Month: April 2013

Leica M240: More thoughts.

Q&A, Teaching point

Leica M.

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I continue to be underwhelmed with M(240) images.

[See: M240: Final Verdict.]

[See:  M9, M(240), DXO… and smoke and mirrors.]

I know, I know, the shutter is quieter, and the buffer is larger, and the LCD is better than what we had with the M8/M9/Monochrom.

But… who cares, if the images all look like Canikon… sorry, like Canikoleica?

Oh yes, I forget, we have to wait for updated firmware, for the correct raw converter “profiles”, for people to get used to working with the new files, etc.  The problem I have with these sorts of statements, and other statements from many M owners, is that it all sounds like mass rationalization.

Yes, the new “box” is shinier, the new box is newer.

But… I prefer to let the images do the talking.  So far, they are inferior to anything I’ve seen out of the M9 or M8 (not to mention the Monochrom).

Sorry, but I’m calling it as I’m seeing it.

Perhaps my long-held view that CCD has something that CMOS lacks is simplistic.

But it appears to summarize things nicely.

—Peter.

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Prosophos Open Letter to Leica

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Related posts:

10 ways to create bad photographs.

Inspiration, Teaching point

10 ways to create a bad photograph

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This is meant to be lighthearted — and instructive 🙂  …Enjoy!

—Peter.

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10 ways to create bad photographs.

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  1. Shoot from your head, not your heart (if you lack passion, your images will be found lacking).

  2. Shoot by first surrendering your brain (leaving the camera on auto-everything leaves everything to chance).

  3. Shoot without honing (there is no substitute for practice, practice, practice).

  4. Shoot as if your camera is a machine gun (indiscriminately pressing the shutter to photograph everything often captures nothing).

  5. Shoot when the light is un-magical (good light helps all photographs, always!).

  6. Shoot from one spot (don’t work for the shot and the shot will likely not work).

  7. Shoot it all (being overly-inclusive obscures your photographic vision).

  8. Shoot a “postcard” image  (doing what’s been done before often leads to staid shots — try something original and you may be pleasantly surprised).

  9. Shoot with the latest and greatest (frequently “upgrading” equipment frequently downgrades the quality of your output).

  10. Shoot by committee (visiting photography forums for “advice” from people with different experience, needs, expectations, and motives should be done with extreme caution).

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Happy Colours.

Inspiration, Leica 90mm Summicron APO f/2, Portrait, Teaching point

This was actually taken last month, when we were technically still in winter.  It felt like spring.

Since then, our actual spring has been awful.  It’s been raining for days on end, and over the last 24 hrs we’ve been pelted by ice pellets.  Outside, it’s all black and white.

So today, I’m focusing on (happy) colours.

—Peter.

[Incidentally, the bokeh of the 90/2 APO is really something special.]

Happy Colours

↑Leica M9 and Leica 90mm Summicron @ f/2.

Today Prosophos.com is 2 years old!

Inspiration, Q&A, Teaching point

Happy 2nd Birtday Prosophos.com

↑Today, this site celebrates a 2nd birthday!

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During the last two years, there have been:

  • 800 posts (including this one)
  • over 3,500 comments
  • over 1,800 images
  • over 700,000 visits

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Thank you all for your contributions here each and every day!

I’ll try to keep posting an image a day, for as long as I’m able, but Prosophos.com is entering the terrible twos so, who knows? 🙂

—Peter.

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