Desmolicious wrote:
As many of you know, SoCal suffered from some of the most disastrous fires in their history. My brother lives in Malibu and by his equipping his house with a sprinkler system, owning a military surplus fire truck (I am not joking) and dumb luck his house survived but many many others in his neighbourhood are gone.
A couple of days ago was the first time I was able to get over there and visit with him, while surveying what was left. A drive that normally takes an hour tops from my home took three hours as I had to go the back way through the San Fernando valley and through numerous canyon roads to get across to his home. All of which had work crews with one lane only flow in many places.
These pics were taken with a Leica MD-a, Wtulens 17mm f16 (but I think it is more like f22) and Kentmere 400.
The Wtulens is made from recycled Fuji Quicksnap disposable camera lenses - two are used. I like it for specific purposes as it is sharp in the middle, then smears out and vignettes. This trip IMO fit its purpose.
I also took a couple of other cameras with normal 'perfect' lenses, those pics are in the process of getting developed.
Spent some time doing landscape images of big waves hitting a lighthouse along the California coast. After getting smashed by a wave, I packed up the Nikon stuff and headed to higher ground.
I shot this one with my dry Leica M10... great conditions at high tide today.
cheers,
bruce
LEICA M10Summarit-M 1:2.5/50 lens50mmf/8.01/350s200 ISO+0.7 EV
A few images from a test roll with the 24 Summilux. I wanted to see if I could replace my 28 lux with the 24 lux since it pairs better with my favorite lens, the 35 lux pre asph. Quite happy with it. And stopping down to f/5.6 or so, MFD is about .4M.
lifeandmylens wrote:
A few images from a test roll with the 24 Summilux. I wanted to see if I could replace my 28 lux with the 24 lux since it pairs better with my favorite lens, the 35 lux pre asph. Quite happy with it. And stopping down to f/5.6 or so, MFD is about .4M.
M7 + 250D
Great shots of the kids. My favorite lens on Nikon used to be the 24 f/1.4. The 24 Lux is definitely going to be my next add
lifeandmylens wrote:
A few images from a test roll with the 24 Summilux. I wanted to see if I could replace my 28 lux with the 24 lux since it pairs better with my favorite lens, the 35 lux pre asph. Quite happy with it. And stopping down to f/5.6 or so, MFD is about .4M.
M7 + 250D
Very nice. Technically, MFD at 5.6 is .584. It’s a great lens. For me, like the 28 Lux, was just bigger/heavier than I wanted for leaving the house regularly, so I sold it. I do miss it on occasion.
