Ana #2 - Ludwig Argüelles




My wife and her camera. Not a Contax G, but not a bad camera, either :). Oviedo, Spain, December 2002.

Camera:   Contax G1
Lens:   Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2
Film:   Ilford XP2 Super
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Posted:   13-Apr-2003

Rating: 7.83 (6 ratings)

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The sharpness, range and tones here are wonderful. Good portrait too. What kind of camera is that? Never heard of it.

Richard Sintchak     13-Apr-2003 at 13:24

Great image, soon

"L" will be asking to use it for an advertisement. I hope that your wife likes it; some wives never do.

George Shadoan     13-Apr-2003 at 16:57

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George took the words right out of my mouth...this could be an ad for XP2, the tones are so silvery smooth. Who needs a darkroom, anyway? :-)

Robert Mirani     13-Apr-2003 at 20:22

Gorgeous image

and a beautiful wife, Ludwig you are a lucky man. Who needs color when you can get this kind of incredibly rich tones. I also really like your tasteful border and framing. I agree with George's comment too, "L" would love to have this image in one of their brochures.

Gregg Humphrey     13-Apr-2003 at 22:37

Hi Richard, it's a Leica Minilux, featuring a Leitz Summarit 40mm f/2.4 lens. Basically it's a P&S camera but with very interesting features (automatic exposure, auto & manual focusing, iris setting and +-2 EV correction). In my experience, image quality is really close to the results obtained with a Summicron and don't look now, but sometimes my wife let me take some pictures with it! :)

Ludwig Argüelles     14-Apr-2003 at 05:56

George, Robert, I will call "L" in order to make some bussiness. after all they charged me a lot of money for overhauling my "L" IIIf. Maybe it's time to equilibrate things!

Ludwig Argüelles     14-Apr-2003 at 05:58

Arching . . .

The experts, said, " . . it all," Ludwig--that pretains to the technical aspects of this image. Myself, I'm enchanted by the overly arched brows--and glint of glee.

Jerome Belthrop     14-Apr-2003 at 07:08