melbourne with my Voigtlander m4/3 Nokton

Ok, so today i took a stroll into the city and it was hot. (ok captain obvious.)

i took a few snaps around degraves lane, and bumped into someone with a black e-p2 with his own nokton! what are the chances! I didn't get to stop him and say hello, but if you are part of this forum, hello!

then there was a wedding passing through (quite common in Degraves st) and just generally was a hive of activity! great place for people photos.

also bumped into another guy who was curious where i got the lens - who said he also had an e-pl1 - to which i recommended him to join this forum.

then went to michael's camera store and spent a bit of time looking through the camera museum, some fascinating stuff in there; i only took a single photo as i found the nokton's film brother, but if you are in melbourne it is a great little exhibition to see (for free too!).

rather interesting day anyway!

some photos will follow once they upload to flickr!

 

Ah! I didn't know there was a hotrod show on! :S I only grabbed a couple of handfuls of photos so hopefully there is one or two worth sharing!

 

the 25mm 0.95, aka, the (native) micro four thirds one  

p.s. nice work Shane! if i see you again next time i'll be sure to stop you and say hello! I managed to get more candid shots of the two...still getting the hang of manual focus and picking the right aperture! slowly climbing that learning curve

 

ok so for the most part I took a more black and white approach (no pun intended) but left a few in colour because it's such a vibrant laneway.

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some could do with some cropping and re-work but I took the set as if I was using film, trying to nail it (or get as close as possible) in one go.

 

something I relied on a lot yesterday was the EVF in the vertical position. It let me keep the camera below eye level and definitely helps with those upward shots.

 

anyone going to the city for Chinese New Year on Thursday night?  

 

the Chinese New Year celebrations go on for a little while (not sure how long exactly, but according to that page:
"The start of the 2011 Chinese New Year Festival in Melbourne is on Thursday, February 3, 2011 - Year of the Rabbit."

I know that night at southbank it should be pretty busy. I aim to head down there for some food and culture