My first true Leica product

As we all know leica is famous for the ridiculous price tags imposed on their products and purists will claim leica lenses give the best quality and 'magic' look. So, I recently acquired the current Leica 50mm Summicron ASPH f2.0 in a used condition.

This is a lens used for M mount rangefinders, be it film or digital. Of course, I do not have the latest Leica M9 digital rangefinder, but what I have with me is the Voigtlander Bessa R3A film rangefinder. It probably would give a different look in digital but for now, let's see what this lens can do for film. I used the Fujifilm Pro 400H for all the images below...




Nice skin tones are rendered with the Fujifilm Pro 400H... Love it


The focus is on the eyes, and the focus is nailed... just look how sharp the eye is...






Lots of good detail in this picture here...






The bokeh is smooth and dreamy and pretty shallow at f2.0




Just look at the punch of the colours... sure's pack a punch...










Again, nice, not overly saturated colours...




The colours of the sky in this picture reminds me why I'm shooting with film... you also get more dynamic range...




Look at how the film renders the red...




The green is often rendered quite dull in most digital renditions, but this film favours green and it gives a bit of punch to it.




This lens is sharp with a lot detail, no doubt. What's more, the bokeh is smooth and creamy and shallow for creative subject isolation. Now I wish for M9 to be cheaper... that's all...

Camera Porn Part II

As you all know I have just recently acquired the LENSBABY Composer and you all have seen some sample images. Since then I haven't got the chance to take it outside to take more pictures yet. Anyway, I just want to show you how it looks like on my Olympus E30 DSLR. In addition, I have with me the 0.42x Super Wide Lens what can be attached on the LENSBABY Composer, effectively making the field of view more than 50% wider. Here's how the lens look like:




Now the porn begins...


This is a picture of the Composer on my Olympus E30:





And, this is a picture of the composer with the wide angle lens attached on my Olympus E30:





To me, it looks like nothing I have seen before... alien-like...So, tell me what do you think...

I love my LENSBABY lens like a baby...!!!

After a possibly boring and overwhelming bucket of information in my previous post, I will post something with lots of FUN. I just got my LENSBABY Composer today and I'm in love with the pictures I got and I want to share with you all. Here's the official website for those who wants to know more; www.lensbaby.com.

Here's my LENSBABY Composer:






Basically this fun lens gives my the ability to adjust the focus point to anywhere in the image using the ball and socket system. This lens is manual focus lens and it has no electronic communication with the camera at all, so all manual and all fun. and you can get the look you want by shifting the lens up, down, left or right. This is what I got for now... my wife's portraits and my toy car. I will post more pictures in the near future...










As you can see the the LENSBABY can be very sharp as it comes with a double glass optic which gives sharp results. You can even swap the optic inside for a different look. I have got only the plastic optic which gives me a very dreamy look. Here's the LENSBABY plastic optic:



This is what the image look like with the plastic optic:


As you can see it is very dreamy, just like a girl in our wet dreams haha... It is not very practical for everyday use... but if the desired effect is required, I have that option. That's all for now... I will show you more what this lens can do in the near future...