Matus
Well-known
... I was 🙂
me and my wife just happened to visit a very nice event with lot's of old-timers: cose to Cologne (no, we did not stay in that hotel .. )
the second day (Sunday) was a very nice show in front of a Castle Besberg. I took my Rolleiflex T and Tachi 4x5 along. Indeed - lot a beautiful cars and not too many guests - a nice opportunity to make some nice shot and the day was beautiful too.
As soon as I unpacked the Tachi and started to shoot I got more attention as the shiny cars (and there were some really exceptional ones - like Lancia Stratos HF prototype) - it would be hard to count how many times I was photographed. I expect to star in a few local TV's too ... 😛 I was not in a hurry and had some nice discussions there too - most people were wondering that the camera was relatively new (2002) and that one can still get a film for these.
Anyhow - one gentleman (no, not Mr. Kaufmann, though he was there too) who also did a take a shot of me had a camera in hand I realized was the new X1 - with an external viewfinder - so I asked how it is. He said - indeed it is nice, and commented positively on the low light ability. I wished I had business cards - I might have got an image from a pre-production X1. It looked good indeed - at least to me better than most images I have seen. No - I did not have the guts whether he could hand it over for a while ...
So - as most of you expected - not much Leica X1 stuff here, I just wanted to share a nice event - I will post some pictures once they will come out. It was really a nice event - I should visit something like this more often .... of course with my Tachi 😉
me and my wife just happened to visit a very nice event with lot's of old-timers: cose to Cologne (no, we did not stay in that hotel .. )
the second day (Sunday) was a very nice show in front of a Castle Besberg. I took my Rolleiflex T and Tachi 4x5 along. Indeed - lot a beautiful cars and not too many guests - a nice opportunity to make some nice shot and the day was beautiful too.
As soon as I unpacked the Tachi and started to shoot I got more attention as the shiny cars (and there were some really exceptional ones - like Lancia Stratos HF prototype) - it would be hard to count how many times I was photographed. I expect to star in a few local TV's too ... 😛 I was not in a hurry and had some nice discussions there too - most people were wondering that the camera was relatively new (2002) and that one can still get a film for these.
Anyhow - one gentleman (no, not Mr. Kaufmann, though he was there too) who also did a take a shot of me had a camera in hand I realized was the new X1 - with an external viewfinder - so I asked how it is. He said - indeed it is nice, and commented positively on the low light ability. I wished I had business cards - I might have got an image from a pre-production X1. It looked good indeed - at least to me better than most images I have seen. No - I did not have the guts whether he could hand it over for a while ...
So - as most of you expected - not much Leica X1 stuff here, I just wanted to share a nice event - I will post some pictures once they will come out. It was really a nice event - I should visit something like this more often .... of course with my Tachi 😉
