Category Archives: MS-Optics

Analogue, Leica M, MS-Optics, The creative process

Analogue Adventures – Part 14: Agfa Vista 200 (expired)

February 16, 2023 BastianK 14 Comments

agfa vista expired 200 analogue leica m6 contax canon fd olympus om — Agfa Vista 200 Color Negative Film

These days whenever I come across a photo store I check if they have any film stock available, especially some I didn’t use before. In Istanbul I found a store selling these Agfa Vista 200 24+3 which expired 17 years ago. They were cheap enough and for only 2.5 € I could add processing including scanning so I decided to give it a try.
Processing and scanning was done at Karaköy Fotoğrafçı in Istanbul.
Because there were some issues with a few of the scans I had it rescanned by urbanfilmlab in Germany.

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Analogue, Leica M, MS-Optics, Zeiss

Analogue Adventures – Part 13: Fujifilm 200

February 2, 2023 BastianK 12 Comments

I have mainly been using Kodak films so far, but one day a local store had some stock of Fujifilm 200 available, so of course I bought a roll. During the film era it was a fierce competition between Kodak and Fujifilm, but these days the situation is a bit different it seems…

fuji fujifilm e200 200 analogue leica m6 contax canon fd olympus om — Leica M6 | MS-Optics 50mm 1.3 Slim | f/2.0 | Fuji 200

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Leica M, MS-Optics, photography, Review

Review: MS-Optical 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar

January 28, 2023 BastianK 8 Comments

Introduction

ms-optics ms-optical 50mm 1.1 sonnetar f/1.1 fast summilux leica m10 24mp 42mp review sharpness contrast resolution — MS-Optical 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar on Leica M10

The MS-Optical 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar is probably Miyazaki’s most famous lens. While it wasn’t his first lens it was to my knowledge the first one that was produced in “greater” quantities and widely recognized across the globe.
As is still typical today for his lenses it is small, fast and quirky, so let us have a closer look…
Lens is being tested on 42mp Sony A7rII and 24mp Leica M10
Last Update: February 2023

Sample Images

ms-optics ms-optical 50mm 1.1 sonnetar f/1.1 fast summilux leica m10 24mp 42mp review bokeh sharpness contrast rendering — Leica M10 | MS-Optical 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar | f/1.4

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Analogue, Leica M, MS-Optics, Travel-Report

Analogue Adventures – Part 12: Côte d’Azur

January 27, 2023 BastianK 13 Comments

Introduction

Kodak portra 160 analogue leica m6 contax canon fd olympus om — Leica M6 | MS-Optics 24mm 2.0 Aporia | f/8.0 | Portra 160

I already shared some of these pictures in my other articles, but I received some comments that you would also sometimes like to know where the pictures in the articles have been taken, so I decided to do that here.

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Analogue, Leica, Leica M, MS-Optics

Analogue Adventures – Part 11: Kodak Tmax 3200

January 2, 2023 BastianK 12 Comments

Kodak tmax 3200 analogue leica m6 contax canon fd olympus om — Kodak Tmax 3200

An ISO 3200 black and white film is pretty much the fastest film you can get these days. As I like to shoot in dimly lit environments of course I had to give it a try.
Processing and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.