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Mzungu
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Mzungu
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My friend Lith from the alternative night club I shot last year. She is a DJ from Barcelona. She remembered me from last year and got in contact to ask if I fancied a walk and shoot with her. Well, of course I couldn't say no. We certainly attracted a lot of attention boulevarding around Soho, London.
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By appreciate..I mean you didn't show all the dangly bits Tim..Thanks for that
You being familiar with the area, do you have any pictures of George Skeggs or "Soho George" Pete? A well known figure locally (I dunno for the past 40/50 years?), visibly stands out from the rest of the characters there, but with the ability to appear one minute then disappear the next without notice, he's happy to pose if you're lucky enough to converse with him but can spot a street photographer or any camera for that matter from 100 yards away and is very difficult to capture in a "street" sense as he takes appropriate action not to be snapped in that context which I must say he's very good at. You think you've got him in a candid sense but then look at the file(s) when you get home only to find he's deliberately destroyed the image by either moving in front of someone, covering himself or just disappearing (he knows what he's doing). In all my time there, I've managed to get one candid snap which he wasn't aware of which I consider an achievement.
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I do not think that I have posted this here. I was testing the lens and down at the merry-go-round in Seaside, OR, for dinner in the Chinese restaurant across from it. The dinner was good and the "sidewalk artist" was working on sketches of folks there, usually those romantically involved. Here is what the Bertele did in this one shot hanging off the front of an M9.
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I like this lens for how it does color and shape which is what the Sonnar family is famed for. And this is supposed to be the most refined 5cm f/2.0 Sonnar around, built from the '34 CZJ design. I have a CZJ 5cm f/1.5 from the "best" series, the 272nnnn. It has softer colors being uncoated with the modern coatings that the Bertele has, and a couple of Jupiter 8's of good quality. All of them are nice but I like the Bertele just a smidge more. All of the Sonnars are pleasing to me.
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I like this lens for how it does color and shape which is what the Sonnar family is famed for. And this is supposed to be the most refined 5cm f/2.0 Sonnar around, built from the '34 CZJ design. I have a CZJ 5cm f/1.5 from the "best" series, the 272nnnn. It has softer colors being uncoated with the modern coatings that the Bertele has, and a couple of Jupiter 8's of good quality. All of them are nice but I like the Bertele just a smidge more. All of the Sonnars are pleasing to me.
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Being so very vain I am posting another M9/Bertele pic. This of the merry-go-round, a child magnet. The young lady in this photo noticed me taking photos and kind of played to the camera. She is just at the boundary of kid and young lady, young enough to enjoy the merry-go-round, old enough to pose. It is always fun to have a good Chinese meal and then take the short walk to the merry-go-round with the kids and sometimes their moms making sure they do not fall off. Everybody seems to enjoy merry-go-rounds. F-stop f/2.0 for testing the lens, focus on the brass pole the young lady is holding. And again good Sonnar color and shape.
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Mzungu
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(Much more satisfying than my frist attempt at editing this image - pretty minimal editing, too, only minor corrections, but darktable allowed for some pretty impressive highlight reconstruction; I'm used to worse!)
((EDIT: Still some undintended pinkish/reddish hues in the sky, but: hues! And in contrast to my usual app, Polarr, darktable keeps EXIF intact when working from RAW ...))
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Sie mussen Schweizer sein, alles mussen perfekt sein. ;o) Ein Witz mein Freund, nur ein Witz. Tschüß
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Appreciated - and not wrong
Usually, I'm pretty quick and mundane with my edits, though - nothing fancy at all.Honestly, the M10 is notorious for devouring bright image portions - highlight retention is lousy compared to other sensors of the same generation. Everything else is fine or even wonderful - but on the street, you can't always retake the shot to correct for the problem. This is the first time I was able to rescue something the camera had "given up on" (according to the preview) to this degree. Which means that the RAW files contain more information than they normally are thought to do - that's really good to know. The first edit actually needed an extreme crop because I had to basically crop out the sky - it was blown in an ugly way. That's why I was so pleased with what I was able to achieve in darktable. However, the workflow there has completely changed over the last couple of versions, so I'm less familiar and comfortable with it than I was. I'll reserve it for emergencies ...
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