Pifa… waiting by the door… for her daily walk… 😀
(Yes.. she’s been to the doctor… taking some blood-samples… 🙂 )
Pifa – plugged-in..! :-)
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Categories : Pifa - our beloved dog
Uppsala (Sweden) – 17.-20.05.13
20 05 2013Mostly snap-shots, cityscapes, and capturing moments and memories when visiting my brother and his better half… 🙂
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Categories : Travels
Old clunker in town..!
16 05 2013I picked up an old Leitz Wetzlar 90mm Elmar-C f4 on the postoffice today… it was a bit more worn than I anticipated, but what to expect for 1.800 NOK…
Well, despite some play in the focus ring, the lens seems to be pretty sharp..! 🙂
(This sunset taken with it this afternoon may not be an example of the sharpness, but I liked it nevertheless…)
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Categories : Leica
Spring is here… random photos from home…
12 05 2013Some photos from todays trip with Pifa, some outside, some from the balcony…
All photos, except one, are taken with my Canon equipment.. it needed some air… started to get jealous… ;-P
Can you guess which one is taken with the Leica? 🙂
(yes yes… I know… the info in the pictures are telling… 🙂 )
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Categories : AreaT19 (HQ), Pifa - our beloved dog
Saturday evening… home alone…
11 05 2013A couple of beers and a nice Tequila… looking through some old dusty boxes and found my grandfathers old camera… I really don’t know much about it, it’s an Agfa Billy Record, and it uses 120 roll film for 6x9cm frames… It is surely not worth much, in money, but I think it is a cool old object… it is most probably made between 1933 and 1942… it’s not going back in the box… I’ll put it on display in a drawer… (at least until my wife comes home…) 🙂
While at it, here is a “family shot”, my grandpa’s camera together with my fathers old Leica M3 and my newly acquired Leica M8.2:
(Both pictures taken with Canon 5DII and EF 50mm f1.2@8)
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Categories : AreaT19 (HQ), Leica
A very foggy and peaceful morning in Son – 09.05.13
9 05 2013
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Categories : Naturescapes
Playing around with my new Leica on my afternoon walk with Pifa…
7 05 2013…it’s so light… so different… so manual… no autofocus.. no bells… no whistles… no programs (aperture and manual mode only…)… no looking “through the lens” (TTL)… you really don’t know exactly what you will get… rangefinders are truly different… and amusing… and you have to stop… and think… and frame the picture… not just blast away and later pick the best one…
Although I knew all this, from a technical viewpoint, it is still… ehh.. better in a way than I thought…
I can’t explain it… and I guess that is the point… the old adage may be valid after all: seeing is believing… 🙂
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Categories : AreaT19 (HQ), Pifa - our beloved dog
This is as extreme as it gets…
4 05 2013
This remarkable Elcan 90mm f/1 lens was one of 10 made for the US Navy. It sold for 228,000 EUR (A$293,402) including the camera (military version KE-7A) and a special extension tube.
I sincerly believe that I will be travelling to Pluto before I get a chance to put one of these onto my newly acquired M8.2… 😀
Here is a couple of links to other “special” lenses and equipment:
http://www.australianphotography.com/news/auction-record-world-s-most-expensive-camera
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Categories : Equipment, Leica
New spooky chapter in my life…
1 05 2013Today… I finally bought myself a mint used Leica M8.2… (thank you Stina!) 🙂 …that may well be one of my biggest (read: economical..) mistakes in my life… earlier on I exchanged my EF 24-70/f2.8L for a Leica Summarit M 50mm/2.5 and wondered… what the hell am I doing? as a dedicated Canon user… well… today, I started the quest to find out….
To do a final honour to my Dad, who passed away a couple of years ago, the first picture I will post from this new Leica chapter in my life has been taken with his Super Angulon 21mm/f4:
Being used to Canon’s wonderful autofocus, always surprised by Pifa’s tremendous speed and agility, and trying to cope with manual focus/aperture/shutter speed, no wonder why this picture looks like this…! 😀
Hopefully the sharpness and (lack of..) bluriness will improve soon… 🙂
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Categories : Leica
Finally good “seeing” – 20.04.13
20 04 2013Image taken from my balcony. The moon looked very promising by my naked eye, and my hope were rising when looking through the viewfinder.
No tracking, just tripod, 500mm + 2x + 1DIV.
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Categories : Astrophotography
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