It was cloudy and rained on an off yesterday. I thought it was the perfect atmosphere in which to test a camera and lens combo. I'll be traveling next week to a favorite photo location and I want to make sure I'm taking gear that I really love. No clients to please and no affiliation with any camera company which might nudge me away from good judgment. I get to just select the stuff I like and use it as well as I am able. It's also a vacation so I'm trying not to load myself up with so much gear that I start to feel like a sherpa who missed his nap.
On this particular day I thought I'd take a test run with an M240 and the very capable Voigtlander 50mm APO Lanthar lens. A very nice combination that isn't too big, too heavy or too intimidating. I used the lens mostly at f2.8 but occasionally, when I wanted to keep more people or things in focus I went with f5.6.
This is my favorite combination so far. We'll see if I can restrain myself and take this camera and lens and perhaps one back-up camera and lens (which take the same batteries...!) and be done with it. Even more novel might be leaving all the cameras at home, taking a small, trendy looking leather notebook and just writing down descriptions of all the things I see. But that might be more work...
At any rate, when shooting raw I can use ISOs at least up to 3200 --- caveat is that I have to hit the correct exposures. Lightroom now gives us back more low light performance these days.
Have a look through. I think it's a fun set for just walking around looking at life.
Summer coming soon.
The patio at the Hotel San José.
Photographer sneaking around...
eyes wide closed.
eyes wide open.
NSFW? Change jobs.
I can't believe people will line up (that's 'queue' for the UK readers) and wait for their turn to go into a shop to buy regular, day-to-day cowboy boots. I should start selling tickets.
A new hat. Not for use in Canada.
That's about it for today.
Hello Team Singapore.
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