The Discreet Charm of the former Eastern Block

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Picture 1 640 iso
Picture 2 after half an hour work I reduced the noise to tolerable level.









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My first attempts with Leica S2!!
I am not yet a convinced follower of the Leica S2. I experienced defects with the iso 640, the autofocus is not very fast and exposure compensation not easy to use. The Leica S2 is probably more user friendly than other digital medium-format cameras.
At first I thought wow the Leica S2 is going to be like a Nikon D3 X in use but with much better files.
It transpired that in the handling Leica S2 is more on a comparable basis to Hasselblad H3D II 50. I had hoped for something in between, the file quality of a medium-format camera but the handling as superb as with the Nikon D3X.

The Discreet Charm of the former Eastern Block

In my childhood my family spent our holidays at Lake Balaton in Hungary

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I experienced there the communistic holiday culture firsthand
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© Andrea Baczynski 2010
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain this culture completely vanished
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© Andrea Baczynski 2010

without a trace for me.

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© Andrea Baczynski 2010
Yesterday I visited my brother at Lake Neusiedl,
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© Andrea Baczynski 2010
and all of a sudden this culture,
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this attitude towards life, fallen into the oblivion, reawakens.
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As If everything is unchanged the unforgettable impressions back again.
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Just a hundred km further to the west, back to hundred percent.

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My first Leica M9 attempts/Berlin 2010




I could continue to work on this one! This image is interesting with its multi - levels. Only that the sky is a little too blue, but I could photoshop that.


The Captian, I just dont know how I manged to focus him so well. Focusing is not to easy with the Leica.



my favourite Leica shoot! Just the senor dirt drives me crazy. Although I am used to worse with my PHASEONE Back.