Digital BW, The Print

"hflockwood" <hflockwood@...> wrote:

>...  My (very different kind of) images can be found at my pbase site: www.pbase.com/hlockwood  in the "NYC June 2010" gallery. 

Very nice, and much more typical of NY style street shooting.  I'm obviously not a street shooter, but rather a typical "western landscape" type of guy.  I do appreciate the forms of the urban environment, however.  

> Taken with M7 and XP2 ...

Until the full frame digital cameras came out, I would take these types of shots with my Bronica RF 645 or Fuji Zi 645 and Kodak's version of XP2 -- T400CN.  The "645" really does better with Tech Pan, however.  The Fuji Zi took a number of my best selling photos, but it was also the first to be sold when the FF digitals arrived.

The digital camera's high speed options obviously allowed things like the subway shot that would be rather hard to do with a 400 ISO film.  The Leica M9, however, using a Kodak CCD sensor is not up to the modern Canon & Nikon CMOS high speed standards.  (It's smoother than the Canon 5D2 at low speeds.)  The 2500 ISO subway shot is "grainy" at higher magnifications.  Lightroom 3's new algorithms do a very good job with color noise, but they have no magic for the luminance noise. Given the subway subject matter, however, it's not inappropriate.  

I might add that the M9 is about relatively small size (for a full frame digital -- I use an old, modified Pentax Spotmatic ever-ready case), more traditional manual controls, and excellent symmetrical wide angle lenses.  The M9 with the Zeiss 35mm 2.8 lens, in the old Pentax case, was a very enjoyable and practical (including well protected) combination to carry around while being a typical tourist.  And it (like the other FF digitals) is capable of making files that hold up well with the largest sizes I print on my Epson 7800.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 




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> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@> wrote:
> >... I posted a few images at http://www.paulroark.com/Impressions_of_NYC.html