An ordinary life in an extra-ordinary place
Photography
It’s Photokina time, the biennial photography fair in Germany where new toys photographic products are announced.
Companies stage their announcements to create what they hope will be maximum impact. This means that some Photokina products were announced months ago, and others will be announced during the show. I am looking forward to some new M4/3 products, but the rumours don’t seem to promise anything exciting.
But, Fuji dropped a nice little bombshell this morning with this:
Photos from Fuji press release.
It’s a chunk of retro-art, with all the right dials, a big sensor, Fujinon lens and a hybrid viewfinder which mixes live view with electronically provided information. Utterly gorgeous and I would love to use one, if only for a day. Even better, I would like Panasonic or Olympus to release something similar for M4/3. I will be quietly lusting for the rest of the week in anticipation.
Having cash in the camera gear kitty has turned me into an eBay legacy lens junkie. The potential for sticking alternative lenses onto the front of my GF1 is much larger than I realised, and I spent too much time every day researching the possibilities, and stopping myself from bidding on impossibly expensive Leica rangefinder lenses.
I have already acquired the quite beautiful Contax 45mm, have taken nearly five hundred photos with it, and been very impressed.
So it only seemed right to get another Contax, this time the equally highly rated 90mm. A little bigger and therefore even more beautiful, and at a cost of less than 8,000 baht.
A quick check indicates it also takes lovely sharp photos. Unfortunately, the adapter thingie that allows me to fit a Contax to the GF1 has started making grinding noises and has gone back to Hong Kong to be fixed. So all I can do with my Contax lenses for the next week is just look at them; but more photos taken with them will follow in due course.
My final acquisition, which cost a wallet-emptying 2,500 baht, was a Canon FD 50mm F1.4.
This purchase was particularly pleasing because Camberley has recently thrown out a complete collection of Canon FD lenses. not knowing that the M4/3 crowd are snapping them up on eBay. For a Yorkshireman, there is no greater pain.
Anyway, the camera kitty has been pretty much emptied now, so I need to sell some more gear or earn some cash taking photos. Won’t stop me lusting over Leicas on eBay though.
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