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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Posts Tagged ‘Leica’
FOFER
March 24, 2019(more…)
Camel Spotting
March 13, 2019
A spotting scope
Sorry, for the title of this post, I couldn‘t resist the Monty Python reference!
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BWWSW
March 12, 2019
Boat
On my way to Düsseldorf’s congress center this morning.
Wait
Registering for CME at the ophthalmology meet.
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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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Small is Beautiful
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…)
An Experimental Platform
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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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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