I believe that with your skills/gift, you could fill a book photographing the same subject at the same spot from various angles and different perspectives, without losing the beauty of the picture!
Best wishes for your beautiful family!
Kostas
Regarding photographing from the same spot — Ha! My choices are limited by the poor weather. But thank you Kostas.
And I only have the Zeiss 21/2.8 at the moment to work with, as my other two lenses have been stuck in Canadian Customs for the last three days – I was hoping I’d have them in time for Halloween today (oh well, guess what? — it’s RAINING anyway…)
—Peter.
Well, guess what, I live in a beautiful, sunny country and i am stuck working, photographing the inside of root canals from my dental microscope!……funny, isn’t it?
kostas
Touché.
🙂
Hey Peter,
Glad to see you are still making the most of our crappy weather. I know you haven’t had as much opportunity as you would like to play with your new 240 but I have a couple of questions on your experience so far:
1.) Of the 240 pics you’ve posted so far, the majority are BW. Are you finding the colours off from what you like?
2.) I obviously don’t know all the pp you’ve done to the pics you’ve posted so far, but this last one suggests to me that you are shooting the 240 like you would on the MM – i.e., exposing for the highlights. Is this the case and do you find the DR matches that of the MM?
3.) What’s the overall general “feel” you have for the camera so far?
Thanks in advance for the comments.
Cheers,
Kevin
My goodness Kevin, you’ve hit upon several key points with your questions. I’ll try my best to answer them:
1. (a) I’ve posted mostly B&W because of the poor light. Even when the camera is capable of high(er) ISO, I’ll often convert my images to B&W if the light is unappealing and if the colour adds nothing to the image.
1 (b). I *am* finding the colour is a little “off” on the M240, but that may be because I’m still used to the M9 output, though I don’t think that’s the reason. I will say that the “off”-ness is not as much as I feared based on sample images I’d seen prior to owning the camera (the latest firmware is installed so that may be helping). Tomorrow, I’ll be posting the last shot from this series and it will be a colour image taken at ISO 1600. That sort of ISO level is not groundbreaking, but I can guarantee you that with the M9 the (colour) output would have suffered (more). So, as with anything in life, there are trade-offs. I’ll let you be the judge.
2. With digital cameras, I *always* expose for the highlights, M240 included. The dynamic range of the 240 is excellent, however, and there is more latitude vs. the Monochrom (notice I didn’t comment on tonal range – I’m undecided about that, though my gut feeling is that the Monochrom has more of that).
3. As for the general “feel” of the camera – it’s incredible. It’s true what you read: the ergonomics have been immensely improved. It operates more smoothly and quickly… it’s definitely more mature and polished vs the M9. In short, it inspires me to want to shoot (even though I haven’t had much opportunity thus far!).
—Peter.
Thank you for all your thoughts so far Peter – very much appreciated. Interesting (but slightly) sad is your comment that ISO 1600 is “not groundbreaking” – sad cause the technological advances means any Joe (not referring to you) can shoot a decent pic without ever learning about light.
Have fun trick-or-treating with the kids tonight.
What about vignette with the 21 biogon? According to stevehuff it’s still not perfect with wide angle lens?. Have you experience the same
All the wide angle lenses vignette to some extent, including Leica ones (even when the in-camera profile corrections are activated). That doesn’t bother me at all as I photograph people, and often I will ADD darkened corners to an image.
The feared issue is colour shifting at the edges. So far I’m not seeing that, but then again, I haven’t tested for it because, unless it’s really obvious, it doesn’t bother me.
Prosophos 
Peter,
I believe that with your skills/gift, you could fill a book photographing the same subject at the same spot from various angles and different perspectives, without losing the beauty of the picture!
Best wishes for your beautiful family!
Kostas
Regarding photographing from the same spot — Ha! My choices are limited by the poor weather. But thank you Kostas.
And I only have the Zeiss 21/2.8 at the moment to work with, as my other two lenses have been stuck in Canadian Customs for the last three days – I was hoping I’d have them in time for Halloween today (oh well, guess what? — it’s RAINING anyway…)
—Peter.
Well, guess what, I live in a beautiful, sunny country and i am stuck working, photographing the inside of root canals from my dental microscope!……funny, isn’t it?
kostas
Touché.
🙂
Hey Peter,
Glad to see you are still making the most of our crappy weather. I know you haven’t had as much opportunity as you would like to play with your new 240 but I have a couple of questions on your experience so far:
1.) Of the 240 pics you’ve posted so far, the majority are BW. Are you finding the colours off from what you like?
2.) I obviously don’t know all the pp you’ve done to the pics you’ve posted so far, but this last one suggests to me that you are shooting the 240 like you would on the MM – i.e., exposing for the highlights. Is this the case and do you find the DR matches that of the MM?
3.) What’s the overall general “feel” you have for the camera so far?
Thanks in advance for the comments.
Cheers,
Kevin
My goodness Kevin, you’ve hit upon several key points with your questions. I’ll try my best to answer them:
1. (a) I’ve posted mostly B&W because of the poor light. Even when the camera is capable of high(er) ISO, I’ll often convert my images to B&W if the light is unappealing and if the colour adds nothing to the image.
1 (b). I *am* finding the colour is a little “off” on the M240, but that may be because I’m still used to the M9 output, though I don’t think that’s the reason. I will say that the “off”-ness is not as much as I feared based on sample images I’d seen prior to owning the camera (the latest firmware is installed so that may be helping). Tomorrow, I’ll be posting the last shot from this series and it will be a colour image taken at ISO 1600. That sort of ISO level is not groundbreaking, but I can guarantee you that with the M9 the (colour) output would have suffered (more). So, as with anything in life, there are trade-offs. I’ll let you be the judge.
2. With digital cameras, I *always* expose for the highlights, M240 included. The dynamic range of the 240 is excellent, however, and there is more latitude vs. the Monochrom (notice I didn’t comment on tonal range – I’m undecided about that, though my gut feeling is that the Monochrom has more of that).
3. As for the general “feel” of the camera – it’s incredible. It’s true what you read: the ergonomics have been immensely improved. It operates more smoothly and quickly… it’s definitely more mature and polished vs the M9. In short, it inspires me to want to shoot (even though I haven’t had much opportunity thus far!).
—Peter.
Thank you for all your thoughts so far Peter – very much appreciated. Interesting (but slightly) sad is your comment that ISO 1600 is “not groundbreaking” – sad cause the technological advances means any Joe (not referring to you) can shoot a decent pic without ever learning about light.
Have fun trick-or-treating with the kids tonight.
What about vignette with the 21 biogon? According to stevehuff it’s still not perfect with wide angle lens?. Have you experience the same
All the wide angle lenses vignette to some extent, including Leica ones (even when the in-camera profile corrections are activated). That doesn’t bother me at all as I photograph people, and often I will ADD darkened corners to an image.
The feared issue is colour shifting at the edges. So far I’m not seeing that, but then again, I haven’t tested for it because, unless it’s really obvious, it doesn’t bother me.
—Peter.