Houses by the Lake

GXR A12-M, f8.0, 1/203, ISO 200, JPG, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Took a drive to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum after work today.
It is a very nice place and the fall colours looked great despite only having a relatively short time before the sun went down.

Lake Riley

Took a short drive after work to Lake Riley and Staring Lake. Although the day started off nice and sunny, clouds moved in during the afternoon so the light was not great for photography.

This is a short series from the lakes.

Bridge over the Purgatory

GXR A12-M, f2.8, 1/73, ISO 200, JPG, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)


Back to the US again, this time to Minneapolis for the next three weeks. Did not have much time for photography after the flight and driving to the hotel, I just managed to go for a short drive to Purgatory Creek just when the sun went down.

Walking Down the Street

GRD IV, f2.5, 1/125, ISO 80, RAW

3:10 in Chesterfield

GXR A12-M, f8.0, 1/760, ISO 200, RAW, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

Traffic Control Ahead

GXR A12-M, f2.8, 1/133, ISO 200, RAW, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

MMKT 5

GXR A12-M, f5.6, 1/104, ISO 200, RAW, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

Girl

GXR A12-M, f5.6, 1/620, ISO 200, RAW, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

The Woman with the Blue Umbrella

GXR A12-M, f2.8, 1/60, ISO 1345, RAW, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

Morning Sun

GRD, f6.3, 1/500, ISO 64, JPG b&w

For another take on this shot have a look at Tom's blog here.

Brighton Day

Spend a day in Brighton and Hove, enjoying the nice weather and exploring the towns a bit more.
Took only the GRD with me since I like using it and it did not get as much use as it deserved recently.

This is a series to show a bit of variety, although it so happened that all pictures I chose are taken by the sea and not while in town.

On a technical note, I am still amazed by how much you can process the GRD JPGs compared to other cameras where even the RAW files don't allow for that much processing before they start to fall apart.

Rush

GRD, f2.4, 1/20, ISO 200, JPG b&w

HM

GRD, f4.0, 1/250, ISO 200, JPG b&w

British

GRD, f2.4, 1/8, ISO 400, JPG

Views from Photokina

I have posted my Photokina 2012 report today, in order to make this more visible I decided to post a few pictures from Photokina which did not fit in my report and of course also post the direct link to the report here.

Llynch

GXR A12-M, f5.6, 1/217, ISO 200, RAW, 75mm (Jupiter-8 f2.0 50mm L)

Lights in the Night

GXR A12-M, f5.6, 1/12, ISO 200, RAW, 127mm (Jupiter-9 f2.0 85mm L)

Yellow and Red

GXR A12-M, f2.8, 1/1410, ISO 200, RAW, 53mm (Jupiter-12 f2.8 35mm L)

Coffee and Cigarette

GXR A12-M, f2.8, 1/330, ISO 200, RAW, 53mm (Jupiter-12 f2.8 35mm L)

Waiting to Board

GRD IV, f2.5, 1/760, ISO 80, RAW

I don't like airports and waiting around there for my flight to leave. Airports are so inefficient and it would be great if I could board a plane as I board a train.

Steel

GRD IV, f3.2, 1/870, ISO 80, RAW

I was going back and forth between converting this to b&w or leaving in colour, in the end the colour version won due to the nicer tones.

View

GRD IV, f3.2, 1/1410, ISO 80, RAW

This has been quite a common view for me recently and today it's back in a plane and off to Frankfurt.

Narrow

GRD, f4.0, 1/200, ISO 400, JPG b&w

A rainy day in London before heading to Frankfurt in the morning, did not have much time for photography but with the GRD on my side I always get a few shots on my way to work.

The DOM

Before taking the train back to Amsterdam for my return flight to London, I had some time in Cologne and went up the Dom in Cologne and also for a wander inside the cathedral.

Bridge over the River

GXR A12-M, f8.0, 1/870, ISO 200, RAW, 21mm (Voigtlander Heliar f4.5 15mm L)

Although I spent most of the day at Photokina, I decided to write the whole report in one post so here is one of the pictures I took after breakfast on my way to the fair for today's post.

I took it with the Heliar 15mm lens and have to say that I really love this lens on the GXR, if you have  GXR you have to get this lens but make sure you get the screw mount version as it's smaller, cheaper and looks nicer.

Photokina 2012 Report

This year's Photokina was all about the unexpected and innovative releases from Sony, Leica and Samsung, it was about the expected releases from Fuji and Olympus, the boring releases from Panasonic, Canon and Nikon, the good and interesting releases from Pentax, Voigtlander and Zeiss and about the ugly releases from Hasselblad and Sigma. 

It was about a lot of new, exciting and also about some boring things but what it was not about is Ricoh.

But lets look at each of these individually and keep in mind that I don't care at all about dSLRs so can't say anything about any releases.

Amsterdam

GXR A12-M, f8.0, 1/330, ISO 200, RAW, 42mm (Ricoh GR f2.8 28mm L)

After an early flight I arrived to a rainy Amsterdam, lucky for me the weather changed later in the day and the sun came out to make it a nice day.

This is a quick one day stop to relax a bit before heading to Photokina to have a look at some of the new announcements. Mostly I am interested in the Sony NEX-6, the RX-1 and the RX-100 but also the new Fuji cameras and also to see what Leica has done with their first ever live view capable M camera. Of course I am hoping to get some info from Ricoh on what they are working or if anything is coming out from them.

Mind the Gap

GXR A12-M, f2.0, 1/203, ISO 200, RAW, 53mm (Voigtlander Nokton f1.2 35mm)

SF Fashion

GXR A12-M, f6.3, 1/470, ISO 200, RAW, 53mm (Voigtlander Nokton f1.2 35mm)

The last picture from San Francisco, it is time to head back to London.
I will not stay long in London though and be on my way to Amsterdam and then Cologne for Photokina in the coming days.

I will miss San Francisco, it is a great place to see and explore and I had a great time there.