Introduction Leica users where the first to discover that their old compact wide angle lenses with the rear element close to the film/sensor plane have some color cast issues on digital cameras. This is an issue that cannot fully be solved by the optical design – at least when following the quest to create compact … Continue reading How to: Correcting Color Cast in Lightroom
Introduction Especially in the western world it is hard to find any useful information on the MS-Optics lenses, let alone an overview. Having used quite a few of them myself I decided to put such an overview together and collect as much information as I can. The guys from mkdirect51.com as well as japanexposures.com allowed … Continue reading Overview: MS-Optics Lenses
Kodak Gold 200 is something special these days. I don’t have the feeling it has ever been a highly praised 35mm film, but it is one of the few color films that is affordable and still widely available in 2022. Processing and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.
During the 2020/2021 Covid pandemic many of us did strange things. What did I do? Sell my 20 years old Pokemon card collection, buy a Leica M6 and venture into analogue photography – Bastian Here you can find all articles related to these adventures. This series also inspired my colleague Martin to delve into analogue … Continue reading Analogue Adventures
Introduction Modern lenses are too good, free of most optical aberrations even at their maximum aperture. This led to a whole new market emerging offering all kind of accessories to make your pictures look worse: kaleidoscope filters, prisms, streak filters and black mist/diffusion filters, the latter being what we will have a look at today.