April 2007, Athens.

Fuji Neopan 400

April 2007, Cologne.

Fuji Neopan 400 

April 2007, Stuttgart.

Fuji Neopan 400

If yesterday’s shot was taken by Minolta’s excellent compact rangefinder, the HiMatic 7sII, today’s shot was taken by Canon’s similar full-featured rangefinder, the Canonet QL17 GIII (I often wonder who comes up with such imaginative camera names!). The Canonet is bigger and heavier than the Minolta but sports a much brighter and clearer viewfinder than the latter and even offers automatic parallex correction, something found only on more expensive rangefinders! It’s 40mm lens is as fast as the one on the Minolta (f/1.7) but according to the many user reports I’ve read online it falls short on contrast and sharpness when compared to the one on the latter. Read more about the Canonet here. All in all I’m very happy with my two rangefinders as they are great fun to use and will keep me going until I can afford a Leica 🙂

Berlin 2004.

A work by one of my favorite sculptors.

April 2007, Aegean Sea.

December 2003, Amsterdam.

I finally bought a dedicated film scanner, a Nikon Coolscan V ED, which I received today. This is the first shot scanned with it. I’ve posted this particular photo before a long long time back, albeit in a modified form, here. This photo is from the first ever roll I shot with my then recently acquired Minolta Dynax 5, also my first modern SLR.

May 2007, Bad Godesberg.

From the ‘Rhine on Flames’ program held a few days back in Bonn.

April 2007, Somewhere over the Aegean Sea, Greece.

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Cologne, 2005.

April 2007, Lucerne.

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