Charlie.

2013, Barbados, Favourite, Inspiration, Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH f/1.4, Portrait, Street

↑Leica M9 and Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH @ f/1.4.

Featured and Guest Photographers.

I’ve just added a Featured and Guest Photographers page to the site to highlight the work of other active photographers whom I’ve admired. I hope to build this over time but, for now, you may want to check out or revisit some of the posts from the past year.

—Peter.

Runway, Barbados.

Barbados, Inspiration, Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH f/1.4, Print

🙂

↑Leica M9 and Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH @ f/1.4.

Runway, Toronto.

Inspiration, Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH f/1.4, Street

Toronto (Pearson) International Airport, two weeks ago.

Yes that’s snow out there.

Our flight was delayed.

(please click on the image to view at MAXIMUM size and sharpness)

↑Leica M9 and Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH @ f/1.4.

I’m back!

Inspiration

Images to follow.

—Peter.

Shhh…

Inspiration, Leica 35mm Summilux ASPH FLE f/1.4, Portrait

This place will be quiet for a while.

See you in a few weeks.

—Peter.

↑Leica M9 and Leica 35mm Summilux ASPH FLE @ f/1.4.

Batboy.

2013, Favourite, Inspiration, Leica 50mm Noctilux f/0.95, Portrait

Face painting.

↑Leica M9 and Leica Noctilux @ f/0.95.

Baseball, revisited.

2013, Favourite, Film, Leica 35mm Summilux ASPH FLE f/1.4, Leica M2, Leica M3, Portrait, Sports

A suspended moment.

↑Leica M2 or M3, Kodak Tri-X 400, and Leica 35mm Summilux FLE @ f/2.

Leica serial No. – lens/camera year look-up.

Inspiration, Teaching point

Do you have a vintage Leica lens or camera and are interested in finding out its age?

This French site allows you to enter the serial number of your item and it will provide you with the date it was manufactured.

I’ve found it useful over the years.

—Peter.

Let it be (revisited).

Inspiration, Nikon, Print

“When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.”

—The Beatles, Let it be.

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The first Let It Be can be seen here.

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↑Nikon D3 and Nikon 35mm f/2 AF-D @ f/2.

The fireman.

Film, Inspiration, Portrait, Street, Voigtländer 40mm f/1.4 Nokton

↑Leica MP, Voigtländer Nokton 40mm, and Fuji Superia X-tra 200.

More Leica M (240) sample images.

Inspiration, Q&A, Teaching point

So by now everybody knows Leica released more official photos taken with the upcoming M (240). I write “more” because they had previously released sample images on their website.

Looking at the new sample images, it seems that what I wrote months ago still applies:

The M9… image quality — again, at base ISO — [is] superior to anything being produced by CMOS-based cameras. This was true in 2006 (M8) and 2009 (M9), and it is true even today, despite the release of a new generation of CMOS cameras…

I see people are being careful — as I have been up until now — to not draw any premature conclusions about the new M‘s image quality. Essentially, many are pointing out that the newly-released images, as images, are not very inspiring and this, in turn, may be adversely biasing perceptions of image quality.

Yet when I look at M9 (or M8) images, even at web sizes, they have a crispness and vitality to them that the new sample images from the M (240) seem to lack.

This is undeniable.

—Peter.