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 Perton | Opinion , Travel Photography
After three years marooned in the UK by COVID, airlines and governments that couldn’t form a unitary travel policy, I finally got back to my home near Cape Town in February. The plan was to start emptying the house and put it on the market. Over almost a month, I managed to corral the valuables, […]
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By pascaljappy | News
In this episode of our very patchy Week Links of Photography series, we are taking a look at super sharp telephotos, Smartphone performance, Leica lens design principles, photography in Cuba, digital resolution enhancement, an ode to selfies (yes!), and more. Mostly, we are paying homage to two important figures in amateur photography, one of which […]
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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 Paul Perton | Opinion
Nestled in my cupboard down in the Western Cape is a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of Nikon lenses. The 50 f1.4, 28 f2.8 and 105 f2.5 are all pre-AI and years-long favourites. There’s a much loved (and bitch to focus) 500mm f8 mirror and lots more – right across the technology spectrum, up to the point […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
I’m not quite sure why articles like this make me feel as introspective as they do. The fact is, time, place and personality alone are sufficient to produce radically different photographs. The post covering my recent London wandering with Steve and Pascal, or last year’s DS Parisian meander deliver more than sufficient evidence of our […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Review
The Nikon Z7 for a first effort, is pretty good, IMHO. Sure it may not have Sony like eye detection focus and it has the cardinal sin of just a single memory card. Not having these 2 features has not impacted on my photographic adventures over the last 12 months and some 12,000 images. The […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
Universities are places of learning, I also think they are excellent to walk around with a camera. The architecture can vary so much from 1850’s sandstone to totally modern structures at Sydney University they do anyway. For sometime, I have wanted to shoot the inside of the Charles Perkins Centre a relatively new building. To […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
I’m staring at an empty document. About to write a piece for DS (DearSusan), which is suddenly derailed. I’ve allowed myself to become distracted midway through the opening sentence and now find it necessary to veer off to the Interwebs for a shot of inspiration. And failed – as more distractions came along. We don’t […]
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After a hiatus of more than 10 years, last year I became a car owner again. Living in a city I didn’t need a car, but circumstances had changed and a car gives more flexibility and ease when making long journeys at short notice. I’ve always had an interest in cars, but the process of […]
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