Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis, I think the resulting image from a digital sensor depends very much on how it is treated in processing. I do appreciate my legacy lenses with a digital sensor; depending the artistic expression they can be made to perform as on film or not. Images through film require a bit more pre planning due to film choice and developer choice as those two variables have a great deal of impact on the image. I guess my feelings are related to looking at some of the Impressionist painters who might use pencil, oils, and gauche to create the look they want. In silver you have film, developer, paper, paper developer, and various post operations like toning or selective bleaching not to mention intensifying a negative. Even on a film Leica there is such a tremendous availability of lenses of all characters that the photographer's expression knows few limits. Going a bit further, I have been accumulating most of the published W. Eugene Smith books and looking at his images closely. The impact of an image has little to do with technical perfection and very much to do with the content of the image and how it is composed. Which means I have come back around to what you said, testing might be useful for certain applications but the image is what counts. On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 3:40?PM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > The Elmar 50/2.8 was an excellent lens and the last version M was really > superb. > > But I?m sorry Paul if I?m not a follower of tests with digital cameras, > the sensors operate great performances and in MHO they don?t give a > realistic image of the natural look of a lens made for film. > > Lluis > > > > El 3 ag 2023, a les 19:35, Paul Roark via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va > escriure: > > > > FWIW, I just posted a test shot taken at f/5.6 with the Elmar 50 f/2.8 > on a > > Sony adapted to Leica M optics. See > https://www.paulroark.com/Elmar-f56.jpg > > . > > > > My notes on the relatively new Elmar: "8x10 crop critically sharp at > > f.6.7, f.5.6 acceptable. At f/4 sharp area is 80% of central square. > > 4-frame pan beats Leica apo 35mm. On Sony a7c, with rubber hood, fits > into > > Sony RX1 case. Sony must have Ultra Thin sensor cover modification from > > KoloriVision." > > > > Paul > > www.PaulRoark.com > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 9:51?AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > >> The Elmar was always a good lens especially by f5.6. My uncoated > version > >> certainly is. > >> > >> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 9:22 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at > >> leica-users.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Right now the link works > >>> > >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Flors_BN/2023F060426.jpg.html > > > >>> Leica IIIF, Elmar 5cm f 3.5, Ilford FP4 EI 100, Perceptol 1:1 > >>> > >>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome > >>> > >>> Saludos cordiales > >>> Lluis > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com