After all, I’ve gone off the deep end with new commitments in medium format CCD sensor systems and a vanity special edition titanium set. Thing is, I want you to know that I have a vested interested in wanting to believe that CCD sensors are better than CMOS sensors. I mean, if I were shooting with it everyday, the splurge couldn’t be looked upon as a whim - right? As such, regular photowalks with this set alleviated any doubt that I had made an impetuous decision - which really I did diving head first.Īt this point in the narrative, you might be wondering why I’m disclosing all this to you. So immediately, I started to put this titanium set to work for daily use. To do something so excessive, justification and a good helping of soul searching had to be made. Of course, the realization that I had just splurged a big chunk from my recent DSLR selloff on a single camera set began to set in. For someone like me who intends to brass this titanium set, what more could I ask for? So I pulled the trigger and made a lower but reasonable offer - which was accepted right away without a counteroffer. However, the sensor was replaced which saved me a pretty penny. It didn’t have a box and it was missing a leather accessory that I was never going to use. But as luck would have it, a Leica M9 Titanium Set did become available at a very reasonable price. That said, I never did find an orphaned Titanium 35 Lux. But after I located a Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH Titanium orphaned from its Leica M7 Titanium set, I thought the possibility wasn’t so unattainable anymore. It was a crazy idea, since I didn’t think anyone was going to sell the camera and the lens separately. Initially, my search started as a desire to find a Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH Titanium orphaned from its Leica M9 Titanium set. Over the months, I had been on the fence with the idea of getting a Leica M9 Titanium set.
#LEICA M9 WITH GPS4CAM HOW TO#
Even so, I haven’t figured out how to digitize slides with a medium format setup, since much of what I am doing relies on adapting either a Nikon ES-2 Film Digitizing Set or a number of ragtag Leica film copying paraphernalia dating back to around the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis. So at the moment, I’m still waiting on a Leica S-mount to Hasselblad H-mount adaptor, which I have been informed is an item that must be ordered specially from authorized vendors. Unfortunately, Leica does not make a 1:1 S-mount macro lens. After that, I got myself a Leica S2 - certified with a replaced CCD sensor. First I got myself a Hasselblad H3DII-39 and Hasselblad HC Macro 120mm f/4 lens. For that reason, my deep dive ventured off the beaten path into the world of second hand TTL medium format CCD sensors. The fact that the M9 is a rangefinder, there is no practical way in which I can acquire focus with any precision when digitizing film.
So over the many months, I’ve been trying to find a way to digitize slide film (and even negative film) on the Leica M9. Everything else were cropped frame, topping out at 6 megapixels.
#LEICA M9 WITH GPS4CAM FULL#
To my dismay, only the Leica M9 has a full frame CCD sensor of sizable resolution. In fact, you could say that I’ve went off the deep end digging deeper into the troves of formerly unloved CCD digital cameras. Ever since I discovered how much better Fujifilm Provia 400X and the current version Kodak Ektachrome E100 rendered when digitized on the Fujifilm S5 Pro, I’ve been hooked on CCD sensors. You could say I had an obsession with CCD digital sensors.
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