Posts
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108/365 - Zeiss Leica Coop
2016-08-27, Leica R4s and Summicron-R 50mm V2 in cooperation with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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107/365 - minolta
minolta SR-7. The one that has been featured here before. It changed hands.
2016-08-26, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2 with extension tube(s?) and possibly an Elpro1 on top.
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106/365 - Olympus Flower
2016-08-25, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2 (I think at f/2.0 or even f/2.8).
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105/365 - Leica Back
2016-08-24, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens and extension tube(s).
Macro with 250mm mirror lens:). Needed some extension tubes for that. It’s the back of a Leica R4s. The film window turned out to be, well, leaky. Oh Lordy. Now there is some black tape behind the window and the new result has yet to be examined.
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104/365 - Bled Castle
2016-08-02, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
Actually there was a mistake and the photo from the 2016-08-23 was already published on the 2016-08-02 (number 83). But that stays there, and this, from the 2016-08-02 gets here.
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103/365 - That Doggie in the Window
The one with the waggly tail.
I do hope that doggie’s for sale.2016-08-22, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2 and Elpro.
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102/365 - We're walking
2016-08-21, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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101/365 - Birthday Turtle
2016-08-20, with Sony A7 with Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2 and Elpro1 close focussing lens.
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100/365 - The Unknown
2016-08-19, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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99/365 - The Road Behind
2016-08-18, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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98/365 - Street Light
2016-08-17, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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97/365 - The Wanderer
2016-08-16, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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96/365 - Hans the Waldmann
2016-08-15, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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95/365 - Parallel Steps
2016-08-14, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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94/365 - Wazzup
2016-08-13, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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93/365 - DOF
Depth of field.
2016-08-12, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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92/365 - H.Haller
Hans Waldmann by Hermann Haller.
2016-08-11, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens.
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91/365 - Cups
2016-08-10, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8.
The lens has a stellar reputation, but not on digital. IMHO the trick is, to use a mirrorless camera for digital (where you can check while making a photo what and where it’s sharp) and full frame and then to use the characteristics of the lens to your advantage. What turns out to be less sharp in the corner might just be very pronounced field curvature. Now field curvature has a bad reputation as well, but think about it, that’s also just because of the “wrong” cameras historically being used:).
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89/365 - Garage
2016-08-08, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8.
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88/365 - Wood
2016-08-07, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8.
Another fantastic 28mm lens.
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87/365 - Ilex
2016-08-06, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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86/365 - Wobbling Wall
2016-08-05, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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85/365 - Skyfall
2016-08-04, with Sony A7 and Pentax M 28mm f/2.0 Version 1.
The Pentax M 28mm f/2.0 version 1 is actually the Zeiss design of the 28mm Hollywood lens, and as I heard, they even shipped some machinery to Japan to build them. Later (just a little bit) Pentax and Zeiss abandoned their cooperation and Zeiss went with Yashica to reuse the Contax brand. The 15mm Pentax is the only other lens that resulted from that cooperation. What might be interesting about this 28mm, is the Pentax coating on a Zeiss lens.
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84/365 - Cool B.
2016-08-03, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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83/365 - Zürcher Oberland
2016-08-23, with Sony A7 and Minolta MD 250mm f/5.6 mirror lens.
As you see, there was a mistake, this photo was not from the 2nd but 23rd of August 2016. It should have been picture 104, but alas, it got a pre-release. And stays here. Vice versa, photo number 104, surprise, is also a mistake. It is from the 2nd of August and should have been here instead. But, it also stays where it went instead.
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82/365 - Blackbird
2016-08-01, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2.0.
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81/365 - Missing Eye
But many eyes..
2016-07-31, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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80/365 - Tito
2016-07-30, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2.0.
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79/365 - Apple Strudel
2016-07-29, with Sony A7 and Contax Carl Zeiss Distagon 28mm f/2.8 AE.
Another one from the crowded list of wonderful 28mm lenses.
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78/365 - Slow News Day
2016-07-28, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2.0.
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77/365 - Bleicherweg
2016-07-27, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2.0.
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76/365 - Platsch
2016-07-26, with Sony A7 and Hanimex 300mm f/5.6.
