The modern Leica at work.

On the Bart. G1, 30mm, f/5.3, 1/20, ISO 800

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (San Francisco subway/tube/metro) was rocking and rolling mightily when this was snapped, suggesting that Panasonic is onto something with its OIS anti-shake technology – check the shutter speed, above. Don’t be expecting this feature in a Leica until the M14 comes out three decades hence, at which time the economy will have recovered and some dumb ass banker will lend you $100k to buy the thing.

By the way, the auto white balance in the G1 is every bit as good as that in the Canon 5D, which is to say it’s awful. I had to mess with the color sliders in Lightroom 2 to get a semblance of accurate skin tone in this snap.

Doubtless Walker Evans would have killed for this sort of technology, not to mention color, when he snapped this one back in 1938 as part of his subway series:

Evans used a camera concealed in his coat triggered with a remote control. No such subterfuge was called for in my picture.