Saturday, February 04, 2023

We had sunlight today! I was able to take the loaned Leica 35-70mm lens out for a walk. I'll say one thing right off the bat: It's sharp and contrasty! Part one. High ISO at home.

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Here we are looking at a few high ISO samples from the combination of the Leica SL camera (type 601 from 2015) and the Leica Vario-Elmar 35-...
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One version of a "standard" zoom lens. Why do people like these?

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  This is the zoom lens I wrote about yesterday. It was made by Leica for their R system film cameras starting in 1997. Its specs are pretty...
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Friday, February 03, 2023

New lens. Not yet mine. Still in the testing phase....

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  I was minding my own business, wondering when more tree branches were going to fall from the sky when I got a text from a photographer fri...
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Iceland 2018. Small camera, big photos.

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  Neutral and non-judgemental photos from Reykjavik.  Taken with a Lumix G9 camera and an Olympus 12-100mm lens. I really have nothing more ...
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Thursday, February 02, 2023

Hmmmmm. blah, blah, blah.

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  Oh wait. I remember now. I shot these in color, in the raw format, when I was in Iceland in 2018. I came across them a few days ago and wo...

Effort sometimes required to gain access to the grand view. Why photographers who shoot landscapes and street photos should make physical fitness part of the picture taking practice.

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  this is a stairway in Iceland. It leads up and up and up to a wonderful vantage point from which a proficient landscape photographer could...
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Wow. The ice storm sucked. Put a hamper on my street photo practice and taught me that chopping trees with a hand saw might be inefficient but it's awfully good exercise!

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  Wet cold sucks. Black ice on asphault sucks. PTSD about loosing power in an arctic ice storm sucks (memories of Feb. 2021, remember?). Big...
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