Sasha and Leica

This is Sasha, our grandson. I took this image with my Leica M9, using a 50 mm Summicron lens. Thorsten Overgaard, a Danish photographer who shoots mostly with Leicas, always says that the Leica lenses are designed to shoot wide open. This was shot wide open at f2. The result is, not only a very sharp image, but also beautiful bokeh in the background. The M9 is also special since very little color adjustment is required in photoshop, as is quite often the case with DSLR's. Another advantage of the rangefinder Leica M9 is that it does not have an IR filter for correction as do most DSLRs. The IR filters cause the images to lose a bit of sharpness, so this is not a problem for the M9. In addition, the M9 has a full frame sensor, in a very small camera. At the time I purchased it, it was the smallest full frame camera in the world. I won't tell you what I paid for it:)