The Leica Q2 Monochrome comes with a fixed f/1.7 summilux 28mm objective.
The lens is fast and has a little bit of vingette towards the corners. The fish eye actually implies that I need to be within arms length of my subject for them to fill the screen. I usually warn people I have no zoom lens, before I get that close to them, usually provoking some nervous chuckle response when I am close enough to touch them with my camera
The camera is a dedication to an obsessive eye for detailed textures and shapes, and on the street I usually keep it at f/8 to get the entire image in focus. To the viewer, there’s something unheimlich going on. Humans don’t see the world without colour, nor do we see it in focus for our entire field of vision.
But less bokeh is more fun. It captures an overwhelming amount of detail. So much I fear I’ll need big prints to do justice to it.
Here’s some pictures taken in the business area of Barcelona, let’s see if you can spot how close they are to each other..
Actually…
It’s all…
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on the very same photo, click here to see it at full resolution.
Can you spot the cropped areas from the pictures above?
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Barcerlona, Spain, June 2024
Maesland 
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