In 2014 I went to India and took some informal street portraits. It was the first time I had traveled with the Leica M9. I used some Voigtlander lenses since there was no possibility of me paying two grand plus for Leica ones. I have posted the photos here before, but my slideshow video has got more than 35,000 views, so I am going to post it because why not.
Posts Tagged ‘Leica’
Indian Street Portraits: Leica M9 & Voigtlander Lenses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged india, Leica, M9, rangefinder on September 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Road Trip: Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Leica M9)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ཁམས, སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་, 甘孜, dege, Derge Parkhang, ganzi, garze, kham, Leica, M9, sichuan, tibet, tibetan, 四川省 on July 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I was incredibly lucky last month when a friend asked me if I’d like to make up the fourth person for a drive around the Tibetan area of West Sichuan, Province. Obviously I grabbed it. We were two Canucks, and two Chinese.
We took a couple of weeks to make a 3000 km loop starting in Chengdu. For photographers who love scenery and interesting cultures, this has to be one of the best corners of the world.
But rather than type about it, here are a few images. I have a larger gallery from this trip here.
If you’d like to check out more of my work, you can check this and/or this.
We took a couple of weeks to make a 3000 km loop starting in Chengdu. For photographers who love scenery and interesting cultures, this has to be one of the best corners of the world.
But rather than type about it, here are a few images. I have a larger gallery from this trip here.
If you’d like to check out more of my work, you can check this and/or this.
All images Leica M9 with Voigtlander and Zeiss lenses.
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| 马尼干戈乡 |
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| སྐོར་ར M9 |
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| Tibetan Woman, སྡེ་དགེ Dege |
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| Leica M9, Zeiss 25mm |
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| Tibetan Pilgrim |
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| དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང། |
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| སྡེ་དགེ |
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| སྐོར་ར, Ganzi |
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| Up to Chola Pass (5000m) |
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| 马尼干戈乡 |
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| དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང། |
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| Ganzi Horse Festival |
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| Zeiss 25mm |
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| Voigtlander 75mm Heliar |
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| Leica M9, དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ |
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| Dzogchen Monastery རྫོང་ཆེན་དགོན། |
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| Derge Parkhang |
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| Derge Sutra Printing Temple |
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| Eastern Tibet |
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| Derge Parkhang |
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| 50mm Nokton f1.5 |
You Say Kolkata, I Say Calcutta: Leica M9 in India
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged calcutta, Color Skopar, Heliar, ian taylor, india, Jodhpur, kolkata, Leica, M9, Nokton, Osian, Rajasthan, voigtlander on April 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
So, I did something I had never really considered doing, I bought a Leica. A lightly used M9. After snickering at the Leica-heads for years, I now am one. I did however avoid acquiring the subsequent Leica Lens Fever that can kill savings accounts.
Instead I bought a few very reasonably priced Voigtlander lenses. This glass comes in at around 20% of what similar Leica lenses would cost. Sure, Leica lenses are the best, but these Japanese lenses are just fine for my needs. Voila, my new travel kit.
To kick the tires on my modest little rangefinder package, I went off to India for a few weeks. For the first couple of weeks I wandered aimlessly around Calcutta, shooting portraits and drinking tea. Then I headed to Jodhpur, Rajasthan to take part in conducting a workshop on travel photography. This gave me plenty of time to find out what would and would not work with the rangefinder.
Obviously I love this camera. It’s amazing to use, it makes me slow down, and best of all, the files are beautiful. Warm and more ‘filmy’ than the Canon files I am used to. (It’s the CCD sensor I’m told.)
Here are a few samples of images I made with the Leica, and my cheapo Voigtlander lenses.
You can check out a larger gallery of these recent images on my FB page and my website.
Instead I bought a few very reasonably priced Voigtlander lenses. This glass comes in at around 20% of what similar Leica lenses would cost. Sure, Leica lenses are the best, but these Japanese lenses are just fine for my needs. Voila, my new travel kit.
To kick the tires on my modest little rangefinder package, I went off to India for a few weeks. For the first couple of weeks I wandered aimlessly around Calcutta, shooting portraits and drinking tea. Then I headed to Jodhpur, Rajasthan to take part in conducting a workshop on travel photography. This gave me plenty of time to find out what would and would not work with the rangefinder.
Obviously I love this camera. It’s amazing to use, it makes me slow down, and best of all, the files are beautiful. Warm and more ‘filmy’ than the Canon files I am used to. (It’s the CCD sensor I’m told.)
Here are a few samples of images I made with the Leica, and my cheapo Voigtlander lenses.
You can check out a larger gallery of these recent images on my FB page and my website.
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| Leica M9, Voigtlander 75 Heliar |
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| Leica M9, 35 Color Skopar |
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| Leica M9, 35 Color Skopar |
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| Kolkata, Leica M9, 21 Color Skopar |
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| Kolkata Rickshaw, Leica M9 |
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| Saraswati Puja, Kolkata, Leica M9, 35 Color Skopar |
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| Jodhpur, Leica M9, 50 Nokton |
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| Kolkata Rickshaw, Leica M9, 35 Color Skopar |
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| Kolkata Rickshaw, Leica M9 |
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