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Beautiful photos, Robert. The f/6.8 Telyts are greatly undervalued IMHO.
I make a few test exposures then chimp the histogram to be sure I'm not clipping highlights or shadows. The camera's metering system most often is on manual. I do this is particularly when I have a subject like these grebes with extensive areas of both white and black plumage.
I review the histogram right away to verify correct exposure.
Another R9 DMR shot. I did four days of Roskilde Festival 2008 here in Denmark which was ca. 20 concert shooting for my part. And that seemed to really make the R9 DMR "my" camera. With short time for each shoot, changing lights and colors, you get a good feel for what the camera can do. In all, I find it very much like film which is about the best compliment there is in my book.
Here's a shot that was not on a stage but a private portrait shooting.
Cee-Lo Green (aka Thomas Callaway) of Gnarls Barkley, July 2008. Leica R9 with DMR, 80mm f/1.4 Summilux-R @ f/4.0, 200 ISO, DNG-file converted using Imacon/Hasselblad Flexcolor 4.8.6. I like the film look and soul-rock feel of this picture, thanks to the 80mm rendering of sunlight directly intos he lens (with a 60 cm ø gold reflector beaming the light back - as you can see in sunglas), as well as the overall capabilities of the DMR. Using Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop RAW plug-in simply does not produce the same sharpness and the same 'feel' to this picture. Imacon has a special way of treating light, and after all it's both their DMR software as well as FlexColor software...
