This is my M6 “Going public” set that I had in commission at the Leica Store Frankfurt to be sold. To their surprise and my disappointment, it found no buyers for two months. So, to remedy the situation and for other Leica lens related reasons, I made a motorcycle round trip out of it. This is what happened in the last two days:
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Two weeks ago I came across a Fujifilm Instax Mini EVO by accident in a photo store in Hamburg. Since its introduction in 2019, this instant picture camera has been sold out everywhere. Even the salesperson was amazed to see it on his shelves. All the more reason to relieve him of it!
Well, what is it? Simply put, a creatively rewarding concept that combines a simple digital camera with Holga-like presets with an Instax printer and stable Bluetooth functions for transferring selected images to the smartphone. I will decode this sentence below.
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Aesthetics and functionality don’t always run parallel, not even in the Bauhaus-inspired design language of Leica M cameras. That a Leica fanboy like me has to come to grips with.
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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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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 (more…)
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