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#461 Sony RX1 II: the perfect pocket rocket?
Many of us would love a camera that would be small enough as to be pocketable (even if it takes a large-ish pocket), yet offer really superb IQ. When Sony released the RX1, 3 years ago, it caused quite...
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#462. Zeiss Loxia 35/2. An in-depth review and comparison.
When Zeiss sent me the Distagon 1.4/35 ZM, it was love at first sight. The lens’ size, ergonomics, aesthetics and performance simply matched my likes to a T. When Zeiss sent me the Distagon Loxia 35/2,...
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#463. Fuji’s X-Pro2 – first look part 1
It’s 16 March and the frame counter now stands at 91. That’s less than a hundred images from which I can say the X-Pro2 is definitely a keeper. It’s been hard to find an X-Pro. The international...
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#465. X-rated photography – and the X-Pro2 wrap-up
23 March. Home. To recap; a few days in Singapore – our favourite city in the world – followed by a quick trip up to George Town (Penang), to remind ourselves how much we enjoy being there, too....
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#474. AF comes to überlenses! The Sony FE 85 G Master
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#478. The Sony FE85mm G Master. Answered prayers?
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....
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#482. Fuji’s X-Pros do seascapes
Pre-sunrise over the Kogelberg – shot with the Fuji X-Pro1 and Fuji 90mm f2 The northern end of the Kogelberg – shot with the Fuji X-Pro1 and Fuji 16mm f1.4 Pre-sunrise – X-Pro2 with Leica Summilux...
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#493. Zeiss OTUS 1.4/28. A formal review of a universal lens
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. A patient daughter – Sony A7rII &...
View Article#499. SoFoBoMo 2016 – done
It’s done and posted. The book records a five day road trip on the now (increasingly popular) North Coast 500 – a traverse of Scotland northernmost roads and geography. It’s here: North Coast 500...
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#512a. New Zeiss Loxia 2.4/85 : the full review
Meet George. Small, unassuming, George is (our codename for) the newly introduced Zeiss Loxia 2.4/85 lens. It was sent to me in July, shortly before my departure for Western Australia, with the usual...
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#512b. The perfect gentleman
Ah, what is so rare as a perfect gentleman ? He is always appropriately dressed, but never calls attention upon himself, the way a dandy would. He always fits in, yet maintains a distinctive identity....
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#529. Luminar. Does it work?
Yes, it does and I’m beginning to like it a lot. For a V1.0 release it’s pretty good. No crashes, interfaces with Lightroom, Aperture, PS etc. I’ve not tried all the options and have done little...
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#530. LightRoom vs Capture One in Berlin
While Paul navigated Japan and experimented with the very promising Luminar software, I was closer to home, in Berlin, making a set of photographs in various situations to compare the outputs of...
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#535. Lightroom vs Capture One in B&W
Continuing my comparison of Adobe Lightroom and Phase One Capture One photo editors, here is a sequence on B&W conversions. So it’s fitting to start with a colour image, right? Just to set the...
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#544. Photo Editing: A Fresh Start at Casa DS!
A few weeks ago, my article (The MacBook Pro. Overpriced gimmick or World’s best laptop for photographers ?) garnered comments that where overwhelmingly … divided. Talk about entrenched camps....
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#547. The Beauty of Apple Photos. Maybe I should explain.
This is not, strictly speaking, a formal review of Apple Photos, the free MacOs photo-cataloging, photo-editing application. More of an unrant (a rant is what you complain about something, an unrant is...
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#553. Straight Outta the Darkroom
This is a very interesting guest post by Brian Patterson on how and why to adapt enlarger lenses to outfit modern day cameras. Refreshing … Be sure to click on the clematis shot, it is full size and...
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#567. Leica M10 review: A first Opportunity to Get a Second Impression
This is a new hands-on guest post about the new Leica M10 and 4 interesting lenses by reader PaulB. Here’s is his bio and introduction : “My name is Paul Barclay and I have been practicing photography...
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#576. Sony A7rII vs Fuji GFX. A few 100% samples.
We’ve heard a lot about the new medium format cameras from Fuji and Hassleblad and some user reviewers are now surfacing slowly. But what’s been on our mind lately, here at DS, is how these compare to...
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#588. Zeiss ExoLens. Down the Smartphone Photography rabbit hole?
Smartphone photography is a bit of a polarizing topic, here on DearSusan : some photographers herald it as the definitive solution for close-up, spontaneous, huge DOF explorations, while the...
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