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75/365 - Officeflower
2016-07-25, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm with close focussing lens.
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74/365 - Bello
“The talking dog.”
2016-07-24, with Sony A7 and Minolta AF 100-300mm APO.
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73/365 - Nerium Oleander
2016-07-23, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0 plus extension tube.
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72/365 - Hmmm
2016-07-22, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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71/365 - Duo
2016-07-21, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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70/365 - Quak
2016-07-20, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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69/365 - Austin
2016-07-19, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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68/365 - Steinfels
2016-07-18, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8.
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67/365 - Lake Side
2016-07-17, with Sony A7 and Contax Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7.
Stopped down.
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66/365 - Contax Colors
2016-07-16, with Sony A7 and Contax Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7.
I was surprised by the results of this day all taken with the small little, relatively underweelming, standard Contax 50mm f/1.7 lens. I like both the slow Tessar 45mm f/2.8 as well as the famous Contax 50mm f/1.4 lenses very much, the later one for its creamy bokey, and the first one both its tiny usage for zone focussing as well as surprisingly strong bokeh as well. Yes for the first time this 1.7 lens convinces me for the first time as well, and in a way I didn’t see coming when I was making this and other photos on this day.
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65/365 - Crossing the Line
2016-07-15, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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64/365 - Walking in the Rain
2016-07-14, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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63/365 - Withering Away
2016-07-13, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss Planar 35mm f/2.0.
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62/365 - Bronica ETR 75mm f/2.8
2016-07-12, with Sony A7 and Konica AR 35mm f/2.0.
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61/365 - Walking on the Line
2016-07-11, with Sony A7 and Konica AR 35mm f/2.0.
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60/365 - Orchid Bunch
2016-07-10, with Sony A7 and Konica AR 35mm f/2.0.
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59/365 - Zurich Timpani
2016-07-09, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 28mm f/2.0.
There has been a technical problem with publishing, that is resolved now.
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58/365 - No Title
2016-07-08, with Sony A7 and Canon FD 35mm f/2.0.
Some lecture room below the ETH Zurich.
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57/365 - Jungle Mumble
2016-07-05, with iPhone 4.
(Ups again, on the fifth I by mistake published a photo from the 7., so today I back release the one from the fith.)
Forgot the camera at home, so had to do something with the phone instead.
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56/365 - Poppy
2016-07-06, with Sony A7 and Canon FD 55mm f/1.2.
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55/365 - Dinner is Served
2016-07-05, with Sony A7 and Canon FD 55mm f/1.2.
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54/365 - Seagull 4B-1
2016-07-04, with Sony A7 and Canon FD 55mm f/1.2.
This camera was my foray into medium format photography. I bought it when I was a high school student (for DM 150). Somewhere I still should have the contact prints, which I developed in school in the afternoon course of our Chemistry teacher.
I liked looking through the viewfinder back then and when I rediscovered it again, I thought the shutter doesn’t work anymore, but it seems it might still do. Maximum speed 1/300. There are slower cameras (thought I only know one).
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53/365 - Glass of Pepper
2016-07-03, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 90mm (did not note to have been used an extension tube, and I remember I was surprised how close I could focus with the lens by default).
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52/365 - Late Nighter
2016-07-02, with Sony A7 and Canon FD 55 f/1.2.
Canon made more f/1.2 normal lenses than anybody else, not even counting some range finder versions. Also they are one of the very few having made f/1.0 lenses.
This FD is the same optically as the FL predicessor. Unlike the 58mm that came first and is rather a toy lens, this one has an interesting mix of very sharp and funky bokeh. The direct successor was already an aspherical lens and is supposed to be even sharper (and therefore also has a higher reputation).
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51/365 - Black'n White Power
2016-07-01, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 28mm f/2.0.
Only 1 picture made that day, the camera made 2 versions and I added ten more, and this is version number 9:).
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50/365 - Bellevue
2016-06-30, with Sony A7 and Konica 35mm f/2.0.
Long time ago I wanted to publish 50 pictures as an exercise. And really I overcame some hurdle, with having some routine and no recourse to back out.
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49/365 - Some of those days..
You don’t know what..
