Hibiscus

[Ray Shotter]

I know that there is a tendency to be critical of the Leica M9 (mainly I think because it is an expensive piece of kit) but I thought it is worth mentioning a most important feature of this camera. It is simply that almost every lens designed for the Leica M series of cameras since 1954 can be used on an M9 without any additional aid to fitting the lens (ie no need for an adapter). This image was taken using a 90mm F2.8 Elmarit M lens which was manufactured in 1995.



Ray.

[David Morison]

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Wow! Such detail and texture, red flowers are such a difficult subject for me.

David

[Pops]

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That is a stunning shot. Texture, vibrancy and detail all amazing.
Did you boost it much in Elements?

[Pol]

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That is just soooo realistic, so outstanding. those leaves and those colours are sll so spot on it's like one could reach out and feel them, pick a leaf.

That's what the red dot is all about, eh! I have a red spot too, only mine's the pocket version of the C-Lux 2. The only red spot I'm ever likely to own. But hey, so what.

Top shot.

Pol

[Ray Shotter]

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David, Pops and Pol,

Thanks for the kind comments. I don't recall doing any processing of this image apart from a "crop". The camera, the flash and lens did all the work - all I had to do was get the focus right.

Regards,

Ray.
ay.

[Tom Holle]

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Beautiful picture

[Pops]

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David, Pops and Pol,

Thanks for the kind comments. I don't recall doing any processing of this image apart from a "crop". The camera, the flash and lens did all the work - all I had to do was get the focus right.

Regards,

Ray.
ay.

All the more credit then Ray.

[escallonia]

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Hi Ray, Thats a really fine shot The camera has coped with the red very well, it's good to see what the more expensive camera has to offer in picture Quality. But I am very happy with my OMD-5 Regards John

[Ray Shotter]

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Hi Ray, Thats a really fine shot The camera has coped with the red very well, it's good to see what the more expensive camera has to offer in picture Quality. But I am very happy with my OMD-5 Regards John

John,

Thanks for the kind comments. I have just realised that the colour performance of the M9 reminds me of my E-1 - and - of course that should not be surprising since I believe that the Leica M9 and Olympus E-1 sensors are both Kodak CCD sensors.

Regards,

Ray.

[Ray Shotter]

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David, Pops and Pol,

Thanks for the kind comments. I don't recall doing any processing of this image apart from a "crop". The camera, the flash and lens did all the work - all I had to do was get the focus right.

Regards,

Ray.

David, Pops and Pol,

I realised belatedly that I should have added that the camera's electronic signals to the SD card were faithfully converted via my laptop into DNG by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and then converted into JPeg images. I tend to take the almost miraculous imaging process very much for granted these days - I ought to know better !! I can still remember my first introduction to computer software in 1970 and the amazement that my first attempt at writing a simple program in Fortran 4 actually worked !!

Regards.

Ray.

[Barr1e]

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I was so taken when I saw this I called Anne over to my screen and we both agreed - stunning image.

Very nice combination.

Regards. Barr1e

[Ray Shotter]

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I was so taken when I saw this I called Anne over to my screen and we both agreed - stunning image.

Very nice combination.

Regards. Barr1e

Barrie,

Glad you both liked the image. I'm afraid I seem to spend a lot of my time photographing flowers.

Regards.

Ray.

[mike_j]

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Lovely. I think the colours from the M8/M9 are superb.

[Ray Shotter]

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Tom and mike j,

Thanks for your comments.

Ray.