By pascaljappy | Review
It’s a bit early in the day to celebrate a best-of retrospective from Pixii – in the same way the alternative rock band Pixies did after a decade of work together with their Death to the Pixies album. But enough has gone on with this little camera since our earlier review to justify a second […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
As OS updates sneak into our smartphones, uninvited and undetected, some new features make their appearances and surprise users. AI, it seems, is getting a firmer grip on photographic practises. Among the features that awaited me on my recent trip to the UK was one abysmal “Live” thingy that appears to capture images before […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Art & Creativity , Review
For those of you who read my very first article on this blog, “some like it wide”, you may remember that it dealt with my special attraction to wide angle lenses. While I continue to shoot with my esteemed CV 12mm, I have gone one step further and mounted the recent Laowa 9mm rectilinear for […]
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By philberphoto | Review
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity in my photography, because so much of it is about me. My recent post on the “short game” underscores how this sort photography speaks to me because it lets me put more of my imprint on images than other genres. So it is logical that, after having filled the […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Can an expensive 11Mpx rangefinder camera with no rear screen be the best news in a long time for the photography industry? I wouldn’t rule it out completely … During my 2 weeks tenure, the camera delivered some of the most pleasant shooting experiences ever, all cameras in my past and present included. For sybarites […]
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By philberphoto | Review
David Barth will probably hate this title. That matters, because David Barth is the founding father of Pixii, a new entry to the ailing field of camera manufacturers. David believes that a totally new approach – in this case combining current and old tech- can offer a really different product and experience to the well-heeled […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Can the vintage wide-angle miracle repeat itself? Afther the surprising Otus 21 act of the Zeiss Distagon 25/2 ZF.2, can this Leica Summicron-R 35/2 morph into a wonderful 28/1.4 for the X1D? No, it can’t 😉 😉 😉 But it put on a worthy fight! Vintage style. Let’s recap briefly my recent sampling […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
This thing about testing old lenses on modern bodies is a very contrarian pursuit. Having been wowed by two lenses that shouldn’t have performed well, I’m now let down by an old favourite of mine. Mandler-era Leica lenses have always made my knees tremble. With their nice level of fine detail but generally sift appearance, […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
My intuition and some available tests, online, hinted at the fact that the longer the focal length, the easier it would be for a lens to cover a wider sensor than what it had been designed for. In the case of this Distagon 25, I couldn’t have been more wrong … I feel kind […]
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By AlanMacKenzie | How-To , Review
I hold to my belief that photography is primarily a documentary activity insofar as, unlike painting, photography records reality or some small slice thereof. This characteristic links all the great photographers from Adams to Cartier-Bresson, from Arbus to Karsh, Weegee to Mapplethorpe and Capa to Edgerton. These people were masters of the craft and elevated […]
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