2016-06-29, with Sony A7 and Konica 35mm f/2.0.
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48/365 - Eisbach Visiteurs
2016-06-28, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 85mm f/2.0.
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47/365 - Splish Splash
2016-06-27, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 28mm f/2.0 - 1/8000 sec.
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46/365 - M-Cat in the Wild
2016-06-25, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 35mm V2.
Oh blunder. Yesterday I mixed the folders up and took the 26th for the 25th. So yesterday’s post was actually from 2016-06-26 and not 25, and today’s post should have happened yesterday.
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45/365 - Lamp
2016-06-26, with Sony A7 and Carl Zeiss Sonnar 100mm f/3.5 C/Y.
(Correction: this photo was thought to be from the 25th, but actually it’s from one day later. So picture 45 and 46 are in the wrong order… hae, ce la vie.)
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44/365 - Queued
(click inside the image for best effect)2016-06-24, with Sony A7 and Carl Zeiss Sonnar 100mm f/3.5 C/Y.
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43/365 - Sunshine Reggae
Gimee gimee just a little smile :)
2016-06-23, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 28mm f/2.0.
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42/365 - Blossom
2016-06-21, with Sony A7 and Konica AR 35mm f/2.0.
This is quite a big crop of a picture, that is nice by itself (but sorry, I am not allowed to show it:). And I thought the old classic Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2.8 is a sharp lens, but it seems there is no need for it, as for macro crops the f/2.0 Konica seems to do just fine. And yes, I am relatively sure there was no extension tube involved. The lens goes quite close but still the full image shows quite a wide range.
The color is a bit vivid and comes from the in camera Jpeg mode. No sharpening.
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41/365 - Minolta SR-7
2016-06-21, with Sony A7 and Konica AR 35mm f/2.0.
My lens (the venerable 85mm f/1.7), and after 20 Francs changed hands, also my camera.
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40/365 - Konica Day
Not so yielding day, but I don’t think it was because of the lens.
2016-06-20, with Sony A7 and Konica AR 35mm f/2.0.
A lens that should be easily on the most underrated lenses list, if it wasn’t also quite rare. So at least it is on the most overlooked lenses list.
I got my version for CHF 60 in the Foto Ernst sellout. So the waiting in the cold was worth it after all. Normal price online is more like 200, if it comes up at all. Still it is in the shadow of the M mount 35/2 Konica’s and the many other formidable colleagus as well as its 40mm f/1.8 cousin. Maybe something it shares with the Olympus 35mm f/2.0 and it’s more famous 40/2 colleague.
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39/365 - Above the Roofs of Zurich
2016-06-19, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 85mm f/1.7 (I told you it is a marvelous lens).
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38/365 - A Smile in Zurich
2016-06-18, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 58mm f/1.2.
Quite good plasticity on this distance. Maybe the one 35mm film lens to take on the island.
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37/365 - Rollei in the Jungle
2016-06-17, with Sony A7 and Leica 60mm f/2.8 Macro.
Another late night effort. But at least I took the effort to get out the You-Cant-Go-Wrong-With-The-60mm-Leica-Macro. Or it might just have been lying around from a few days ago.
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36/365 - Planar 1.4
2016-06-16, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 28mm f/2.0.
On a Contax S2 next to an Olympus 35 RC.
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35/365 - Lemon Grass
2016-06-15, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 28mm f/2.0.
Less clinical and more funky bokeh than the Leica R 28mm, but I like it as well.
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34/365 - Hidden Bike
2016-06-14, with Sony A7 and Leica Elmarit-R 60mm f/2.8.
I was looking at the image’s EXIF data how high the ISO was, aka how dark it was. But it was a trick, I used 1/2000 sec to push ISO up to the max of 25’600.
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33/365 - M-Cat
Hey, little tiger!
2016-06-13, with Sony A7 and Leica Elmarit-R 60mm f/2.8.
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32/365 - Leica Day
2016-06-12, with Sony A7 and Leica Elmarit-R 60mm f/2.8.
I don’t know why I chose this picture, lot’s of flower bokeh shots, used three different Leica R lenses, 60, 28, and 180mm (to use two different lenses in a day is already much). Then to my surprise I chose this motiv in black and white with some people’s legs waking into the background. Just on the final thumbnail overview I switch back to this color version after it had been ruled out pretty early before. Color from raw and uncropped. And of course the 60mm doesn’t need sharpening.
