#830. Monday Post (11 March 2019) – Have you lost interest yet?
By Adrian | Monday Post
A history of modern cameras leading up to this week-end’s Birmingham NEC … which we shan’t attend.
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By Adrian | Monday Post
A history of modern cameras leading up to this week-end’s Birmingham NEC … which we shan’t attend.
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
There is no person more virtuous than a reformed sinner. Such is my case, a self-professed bokeh slut. Here is proof: Why am I such a bokeh slut? As you know, in my Last Post for the year (2018), I proclaimed that the Lens Of The Year 2018 was “the super-fast lens.” Since then […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
When the Monday Post was created, the intent was to adress industry news. Things (meaning: writers) later digressed, even sometimes going completely off-topic, as some readers remarked. So it is time to go back to the MP roots: let’s talk news and gear! News this week have been so stealthy as to […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
Do you suppose that any of the leading camera companies really listen to us, their customers? Lots of the Fuji fanboois were blogging their little hearts out last week because their favourite camera company was asking what they‘d like to see next in their lens roadmap and development agenda(s). Having got this priceless feedback, […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
These days I have been getting shots from Pascal, comparing the output from his “Bigger is Better” Hasselblad X1-D with the formidable Zeiss Otus 85mm to that from Hassy glass on the same camera body. Also comparing shots from Dallas’ Nikon bodies and 4 lenses to my Sony-with-just-one-lens on our joint and delightful walkabouts. I […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Following up on a video by Ted Forbes, we suggest an exercise to understand the shooting envelope you need.
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
There are many styles of photography and photographers, so any statement needs to be made in the context of a certain type of shooting and individual Please see: https://www.dearsusan.net/2015/02/03/320-magic-quadrant-personal-photographic-style/ . In my case, stationary objects, cityscapes, landscapes, close-ups, and my style is storytelling.. It is now almost a year that I can give DS’ shortest […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
You may be aware that we’ve been besieged in the Kogelberg region, by huge veldt fires since New Years Eve. The area is a United Nations Biosphere – the biodiversity is believed to be greater than anywhere else on the planet; more than 1500 distinctly different forms of flora can be found in […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Last year, French citizens fought over discounted pots of Nutella. And my MacBook Pro screen started to lose its antireflection coating in patches. So I’m hoping for a cheaper Hasselblad X1D. Umair Haque explains. How to become super rich. It’s actually easy. Bill Gates became the world’s richest man not by inventing […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
So, 2018 is soon to be over. What has it changed to our (photographic) worlds over the course of this year? Are MF cameras really better (for some uses)? The answer would seem to be “yes”, as the Master of this House has declared undying love for the Hasselblad X1D. Problems with this are that, […]
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