NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had dinner with our friends Gary and Diana Fisketjon; Diana grew up in Mississippi so she’s an expert at a roux based gumbo, which was very, very good. Taken with my iPhone.
On this day last year: Bob Marley party.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a party this evening in honor of a visiting German friend. I shot it with my Leica Monochrom and a 1837 Carl Zeiss Jena 8.5cm Sonnar lens. The Sonnar was designed for a pre-war Contax rangefinder camera, not for a Leica, so it took two adapters (one of them is quite complex) to fit it on a modern camera. It’s the classic small camera portrait lens of its era and has lovely rendering, but focus is flakey so I adjusted it so that focus was accurate at its close focus distance and focused by moving my body. I bought it in anticipation of the Leica M, which permits through-the-lens focusing without relying on the rangefinder, which doesn’t couple accurately with this lens. Here are some samples:
On this day last year: Superbowl.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another very old Carl Zeiss Jena lens on a adapter. This one is a 1937 Carl Zeiss Jena 8.5cm Sonnar f2.0. It’s consider one of the great portrait lenses of all time.. Very nice but on the adapter focus is a bit flakey. It should work better with the Leica M that I have on order which permits focusing through an electronic through the lens viewfinder. Once you sort out focus the images that it produces are lovely
On this day one year ago: small barn.
NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – Here I am shooting with my Leica Monchrom and Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 5cm f1.5 lens from 1936. The lens was designed to be mounted on a Contax rangefinder camera so it requires a complex adapter to be attached to my modern Leica. Infinity focus is OK; close focus is a little flakey. Here are some samples. Interestingly the images look like they come from the 1930s.
Three frames stitched:
On this day last year: Citicorp.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Bird feeder. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1930s era Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm f1.5 Sonnar lens. Note the scratchy quality of the out of focus portions of the image.
On this day one year ago: Radio City at night.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back here. Home. Dullish day. I made some images by shooting straight up with my Leica Monochrom and a super lens: the current 21mm Super Elmar.
On this day last year: Subway.
MUSTIQUE ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES – We’re packing up today to return to the freezing Northeastern US. A snapshot of John Novogrod taken with my Leica Monochrom and a 21mm Super Elmar lens.
On this day last year: the Majestic.
