By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Every year, nature around my home gives up its leaves, its colours, its fanfare, to the rain, wind and shortening of the days. To me, it feels like a plunge into darkness. Annual sunshine charts suggest a gradual change from the hot highlights of summer to the gloomy depression of pale winter suns amid […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Something wasn’t right. Why would Zeiss release a 100/1.4 lens when their existing 85/1.4 was already hailed by most experts as possibly the best lens ever made? The first minutes of investigations almost derailed my plans for the future. Frankly, this overview of the lens wasn’t off to a great start. My Sony […]
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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 philberphoto | Review
It is now some weeks, and the Sony has earned itself a place in my bag. Considering that I take that bag with me everywhere every time, which, for me, spells a limit of 3 lenses, that is no mean feat. All the more so as the Sony isn’t exactly light, at some 2lbs, nor […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Look carefully. Would you buy a print of this photograph ? Some readers will love it, others will hate it. As a whole, though, I expect some uninvolved mental “Yes” to be going on. “Would you pay 300€ for a 20″ piezzo print?” is getting more concrete and, with a bit of marketing, would maybe […]
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By philberphoto | Uncategorized
Fact is, just a few years ago, DSLRs accounted for 100% of top-quality cameras, excluding medium-format and other professional gear. Mirrorless cameras were all compact, with thimble-sized sensors, very limited in terms of performance. There was but one exception, a small market niche for rangefinder cameras, almost exclusively Leica. But, despite the superlative glass, special […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
In an interesting change of family-visit route from Oxford to Northern Italy, I recently had the opportunity to spend 3 days in Milan, where the world-famous Salon de mobile (International Furniture Fair) was being held. This is one of the world’s busiest events. Hotels were packed and, to say that the driving experience was the […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News
I had hoped to visit Paris Photo (pictures & Photographers) this year but it was not to be and Salon de La Photo (gear) was a close enough second prize. While the initial plan would have given me the chance to finally meet Paula Chamlee and Michael Smith, the alternative was an opportunity to view, […]
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