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31/365 - Shou Xing
Live long!
2016-06-11, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2.
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30/365 - Flower What
Seems today I took a photo holiday, same as yesterday. First two days without a photo in over one year, and I enjoyed it. Today I even went out without a photo bag. So much, that I even got late with the publishing… ups, anybody want me to stop now? Hmm, I hear no one..
2016-06-10, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 85mm f/1.7.
Technically speaking, the ratios of photos with this lens from this day last year that I am happy with is so high, I really should use this lens much much more often. The newer smaller 85/2.0 MD lens is generally considered to be much more desirable (also by myself), that I should greatly reconsider my opinion. After all, it is said to be related to the design of the much revered 58mm f/1.2 lens. And indeed I find them very similar in their style. Maybe it is the 1.7, that is not so very remarkable for a 85mm lens, that puts it in the shadow of the 1.4 Zeisses and 1.2 Canons for super duper bokeh shots, or the very small and spicy sharp Zeiss/Contax, Leica, Olympus, or also the before mentioned Minolta, lenses.
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29/365 - Water Drop
2016-06-09, with Sony A7 and Leica 50mm f/2.0 V2 (and no extension tube as far as I can see).
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28/365 - Food
Whatever that was, something eatable.
2016-06-08, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 35mm f/2.0 V2 and extension tube.
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27/365 - Contax S2 Controls
2016-06-07, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 35mm f/2.0 V2 with extension tube.
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26/365 - Hungarian Federal Railways
2016-06-06, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2.
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25/365 - Flower Power
2016-06-05, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2 plus extension tube.
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24/365 - Szofie
2016-06-04, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2.
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23/365 - Sunset Boulevard
2016-06-03, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.0 V2.
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22/365 - Art
2016-06-02, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2.
PS. If that is art, then I hope this photo is also art, not.
PPS. I wanted to write, I don’t know why last year I switch from Pentax 1.2 to Olympus 1.2 that day, turns out I switched indeed, but yesterday’s picture was already with the Olympus! Have to fix that. -
21/365 - Sitting On The Road
2016-06-01, with Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2.
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20/365 - Lentils Lunch
2016-05-31, with Sony A7 and Pentax M 50mm f/1.2.
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19/365 - Model
Back to last year… I now think the previous three days I couldn’t find any images, I should have looked at the prints from the first negative film I ever did in a long time, around last year. But, too late.
2017-05-30, with Sony A7 and Pentax M 50mm f/1.2.
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18/365 - Zurich Angel
And again, a picture from today (and not from last year). I was looking for an angel to photograph. Because I had some screenshot from last year with a building with an angel in the relief. So this is from the station. Now the clock is ticking, and no time and probably not worth it either to process the screenshot as well.. so just today’s angel (or some portion of it)..
2017-05-29, with Sony A7 and Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4.
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17/365 - Zurich Pigeon
Again, a picture from today and not from last year. And again, I took out a special lens for this occasion:).
2017-05-28, with Sony A7 and Leica Summilux-R 35mm f/1.4.
Today was difficult to decide. Used my most precious lens for the first time ever. Except maybe once each at f2 or f2.8, otherwise the whole day wide open at f1.4. Still, felt it was just super sharp without any need to stop down at all. Except, with this photo 1/8000 at f/1.4 was almost too bright. Some areas I made darker in post processing. The photo is a crop and with 4mm extension tube (oh wait, maybe it is without extension tube - thought the shot that didn’t make it today with another motive was with extension tube for sure - schade, wanted to show some extremer close focus ability).
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16/365 - Zurich Rosarium
Zilch, nada, nil, nix…
Really, I have nothing from last year. Can’t even find anything on the hard disk, temp file, whatsoever. So looks like it will be a bit more than a 365 days project. So I shot something on purpose today for the project, and now somehow must make sure I end the project around 2018-05-29 or the 30th. Of course, only if I don’t find more holes in the repository.
So today’s photo is from today..
2017-05-27, with Sony A7 and Minolta MC 250mm f/5.6.
