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a walk though Lincoln

Photo of a traditional English pub.

With my day job in IT, I generally work from home but I’ll pop in Lincoln usually at least once a week as I have a client there.

Black and white concrete building

I’ll often have my Leica with me and will snap photos of buildings and people. You never know when you might take a killer shot.

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Leica Phone

Advertising shot showing a female model with the Xiaomi phone with Leica camera.

Leica have partnered with phone companies before, but this looks to be their most ambitious collaboration. Lens and interface by Lecia with some manual controls.

I do use my iPhone camera sometimes when nothing else is around, but personally I prefer a good compact or would cary my Leica M10.

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M to Canon RF Adapter

The best thing about mirrorless is the ability to mount so many classic lens. Some people are very apprehensive about using manual focus lenses so a number of companies produce adapters that not only adapt the mount but offer additional functionality such as closer focusing ability or in the case of Megadap, they offer autofocus ability.

The Nikon version of this for the Z mount has been out for a while but now they finally announce the Canon RF version.

The model Ivory Flame sat in an alcove looking down, wearing only a pink skirt.
Model Ivory Flame, Camera Leica M10 and 50mm Summilux-M

The way some of the classic lens render is not as clinical as some modern lens are some very beautiful images can be produced.

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Changing Weather

A English village scene. A old Norman Church on the right with old farm buildings on the left. Its a winter scene with snow on the ground and the sun creating a star patten shining though the leafless trees.

January saw snow, and I took a number of photographs testing out my Leica 24mm M lens on my Nikon Zf.

Photo through a wire fence of snow covered tennis courts. The sky is blue on a cold sunny day.

Then just a few weeks later we have temperatures over 10C and it feels lovely to see the sun again.

Old village Norman church in bright sunlight.
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New Nikkor Z 70-200mm f/2.8

Advertising shot of the Nikkor Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S II

When Nikon came out with their first Z cameras, they release the traditional modern trinity to go with them. The Z 14-24mm, 24-70mm and the 70-200 f/2.8. There were essentially minor reworks of the latest F designs, better but not as good as they could have been given the advantages the new mount gave.

Recently we had the new 24-70mm and now they have announced the new 70-200mm f/2.8.

Smaller, lighter, faster in focus; and finally it comes with an Arc Swiss foot.

The best thing I like about it is the new control ring which can click or be de-clicked. So if your using it for aperture or exposure compensation or maybe ISO, your less likely to knock it to another setting.

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Indulgent Sunday Mornings

Red haired Amber sat in kitchen looking camera left. She is sat has one hand to her face and the other holding the coffee cup. She has an open white blouse with her black bra showing.

This Sunday morning was a very indulgent one.

Saturday was spent working hard in the garden trimming trees and chopping wood.

So this Sunday morning we treated ourselves. After getting up and giving the chickens their food and fresh water, it was the normal Sunday morning long dog walk.

Once home we toasted some fresh bagels, added cream cheese and smoked salmon. Opened a bottle of fine riesling wine, light and not too alcoholic, and I brewed up a couple of large lattes.

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Street Portraits

A young woman with a collection box on Lincoln high street. She is dressed as Alice in Wonderland.

This was a quick snap taken with an old Nikon S3 compact camera.

There are two ways that people take street photographs. Shove a camera in someones face and get the picture, or ask them first for permission.

A young woman in a early period dress posing on the street.

I prefer the later and you can get much better shots I feel and most people do not mind at all.

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Tamron 35-100mm f/2.8

Advertising shot of the Tamron 35-100mm f/2.8 zoom lens.

Canon have a f/2 zoom a useful but short range. The 24-70mm and 70-200mm f/2.8 constant aperture zooms are the standard lens for most professional photographers.

Now Tamron announce this, a constant aperture zoom from 35mm to 100mm, this is an extremely useful range with most of the competition being either 24-105 f/4 or 25-120mm f/4.

This lens is going get a lot of attention.

Announced today for the Sony E mount and the Nikon Z mount.