Category Archives: photography

Meta, Opinion, Postprocessing, Technical, The creative process

Photoshop Ai: What can it do for you?

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Introduction

By now I am pretty sure all of you have already heard of ChatGPT, Midjourney or any of the other artifical intelligences you can now talk to or make use of. Where it got interesting for me, was in early 2023, when Adobe released a Photoshop Beta version with AI features and staggering capabilities. Over the past months I have been using it (for professional work and private stuff) so I wanted to show you some examples where it was useful to me and also how it works.
One thing is for sure, this will vastly disrupt image editing workflows.

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Analogue, Contax G-Mount, Leica, Leica M, MS-Optics, photography, Projects

Analogue Adventures – Part 21: Kodak Portra 400

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Kodak Portra 400

The Kodak Portra 400 is Kodak’s midspeed film from the Portra series sitting inbetween the Portra 160 and Portra 800. It is also the more expensive ISO 400 color negative film in the Kodak lineup, the cheapter alternative being the Ultramax 400.
Processing (C-41) and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.

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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.0 | Kodak Portra 400
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 50mm 1.0 ISM | f/1.4 | Kodak Portra 400
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/4.0 | Kodak Portra 400
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/8.0 | Kodak Portra 400

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Analogue, Leica M, MS-Optics, Projects

Analogue Adventures – Part 20: Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2 processed

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Kodak Color Plus 200

Even with the limited amount of different color negative films available these days Kodak manages to confuse the people by offering two different “low cost” ISO 200 daylight films: the Kodak Gold 200 (which I already had a look at here and here) and this Color Plus 200.
From what I gathered the Color Plus is based on older emulsion technology leading to slightly grainer and contrastier pictures, so let’s have a look at some samples.
Processing (ECN-2) and scanning was done at Silbersalz35 in Germany.

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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/8.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.0 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.8 | Kodak Color Plus 200 ECN-2

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Analogue, Contax G-Mount, Leica, Leica M, MS-Optics, photography, Zeiss

Analogue Adventures – Part 19: Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 ECN-2 processed

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Fuji Superia X-Tra 400

Any film is hard to get these days, but the Fuji films are even harder to get than the Kodak ones here in Germay. Therefore I developed the habit of buying any type of color negative film I haven’t used before for this series – even when it means paying 20€ for just this one roll of Fuji Superia X-Tra 400.
Processing (ECN-2) and scanning was done at Silbersalz35 in Germany.

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Leica M6 | Hologon 16mm 8.0 | Fuji Superia X-tra 400 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/8.0 | Fuji X-Tra 400 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.0 | Fuji X-Tra 400 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/2.0 | Fuji X-Tra 400 ECN-2
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Leica M6 | MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 | f/4.0 | Fuji X-Tra 400 ECN-2

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Accessory, Leica M, Review, Sony E-mount, Technical, TTArtisan

TTArtisan Leica M to E 6-bit Adapter – Product of the Year?

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Introduction

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Voigtlander VM 75mm 1.5 via TTArtisan M->E 6-bit adapter on Sony A7rII

Since I bought my first E-mount camera seven years ago I have been using adapted M-mount lenses. Missing Exif data have always been a nuisance though and while the “Lens Compensation” camera app was a ray of hope, it didn’t exactly work all that well.
Now TTArtisan came up with a product which I have pitched to so many manufacturers before: a semi programmable Leica-M to Sony-E adapter. Let’s have a closer look!
Update May 2023: TTArtisan released an improved MK II version of this adapter, I summarized for you what has changed
Also a version for Nikon Z-mount is available now (affiliate link)

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