Fresh truffles
Took a beginner’s workshop in Leica M photography at the Nuremberg Leica Shop yesterday.
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Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
Wide and Shallow
January 20, 2019More 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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Test Drive
January 12, 2019
Rain dawns on the “Leica World” in Wetzlar.
As soon as they open, I scamper through the precipitation from the hotel to the Leica Store. A dash of 30 meters. The salesperson offers to loan me a Leica M10-D for a few hours to test this unique digital rangefinder camera. (more…)
A Sketchbook Camera
January 12, 2019
Fairly small body, big lens.
Yesterday, I got a compact digital camera for my 55-th birthday, a Panasonic LX100 II.
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Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
December 12, 2018
The marinating pile
Despite the title, this isn’t about stout beer or red ketchup. No, it’s about the workflow of film photography in a digital age.
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Visiting the Trees
November 24, 2018
Took a walk yesterday morning to see some friends:
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An Old Photographer and a New Store
November 16, 2018
Three photographers and a minder
Yesterday evening, I was at an event at the Leica headquarters in Wetzlar. Jürgen Schadeberg was inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame and a new Leica flagship store was opened. Here’s a series of photos I took with the M Monochrom as the proceedings unfolded:
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I Screwed Up
October 27, 2018
Choosing from a menu
Just coming back from a day trip to Hamburg with my father. We had (more…)
Mirrorlessless
October 8, 2018
Vanilla ice cream, Apfelstrudel and a 45.7 megapixel beast
I’m being ungrateful and have been replacing the Nikon D800 that served me so well shooting the wedding with a new body. Ten days ago at Photokina, mirrorless system cameras were all the rage. I had a look through a Nikon Z7 and found the electronic viewfinder straining to my still blissfully good eyesight. Same with the other manufacturer’s EVIL (electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens, that moniker should be standard!) camera proposals. Only the Leica SL stood out, but that one is a bit out of my price range, especially it’s autofocus lenses.
I kept the Sony alpha 7RIII for last and had a salesman at a big camera store in Nuremberg demonstrate it to me last Saturday. But when neither he nor his colleagues (more…)
