MANHATTAN – I settled in in front of the Guggenheim Museum and the Church of the Heavenly Rest for several hours today, with my Leica SL2-S and a group of very old lenses: Pre-WWII Contax rangefinder lenses, and Contax and Nikon rangefinder lenses from the early 1950s. One of the nice things about the SL2-S is its adaptability to a wide variety of historical lenses.
Day 5131 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
A Carl Zeiss Jena 2.8cm lens from the late 1930s (this lens shows a good bit of intern haze – I’m lookinf for a better copy):
A Nikon 35mm lens from the early 1950s:
A Carl Zeiss Jena 5.0 cm from the mid-1930s, showing a good bit of flare:
Back to the 35mm Nikon, whiich looks quite modern:
