This is really big! We’ve tracked down some of the coolest photography prizes we could find, passed the hat round the office for some b…
This is really big! We’ve tracked down some of the coolest photography prizes we could find, passed the hat round the office for some bubblecash, stuck the megaphone out the window, and now we’re ready to launch the RedBubble Real Photography Competition. Prizes include: / – Leica M4-P plus 50mm F2 Summicron (or a Canon 400D + 17-85mm IS USM) / – Elinchrom D-Lite 4 – Studio Lighting Kit / – Gitzo Carbon Fiber Tripod with a Really Right Stuff BH-40LR Head / – 15 x great photography books / – $2500 bubblecash There are five categories, and you can only enter once per category. Simply upload your entry and tag it as follows: 1) Landscape, Travel and Nature Tag your entry with landscapephotocomp 2) Portrait, Fashion and Commercial Tag your entry with fashionphotocomp 3) Black and White, Street, and Reportage Tag your entry with bwphotocomp 4) America Tag your entry with usaphotocomp 5) Europe Tag your entry with europephotocomp See www.redbubble.com/promo/photocomp for full details
Following on from the ‘problems’ ...
Following on from the ‘problems’ last friday – and the promised resolution Let me be the first to congratulate Craig Goldsmith for his fantastic image – selected as the recipient of that o-so-gorgeous Leica. James
Got home today, to find the Leica sitting on my door stop (thank goodness no one came walking past). I can’t believe it made it here so f…
Got home today, to find the Leica sitting on my door stop (thank goodness no one came walking past). I can’t believe it made it here so fast, so credit to the RB team well done guys. It was well wrapped and took a good 10 minutes to remove from it’s bubblewrap safehaven. Katie took a few shots of the remove process, but since the house isn’t clean they have been censored out (lol). But she did take a few of my getting aquainted with my new baby and things got pretty intense from the outset. It’s a gorgeous little beast. So after a few snaps were taken I took it into my Den for a introductory photoshoot, no I don’t have film yet so I couldn’t use it, it was the Leica doing the modeling :) Hope you don’t mind me sharing a few of my images with you, and again a HUGE thanks to the RB staff, Brian Murray and everyone here! (And I don’t even have a rubber duckie for it to pose with!). Cheers, / Craig Craig obligatory cheesy grin, Canvas on the wall (yes yellow walls eek), card and the gorgeous Leica in hand. / It was Love at first sight, a deep mechanical magnatism / The Photoshoot begins (strobist style) / Isn’t it cute ? / “Come on, smile for the camera!” / Ok then just one more! /
I apologies for the delay, the first roll of film didn’t advance, and this the second roll I only finished this morning, but I have some …
I apologies for the delay, the first roll of film didn’t advance, and this the second roll I only finished this morning, but I have some prints and also a copy on CD, so I’ve sharing this completely unaltered (just resized). The first thing that struck us looking at the prints, is that it looks different and more real then my digital images. The colour reproduction is better, or more realistic lets say and the prints look way better then the digital versions (i’m not sure exactly why). The film used was very cheap ISO 400 colour film, I didn’t want to put good film in until I knew I could meter probably with it, I now have a light meter, so next roll won’t be a guessing game. (you can tell a few I guessed wrong), and the images have been underexposed. On a few images there is a big of a hazy circle in the middle of the image, I think that’s due to the sun hitting the lens and causing some sort of flaring. I’m on the look out for some sort of lens hood to see if that helps. So without further ado, for those that have been patiently waiting, here they are.
Well my bags are semi packed, and I’m counting down the days with anxious anticipation. I have a hat, I have two travel towels and a baby…
Well my bags are semi packed, and I’m counting down the days with anxious anticipation. I have a hat, I have two travel towels and a baby face washer (A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch-hiker can have), sunscreen, insect repellent, various medications for upset stomachs, walking shoes, some well worn thongs, two cameras and a sense of adventure. In the last couple of days I’ve been pouring over my itinerary and various Egypt books, and I’m so excited and so nervous at the same time. The experience should be great, but I always worry before I leave that I’ll go and only take rubbish photos. Last trip I overcompensated by taking 22 thousand, and in the end got maybe 40-50 good shots out of it, I’ve got a far shorter period of time, and being on a organised tour less time of my own for stalking the good shots. I’m also going to be “offline” for a bit over two weeks, usually this would worry me in itself, but this time round I’m not as concerned, and the Internet and everyone will still be there when I get back. Oh and while I’m here, I have some long over due Leica images to share with you all. I’ve been slack recently and haven’t really been uploading as many images as I should (Egypt should fix that, I’ll probably have to cull my portfolio to make some room!) So my last roll of film from the Leica. My personal favourite image. / The Lovely Katie / The Block /
Whilst on a recent trip to Tokyo, I went to the Leica Gallery in Ginza. The…
Whilst on a recent trip to Tokyo, I went to the Leica Gallery in Ginza. They have a wonderful collection of old and new cameras and small photography gallery. The current display is by Julio Bittencourt from Brazil, who has taken pictures of homeless people living in a dilapidated abandoned building in Sao Paolo. Simply brilliant photography. I was also lucky to have a play with a Leica M7, which was just fabulous. A completely manual DSLR, with a DOF and focus capability that left me drooling, however the price of 777,000 yen (around A$8000) was a little out of my league! The Ginza store is the only retail owned Leica store in the world, all the rest are franchises or dealers. The manager speaks very good English and was happy to spend time explaining the camera and discussing photography. Well worth a visit if you are in Tokyo.
