Archive for the ‘lenses’ Category

Tank Bag Mobile Photography Workstation

January 24, 2023
Filled to the brim, one camera taken out.

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.

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Scandalous Swip-Swap

January 22, 2023
There and back again

This 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:

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Three Leica Lenses in the Heat of MotoGP

June 21, 2022

Lens changed to: Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 ASPH.

On my way to grandstand 13

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.

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In Defense of Luxury

June 3, 2022
Leica, lens: luxury

Two theses:

  • Luxury is more about the process than about the result.
  • Luxury is an anodyne.
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Two Kinds of APO

May 7, 2022
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.

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90 Degrees of Sharpness

May 4, 2022
Wide angle revelation

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

Sitting proud
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The Riddle of the Spiegelsucher

May 1, 2022
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.

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What is a Lanthar, anyway?

March 15, 2022
That is a Lanthar.

The urge for apochromatic lenses to put on my new Leica M11 continues unabated, but I can’t afford Leica’s offerings anymore.

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APO this and that

February 10, 2022
Good for selective focus

Here’s a report about my experiences using an APO-Summicron-M 1:2/75 ASPH on my Leica M11.

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New Old Pictures

March 8, 2019

Ku'damm shadows

Ku’damm shadows

The 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.

In a hurry. So was I, not properly focussed, camera shake. Like it for it's errors.

In a hurry. So was I, not properly focussed, camera shake. Like it for it’s errors.


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