#884. Zeiss Otus 100. A spanner in the X1D works?
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...
View Article#893. Family wedding – M43 mission
My wife, son, and I recently enjoyed a family wedding in Ogunquit, Maine. We live on the coast just a couple of hours north, so it was a pleasant little drive for us to join the extended clan for a few...
View Article#904. Minuscule pleasures: the Laowa 100mm f:2.8 macro
Minuscule pleasures. I owe this notion to Philippe Delerm’s book: “The first gulp of beer and other minuscule pleasures”. It encourages me not to overlook what is pleasureable, however small, banal and...
View Article#908. Sony 18-135mm. Cheap. Far more than cheerful.
There is a lot of snobbery and prejudice in photography, and internet amplification syndrome ensures that strongly held beliefs are perpetuated, even when they may not be easy to substantiate with...
View Article#922. My experience with Zeiss ZM and Leica M lenses on Sony A7rii
(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....
View Article#935. The Hasselblad X1D does football
It’s the most peculiar activity, football. Having recently been given the opportunity of an evening inside the shiny stadium that hosts Olympique de Marseille, probably France’s most notorious team, if...
View Article#940. Nikon Z7 – 12 months on
The Nikon Z7 for a first effort, is pretty good, IMHO. Sure it may not have Sony like eye detection focus and it has the cardinal sin of just a single memory card. Not having these 2 features has not...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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 rip...
View Article#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 ?...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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....
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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 more...
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