NEW YORK NEW YORK – A day of experimentation. That means taking mundane pictures of mundane subjects trying to understand a new piece of equipment, in this case my Leica M. The electronic viewfinder for this camera arrived today. It permits focusing and composing the camera through the lens via a tiny video screen imbedded in the viewfinder. The view is not great, but it does permit using telephoto or exotic lenses on the M, which would not otherwise be possible using a rangefinder camera. So . . . I’ve got a 1939 Carl Zeiss Jena 85mm Sonar. This is a famous and historic lens, widely used for portraiture back in its day. It was designed to be used on a Zeiss Ikon film camera so it takes a fairly exotic adapter to use on a Leica M mount camera like the M, and the M rangefinder doesn’t couple with it. Used wide open as here it produces low contrast dreamy images. Here here it is, focused through the electronic viewfinder. .
The setting is our dining room. The picture is one of Andrew Moore’s images from Russia.
On this day last year: Patrizia’s party.
