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.
A couple of years ago, with samples taken on the last major overseas trip I took before Covid closed the world for quite a while, I reviewed the Laowa 100mm macro. I concluded it was good and sharp, a little challenged for flare at longer distances, but absolutely superb in the macro range. Eventually – … Continue reading Laowa FFii 90mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2x: getting close!
Introduction When using Leica M cameras I generally try to stick to using small lenses, but there is a problem: small lenses are usually slow and I find slow lenses (at least non-ultrawides) incredibly boring. My workaround is using some of the MS-Optics lenses as they try to be small, lightweight and fast at the … Continue reading Analogue Adventures – Part 8: Going small with MS-Optics lenses
Introduction When looking for a higher ISO color film in 2022 – especially one for shooting under artifical light without the need for additional color correction filters – the Cinestill 800T is pretty much without competition. But there are a few things to be aware of, so let’s have a closer look. Processing and scanning … Continue reading Analogue Adventures – Part 7: Cinestill 800T