It’s yesterday once more
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Yesterday I decided to do a photo-walk around Yokosuka. Partially to enjoy the out-of-doors after being kept in from the previous days typhoon, and also to put some of my older rangefinder lenses through their paces with the M9. I was also inspired by some vintage images of Yokosuka that I was recently browsing on Flickr. So I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see if I could reproduce something with a similar look.
My two lenses for the day were the Canon ltm 28mm f2.8, and Canon ltm 50mm f1.2. And as you can see, they are not the most technically perfect of lenses out there. They are soft in the corners, and color fringing is readily apparent. But I imaged that they would fit the bill for the type of images I was trying to create.
I’ve yet to devote the resources to buy a stable full of Leica lenses, but of the more modern glass that I do have (Konica, and Voigtlander) all perform to a much higher technical standard than the older Canon Leica thread mount lenses that I used for this exercise.
But sometimes the best tool for the job is not the best tool that you have, but rather the best tool for THAT SPECIFIC job. So what lenses would be better to reproduce the look from 40 years ago than some lenses that were 40+ years old? And truth be told, they did perform admirably, with regards to both sharpness and resolution when stopped down.
The shots themselves are nothing special. In most cases I tried to keep to subjects that were independent of time. And in honor of the old glass I was using (1950’s to 1960’s vintage) I decided to process them using a “yesteryear” type of filter in Lightroom. This gave them a yellow’ish washed-out look, common to old film images. Right out of the camera the images have a much more natural look, as would be expected from the M9. But I thought this treatment would better convey my idea.
Was it a success? I have no idea.
I like the effect, but I have no idea what others may think about it.
If you do have some thoughts about it, please take a minute and jot down your thoughts in a comment.
Hey Jeff,
great idea to use some old lenses on your hi-tech camera to get that vintage look. I have yet to get one of those adaptors to use my manual Olympus-OM or Hasselblad lenses on my 5D MK II.
I think that the color shift worked especially well on images 1, 5 and 10. It is not that easy to use an action in LightRoom and get consisten results as the WB and tonal starting values for each digital image are different in the beginning. I’m always having a hard time with that.
Cheers,
Marco
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