Simple Madass : it's a Yoshimura

Simple RF : a leica that should never evern been exist

My Leica IIIc BP ST TC, my finalized DIY project.
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BP = Black Paint
ST = Self Timer
TC = Titanium Curtain

Simple Family : Home..

For me it's a glance and the smile on your face the touch of your hands,
And an honest embrace
For where I lay it's you I keep,
This changing world I fall asleep
With you all I know is I'm coming home,
Coming home

Simple Camera : Why RF?

My friend ask me why i change my gear from Slr to RF, what are the reason?
I don't know.
When i use RF, it is just "snap" fit in to my style. To be precise, it fit in to my shooting style.
I like small camera, quiet operation, simple interface, single focal length lens, can be taken daily with no extra load in my neck, discreet shooting, a camera that does not intimade the object by it's presence as well as security guys.
Yes, i found it all in RF.
I do lost dof control over viewfinder, but i get no blackout viewfinder, seeing outside of the box.
With RF i put the scene into my capture area. With SLR, i search my scene from within my capture area. I don't know why, but i feel RF is best for composition, while SLR is best for DOF control. RF works for daily life picture, while SLR for macro & super tele picture, which rarely you can see in your daily life activity.
So here i am, RFer, RFist, whatever you can say.

Started with Canonet GIII 1.7 then Yashica Lynx 14e, Lynx 1000, 2 GL, GX, 2 FC (yes, i'm a fan of yashica due to it's aperture priority mode, and leaf shutter), rollei 35rf, leica IIf, leica m2, epson rd1, hexar af, hexar rf, leica iiic-t bp, leica m2-t bp, leica m3-t, perkeo IIIe, bessa II c-skopar, bessa II c-heliar. Yes, i'm a freak in RF, i buy, i use it, i fix it, i modify it.
At the end, I only keep the best, so m2-t bp, hexar rf, rd1, iiic-t bp, and heliar are still in my drawer.
If you want to talk about RF, i am ready. But better to test one yourself, who knows what will happen later.

Simple Photography : Digitally Xpan-ded

The idea of Xpan (panoramic camera) is to have 24mm lens in panoramic mode.

Horizontal angle of view is equivalen to 24mm, vertical should be less (as it is a panorama) than normal 24mm in 3:2 format.

24mm x 65mm film area => 2260x6141 pixel (scanned at 2400dpi) = 12 MP camera.

 

I wonder if the same format (24:65) can be done with 24mm equivalent lens in digital camera, it should be easy right?

Here few pictures tested with my ricoh gx100, set at minimum iso, 24mm FL, aperture around f8, snap focus, and croped as 24:65.

Not bad.. i show it to my friend who know Xpan, and i said i have scanned few xpan pictures. he saw it for 5 minutes and were amazing until he see the "distorsion" of GX100 lens and the dynamic range

Well, if i try with 16mm DA lens in my Pentax DSLR, it should be better as DA1645 is one of the lens with almost zero distorsion @16mm.

I'll post some picture later if i have a chance to play with the DA setup.