Posts Tagged ‘Leica’
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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Tags:Leica, lens, rangefinder, review, Summaron-M f/5.6 28 mm, wide-angle
Posted in Leica, lenses, pancake lens, photography, pictures, review, street photography, Summaron-M f/5.6 28 mm, Uncategorized, wide-angle lens | Leave a Comment »
February 2, 2019

11 inch iPad Pro plus Pencil
Apple said it can replace a laptop, but you gotta be careful. When it comes to photo editing, only the two recent versions of the iPad Pro make the cut. Only they have a color gamut a bit wider than sRGB (still far removed from Adobe RBG). You won’t be adjusting something you can’t see, at least if the web is your platform. (more…)
Tags:Apple, FOTOS, iPad Pro 11”, Leica, Lightroom, photo, post-processing
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January 26, 2019

Canon FD f/1.2 85 mm and Visoflex (Type 020) fitted
Putting a Visoflex electronic viewfinder on a Leica M10-D seems nonsensical.
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Tags:Canon, EVF, FD f/1.2 85 mm, Leica, Typ 020, Visoflex
Posted in Canon, EVF, FD f/1.2 85 mm, Leica, lens adapter, M10-D, pictures, review, Uncategorized, Visoflex | Leave a Comment »
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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Tags:Leica, Oberwerth, review, Systemtasche
Posted in leather, Leica, Oberwerth, photo bag, photography, pictures, Uncategorized, Velben goods | 1 Comment »
January 20, 2019

Fresh truffles
Took a beginner’s workshop in Leica M photography at the Nuremberg Leica Shop yesterday.
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Tags:28 mm, Leica, Nuremberg, Summilux, workshop
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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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Tags:Leica, M10-D, review
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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…)
Tags:digital, Leica, M10-D, rangefinder camera
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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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Tags:black & white, Hall of Fame, Jürgen Schadeberg, Leica, Leitz Park, photography, pictures, Wetzlar
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October 27, 2018

Choosing from a menu
Just coming back from a day trip to Hamburg with my father. We had (more…)
Tags:analog, film, IIIg, Leica, LTM, photography, rangefinder camera, screw mount
Posted in IIIg, Leica, LTM Leica, photography, screw mount Leica, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
August 29, 2018

I get nostalgic for old film cameras.
Like this Leica M6 TTL in chrome. It sat in the second hand glass case at my dealer when I was visiting yesterday. (more…)
Tags:camera, camera porn, film, Leica, M6 TTL
Posted in analog, chrome, film, Leica, Leicavit, M6, M6 TTL, photography, rangefinder camera, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »