A lightmeter, a camera, a rangefinder, some film. All you need.
The 0-series replica is a simple camera. It doesn’t even have a rangefinder. Mine now does.
FOFER, an external rangefinder from 1930.
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Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
FOFER
March 24, 2019(more…)
The Pharmingoes
March 12, 2019Think Pink at the 2019 AAD Ophthalmology meet.
New Old Pictures
March 8, 2019
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.
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Old / New
March 7, 2019
I’m having an architectural photography workshop in a week. Just getting in the mood.
Old School
February 24, 2019
0-series replica and a cappuccino
I‘m in Berlin this weekend. Recent sales of guitars on Ebay have been going quite well, so I thought I‘d have a look at this camera they had at the Berlin Leica Store:
Leicas latest digital camera. Not.
It‘s a 0-series replica (more…)
Beautifully Wrong
February 14, 2019
It does look Barnack-ish!
First impressions on a new, old lens.
Leica Summaron-M f/5.6 28 mm
It comes with a historically correct, humongous hood that I will keep in the presentation box in expectation of appreciation. The lens is deeply recessed into it’s pancake housing, anyway.
Leica did something left-of-center with this lens. It is a reissue of a fifties screw mount lens, this time with coated lenses, M bayonet, 6-bit-coding and slight updates in the engravings. The optical formula they left alone! So it renders like it’s 1955!
Heavy vignetting at f/5.6
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Dawn
January 30, 2019
School gymnasium
This ‘blog is deviating from it’s stated course, more and more color soaking in. Doesn’t bother me and I hope you don’t mind me showing you my latest pictures.
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Bag Snobbery
January 25, 2019
The Leica “Systemtasche” by Oberwerth
The times they are a’changing. In these gender-fluid times, a man can get excited about a leather bag. By all means! So I did.
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Wide and Shallow
January 20, 2019
Fresh truffles
Took a beginner’s workshop in Leica M photography at the Nuremberg Leica Shop yesterday.
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More about Less
January 17, 2019
Different sisters, one surplus lever
The first days with the new Leica M10-D are strange and full of new experiences. In use, the camera feels positively small.
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