By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
If I wasn’t so dedicated to maintaining acquaintances and friends, I might have forgotten DearSusan over the last year or so. Still COVID-marooned in the UK, I have a slightly different world view to many, but still suspect that the pandemic had wrought damage we haven’t yet contemplated, much of it deeply psychological. Behaviour patterns […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
My intuition and some available tests, online, hinted at the fact that the longer the focal length, the easier it would be for a lens to cover a wider sensor than what it had been designed for. In the case of this Distagon 25, I couldn’t have been more wrong … I feel kind […]
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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 Paul Shadarevian | Review
(Pascal) Please welcome new contributor Paul Shadarevian, who shares his love for the combination of modern cameras with more traditional lenses. Something I can defintely relate to 😉 Thank you, Paul. All yours (/Pascal). I have long been a fan of the Sony A7 series after looking for a full frame camera that did not […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
Universities are places of learning, I also think they are excellent to walk around with a camera. The architecture can vary so much from 1850’s sandstone to totally modern structures at Sydney University they do anyway. For sometime, I have wanted to shoot the inside of the Charles Perkins Centre a relatively new building. To […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
“Half of Hackney talks to itself.” I’m waiting for a bus at the stop outside our local Lidl. This is the considered opinion of the lady next to me in the bus shelter. We’ve both been watching the antics of a man and a woman, also waiting for a bus, but passing the time by […]
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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 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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By philberphoto | Monday Post
Medium format cameras are irrelevant, aren’t they? Their numbers are dwarfed by those of full frame (35mm) cameras. And the progress of said full-frame cameras has made them even more irrelevant, until their inevitable extinction, right? Well maybe, but maybe not. 4 recent entries into that very limited space indicate that “someone” believes this demise […]
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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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