images look a little under exposed though.
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    Leica Leica M8 with CV 25/4

    I was, I posted a whole sequence of shots using this combination over here: Poole Quay Picture Thread - Page 1 - Porsche General - PistonHeads UK Its sharp enough but vignettes quite a bit and I can only assume will vignette a lot on full frame and probably 35mm film as well, really its only...
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    Leica 7/7 Remembering( People

    Thanks Alan as a Londoner by birth, to my shame I wasn't aware of this memorial.
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    Leica Showcase M8 Monochrome Conversion comparison RAW vs DNG, M8RAW2DNG V1.2

    Somewhere else it was claimed another advantage is less colour noise at higher ISO (640 ISTR). Good work.
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    Leica The Next Big Picture

    Interesting article, not sure I agree with the basic premise however that photography used to be all about fact and is now as an art at least about fiction. Certainly for some subjects its never been about fact its just different tools. The soft net filter over the lens replaced with digital...
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    Leica Sonnars old and new

    I should add a picture. What else is there to do in Britain this time of year then to take a picture of the Mrs laughing at the telly whilst Hubby plays with the bokeh from the sonnar 50 at f1.5 and his new mistress M6. Christmas2013bokeh by Neil Haughey, on Flickr Lucky that she threw her...
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    Leica Carl Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 C Sonnar ZM

    More please. I have this lens as well and really love the feel of it on my M6.
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    Leica The Musician

    Couldn't have put it better myself, 100% agree with you're points.
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    Leica A Dilemma

    I will say this, now I have my M6 I am in love with the thing but I don't quite feel I can just leave digital capture behind. I have decided however that the cost differential between the M8 and M9 for the extra pixels it gives means its likely that I will skip the M9 and wait for the price on...
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    Leica 2013 with the MM

    Agreed. I have looked at a lot of street photos this year online and a few of the ones above are amongst that really small number I remember, probably less than 1%. I can't think of higher praise than that.
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    Leica Show us your film Leica

    Thanks guys I am starting to feel for myself what made the legend. Still a bit nervous about seeing my first negs when they are done, not being able to chimp off a rear screen has left me glancing repeatedly at the rewind knob just to confirm that it seems to be working, or at least its winding...
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    Leica Show us your film Leica

    I have just joined the club so to speak, bought a really mint looking M6. Can't believe how lucky I was it came with the full original package (outer card box, inner plastic box), instructions and an unused strap in its original little box. The only thing stopping it from being a collectors...
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    Leica Showcase Leica 28mm f/2.8 Elmarit

    Here is one from me taken recently which I have titled 'Alone'. I have the ASPH version mounted as the go to lens on my M8. The lens is very contrasty zoomed in close to the pixels, I guess this is the famed micro contrast. I had to turn that down to get the look I wanted by setting the...
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    Leica DOS rules, BABY!

    Cobol is still in strong demand because it has been heavily used by the big banks and they just have far too much legacy code to ever convert it all into something more modern (safely). Fortran I am not to sure about, its where I started as my academic education was physics which led to...
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    Leica DOS rules, BABY!

    DOS or rather operating systems like DOS are still commonplace. I worked several years ago on a test system which was used for testing control systems on trains, that was a DOS-alike RTOS. Easy to write the code nightmare to debug it when it doesn't work. Still though I love real time as there...
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    Leica Rodney Dangerfield "I don't get no respect" lenses...

    As time goes by one of the traditional reasons for fast lenses will fade (low light performance). Given the compact nature of the M its the slower lenses that interest me more so its great to hear on here and elsewhere how many are satisfied by the 35 summarit. Its also a bit of a bargain second...
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    Leica Dressed for Jazz

    Nigel Kennedy by any chance? He has a rep for trying anything and everything. Great shot btw.
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    Leica Showcase Leica M Monochrom

    Ooohhh I do like that a lot.
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    Leica What is your camera bag(s) for your Leica?

    I went into Bournemouth a little while back just to browse the bags at Castle Cameras and ended up coming home with a Lowepro Stealth Reporter 100 discounted to £60. Brilliant little bag, honestly I don't know why they don't get mentioned more often, perhaps its because guys don't see them as RF...
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