This is my Wunderlich tank bag for the BMW R18. It is built like a daypack, the carrying straps do double duty to fix it to the top of the tank. It is already padded, I‘ve improved it for photo use with a photo insert and a dense foam seat pad out of a Fjäll Räven Kanken backpack that happens to be the exact same size.
(more…)Archive for the ‘lenses’ Category
Tank Bag Mobile Photography Workstation
January 24, 2023Scandalous Swip-Swap
January 22, 2023This is my M6 “Going public” set that I had in commission at the Leica Store Frankfurt to be sold. To their surprise and my disappointment, it found no buyers for two months. So, to remedy the situation and for other Leica lens related reasons, I made a motorcycle round trip out of it. This is what happened in the last two days:
(more…)Three Leica Lenses in the Heat of MotoGP
June 21, 2022Lens changed to: Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 ASPH.
Last Sunday, after a seven year hiatus, I visited the MotoGP races at the Sachsenring. I brought my M11 and a whole collection of lenses, of which I used three. Here are the images they produced.
(more…)In Defense of Luxury
June 3, 2022Two Kinds of APO
May 7, 2022Sometimes the Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 50 mm produces color fringes to a surprising extent. Like in the image above.
(more…)90 Degrees of Sharpness
May 4, 2022Well, about that lens I got three days ago, Leica’s Super Elmar-M 1:3.4/21 ASPH.
(more…)The Riddle of the Spiegelsucher
May 1, 2022This 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.
(more…)What is a Lanthar, anyway?
March 15, 2022The urge for apochromatic lenses to put on my new Leica M11 continues unabated, but I can’t afford Leica’s offerings anymore.
(more…)APO this and that
February 10, 2022Here’s a report about my experiences using an APO-Summicron-M 1:2/75 ASPH on my Leica M11.
(more…)New Old Pictures
March 8, 2019The first film from out of the 0-series replica Leica has been developed and I’m pleasantly surprised by the results. So, here are some shots I took with it in Berlin, on and around the Ku’damm. All on Kodak Portra 800.
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