The Quest for the Ultimate Viewfinder

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left to right: Voigtländer Kontur – Altix Finder – Home made Finder

This has been an ongoing thing since I got my Leica IIIa. It’s a wonderful camera and I like carrying it with me and using it, but as I already said, the viewfinder is downright crappy, at least when you have to rely on glasses to see anything, like me. Continue reading “The Quest for the Ultimate Viewfinder”

The Narrowest Street in Luxembourg

Yes, it’s a street, it’s got a name (‘Dem Honn Hannen’ in luxembourgish – literally ‘the dog’s ass’).

Nice name for a nice street.. or streetlet.

Starts with a VERY narrow passage between two old buildings, then it ‘widens out’ as it runs along between old garden walls set with old gates.

All pictures done with my trusty Olympus XA2 Continue reading “The Narrowest Street in Luxembourg”

Why I’ll buy no more color films

I once more bought a cheap pack op 3 Fuji Superia 200 films about a month ago, and I got the negatives back today. Well, what do you want me to say… you won’t see any color photos here!

By the way, all pictures are taken with a crappy Canon SureShot AF7 that I sacrificed shortly afterwards to recover the wonderful, big, bright finder that’s in it. More of that later…160730 - Superia 200 - Canon SureShot AF7 - 015I scanned them and treated them to a round of Lightroom….. and I converted most to black and white! Continue reading “Why I’ll buy no more color films”

A Tale of Fifties

800px-Oskar_BarnackFifty millimetres, the so called ‘normal’ lens in 35mm photography. It’s a well known term, even in Inch-Countries.

Where does it come from? Apparently it’s the normal field of view of our eyes, but that’s just plain stupid. If we had a field of view of 50mm, we would be quite embarrassed and would have constant neck spasms from balancing our heads from right to left, up and down to scan our surroundings. Continue reading “A Tale of Fifties”