I want this

They look pretty good to me. What lens is on there, btw? Lens info isn't showing up in the EXIF data. (Just curious).

If I get 5min this afternoon I'll do what I reflexively do to most things I import into Lightroom (this is only the 640x427 images from the ILE thread, mind) and stick 'em up here. See what you think.

I'm no expert, I just generally fill in the blacks on the histogram, brighten a little, add clarity* and vibrance*, knock out colour noise in the shadows, maybe a gentle film-like S-shape on the tone curve if appropriate. But I do often shoot quite saturated JPEGs to begin with, so this is all kinda moot. (* LR terms that don't necessarily translate to other retouching software).

Lens: Leitz 28mm (wanted to bring a 50mm, but the mere fact that my dad was letting me borrow his bazillion dollar camera in a thirdworld country seemed like enough to me).

should i post up bigger/original size versions? i just sent them from iPhoto to Flickr in the interests of getting them on the web for other's perusal. i'm hoping to make prints of the ones i like, and to include them in a piece i'm writing, so that'll probably require the real-deal 4000xwhatever versions

and thank you!

Here you go - S-curve, bit of (attempted) recovery on some blown-out highlights (clothing, mostly), vibrance/clarity/(very slight) saturation boost, bit of bottom end on the histogram, brightened things (identical treatments to both):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3515/3819993663_5c3ee10f44_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3819993617_505dd4efa2_o.jpg

(Are you a Flickr contact of mine?)

oh yeah, they're definitely warmer looking, i like

and no, i don't think so---i've just seen the pics you've posted here on ilx

Would love to have a bash at the originals - Leica does .dng rather its own proprietary raw format, is that right? Or did you shoot .jpg? YSI, perhaps?

This is me (and my wife) on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pernfors88/

You could probably get similar results to the above with iPhoto though. I've never used it but I didn't do anything particularly fancy.

I made sure to shoot with the high-rez JPG, not DNG

i'm going to upload the full-rez versions when i get home from the cafe, can also zip and YSI, if you like, too

I'll just grab the originals from Flickr, no worries. May not have a chance to do anything this weekend but it'll make a nice change from photos of the kids and grimy old London.

that would be dope, imo

like, see, this one definitely needs cropping. get out of the frame, nathan!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/3820979518_ca016e6360_o.jpg

Ah, cropping. OK - that's a bit more subjective. Happy to have a bash anyhow. What's yr Flickr details?

ok so apparently iphoto won't send the fullsize versions to flickr, what the heck

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/09100603leicax1preview.asp

http://a.img-dpreview.com/previews/LeicaX1/images/frontpage.jpg

high ISO performance looks great, makes the EP-1 and EP-2 look cheap though.

yeah the high ISO shots had that 'film-grain' look to them, at least at web-viewing resolutions.

I'm extremely puzzled by the Ricoh system that was just announced - who would ever pick it over M4/3 or an entry level Canikon DSLR, especially when in its large sensor configuration it's actually bigger than a E-P1 or GF1?

according to Michael R.'s take at LL, the X1 has a nearly silent shutter - but about a quarter of a second shutter lag. why can't you get it right Leica????

so i think i'm getting a cam for xmas

but which one????

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/09/9-19-10-finepixx1002-1284941430.jpg

*swoon*

Was completely psyched til I found out it's not a real rangefinder (ie Leica killer at $1000-1500).

Still kind of psyched if the autofocus is fast. A camera like that needs to have excellent reaction times. The fiddliness and slowness of the E-PL1/etc. turned me off of them.

yeah that thing looks RAD

does it shoot RAW?

It does.

lately I've found that I've become pretty good at guesstimating focus. so if it just has a real focus scale on the lens I'd be happy.

or, even if there was some way to set hyperfocal distance through the menus. and then just frame using the (optical) viewfinder. swoon

What camera is that pic of?

fuji x100

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1009/10091910fujifilmx100.asp

http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/1009/fujifilm/X100_top.jpg

external EV dial = swoon

That is p. nice. Would like changeable lenses, tho

It's exactly the FL I'd choose to shoot with 90% of the time, so I'm okay with fixed. The old Konica Hexar fixed lens film cameras were A+, as were really old-school Canonets and such.

