Giving pixl-latr a first try

The pixl-latr film holder is a product offered by Hamish Gill and it might be you know him from 35mmc.com. Hamish designed this tool in his aim to find an easy, fast and inexpensive way to hold different film formats for scanning analog film with a digital camera. You can read more about it on… Continue reading Giving pixl-latr a first try

The Calendar Files … 2023 … Cinque Terre

This time, the beautiful Ligurian Coast, with its famous Cinque Terre, was the destination of our trip. The incredible landscape between the ‘five villages’ are quite picturesque and deliver tons of spots to make some nice images. All images were made with either my workhorse Olympus OM-D E-M1 II with a M.Zuiko 2.8/12-40mm lens, an… Continue reading The Calendar Files … 2023 … Cinque Terre

The Calendar Files … 2022 … Porto

This time, the Portuguese city of Porto was the destination of our trip. Besides the Port Wine coming from here, this city is lovely with its mixture between sea and the hills, between very old and brand new, its incredible light and its wonderful people. All images were made with either my Ricoh GR II,… Continue reading The Calendar Files … 2022 … Porto

Just one image: Cityscape

After a long day in the beautiful history town of Weimar, the day was nearing its end and dawn was setting in. Incredible cloud formation over the rooftops of the town. Image made with Pentax Super A, Pentax SMC 2.8/30mm, Kodak Ultramax 400 In case you’d like to comment, it’s appreciated … and maybe, you… Continue reading Just one image: Cityscape

Just one image: Haus am Horn II

The Haus am Horn, is a domestic house, designed by Georg Muche for the Bauhaus Werkschau 1923. It was the first building built on the Bauhaus design principles and it looks modern even for today’s standards. The Haus am Horn in Weimar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Image made with Pentax Super A, Pentax… Continue reading Just one image: Haus am Horn II

Just one image: Haus am Horn

The Haus am Horn, is a domestic house, designed by Georg Muche for the Bauhaus Werkschau 1923. It was the first building built on the Bauhaus design principles and it looks modern even for today’s standards. The Haus am Horn in Weimar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Image made with Pentax Super A, Pentax… Continue reading Just one image: Haus am Horn

Just one image: Sun Rays

The low standing sun sends its rays through the trees in the Park an der Ilm in Weimar. Image made with Pentax Super A, Pentax SMC 2.8/30mm, Kodak Ultramax 400 In case you’d like to comment, it’s appreciated … and maybe, you want to visit my website or my flickr page too. So long …… Continue reading Just one image: Sun Rays

Just one image: The Garden House

In the middle of the park stands a tiny house, the garden house of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He bought this house in 1776 when he first moved to Weimar and he lived here until 1782, when he moved to a more central location in town. Image made with Pentax Super A, Pentax SMC 2.8/30mm,… Continue reading Just one image: The Garden House

Just one image: A Walk in the Park

Yes, it was a long walk in the park.As mentioned in an earlier post, visiting Weimar we also strolled into the Park an der Ilm, passing by the Old City Castle, the Garden House of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe up to the Haus am Horn, a classic Bauhaus style bungalo. Here’s another image in the… Continue reading Just one image: A Walk in the Park

Just one image: And again – Park an der Ilm

As mentioned in an earlier post, visiting Weimar we also strolled into the Park an der Ilm, passing by the Old City Castle, the Garden House of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe up to the Haus am Horn, a classic Bauhaus style bungalo. Here’s another image in the park, made with a Pentax Super A and… Continue reading Just one image: And again – Park an der Ilm

Just one image: Park an der Ilm

Visiting Weimar we also strolled into the Park an der Ilm, passing by the Old City Castle, the Garden House of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe up to the Haus am Horn, a classic Bauhaus style bungalo. Image made with Pentax Super A, Pentax SMC 2.8/30mm, Kodak Ultramax 400 In case you’d like to comment, it’s… Continue reading Just one image: Park an der Ilm

A Voigtländer Ultramatic hiking in Bavaria

Some time ago I was forwarded a pretty old camera by a friend. As it turns out, I now owned a Voigtländer Ultramatic from the 1960s, together with its set-lens, a Voigtländer Skopagon f/2.0 40mm. All this in a beautiful original camera case and a camera system bag with a couple of filters. There is… Continue reading A Voigtländer Ultramatic hiking in Bavaria

Contax G2 with a Carl Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm heading to Lake Constance

The Contax G2 – besides its sibling G1 – is named the culmination of rangefinder design.The Carl Zeiss Biogon is said to be one of the best lenses. I’d like to see how things work. Here is the body … the Contax G2 … and here is the lens … Carl Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm This… Continue reading Contax G2 with a Carl Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm heading to Lake Constance

A Contax 167MT and a Carl Zeiss Distagon 2.8/28mm in Porto

This time in Porto … something went terribly wrong. Getting back my films from the lab, they wrote that some images were underexposed. Seeing the results, around 1/3rd of the frames were near black and I’m still guessing what happened. The Contax 167MT with its Carl Zeiss Distagon 2.8/28mm worked quite well with the Kodak… Continue reading A Contax 167MT and a Carl Zeiss Distagon 2.8/28mm in Porto

Irelands Southwest and West (Part 5)

Part 5 of our 2017 trip through Irleands Southwest and West. Coming to the final (analog) part of our tour which leads us from Connemara back to Dublin. Leaving wonderful Connemara and the County Galway … … and entering Dublin – what a contrast. Having some nice food … … and walking over the Ha’Penny… Continue reading Irelands Southwest and West (Part 5)

Irelands Southwest and West (Part 4)

Part 4 of our 2017 trip through Irleands Southwest and West. Leaving The Burren and Doolin (and the Cliffs of Moher, but that’s another … more digital … story) behind us, we headed north to touch Galway, the beautiful old town laying on our way to Connemara County. Galway … with some typical Irish pub… Continue reading Irelands Southwest and West (Part 4)

Irelands Southwest and West (Part 3)

Part 3 of our 2017 trip through Irleands Southwest and West. From the Dingle Peninsula we headed north to Doolin where we found loads of beautiful Cafes and Pubs. We found some old stuff … around Doolin. We found some very old stuff in the Burren – a carst region … … also hosting some… Continue reading Irelands Southwest and West (Part 3)

Irelands Southwest and West (Part 2)

Part 2 of our 2017 trip through Irleands Southwest and West. Arriving in Dublin, we immediately got our car and headed southeast. Dublin itself was planed as the Great Final of the tour. Some people (greetings to Jim) are recommending to hire a car as small as possible, as driving in Ireland can be challenging… Continue reading Irelands Southwest and West (Part 2)

A Nikon F-301 travelling Ireland

Overture Mid 2017 we made a two week trip through Ireland. Motivated by Jim Grey from Down the Road who made several wonderful posts about his journey in 2016, I tried to get hands on an old analog Nikon F-301 camera with a 35mm lens attached. I packed five rolls of Agfa Vista 400 to… Continue reading A Nikon F-301 travelling Ireland