Emil playing the piano – with a little help from his mom! 
"I like Chopin" | Leica M8 + M-Rokkor 28/2.8 @ f/2.8, 1/45 sec, ISO 160
And a few more recent shots: Continue reading Picture(s) of the day (September 14, 2010)
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Emil’s grandfather brought him an eagle-shaped kite, which we tried to fly yesterday afternoon. Sadly, the wind wasn’t all that cooperative, so we didn’t really get the kite to rise higher than a few meters before coming down again. But it was exciting for Emil, and so the kite fulfilled its purpose!  "Letting the eagle fly" | Leica M8 + M-Rokkor 28/2.8 @ f/2.8, 1/3000 sec, ISO 160  The Minolta M-Rokkor 28/2.8 on the Leica M8 | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/60 sec, ISO 640 I’ve been writing about this – I decided to part with my wonderful Zeiss Biogon 2/35 in favor of a 28mm and a 50mm lens. Having only one focal length just was too restricting for me. Also, it was only semi-fast, and its angle-of-view was too narrow for a walkaround lens, and too wide for a portrait lens. My first purchase for my new lens setup was a Minolta M-Rokkor 28mm f/2.8, the wide-angle lens originally introduced with the Minolta CLE film rangefinder back in the 70’s. On the M8 with its 1.33x crop factor, this translates roughly to a 37mm equivalent angle-of-view – the classic, semi-wide reportage focal length, thus. Continue reading The Minolta M-Rokkor 28/2.8 on the Leica M8  September 10th, 2010, 10:05 pm |  20/1.7, e-p1, emil, jasmin, m-rokkor 28/2.8, m8 |  Archived |  6 comments |   "Calling grandma" | Leica M8 + Biogon 35/2 @ f/2, 1/45 sec, ISO 1250 “Pitsch-Patsch-Plitsch-Platsch!” Emil having fun with a bucket of water on our balcony! Converted to b&w in Lightroom 3, added some vignetting and grain, applied some burning to the background and some dodging to the water droplets.  "Splish Splash" | Leica M8 + Biogon 35/2 @ f/2, 1/90 sec, ISO 160 |
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