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#1267. Canon G650. Preview of a (good) small photo printer
The Canon G650 proves quality isn’t tightly linked to printer size. B&W wall art As regular victims of my self-pitying rants on digital-printing complexity know, I’ve been looking at ways of...
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#1232. I tested Vero
So you don’t have to – Maybe you should, though! My Vero feed In a recent roundup of news, I linked to a Peter McKinnon video detailing 10 reasons to try out the social platform Vero. It seems to...
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#1227. My thoughts on the Hasselblad X2D
Is it a dream come true, or just another boring camera in a string of boring quantitatively-designed cameras in a suuuuper boring quantitative-driven market? Shot on a Hasselblad X1D & XCD 90 lens...
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#1218. Pixii Monochrome
With this latest release, Pixii asks what makes a great monochrome camera. Here’s their answer. As promised in my last article about the Pixii camera, I am keeping you updated with news from the Team...
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#1143. Death to the Pixii? (Aug 2021 review)
It’s a bit early in the day to celebrate a best-of retrospective from Pixii – in the same way the alternative rock band Pixies did after a decade of work together with their Death to the Pixies album....
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#1126. Reframing Photography with Artificial Intelligence
As OS updates sneak into our smartphones, uninvited and undetected, some new features make their appearances and surprise users. AI, it seems, is getting a firmer grip on photographic practises....
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#1098. Laowaaaaaah fun!!
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...
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#1075. The vanity lens. Or is it? The truly excellent Laowa 15mm f:2.0,...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity in my photography, because so much of it is about me. My recent post on the “short game” underscores how this sort photography speaks to me because it lets me put...
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#1041. Important Camera Review : Pixii dust for the industry?
Can an expensive 11Mpx rangefinder camera with no rear screen be the best news in a long time for the photography industry? I wouldn’t rule it out completely … During my 2 weeks tenure, the camera...
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#1037. Meet Pixii, the un-Leica-ly new camera
David Barth will probably hate this title. That matters, because David Barth is the founding father of Pixii, a new entry to the ailing field of camera manufacturers. David believes that a totally new...
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#1017. Leica Summicron-R 35/2 on Hasselblad X1D: The last of the vintage...
Can the vintage wide-angle miracle repeat itself? Afther the surprising Otus 21 act of the Zeiss Distagon 25/2 ZF.2, can this Leica Summicron-R 35/2 morph into a wonderful 28/1.4 for the X1D? No, it...
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#1015. Leica Elmarit-R 90/2.8 on Hasselblad X1D: too gentle for its own good?
This thing about testing old lenses on modern bodies is a very contrarian pursuit. Having been wowed by two lenses that shouldn’t have performed well, I’m now let down by an old favourite of mine....
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#1012. Hasseblad X1D and Zeiss Distagon 25/2 ZF.2: More fun with legacy lenses
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...
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#1011. Thanks for the memories (digital asset management)
I hold to my belief that photography is primarily a documentary activity insofar as, unlike painting, photography records reality or some small slice thereof. This characteristic links all the great...
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#1004. Plastic blasphemy: 30 year-old Nikkor 50/1.8 on Hasselblad X1D!
Plastic, the 30+ year old lens certainly is. Fantastic remains to be seen Can a cheap and old design be of any use on a (relatively) modern mirrorless camera that’s not even the right format for it ?...
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#1003. Time for a change at last? (Lockdown – day forty something).
The tethering cable for my X-H1 arrived a couple of days ago. It’s a beast; bright orange, 5m long and weighs about as much as a photocopier. I’ll need to anchor it properly to the tripod, or it’ll...
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#1002. Thwarted progress: the rise and fall of L16
In October 2015, Light, an aptly named California-based company, announced the development of a new camera concept, which claimed to change the way we practice photography. The Light L16 was designed...
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#970. Meet Up – Jonathan & Marko (i.e. Zeiss Milvus 100 Makro vs Laowa 100...
Two friends (Dallas and Philippe), two similar 100mm macro lense, one location. Do they produce similar photographs, and how do the lenses compare on looks? Dallas (Milvus 100 Makro) begins Philippe...
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#969. 25 Biogon, or 35 Distagon? Oh. How about the X100V?
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...
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#942. Photographing the Newport Classic Yacht Regatta
I took some photos again at this year’s Classic Yacht Regatta in Newport, RI, USA. It had been a few years. Amazing how different the sky and ocean can be year to year. And it’s always a treat to be...
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