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Ricoh GXR - Show your images

Michiel Schierbeek

Well-known member
Matthew, (I supose?) I like your reportage way of telling a story.

But I want to make a small point; most of your pictures look overexposed.
I don't know your workflow but try to play with the exposure sliders a little.
You can also lift up the skys a little with the brush or gradient filter.

Hope you don't mind me saying....
 

heymatthew

Member
Matthew, (I supose?) I like your reportage way of telling a story.

But I want to make a small point; most of your pictures look overexposed.
I don't know your workflow but try to play with the exposure sliders a little.
You can also lift up the skys a little with the brush or gradient filter.

Hope you don't mind me saying....
Don't mind at all. I looked at them on a different computer and I see what you're talking about. I tend to shoot a little to the right anyway but I might have overdone it slightly.

Looks like a monitor calibration is in order also...

Thanks for your comments!!!!
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
Some awesome new photos to view, thank you all. Too many to comment on individually.

News here is that I just received the pair of adapters that will allow me to use my pre-1940, uncoated Zeiss 40/2 and 38/2.8 lenses from the Robots on the GXR or M9. I did some quick tests with the 38/2.8 and it shows all the lovely softness of uncoated lens flare ... There's a magic to the rendering of these lenses that is quite different from modern coated lenses, the images look totally unlike what comes out of the Color Skopar 35mm f/2.5 P2.

Perhaps I'll take the GXR out for a walk tomorrow. :)

G
 

woodmancy

Subscriber Member
Which adapter did you buy for the Robot lenses, Godfrey?

This is from my Robot Junior Schneider Xenar 38mm (Tri-x) Love to see what the GXR does.

Keith

 

Godfrey

Well-known member
Which adapter did you buy for the Robot lenses, Godfrey?

This is from my Robot Junior Schneider Xenar 38mm (Tri-x) Love to see what the GXR does.

Keith

Nice!

You need two adapters: Robot to LTM and LTM to M-bayonet. The first is the one that's hard to find, but this is a quality piece:

ebay: Robot M26 to LTM

Vivek posted the link in another thread, I believe. I bought a jinfinance LTM to M adapter, but I think I like the (more expensive) Voigtländer adapters more ... they are better finished and fit more smoothly.

Here's the camera and lens:

Godfrey
 
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Godfrey

Well-known member
Family At Lunch


Ricoh GXR-M + Zeiss Tessar 38mm f/2.8
(1938 uncoated lens from RoBoT II)
ISO 800 @ f/4 @ 1/80 sec

thanks for looking! comments always appreciated.
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
Orange

My penchant for bright colored cars notwithstanding, this is really more a test shot to see what the old Zeiss Tessar can do ...


Ricoh GXR-M + RoBoT Zeiss Tessar 38mm f/2.8
(1938 uncoated lens)
ISO 200 @ f/5.6 @ 1/1250 sec

Here's a 1:1 detail so you can see just how sharp this 75 year old lens is...


And people say I shouldn't shoot color with an uncoated lens ... ;-)

G
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
Mother and Son

So nice to have a few minutes to work on some photos!


Ricoh GXR-M + Zeiss Tessar 38mm f/2.8
(1938 RoBoT lens, uncoated)
ISO 336 @ f/2.8 @ 1/30 sec

Thanks for looking!
 
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