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.
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.
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.
Students
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.
Film Friday – Urban Landscapes
Its been a while since we had a film Friday so here is one I took many years ago. It was either a Canon A1, AT or Nikon FM2 with 50mm lens. The film was Ilford HP5 Plus and its part of a series I did on urban landscapes back in the early nineties when a lot of the old Lincoln industrial factories were still around.
Now most have been knocked down and are shopping centres to housing estates. In the fleeting world we now live even some of those shopping centres have since been redeveloped again.