Hmmm... I should find a nicely refurbed Canonet (I've got one on my desk but it doesn't work) and load it with Tri-X.

the new TOP post about the Pentax K-5 has put some gear lust in me. apparently the best performing APS-C sensor with the widest dynamic range, put into a body with a relatively quiet shutter sound. best of all, great selection of pancake primes:

http://photo.net/equipment/pentax/pentax-limited-lenses

Probably a bit over my budget but I wouldn't mind shiny new pentax dslr action of some description.

new nikon mirrorless out today. 2.7x crop factor?! I know Nikon has the best noise-reduction algorithms in the industry, but...

only one prime out at launch - 10mm 2.8 (27mm equiv.). not bad, not bad...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sensor_sizes_overlaid_inside.svg/550px-Sensor_sizes_overlaid_inside.svg.png

so the nikon sensor somewhere in between the 4/3 sensor and the 1/1.6" sensor. it'll be nice, and a change, for m43 users to lord over nikon mirrorless users for having smaller sensors.

I don't get the Nikon mirrorless strategy at all. Pentax tried to go smaller than 4/3 and got laughed at - people have come to expect at least the quality of 4/3 files, if not better (ie new NEX model that has the same sensor as the D7000)

2.7 is like some comedy joke. I half expected them to say "and in stunning 1mp vga quality".

I mean look at this http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/nikon-1-system-vs-nex-c3-sensor.jpg

yeah that's p dumb

priced similarly to its competitors, no discernable advantages besides the nikon name. ok, there's a nikon f adapter, but then you've got a 2.7 crop factor, m43 is already pushing it as far as those things go. idgi.

either
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ABC3yb09L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Fuji 6x6 rangefinder

or

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/2109255147_1664c78391.jpg
Minolta Autocord TLR by jonathan ponce, on Flickr
Minolta Autocord

I love the idea of medium-format rangefinders, but I almost always used MF on a tripod back in the day, I'm not sure how 6x6 would work (for me) casually.

have always sorta wanted a Bessa R3M tbh

but dayo: how do i shot used Leica?

gbx looking for a leica enabler

p much

think it is a good plan, buy a leica already versus spend a lifetime wondering. was it you who said you maybe had access to some that were in an attic, or?

that too

my dad's a "leica dude" and has an m6, an m8.2, and an r-something-or-other at home. but basically all he ever takes pictures with now is a little point and shoot

sure. a guy in a store saw my camera recently and was all ah!, back in the day i ..., i sort of skipped ahead in my head and started imagining being bequeathed his old, dusty, long dormant leicas (this wasn't the point of the story, but remembering it i realise it was the time i left the store without the paracetamol i was buying, maybe such was the depth of my reverie); would be great to get to play around with something without necessarily having to jump right into making your choice. it's nice to know that there's some flexibility in still being able to trade up and down once you have one, though.

I have a M7 and had a R2A - tbh, I'd go Bessa or Zeiss Ikon over a Leica.

gbx I would borrow your dad's m6!

milo I have an autocord - bought it used off eBay, sent it off to an autocord export for a (reasonably priced) CLA. great camera! there slight differences in all the variations, such as what company did the shutter, but they are all pretty much the same. great build quality.

for used Leica, I would break it down like this:

meter or non meter?

meter, you're stuck with an M6 or newer, probably at least $1000, maybe $900 if you're lucky.

non meter, you have M2, M4, M4-2, M4-P. lot to be said for all of them. depends on what you're looking for. measure twice, cut once as they say!

oh i'm totally gonna borrow the M6. and i was thinking if/when I buy a RF for myself, i'd get something non-metered. the R3M is appealing for the 1:1 viewfinder, all manual-ness, and price. plus, i have a sneaking suspicion that it'll be easier to borrow lenses from my dad than bodies.

but i guess my q to you was: you said in the other thread that ebay leicas are overpriced, and that privated dealers were the way to go. but....which dealers?