Not the photo I intended todo when I went out today. After months now with 50 and 35mm lenses with a rare 90mm inbetween, I was longing for some real telephoto Gestaltung.
Thought I was more thinking of straight lines, architecture, or abstract panes.. Anyway, haven’t used this mirror lens as much as I should have. It is super light and not very big. My Minolta 28mm f/2.0 lens is the same size and much more heave. And even on some huge distances, the planes in the background are still not in the depth of field and not as sharp as the main object in focus.
Of course, then there is the onion ring bokeh, which for me I love it. Maybe when using the lens regularly, I don’t know if my taste would change, but for now.. In this photo the effect is not very strong, but pronounces the fore- and background panes even stronger.
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15/365 - Zurich Biker
2016-05-26, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss 45mm f/2.0 Planar.
The 45mm Planar is actually a 47mm, while most 50mm lenses are a bit slightly above 50mm in reality.
To me the separation between the foreground and background is maybe a little more pronounced for this kind of distance than to be expected and the lens is not a super “fast” one.
Also of note, the left and right corners of the background are more sharp than the background in the center. A good example of a lens with strong field curvature, which is bad for photo tests and brick wall photos, but in my opinion very desirable characteristic for portrait and other ‘bokeh’ sujets.
Also I think the lens has some visible barrel distortion here (but is not so strong and hasn’t ruined any shots so far:). By looking up, distortion on the corner is -1%.
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14/365 - Zurich Heimatwerk
2016-05-25, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss 45mm f/2.0 Planar.
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13/365 - Zurich Limmat
2016-05-24, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-R 35mm f/2.0 V2.
I tried to pitch this photo as a stock photo of Zurich for some marketing brochure in our company (therefore the colors got a bit strong in post processing:), but alas, the clouds had been too risky to create any kind of worrying associations:). So here it goes into the project instead..
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12/365 - Keleti Station
2016-05-23, 5x4 dimension, otherwise unchanged B&W Jpeg out of the Sony A7 with Contax G Carl Zeiss 90mm f/2.8 Sonnar.
Actually I prefer it very with a black background and a white line surrounding it, like here (but then I don’t know if it is as sharp as I see it on the blog - since having a Mac with a retina display, I have no idea anymore how the photos look on different displays and what the browsers are making out of it).
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11/365 - A Coffee Glass
2016-05-22, with Sony A7, Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2, and an extension tube.
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10/365 - Zlaty Bazant
A Golden Pheasant, 2016-05-21. From Slovakia, unfortunately owned by Heineken now.
With Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2.
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9/365 - Chinese Dragon
Chinese Dragon, 2016-05-20.
With Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2. Obviously, it is rather wide open, but it could also be at f/2.0. On another day some time later I have a picture of the same object with the Leica R Summicron 50mm Version 2. As far as I remember with very different result, and I liked that Summicron one also very much. On statistical grounds, I used the Summicron actually about twice as much as the Oly. But for now the Oly is the first lens I used 3 times for this project.
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8/365 - 100%
Another gimmick day. The picture below is a screenshot from a temporary file I created exactly one year ago (sorry, nothing else to show).
From 2016-05-19.
So, but as compensation, here is one shot exactly one year later:
Apple juice, 2017-05-19.
With Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-M 50mm Rigid (and one or two extension tubes).
PS. tomorrow I have material again, but there are still 3 more days later this month I have to become creative (retroactively) again:(. Well, for now I better keep shooting every day.
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7/365 - helvetii
Houston, we have a problem!!!
From 2016-05-18.
Yesterday I discovered, I must have been drunk when researching of how far back I had made a photo on a daily basis. Seems today and tomorrow, and a few more days this month, there are no photos. Puhhh, I am already in full editing mode, and stopped thinking about making a photo each day. So today here is a screenshot from a temporary notification file I had left over from last year (sometimes it pays to keep your temp dirs and files around :). So this is really from the html (thought copied yesterday) file from last year 2016-05-18.
And to round it off, here is todays version, 2017-05-18. Silly me, on this occasion I found out my screen is a bit magnetic (the notification page is todays version, unlike the screenshot above - yes, I am still using the same output but a new page gets generated every day)..