In the 1920’s a small German company started to produce camera that was the first to utilise off-cuts of 35mm motion picture film – it ga…
In the 1920’s a small German company started to produce camera that was the first to utilise off-cuts of 35mm motion picture film – it gave the world a camera with a film frame size of 24×36mm – what we’ve now come to know as full frame. The company was Leitz and the first of the cameras was called the Leica. A decade or so after the first Leica appeared the design had evolved to the IIIa. The IIIa you see here dates from the mid 30’s and was originally owned by my grandfather and before him a British fighter pilot during World War II. It’s not in the most pristine condition but I find that somewhat comforting – to me it’s a working camera rather than an exhibit. At this point in the review you’re probably going to start thinking that because of its age using the Leica would be a simple thing akin to a box brownie (or other simple cameras like the Holga) – you’d be wrong. Put it this way: the box brownie is instant coffee – you can’t control the destiny of how your picture will appear so you can only accept the average or ugly. The IIIa is like a full on espresso machine – the quality can be spectacularly good or can be shockingly bad – it’s the operators skill that the difference. To stretch the analogy, modern digital is like a Nesspreso coffee machine – depressingly good every time but somehow not as involving. The picture below shows the shutter release, the film advance knob (incorporating the frame number dial), the film rewind lever and one of the shutter speed dials – for exposures below 1/20 you use the other dial on the front of the camera body. This example is equipped with a 50mm f/2 lens – the more expensive of the options available at the time. The lens is on a screw mount and the front element can be slid backward into the body for compact storage. The aperture is adjusted via the control on the front of the lens. Focus adjustment – now the fun begins…….. To focus the Leica of this generation you look through the left most of the two viewfinders and rotate the focus ring until the two ghostly images in the viewfinder align in a vertical orientation. This split focussing is achieved by taking a view from two viewfinders at the front of the camera body. The focus viewfinder also has its own focus control – so you first focus the focus mechanism then you focus the camera – get it??? Perhaps it pays to fix the focus and just use a big depth of field and for this there is a scale on the rear of the lens barrel for that purpose. The main “framing” viewfinder is on the right and sits as close as possible to the lens to reduce the parallax errors with it being off centre and away from the lens axis. With both viewfinders you have to work hard – the vision they provide is pretty bad in comparison with modern units even in compact digital cameras. The rest of the controls are straight forward including the film advance and rewind controls. This is a product of a pre-plastic age – everything is solid metal. The result when handling the camera is something that is the size of a point and shoot but with the weight of a large DSLR. It’s and eminently pocketable device but make sure the pocket fabric is well stitched. Some Figures: Canon Powershot G9: – 360g / Canon EOS 450D body:- 475g / Leica IIIa:- 640g / Canon EOS 40D body:- 822g Reliability wise the model III’s biggest weakness was the horizontal focal plane shutter. The early ones were a cloth only affair and can tear. To alleviate this problem this unit gets a few dummy exposures every few months to avoid things sticking and a carefully custom cut long film leader that won’t foul the shutter when it’s loaded. Just recently I took the camera out for a roll of film after a long time on the shelf and one of the images that caught my eye I posted on the bubble. / . / . / It may 3/4 of a century old but when you get an image right it feels like the Leica IIIa was made yesterday. / . / .
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Dog Rocks near Geelong, Victoria on a warm sunny Autumn afternoon. 1. / 2. / 3. / 4. / 5. / 6. /
Does anyone have experience with either of these cameras? I’m trying to settle on one or the other but don’t know a whole lot about how t…
Does anyone have experience with either of these cameras? I’m trying to settle on one or the other but don’t know a whole lot about how they compare in real life. If anyone can gibe me some feedback I’d really appreciate it. Thanks, Anne
Just been reading some of the early gushing over the new Leica’s and I’ve actually been moved to write about them. Rather than repeat it…
Just been reading some of the early gushing over the new Leica’s and I’ve actually been moved to write about them. Rather than repeat it all just follow the link to my pmac imagery blog
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