Adapting Leica glass on Fuji

I don’t own a digital Leica. I often feel I want one but that’s a whole other discussion. Since I have a Leica M7, and that’s my go to 35mm camera, I can use the lenses for that camera on my fairly cheap used Fuji X-pro2. As you all know you just get an adapter Leica M to Fujifilm X and you’re good to go. Here I used my Voigtlander 35mm f2 Ultron (version 1). This lens is really sharp and often compared to the Leica 35mm Summicron. Here at handheld at f8. The digital results are really nice and I’m happy with the image quality. It leaves me no real need for a digital M body. I think the user experience is fairly nice. I use the evf with focus peaking and magnification and it’s fairly quick to use. Post work is as usual done with Rebecca Lily presets in Lightroom.

Paint job // X-PRO2

Rural decay - A 60's bar fading away

This restaurant and motel opened up in 1962 in the small town of Brännebrona, along the road to Stockholm. In Brännebrona were only a few farms at this time. Ernst Skarp was a man with visions, who grew up on one of these farms. First he had a few houses built and then this restaurant/motel. It soon attracted people around the area for dining and dancing. The Rolling Stones stopped here for a Swedish fika in 1963 during their tour around Sweden. At first the building had a different design then we see today. But in 1972 it got this spectacular look, designed to attract people travelling on the road in their car. Inspired by American roadside architecture, or Googie architecture, that spread around Los Angeles at the time.

I shot mostly my Hasselblad with Kodak Portra 400. But in time for the scans I have these digital images. The back side of this restaurant/motel reminded me of rural America with tones well suited for black and white.

All shoot on Fujifilm X-PRO2 and the Mitakon 35mm 0.95. Edited with Rebecca Lily Presets.