By Adrian | Opinion , Review , Travel Photography
Dear Susan’s contributors have varied photographic interests, taken with varied equipment, but often with a unifying aim to avoid the obvious, and often taking an independent path to interesting photography. A couple of years ago, Dear Susan founder Pascal wrote about the concept of “undestination photography“, to eschew the cliched and instagrammed spots over-run with […]
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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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Dear Susan member Pascal has written before about the rise of the camera phone and his appreciation for it’s simplicity. They have certainly captured the imagination of the consumer market, and have essentially killed off low end pocket cameras, leaving camera makers like Panasonic and Sony moving increasingly upmarket with ultra wide range zooms and […]
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Sometimes Dear Susan articles are the result of private debate between it’s contributors; sometimes it is something that triggers inspiration and the desire for one of us to talk about something. Pascal has recently been telling us and Dear Susan’s readers how much he likes using his Korean fancy from the house of Samsung, much […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
Behind the scenes at DearSusan, the contributors occasionally indulge in some robust discussion, mostly not for publication, but sometimes delivering excellent content – just the kind the Monday Post was created for. This conversation was started last week by my reading of Kirk Tuck’s comments on Sony’s brand newly released RX10 IV: […]
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By Adam Bonn | Monday Post
Lovers Gonna Love, Haters Gonna Hate, I’m Just Gonna Shake, so sings (or close enough to the actual words) popular recording artist Taylor Swift in a song that I’m really quite familiar with due it being a daily soundtrack to our lives, as my 4 year old daughter now knows how to load the YouTube app on […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
A few days ago, rumour-meister and blogging friend Andrea, from SonyAlphaRumors reignited our interest in a successor to the A7 / A7r camera range in the form of a Pro-level E-mount body released early next year. It appears, then, that Sony will soon want us to part with a significant few of our pennies in […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Back in January, I pondered what the Leica T might turn out to be. Yesterday, most of my questions were answered. Like the pre-season photographs of Renault’s new turbo engine, now at the heart of several Formula 1 teams, we saw something desirable, something to stir deep lusts. I wrote to a friend at […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
As a (now almost completely retired) marketer, I often look at products and wonder how the hell the company that made them got to where they are/were. The Df is Nikon’s take on retro. Clearly intended to cash in on the same trend that has delivered the revitalised Beetle and Mini, made the rangefinder […]
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