All Wrong, But Fabulous*

Pensive at the Fast Food Restaurant

These are heady times for photo gear geeks like me. The day before yesterday, Leica announced

Seeing What You’re Doing, Or Not

Sometimes you've got to frame your art carefully

Here’s another practical experience with the Leica M9 and the Elmar f/3.4 24 mm. I’ve been photographing a friend’s exhibition opening here in Berlin the day before yesterday.

The Leica in the Landscape

Banks of fog under a clear sky

Ok, sort of a reprise on the previous post. In coming to know the Leica M9 better,

Black & White Portraiture with the Leica M9 and Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

My father at 79

In my opinion, the forté of the Leica M rangefinder camera is the instantaneous portrait, the situational snapshot, the view from the corner of the eye frozen in time.

Old Lenses, Good Enough?

Old scooters are certainly good enough, and stylish, too!

Ok, second post about my experiences with the Leica M9. As seems to be the case with all high-resolution digital cameras (and the Leica M9 can surely be counted among them, if not for it’s 18 MPix then of course for the lack of an anti-aliasing filter in front of the sensor), it is very demanding of the lenses you use. For example,

From NAS To DRF

A celebratory drink, unsharpened (left) and sharpened, no shadow noise at 360 ISO

Updates have been few and far apart on this site, but this is going to change. The day before yesterday, I traded in all my Nikon gear for a Leica M9 body.