My first thought was … argh … there will be millions of beautiful, sharp and frame filling pictures on the internet already nanoseconds after this event has started. Then I thought … let’s have a look … and I saw the dark brown moon rising over the southeastern horizon.
Hm, … I fetched my binocular and enjoyed what I saw … frame filling … oh my dear.
Well, to make a long story short … I went inside and fetched my workhorse — guess what I mean — mounted the longest lens I have for it — the M.Zuiko 75–300mm lens (which corresponds to 600mm on the long end) — mounted it on a tripod and started taking some pictures. Somewhere I read that this special event will occur again in around 100.000 years … wow … and I was watching it now … live.
The small dot in the lower right is Mars — the red planet.
Well, that’s it … ah … this time there is no black and white version ;)
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As promised in the first part of this Canon A‑1 attempt, I have finished the first roll of film — it’s again an Agfa Vista 200 — and it’s back from the lab, so it’s time to show some images.
A couple of images were made during a hike in the Lerautal — a valley with a small creek — the Lerau. The path followed first the hill up to the old castle ruin of Leuchtenberg (built in the 10th/11th century … and sorry, no pics here … maybe next time) and went then down into the valley of the Lerau. This valley is mainly covered by forest and the Lerau is meandering through it.
This time, I post-processed the colour images slightly with ColorFX by applying some kind of de-saturation magic — the Agfa Vista is normally showing more vivid colours. They can be found here. As I’m always seeing sceneries also in black and white, a b&w version can be found here.
Using the Canon A‑1 more often, some of the quirks I mentioned in my earlier post do no longer bother. Still, the combo is quite heavy and still the multi-function wheel is something one needs to get used to. Technically, the Canon A‑1 worked flawless with its 1.4/50mm S.S.C. lens and so one can more focus on the important part — seeing sceneries.
One thing, comparing to let’s say a Contax 139 Quartz, a Contax 159 MM or even the Olympus OM-4Ti is, that the film advance works … not so smooth. This is somehow disappointing with a premium model, but it may simply be caused by aging. So let’s not overrate it here. I simply find it astonishing how different the tactile feedback of this mechanism feels with different cameras, where it is always the same technical process behind.
My conclusion: It was interesting shooting my old dream camera, but … I’m sure that I will not use this camera frequently. It’s definitely no bad camera — under no circumstances, but it does not thrill me as much as I thought it will, decades ago.
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A true homeland daybreak. Yesterday morning around 8 am, when sitting down for breakfast and looking out of the window, the eastern sky had turned orange and red in an impressive way. The only cam I could get hands on was my iPhone. Picking it up and getting ready to shoot gave me a beautiful image.
Short after 8 pm was near the end of the golden hour and true … 5 minutes later the sky had turned normal again.
Enjoy 😉
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