"On the road again." Cars at the end of the day. Just parked along 2nd St.

 

Our prowling around again with the new camera. I can't sit still when the sun is out and the thermometer  stays under 90. I was exploring more of downtown with the M240,  this time decorated with a wonderful Carl Zeiss 35mm f2.0 Planar ZM. "ZM" being a Zeiss for M mount. The lens focuses exactly right and it makes files that make me smile. 

As a high school student in the early 1970s I loved cars. My very first car was a well used but still serviceable 1965 Buick Wildcat bought from a friend's dad in 1974. It had three wondrous attributes that seem lost to car design now. One was air conditioning that could keep beer cold --- if you put the beer near a vent. Another was bench seats a mile wide and more comfortable that most couches. And the third was a 425 cubic inch engine with double quad carburetors generating 360 horsepower. And yes, gas was almost free back then. A really fine car in which to head to the coast for a weekend break...

You could fit an entire photo studio in the trunk. Those times are long gone but these cars served to tickle my memory. And fond memories they are...

The M240 does nice raw files in the .DNG format. Lightroom Classic likes them. 

Portrait of a Texas chef taken on the fly. Between video takes.

Johnny S.

I like to stay busy on the set so if we're between takes on a video project, and I have the time, I try to round up people for quick portraits. They are already working "on camera" that day and they are happy to pose. Most of the portraits done for myself are tucked in at the end of other work. I asked Johnny to walk into my mini-set and stand in front of my camera for maybe sixty seconds, during a break in the action. I shot 12 frames, all intended as square format photos, and we were done. He headed back to the video set and I headed over to the small inset studio to catch a few food shots before "taping" resumed. 

Some of my favorite shots come from working through breaks on sets. 

This image was done with a handheld Fuji MF camera and what we are calling, I guess, the "kit lens." It's the 35-70mm zoom for the GFX system. It's a thousand dollar lens but I was able to buy a brand new one during a sale when it was half that price. I couldn't resist....

And it's turned out to be a really good performer. Sharp and fast to focus. And a good focal length range to boot. 

Working in between work. An efficient way to get more images.