Category: Photography

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Lincoln is now a very metropolitan city, the rural nature of the county and the crops needing seasonal cheap labour has brought many eastern europeans into the city with their families.

The university as well as bringing in young people from across the UK also brings in a lot of young European students and even students from China.

It certainly opens up the photographic opportunities, and has also improved the food thats available in the city.

The Leica T had a refresh recently, now called the TL but we are still hearing rumours of a new TL code 5370 coming in the next few months.  Details are few but the thing that people are saying is while small it will be slightly larger then the current TL and have 24 MP resolution.

If they can release a new TL with EVF about the size of the Leica Q and drop the price of the current TL that would be a good move, but we could all be wrong and this new camera could be the Leica X replacement.