WARREN CONNECTICUT – I had a moment of panic in preparing to write this. I couldn’t find any image files for July 1 or July 2. Yikes. The end of the line. I had the experience last week of an SD card failing. I feared that the images might have been on the corrupted disk. After scrambling around for an hour I found that I had actually put the files in an unexpected place on my hard drive array. This led me to review my practices and hygiene around uploading and backing up images. So anyway . . .
The actual images were all taken with a 1958 Leica Dual-Range Summicron – legendary lense that is spending a week (or more) on my camera. Shooting open its rendering is gentle; stopped down two or three stops contrast and sharpness increase to modern levels, but still with a nice long gray ramp and lovely bokeh. I’ll be especially interested in getting to understand how it works with the close-focus “eye glasses.” Here’s a view that I photograph often to test equipment. It manages to look like vintage film shooting at f/2.0.
Day 6,105 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly fifteen years to a wedding in Capri. Day 626 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
