By pascaljappy | Opinion
If numerology has any intuitive value, surely #1234 has to be about growth, right? 😉 3-4 years ago, I purchased my X1D, thinking it would be the camera to end all camera-hunting. Yeah, right. How deluded can you be? 😆 😆 😆 There’s good news about this subject. And there’s bad news. The […]
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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 pascaljappy | Review
Plastic, the 30+ year old lens certainly is. Fantastic remains to be seen 😉 Can a cheap and old design be of any use on a (relatively) modern mirrorless camera that’s not even the right format for it ? Feeling the aperture ring jump hesitantly from one notch to the next brings up […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Review
It’s the most peculiar activity, football. Having recently been given the opportunity of an evening inside the shiny stadium that hosts Olympique de Marseille, probably France’s most notorious team, if not the most famous or successful, I thought this was a great opportunity to move mankind forward one big step by proving that the Hasselblad […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
There’s no way around it. My sensor is just too small. Super Full Frame, 44×33, small Medium Format, whatever you care to call it provides great image quality, particularly in the obsessive hands of the Hasselblad imaging team, but doesn’t go far enough in the aesthetic direction I crave. First world problem, I know. But […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Something wasn’t right. Why would Zeiss release a 100/1.4 lens when their existing 85/1.4 was already hailed by most experts as possibly the best lens ever made? The first minutes of investigations almost derailed my plans for the future. Frankly, this overview of the lens wasn’t off to a great start. My Sony […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
A weird shift has happened during my evaluation of the 5 Hasselblad XCD lenses at my disposal. Having been mesmerized by Hans Strand’s first sample photos with the XCD 30, that lens was the one I requested for my initial review and the first one I wanted to go in my own bag. And the […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
They said that it could not be done, He said, “Just let me try.” They said, “Other men have tried and failed,” He answered, “But not I.” They said, “It is impossible,” He said, “There’s no such word.” He closed his mind, he closed his heart… To everything he heard.” Benny Hill. So […]
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