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Free, Joel? Really?

As big a Leica fanboy as I am, I have seldom bought a Leica lens for new. The penultimate time was long ago, with a MP a la carte came my Summicron 50 mm that still serves me well. The last time was yesterday.

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Double Chinaman

When asked “Why two hats?” he answered “For advertisement.”

This was one of the first times

Shots From Düsseldorf

The Rhine

Like every year, I’m at a week-long CME event in Düsseldorf. When I’m not sitting in lectures and workshops, I roam the city in search of pictures:

Motography

More than passing through

For the longest time, I’ve been trying to combine my two passions: motorcycle riding and photography. And failed at it, miserably.

Gear Disclosure

Klick through, I’m not posting this on the front page!

Color Loss and Gain

Ice Abstract

A word of warning first. You loose something when you get a Leica M monochrom.

Vodcasting from the Heart of Texas

May I introduce? Texas Leica.

A mixed bag of topics in this post. About two weeks ago, the Fuji GW6800III arrived from Japan.

Film Fetischism

Leica bondage

I realize I don’t bond with a digital camera like I do with an analog one. I even bought my M6 a decorative piece of rope yesterday …

Monochrom

They might as well have called it “Leica World”. They didn’t. Instead, they plonked a stone globe with a red dot on it down in the center of the roundabout in front of …

… Leitz Park! We are on the outskirts of Wetzlar in a building next to the Leica factory. I went there on Saturday to

The Leica M Gestalt

In the 90-ties, Leica M cameras came in these spiffy, red velvet-lined presentation boxes. Just had to do a bit of Skript-Fu on that.

A film-loading Leica has it’s own Gestalt.