One of the stops on my recent Canadian trip was on Prince Edward Island. We docked at a little town called Summerside, which, with its beautiful Victorian and Edwardian houses and stately buckeye trees, reminded me of the best parts of growing up in the Midwest in the 1950s. There was a celebration of some… [Read More]
Archives for October 2013
A stripped-down M-series Leica
I had fun with the last post, but now it’s time to get real. What should the purist, stripped-down expression of the Leica rangefinder experience be? Here’s a proposal: Lose the LCD display on the back of the camera. It makes it thicker and heavier than it has to be, so that it doesn’t feel… [Read More]
Designing the new M-series Leica
There’s a controversial thread over on the L-camera forum. The topic is what the next Leica M-series camera should be. There are two diametrically-opposed approaches: a) build a thoroughly modern camera that takes the M lenses, or b) provide the best expression of the gestalt of the film-era Leica M’s. My own personal desire is… [Read More]
Flattening the visual field
Usually you think of a long lens flattening perspective. Sometimes, all it takes is a lack of visual clues. This image was made with an 18mm lens on a M240: I think it works read as a flat subject, and also as two 90-degree planes that join 60% of the way across the image. The… [Read More]
Traveling with the Leica M240, part 12
Coda For the past series of posts, I’ve been enthusing about the Leica lenses. Here’s an example of what I like so much that I think will come across even at web resolution: 1950s fire truck, Summerside, Prince Edward Island. 90mm Summicron, f/13 @ 1/45, ISO 200. It’s not that the lens is just sharp…. [Read More]
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