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 Leica M Monochrom mk1, 50mm Summilux ASPH black chrome

I think I've previously posted a more heavily cropped version of this shot, but I just recently came across it, and am struck by a few things that I wasn't at the time I took it.

I shot this picture in January 2020. It's the Barrowlands ballroom in Glasgow. Anyone who has tried to photograph the famous neon sign knows how difficult it is. The sign lights up one letter at a time, then when the word is complete, the stars light up as well. It's like this for all of a second and a half, then it blinks and goes dark, to repeat the process. You only have a second and a half to get the picture of everything lit.

I only took this picture because I happened to be in that part of town, and there was something on at the Barrowlands. I thought little of it at the time. 

I look at it now, only taken this year, and as a lover of life, and especially live music, I'm saddened. Live music in an indoor space, bus passengers without masks, not socially distancing. This picture shows a bygone age, a vanished world. The world before COVID-19.

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1934 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F2 Sonnar, Walz Y2 filter, wide-open on the M Monochrom.

This lens is converted from Contax mount to LTM using a tabbed Jupiter-8 focus mount, modified for 0.75m close-focus.

This is the lens that the new Bertele Sonnar is based on. I will be comparing the two lenses when my Bertele Sonnar arrives.

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Pulling detail out of the shadows, even on a dull, overcast March day in South Eastern England.

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M Monochrom (M9M), Summilux-M 1.4/50 ASPH, orange filter, processed in Capture One.

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Isaac Newton sculpture at the British Library, against a classic London sky.

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M Monochrom (M9M), Summicron-M 35mm f/2 (IV), orange filter, processed in Capture One.

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Around Cambs today with the Voigtlander 10mm

 

 

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Henry's Kitchen - Chinese Food

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with the Zeiss 35mm 1.4 Distagon

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Leica M9M / Voigtlander 75mm f1.5 Nokton

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LeicaММCCD, Leitz Leica Summar-Screw Mount L39 5cv f/2.0 Yr.1936 Germany

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Trondheim Umbrellas. M Monochrom, Nokton 40mm f/1.2, B+W orange filter.

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Antwerp 

MM9

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MM9 + Jupiter-3

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Autumn in the woods.

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Monochrom M (M9M), Summilux-M 1.4/50 ASPH, orange filter, cropped and adjusted in Capture One.

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