Here is a link to 775 Leica-made images...AKA The Family of Man 2 project - Year 1. A wonderful resource - if you want to see what a 40 Summicron image looks like, or a 28 'cron, or a 75 1.4, or a Noct, there's probably a sample here somewhere. It's also just a cool world-wide collection of photographs - a great 'online' picture book.

Credit where credit is due - FOM2 is run by Alastair Firkin via 'the other' Leica chat site (Leica User's Group).

Enjoy!

775 Leica photographs

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), November 06, 2001

Answers

"Family of Man? Sounds rather sexist to me. Oh, I get it: "Man" is supposed to be generic and all-inclusive. Hm. I wonder.

-- Peter Hughes (ravenart@pacbell.net), November 06, 2001.

It is based on a famous exibit and catalogue from the 50s; thus the "2".

Cheers,

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), November 06, 2001.

This is great stuff. Thank you, Andy.

-- Dennis Couvillion (couvilaw@aol.com), November 06, 2001.

Thanks Andy, its a really nice collection, I bookmarked it so I can enjy the images at my leisure.

-- Dan Brown (brpatent@swbell.net), November 07, 2001.

Thanks Andy! Just when I thought I had cut back on my "useless" internet time, you go and post this site. Now I'll never get off this damn machine! ;-)

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), November 07, 2001.

Great link to wonderful photograhs.

Thank you, Andy.

Best wishes and good shooting

K. G. Wolf

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), November 07, 2001.

I'm really impressed with the images using Fuji 800 Press! I'm not famaliar with it. Anybody use it?

-- Bud (budcook@attglobal.net), November 07, 2001.

Thanks Andy, some nice photos.

My only comment: I don't know what are the seven ages of man, but it seems only I and VII hold any photographic interest.

Cheers,

-- Jeff Stuart (jstuart1@tampabay.rr.com), November 07, 2001.

I have shot some Fuji Press 800. I got turned on to it from another photog covering the 2001 Nascar race at Texas Motor Speedway (no, I wasn't use and M, rather my Contax gear). This guy had some Canon body and used just the 35-350 L zoom with Fuji Press 800. We hung around each day and he would bring in proofs for grins each morning. He was scanning the negs for internet publishing and just got the proofs for the heck of it. Anyway, the Fuji press 800 is pretty low grain, but not as good as NHGII. However, you can shoot Press at 800 and it produces very black blacks and remarkably saturated colors, even going into the shadows. If I shot much color print and needed speed, the Press 800 would be my choice, for sure.

-- Dan Brown (brpatent@swbell.net), November 07, 2001.

Thanks a lot Andy.

I hope the photos can be arranged according to focal length of lens used so that one can appreciate easily the perspective of each kind of lens.

-- tom tong (tom.tong@ckh.com.hk), November 07, 2001.

Q about Fuji Press 800

I buy P-800 by the 20-roll box load, so I know it fairly well. ;?) Originally I bought it because it was substantially cheaper than the NGHII-800 I used to use ($AUD 8 vs $AUD 13). However, at a wedding I did some shots for recently (4020.net/pswed) I used P-800 exclusively, indoors and out. Was amazed at how well it handled very contrasty situations (especially outdoors.

Although I've tried the new Fuji NPZ 800 recently, I've decided to stick with P-800 for the time-being (cost again, as well as finer grain).

-- Andrew Nemeth (azn@nemeng.com), November 07, 2001.

Andrew

Surely, surely P-800 has much higher contrast than NHGII?

-- Robin Smith (smith_robin@hotmail.com), November 12, 2001.

Take a look at FOM picture #84. 16mm Fisheye-Elmarit-R on Leica M4P? How do you do that? And 220 degree field? A 16mm fisheye projects a 180 degree field, no? Sounds like garbled info.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), November 12, 2001.

Bob: I figured out that EITHER the photog is trying to sneak in a Widelux shot, OR he is using photostitch software to digitally blend cropped fisheye shots into a single panorama.

There are R-to-M adapters, no? If not, there are R-to-Canon and Canon- to-M adapters per Steve Gandy at cameraquest.com

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), November 12, 2001.

Bob (again):

Here' a link. Scroll down to the bottom to see an 35-200 on an M6 (and you were impressed with the Tri-Elmar, maybe?) At the bottom is the link to "the rest of the story" - the R-to-Canon adapter.

Personally, I'd just stop with the Nikon F-to-M adapter, a Nikon 16 2.8 (much better wide open IMHO than the fisheye-Elmarit) and the viewfinder for the V'lander 15, which has enuff barrel distorion to double as a fisheye viewfinder.

Gosh darn it, now you've got me thinking - always a dangerous thing to do!!

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), November 12, 2001.

You know, it looks pretty much rectilinear, not fisheye. Something's fishy, though. Yes, could be a Widelux shot. Widelux "only" covers 140 degrees, but maybe he did stitch it.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), November 12, 2001.

has anyone actually noticed any of the content of the photos?

theres more to photography than cameras and film......unless you use a leica it seems...

-- grant (g4lamos@yahoo.com), November 12, 2001.

Yeah, Grant, we're looking, we're looking. Content. That's what we're talking about. What's it look like to you?

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), November 13, 2001.