I’ve gotten rusty with this thing since the repairs have taken four months. I shot around home with it at f.95 practicing focus and seeing whether it really can work magic with every day objects. Here you go:
Day 1,847 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,117): Movie poster. Two frames stitched; shot with a 35mm lens on my Leica Monochrom.
Day 1,614 of one picture a day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,249): The morning after. At least I was together enough to photograph the remains.
Day 1,564 of my daily photo blog. Some people call these “phlogs”.
On this day two years ago: The Birds.
Day 1,555 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year: Rat, not a work of sculpture at the Lever House but a real inflatable rat.
I also resolved to try the 1937 Carl Zeiss Sonnar on my Monochrom relying on close focus and guessing at longer focus distances. Here you go.
Here’s another with four frames stitched:
On this day one year ago: 86th Street.
A second old lens: an 8.5 cm f2.0 Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar from 1937, also in Contax mount with a modern copy of the adapter referred to above. The mount had a slight ding which caused serious hassles fitting it to the adapter. After fussing with it on and off for a couple of months I finally got it working this week. The focus cam is not correct for Leica so the rangefinder is only accurate at close focus (1.15 m) but is extremely accurate there. This with an M so I could use the EVF to focus and converted to black and white. This is a sensational, charismatic lens, especially given that it is 75 years old. I’ll be doing more work with it.
The Nikkor from the Mad Men era:
The Sonnar from pre-War Germany – not a great image – I’m trying to figure out what this lens can do.
On this day one year ago: White House.
On this day last year: glassware.