2017-05-18, with Sony A7 and Leica Summicron-M 50mm Rigid (and two extension rings, 14mm in total).
PS. 0 is for error code zero, which is good (no news is good news). helvetii is our local Swiss application, which needs a daily database synchronisation batch job.
PPS. I have no idea, what I will do tomorrow. Maybe such similar gimmick. Maybe I prolong the whole exercise also for a few days to get 365 uninterrupted, so till here that would be just an extra bonus. -
6/365 - Birthday Bouquet
Birthday bouquet, enjoying the spring sunshine at the Zurich lake.
2016-05-17, with Sony A7 and Contax G Carl Zeiss 90mm f/2.8 Sonnar.
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5/365 - During the Day
2016-05-16, with Sony A7 and Contax G Zeiss 90mm f/2.8 Sonnar.
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4/365 - Horse Dung
Their Horse’s Home, Gut Grossenbusch.
2016-05-15, with Sony A7 and Contax G Zeiss 45mm f/2.0 Planar.
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3/365 - Cafe Einstein No More
Cafe Einstein in Bonn is no more. As well as the Bouvier book store next door, which was once one of the biggest book stores in Germany, and that was in and for a rather smaller city. But while books are not served any more, I am sure coffee will be served in other places in Bonn for quite some time to come..
2016-05-14, with Sony A7 and Contax G Zeiss 45mm f/2.0 Planar.
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2/365 - Holy Mass
Holy Mass, 2016-05-13.
With Sony A7 and Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2.
PS. 2017-05-14, for the people not from the Rhineland, the tree is not some Tibetan prayer tree, but a Liebesmaien. 2016 was a leap year, so the tree could have been for a boy!
From Wikipedia: “In einigen Teilen Deutschlands, zum Beispiel im Rheinland, im Saarland, im Bergischen Land, in Franken und in Schwaben, ist es üblich, dass männliche Jugendliche und junge Männer am Haus der Freundin oder Angebeteten einen Baum anbringen. Üblich sind vor allem mit buntem Krepp-Papier geschmückte Birken, wobei die Farbe der Bänder ursprünglich eine Bedeutung hatte. … Der Maibaum bleibt einen Monat lang stehen, bis zum ersten Juni.”
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1/365 - Family Camera
The family camera. Pentax Espio Mini 35mm analog film camera with 32mm lens.
Sony A7 with Olympus OM 50mm f/1.2, 2016-05-12.
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365/365 - Just Another Day
Day 365 of the one year project, last day for photo, first day for publishing.
Thought to do something special, but then, it is just another day. And as such, not a bad one. So a snap from walking around. I’m Häpi with it.
With Sony A7 and Leica Summilux-M 35mm V2.
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About
A photo a day, from 2016-05-12 to 2017-05-11 (maybe 2017-05-12:). Each published (here) exactly one year later.
I started this project when I realized, I use my digital camera almost every single day. I always carry it with me. With changing lenses. Mostly two, maybe 3 or 4 when traveling. Most of the time I keep the same lens mounted for a view days. But once changed, it can take months or longer to get it mounted back to the front of the camera sensor.
My camera back is tall, but not wide. So it doesn’t matter if I have a small range finder lens or a long tele, basically it takes the same room. One lens or four, just more hassle to juggle them, but for carrying it doesn’t matter.
So after a while I got used to it and I realized, every woman in this world carries a hand bag with her all the time, so if they can, it is not such a hassle actually. Of course, my back is more like a colt holder, ready to shoot anytime ;).
So some day I realized, must be many weeks after the 2016-05-12, that I made photos daily in a row, might as well carry on and make it a 365 project. It still was much later to dig into the picture archive to identify the exact date where I had a day missing without any photo.
So today is one day left to complete it, I hope nothing gets lost before the second round starts in two days with publishing one each day, again for 365 days. Actually I expect that to select a photo and to edit it in Lightroom each day might be much more of a hassle and challenge than making the photos. As well as more time consuimg.
But I am eagerly waiting for this to start, as recently the focus has been on getting something on the SD card each day, which naturally did cut severely into the time being able to study the photos and learn from them and to make something out of and with them.
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