Nikon D800
Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8
70mm, 1/640 Sec at f/2.8, ISO100
Post Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC2015.10
On a Mac Pro, OS-X 10.12.4
Coffee House on the Bridge
Another walk around Lincoln and a quick snapshot of High Bridge. In medieval England it was common for building to be on bridges, and Lincoln High Bridge is one of the few remaining and was constructed around 1160 AD.
Leica Noctilux-M 75mm f/1.25 ASPH
I have been hearing a few rumours recently about either a 75mm or 90mm Noctilux from Leica. Its seemed a little odd but now we have a Japanese website saying that a 75mm f/1.25 Noctilux branded lens will be coming from Leica at the end of this year.
Weekends come and gone
Its been one of those weekends where we did not seem to do much but the weekend just flew past without the time to do all we wanted.
The usual gardening tasks such as cutting the grass and weeding the veg plot managed to get done but we also had the day in Lincoln and a day with the parents, so not much else got done.
Pink
Most of my street photography tends to be in black and white but with the pink in this shot it just had to be in colour.
Professional Mirrorless
Many people thought Sony would be the first to produce a mirrorless professional full frame camera and it was a big surprise when Leica got there first with the Leica SL, but Leica have not had the party to themselves for long as now Sony now release there model; the new Sony A9. With twenty frames a second and no viewfinder blackout (a big bugbear of mine with mirrorless), its a technical tour-de-force and I am sure for many people their dream mirrorless camera.
Its now over to Canon and Nikon, will one of the big boys have a go?
Waiting
As you may be aware if you have kept up with this blog, the Leica M10 was announced on the 19th January. Tomorrow will be three months and I will have been on the waiting list since the announcement. Hopefully soon i’ll have it in my hand.
Growing Villages and failing Villages
It seems that living in cities is now the most popular place to live. It used to be once you had hit midlife, you left the cities for the fair villages on England and lived a more peaceful life.
The problem now with village life is that they are either failing due to high prices, ageing population and poor transport or growing into vast commuter villages of modern estates where people seem to just sleep there and drive off in the morning to the city and come back at night, never partaking in village life or contributing.
Our new village seems to have really picked up in the last couple of years. It helped when the pub was saved, we now have a good place to drink with a good restaurant and a community atmosphere. The village school is also successful and we still have a post office. Rarer still, is that we have a small artisan village bakery and now a newly opened tea room also bringing in visitors. It still has the problem many villages have though, poor transport links both public transport and bad roads, but this at least has saved the village from becoming a commuter village and stops people building housing estates here. We seem to be managing, possibly helped by the poor transport links stopping the prices from getting too outrageous.
Good Friday
Here in the UK its a national Bank Holiday so we all have the day off, unless you work in a shop, the leisure industry or care and emergency services.
My twitter feed of people I follow is a very strange mix of friends, models, photographers, the leaders of the main political parties and also religious leaders of the main groups – yep an odd mix.
One thing that struck me today is the number of angry atheists having a go at people who this day means a great deal. Come on people, you made your choice and except others have made a different choice.
Lightroom 2015.10 & Adobe Camera RAW 9.1 Released
I see we had an update to Photoshop CC. Of interest to Leica shooters is now added support for more third party lens.