Japan M8 in Osaka : Capturing the light

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Dingo

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Hi everybody,

Some recent shots of Osaka, all of them with a CV50/1.5 on M8, comments welcomed :

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The link :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19654383@N00/sets/72157617111945616/

Thank you.
 
Lovely shots, Dingo!

You were clearly in a zen mode, capturing quiet, inanimate moments full of colors and shadows. Very peaceful. I find that happens to me in Japan, too. Bustling street photography replaced by still life shots. Must be a mindset chill thing.

Great work!

Adrian
 
bah.....I wish I could get a m8....some great looking shots by the way, nice light and very calm feeling.
 
fbf said:
How much exactly? If you can please pm me with detailed info.. i am going to Hongkong this summer. :eek:
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This is the 2nd market price in HK right now, especially in private market on internet, I saw one sold at HK$19000 a few days ago. I can give you the link of those websites if you need it, and if time is right you can get a nice one here in HK!
 
Ronald M said:
Now everyone wants an M8, why I do not know. Scan some color film and you have the same thing.
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Only if you get the exposure right. Much easier to get the exposure right in difficult lighting with an M8 because you can shoot and chimp until you do get it right.
 
jonmanjiro said:
Only if you get the exposure right. Much easier to get the exposure right in difficult lighting with an M8 because you can shoot and chimp until you do get it right.
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Respectfully I disagree ... I use my M8 predominantly in very difficult lighting situations and the indifferent results are starting to frustrate me. I photographed a gallery opening last tuesday night for an exhibition of Aboriginal Animation called 'Big Eye' and I'm not overly impressed with the results. Admittedly the lighting conditions were probably the most challenging I've yet encountered but out of the three hundred shots I took I'll probably be struggling to come up with fifty that I'm happy with!

Lack of dynamic range of the digital in this situation is really apparent ... get the exposure reasonably correct for the projection screens and monitors and everything else disappears into noisy black shadows at ISO 640! Increase exposure gradually in an attempt to get some detail in the shadows and the screens and monitors blow out to unrecoverable highlights!

I had a film camera loaded with 800 with me and wandered back into the gallery at the end of proceedings and shot a few test frames while there were still a few patrons lurking ... curious to see how film would cope in this situation because I knew the M8 was struggling.

No comparison ... I'm seriously considering switching to film for these gigs in spite of the extra work and costs.
 
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