O n the gallery page I have added a whole set, shooting from morning to evening on an ordinary day in Shanghai. You can find the gallery here.

I started the day with processing some left over sets and prints for hanging. After work has been finished, I left with a 35mm lens and used it on the way to the Metro station.

I brought film to the lab and got a big package of fresh film back. I got some great help in my favorite camera repair shop, while I was lend some tools and grease, to fix my dry 50mm and 35mm lenses.

Another happy customer showed up, picking her camera.

I shot her with the just finished 35 Summicron ASPH - it is like butter again, like a Leica lens should be ;-)

I bought a few nice photo books from local photographers Zhu Hao and Lu Yuanmin - great stuff!

On my way out, I slipped into a very small shop, I always have had a interest, but always came by after closing time. Yesterday I was timely and found a wonderful top condition 1951 Leica 35mm Summaron f3.5 screw mount lens.

I mounted it with the included Voigtländer LTM to Leica M mount and shot it into the night until I headed home.

This is one sweet lens, but more on that in another blog post.

I walked back to the metro station and met an old lady with her dog - she let me have her portrait and I moved on to the station. A flag has been raised at the station and a proud grandma posed for a shot with her grand daughter.

The 35mm was splendid in the metro and I got my first experience, shooting an old thread mount in quick situations including infinity lock, different focussing and aperture positions.

The train was filled with lot’s of mobile phone users, as usual.

I changed trains, got some shots of the station and the time and moved on towards People Square in line 1.

At People Square, I ran some errands and spend some time, shooting people doing theirs.

I met a nice couple, chatted a bit after having taken their portrait (note rule no1 about portraits: always do a second shot - the subject could twinkle!). Sorry, I didn’t take a safety shot. His brother works near Hamburg, the gentlemen told me in perfect English - I was surprised.

The slow Summaron (there was a quicker f2.8 M-mount version a few years after 1951) is nice to shoot in low light as well - just stick to careful processing about the shadows.

Leica’s newest line of lenses are much more contrasty, hiding ugly shadow noise of digital imaging more sufficiently.

Somehow, I like the old Summaron a lot though - very different from my newer glass.

I took the taxi back home and liked the new trend of having to have one of these plastic plants on the dashboard - the newest Shanghai fashion indeed ;-)

The taxi driver was regularly falling asleep on the highroad, which is normal - just make sure, you can speak a bit Chinese and get him involved in small talk, to keep him awake - you don’t want to end in a Volkswagen in Shanghai, do you? By the end of the ride, I was british and my favorite football club was Manchester United, although, I was never the slightest bit interested in football - sorry folks. The driver was happy, I was safe and had a fun ride.

I will upload some more shots later and will also continue to use the Summaron. Stay around for some more Leica classic glass photographs.