By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
This article is in a similar vain to one another I wrote #618. A walk in Paris on a winters morning Walking in the rain or drizzle is something I normally wouldn’t contemplate, let alone go to shoot. Paris is different, I’m not sure why maybe it’s the love affair I have for this city […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
Well the title has I would think certainly grabbed your attention! Let the arguments begin. New Zealand is a photographer’s dream, it has an abundance of craggy snow covered mountains, majestic lakes, streams, rainforest, glaciers, fjords and in the North Island there are the geothermals. On this trip I was based in Queenstown which is […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Review
It’s 9 months since I took the step and bought my first Zeiss lens, it was the Milvus 1.4/50 after using Philippe’s legendary Otus 55 and 28 in Paris. See #614 I Used an Otus but purchased a Milvus Since June the Milvus family has grown to: You may have guessed I’ve […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
Last week was the Paris Salon de la Photo, the largest photo gear expo in the year. I went there with a shopping list that was longer than my hobby-spending bank balance. Fortunately, there was no way I could buy the whole list, as some items were incompatible with others. The first […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Opinion
<Pascal> Please welcome new contributor Dallas Thomas. Dallas has the good fortune of living in Australia and has faced the hardship of being introduced to DearSusan through the hands of co-author Philippe (PB, in the text below). In spite of this, Dallas decided to contribute to the blog and – most surprising of all – […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Ever since the Zeiss Milvus 85/1.4 (specs here) turned up on my doorstep, I’ve been meaning to compare it to my OTUS 85. It’s a natural comparison given the perfect match in focal length, aperture, size, weight and… huge price gap. And the clash of giants will indeed soon be published on these pages. However, […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
The Zeiss Milvus 1.4/85. Probably the most anticipated lens we’d never heard about. It was unveiled to the press and bloggers, including yours truly, in Oberkochen, a few days ago. The whole Milvus range was. And that has many stars, notably a very well transposed 50/2 Macro and a lovely 21/2.8. But this 85/1.4, this […]
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By pascaljappy | News
It’s a long way to Tipperary. T’is an even longer one to Oberkochen, if you ask me. 9 hours in a train from Marseilles … … to Paris … … to Stuttgart … … to Aalen. Then a short bus ride to photography Mecca, Zeiss headquarters in Oberkochen. All made totally worth it by the […]
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