By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To , Review
Disclaimer : Right up front for those concerned there is no expectation of privacy in public in the Far South. Street photography is legal and not a crime. I was recently gifted a TTArtisans 23mm F/1.4 for a special occasion by the family. This lens harks back to days gone by and can be described […]
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By Paul Barclay | Review
Welcome back to my post-repair review of the Leica SL2 and a selection of third-party lens. In this section we will be looking at the Zeiss 35mm f1.4 ZM Distagon lens, which many readers here at Dear Susan fondly known as “Audrey”. The lens was mounted on the Leica “M Adapter L”, which is Leica’s […]
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By philberphoto | Review
There are multiple stories as to why Laowa are called Laowa. The recently-come-to-prominence Chinese lens-making company itself is called Anhui ChangGeng Optics Co. Ltd., and it trades under Venus Optics. So why Laowa? Laowa, basically, means old or venerable frog. One story relates this name to the first poem writen by a then very young […]
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By Paul Barclay | Review
Welcome back to my review of the post repair Leica SL2 and a select lens. In this section we will be looking at the Nikon 50mm f1.4 AIS lens mounted on an inexpensive Fotasy “NK-L L” adapter, because in my email conversations with Pascal I mentioned that it renders very nicely in the SL2 and […]
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By Paul Barclay | Review
This article is going to be a bit of a departure from my usual efforts at showing a travel location in a different light, usually infra-red. But first, we need to have a little background. For the past 6-8 months our Fearless Leader (Pascal) and I have been having an email conversation about our cameras […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
I doubt I’d have justified the cash, if fate hadn’t played a major role; the pay out for a burglary at my home near Cape Town in September last year has been sitting in my bank for a while, giving me time to decide what to do. The thieves took inter alia every single item […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
The Canon G650 proves quality isn’t tightly linked to printer size. As regular victims of my self-pitying rants on digital-printing complexity know, I’ve been looking at ways of doing my own test proofs at home, rather than send 50 euro bills to my favourite lab in Paris for this. My previous printer was a […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
So you don’t have to 😉 – Maybe you should, though! In a recent roundup of news, I linked to a Peter McKinnon video detailing 10 reasons to try out the social platform Vero. It seems to provide an alternative to Instagram that isn’t chasing TikTok’s debilitating features, offers more possibilities for sharing and […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Is it a dream come true, or just another boring camera in a string of boring quantitatively-designed cameras in a suuuuper boring quantitative-driven market? This, above, is how a camera should be judged. Can it help a photographer produce good images? Images that the author feels proud of. All the rest, at least for […]
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By pascaljappy | News , Review
With this latest release, Pixii asks what makes a great monochrome camera. Here’s their answer. As promised in my last article about the Pixii camera, I am keeping you updated with news from the Team at Pixii. Since I’m doing some work for Pixii, this post focuses mainly on information, explanations, and sample images. Where […]
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