As of today, January 7, 2018, I am using a digital camera (Nikon D850) with arguably one of the greatest 35mm sensors every made and yet my Leica M3 + 50/2 Dual Range + Kodak Tri-X combination still gives me a look that digital cannot — not even after having been Photoshoped, VSCOized, Silver Efexized, or whatever-simulationized.
—Peter.
↑ Leica M3, Leica 50mm Summicron Dual Range, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.
↑ Leica M3, Leica 50mm Summicron Dual Range, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.
↑ Leica M3, Leica 50mm Summicron Dual Range, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.
↑ Leica M3, Leica 50mm Summicron Dual Range, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.
Early evening snowfall.
There will be more shoveling but who cares?… I am photographing with film again!
Looks like my new combo is working well.
—Peter.
↑ Leica M3, Leica 50mm Summicron Dual Range, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Plustek 8200i.
The shutter lag is defined as the time between when:
A minimal shutter lag is very helpful when trying to photograph the decisive moment.
Below I’ve compiled the shutter lag times of various 35mm cameras; the data is consistent with my own experience and it may surprise a few of you.
—Peter.
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*manufactured in Midland, Ontario, Canada.
Another year passes — hope to see all of you on the other side of the finish line.
—Peter.
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↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.
A few of you have expressed an interest in seeing this list 😉
So, here goes…
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I’ve been photographing with the D500 since May and with the D850 since September; the 28mm f/1.4 and 200mm f/2 lenses were also introduced in September.
The 28mm stays on the D850.
The 200mm stays on the D500.
The image quality from both set-ups is of a high calibre, to say the least.
Admittedly (and predictably) the one thing I’ve missed after all of these months is photographing with a rangefinder, but I think I have sorted that out.
(Hint: what’s old is new again.)
Happy New Year!
—Peter.
Santa style.
↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.
↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.
↑ iPhone.
↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.
Santa knows his audience.
Christmas, 2017.
—Peter.
↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.
Not a creature was stirring, not even a Honey.
—Peter.
↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.
The fine line between pleasure and pain.
—Peter.
↑ Leica M9 + Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH f/1.4.
“If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me,
They bury me some place I don’t want to be,
You’ll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously,
Away from the swollen city-breeze, garbage bag trees,
Whispers of disease and the acts of enormity
And lower me slowly, sadly and properly
Get [Gordon Downie] to sing my eulogy,
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin”
—At The Hundredth Meridian, The Tragically Hip.
Prosophos 