Sussudio

During migration

That was inevitable. With the increasing use I make of the Leica M11, my MacBook Pro 15 inch started to choke on common tasks in the postproduction pipeline such as exporting JPEGs from Lightroom. Even crashed a few times. Bigger file sizes lead to planned obsolescence lead to computer purchase.

Na na na na na na na na na na na na Batmaaaaaan!

One more watch than usual

Full disclosure: I’m a boomer. Last years, but still. So, I’m wearing a wristwatch instead of reading the time from my smartphone as more recent generations do. Being a fanboy, it has been an Apple Watch lately.

But I’ve been tempted:

The Living Daylights

Contre jour magnolia

Now, this Cinestill 50D film stock is something special. I just scanned through my first 35 mm roll of it, so here are some first impressions.

Daddy Long Lens

Leica Vario-Elmar-R 1:4/80-200

Using a R lens on a Leica M camera mixes things up again. The R line of Leica lenses were for their S(ingle) L(ens) R(eflex) (see?) line of cameras and production of these lenses was stopped in the early noughts. There’s a huge used market for them today and they are a relatively cheap way to get Leica glass.

Superlative Normal Lens

A beacon

Suddenly owning the Leica APO-Summicron-M 1:2/50 mm ASPH. is a bit of a shock. Despite its focal length, it is anything but normal. Challenging would be more like it. Every time I dive into the files it produces on the M11 sensor, my jaw drops.

Two Kinds of APO

Color where there shouldn’t be

Sometimes the Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 50 mm produces color fringes to a surprising extent. Like in the image above.

90 Degrees of Sharpness

Wide angle revelation

Well, about that lens I got three days ago, Leica’s Super Elmar-M 1:3.4/21 ASPH.

Sitting proud

Odin’s Dispatch Rider Bag

The Night Rider

The main Norse God has taken many forms. Lately, Wotan (one of his many names) has appeared as a producer of bags, rucksacks, wristwatch straps and other fine leather goods. In Taiwan, far, far from Valhalla. Of course, I’m talking about Wotancraft, which is a strange name to give your company.

The Riddle of the Spiegelsucher

It’s convoluted

This weekend, I’m on the first two-day motorcycle tour of the season. I’ve been invited by some nuns to a church service, a round trip and finally a biker blessing. This will all be performed today, May first 2022, in and around Trier at the Mosel river, by the Schönstatt sisterhood and the Trier bishop, I guess. I’ve been blessed in 2019 before, so I need a fill-up.