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- First color photos are here
New B&W from Boston
After two years of not being directly involved with photography, and almost six since last shooting daily, Gulker once agains hefts camera to eye. These pictures are among the first taken with a brand new Contax G1 with 45mm f/2 Zeiss Planar lens.
The Contax is great: a little quirky (and I'm still getting used to it) but it has the best feel and utility of a highly-automated camera that I've yet seen. The lens appears to live up to its press (Popular Photography called it the best 35mm lens they'd ever tested), and the handling is at least in the ballpark with a manual rangefinder like the Leica M4.
Rangefinders are slower and trickier than reflex cameras. Even people who use them a lot (like I used to) tend to have more out-of-focus and mis-framed pictures than when using a reflex. One Pulitzer Prize winner I know routinely cuts off tops of pictures shot with a 21mm on his Leica M4. The Contax has delivered many fewer blown frames than I would have expected with so little experience. It does a much better job with moving objects and close-ups than I had anticipated.
These are rough scans off of proof prints (can't wait to get these negs into a high-res scanner). These pictures ar all over the place thematically (obviously) and don't represent anything except trying out the new camera. Film is Ilford Delta 100 B&W, machine proof prints scanned in RGB on an Apple One Color scanner.
Black and White Ball, San Francisco
Oak woodland, Stanford (same area as seen with a QuickTake 100)
City Center 2 complex, Cupertino
Doorway, Cupertino
Chris Gulker cg@gulker.com
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