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Saturday 25 October 2014

Light, Leaves and Benches

What a beautiful start to the day. As is the law, I made my Saturday pilgrimage to Thrussington Village Store to pick up my weekly Hambleton Bakery seven seed loaf.

Even though I am only going out to collect a loaf of bread I always take a camera with me. And if you are reading this, I imagine you do the same.

Today I was armed with my early Leica M8 (2006) and a very early 5cm Leica Summar f1:2 from 1934. No coatings and the usual evidence of cleaning marks on the front. But so what. If I had been around since 1934 I would expect to have some marks as well.

Any way, as you know this lens is a low contrast lens and can flare like a bitch if pointed towards the light. So don't do it. Or, you can cheat and shield the front element with your hand. A simple and effective  workaround.

This lens can be used as a complimentary portrait lens as it does not have the biting ly sharp characteristics of today's lenses. Like wise today's lenses cannot replicate the feel and bokeh of this lens. It can, depending on the situation exhibit a wonderful out of focusness. Perhaps the Summitar has borrowed "it's" look  from this lens.


Makes you wonder. Here I am, composing this in 2014, hoping that someone might stumble across it via the wonders of the interweb to look at images taken with a lens made in 1934. Strangely, I suspect this 80 year old lens will still be producing images long after I (we) are long gone.

Anyway enough rambling, here are today's images. Straight off the chip, no fiddling about.




Friday 17 October 2014

Street life goes garden life

Woke up the last weekend looked out the kitchen window and was presented with the following.
You have to admire the work that goes into these. seemed such a shame not to break out the cam  to caputre them in their morning dew glory.

All shot on a Ricoh GXR body but with various combos of units and lenses.  First 3 Macro on the Ricoh P10 unit and the others on the Ricoh M mount A12 unit with a Leitz Canada 90mm 2.8 tele-elmarit.