Hi Frank, > First, I guess the lighting in Toronto's subways are better > than your Tubes. > In car shots are no problem, and it seems that the lighting > in the stations is not too far off the lighting in the cars, > so one can get some interesting shots coming into stations. > I don't have any taken with the LX blown up yet, but when I > do, I'll post them. > > Here's a fun one of my beautiful girls, taken with the MX and > the Viv 3.8 19mm, probably shot at round 1/30th wide open: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1161440&size=lg > > Just to show you how bright our subways are.
A great shot, which really captures underground/subway travel. I think I will have to experiment with B&W on this over here. The last shots I took were colour, and I don't know if the lighting on our system is less noticeable when taken with B&W. Only one thing to do, so next time I go up to London, I'll pack the MX and 40mm with a couple of rolls of Ilford Delta. > Second, my I don't know how old my LX is, but it isn't that > noisy. Probably about the same as the MX, but then I'm not a > freak about these things. > Suffice to say both are noticeably louder than my little > Leica, and the Leica is louder than my Yashica Mat and > Electro 35 (both leaf shutters). > But, the LX ain't bad at all, and really, for shooting in the > street, traffic noise masks it pretty well any way. I am still new to street photography and I suppose a bit of camera noise just isn't important here! > How do I like my LX? I love it. Except for a little light > leak coming in from the back door, which is being solved by > black tape right now, and will be dealt with once my Leica is > back from the shop (a little blade-cleaning in the lens - oil...). I'm pleased to hear that - the light issue shouldn't be difficult to solve at all - been there with an LX. Malcolm
