By Pascal Ollier | How-To
My last post was about flora; so, in order to treat the animal world on equal terms, I thought it would be appropriate to put a few members of the honorable fauna in display. This is going to be quite a counterclimax for me since, as readers of previous posts know, seldom if ever do […]
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By pascaljappy | Newsletter
In this week’s issue, we explore paints and fabrics for super black backgrounds, ethical consumers diss the photo industry, drones get better every day, instant cameras play cool, Amazon picks and shovels its way into content creation, Olympus and Sigma make our hearts beat faster, I wish one video product existed for photography, and admire […]
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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 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 pascaljappy | News , Opinion
My love/hate relationship with Sony cameras is a secret to no long-term reader of this website. In spite of excruciating customer support (long ago) baffling quality control and ergonomics (some time ago) and colour science that’s subjectively not my cup of tea (up to recently) the mother ship keeps calling me back. Here’s the reasoning […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
The camera market may be 84% off its peak, a horrendous fall, and that even pre-COVID, but that doesn’t stop the release of new gear. In this instance, 3 new camera bodies in just a few weeks, each of which is significant in its own way. Meet the Canon R5, the Leica M10R, and the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Five years ago, I would have begged to have such a sensor in my camera. How about today ? Several readers have sent me the news about the new thechnology. Curved sensors, at last, seem to be ready to take a giant leap from the realm of tiny dimensions into the hairy-chested kingdom […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity , How-To
In his seminal post, Pascal asks, in essence, where is “home” for us in the realm of photo gear. For me, fun is home, and home is fun. That is the single most important parameter for me. Is this piece of gear fun to shoot? It wasn’t always like that. I went through a phase […]
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By Pascal Ollier | How-To
I had always wanted to “have it all” in one shot. Simultaneously, pano and stitching are too complicated, time consuming for me. When going digital seriously after leaving both my film years and a first dabble with pocket cameras, I screwed a Sigma 12-24 onto a Nikon D 200 first and 300 afterwards. To me, […]
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By philberphoto | How-To , Opinion
So there I am, in photo nirvana, with a one-prime-lens sytem, right ? Errrr…. ahem….well….. not! What can be wrong? Minimalism, deep intimacy with the gear, low weight, low cost (relatively speaking), etc…. all pointing in the right direction…. Well, it is not that anything is wrong. It is this nagging question: how can I […]
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