By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
Is this a review? Nope. Statement of the obvious? Nope. I’m deep in a personal preference fight with myself. I have to stop and take stock; Zeiss’ 25mm Biogon, or the 35 Distagon. Which is more likely to be my lens of choice as I wander the streets? Most people would forgive me choosing my […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
Like the photography world at large, DearSusan has been roiled by the tsunami that is the use of smartphones in lieu of “real cameras”. Pros and cons butting heads and trading blows. Let me tell you, it was/is ugly! Basically, I sat clearly in the camp of the users of real cameras. Smartphones just weren’t […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
They are named Novoflex, but should really call themselves the match makers. When cameras and lenses have Romeo and Juliet upbringings and their parents refuse to see them wed, Novoflex swoop in and make the romance happen. This post is the story of an unlikely and forbidden love between my best camera ever and my […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
This could have been an “every story tells a picture” post describing the photograph below : it would have explained how, during a week-end with the family, I stumbled upon these huge agave lying uprooted on the ground, still too large and heavy to be wheelbarrowed away, still very much alive in spite of being […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
As the title reads, here are just a bunch of photographs from Berlin, with little else in the way of discussion : My short week-end there saw a mixed bag of weather conditions that gave us all sorts of lighting conditions, which is great for photography. Mostly, though, is was super flat light, bordering on […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
Welcome to The Shire. Or, at least, the French version of The Shire. No Proudfoots, Bagginses or Tooks to be found. Around here, the local family names are the likes of Chapoutier, Courbis and Jaboulet which many of you may have seen written at the bottom of a wine label or three. No hobbits, then, […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
Shooting Tortilla Flats. As in shooting, rooty too too Only authentic stagecoach stop to survive the 1900’s (source), this is one busy ghost town, nestled on the Apache Trail, just an SUV-throw away from Phoenix. One of several interesting dwellings that can be visited along the Apache Trail. You can still hear the echo of […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News
I’m not at ease with copyright laws and the photo world, as you will read below, is getting more stupid by the minute. So my photos here have nothing to do with the articles linked to below. They simply express my renewed joy at Audrey’s return (Audrey being the Distagon 1.4/35 ZM wunderlens). Let’s kick […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News
Oh, the uncertainty of my photo microcosm! Convinced and satisfied by the recent A7rII launch, I sold almost all my lenses to pre-order the new Sony body, and buy back my former Zeiss Distagon 1.4/3 ZM and Zeiss OTUS 1.4/85 review samples. All doubt had vanished. Zenitude once again permeated my inner universe. And 1 […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
There is nothing wrong with testing a lens, except that it is boring as can be. You need to find subjects that fit whatever you want to test. You need to shoot stuff you wouldn’t shoot in a million years, like a brick wall. You need to report on stuff that doesn’t matter to you. […]
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