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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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#632. Zeiss Milvus 1.4/50 – 2 Months On
After 2 months of ownership and some 900 images, these are my thoughts on the Zeiss Milvus 1.4/50. Here is a link to the original article #614. I used an Otus but purchased a Milvus Milvus 50 Firstly,...
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#647. Sony GM 24-70 : Extreme aspheric bokeh master?
Around a year ago, Philippe wrote this review of the then new Sony “G Master” (GM) 24-70mm f2.8 zoom for their full frame E mount cameras. In his review he talked about the excellence of the lens, it’s...
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#649. Three and half hours with the Nikon D850
The chance to shoot with Nikon’s new D850 was an opportunity too good to knock back, when offered by my good friend Ken. These few words are not a review of the 850, but my thoughts after only a...
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#672. The Sony A9. Will it fly as a wildlife camera?
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. Well, here’s an 8 000 word review that involves little reading! Took a wee trip into the hills of the Southern Highlands on Tuesday to a location where I was...
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#675. Review – SilkyPix Studio Developer
Here at Dear Susan there has been much discussion recently about raw development and editing software. There have been disgruntled mutterings about Apple’s Aperture, Adobe Lightroom and the monthly tax...
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#680. A New Old Camera Review: Never Meet Your Heroes?
Never meet your heroes. Isn’t that what they say? I’ve always wondered what that really means. Perhaps in ancient times it meant that upon meeting that big brave knight you discover that he’s...
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#697. I used and Otus but purchased a Milvus : 9 months on !
It’s 9 months since I took the step and bought my first Zeiss lens, it was the Milvus 1.4/50 after using Philippe’s legendary Otus 55 and 28 in Paris. See #614 I Used an Otus but purchased a Milvus...
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#705. Monday Post (26 March 2018) The M9 dream four months on
Regular readers of DS may recollect my pseudo M9 review from a few months back, and if you can’t, then feel free to click here and you’ll find the article. It’s been four months now, and I thought...
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#739. An Acute Attack of GAS – Sony A7R111/Nikon D850
Sydney Harbour bridge on a very foggy morning GAS we’ve all had it, in mid May, it struck with a vengeance. The thought process was; maybe, I should change systems and ditch the heavy Nikon D810 and...
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#743. The X-H1. Has Fuji hit the target? Three opinions.
Kaiman Wong (Kai W) calls it a beast. An acknowledged street photographer true, but jizzing around in the rain outside a new(ish) building at 1 New Change in the City of London is hardly a decent test....
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