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 philberphoto | Monday Post
DearSusan posts tell a story. A story of photography and situations/things/people to photograph, to process, to share and to remember. Therefore this cannot be a post, it must go down as an un-post. Un-kind, un-inspiring, un-amusing, Un-Susan. The un-post. Pascal can be such a drone sometimes (many times). He gets antsy when he sees brilliant […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
This is the last picture I took with this Zeiss OTUS 1.4/28. After this, it was returned to its white and blue box and to the post office to meet its new owner. Lucky man 😉 But I can’t complain, having myself enjoyed, for 3 weeks, the presence on my camera of what Zeiss call, […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
After a walk in the vines and some architectural photography in Aix-en-Provence, here is the third and last “leftover pics” post I’ll be publishing about the OTUS 28. This is a biggie …;) The lens is large and its possibilities even more so. So let’s honour this fact with a large post. I’ll mostly shut […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
You mention Aix-en-Provence, you mentally see this. Or this Or this And that’s what most of the old town is like. But modern architecture has recently invited itself into the heart of this Roman city turned student paradise. So, this is one of those posts where I serve you the leftovers from an OTUS 28 […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
So, the Zeiss Otus 28 mm f:1.4 is here! Writing a (p)review of this lens is both easy and not easy. Easy, because, as you will see, it isn’t hard to read my mind on this huge piece of gear. Not easy because, once that is said and done, it needs to be put in […]
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By pascaljappy | News
In April 2015, rumours rose from the East. Someone had apparently spotted an OTUS 24 prototype on a Zeiss senior designer’s desk. Forums lit up. A few months later, the magical number had risen to 28, and sources were now more than credible. Even since, at casa DS, it’s been a frantic anticipation of what […]
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