#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...
View Article#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....
View Article#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....
View Article#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...
View Article#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? This, above, is how a camera should be...
View Article#1232. I tested Vero
So you don’t have to 😉 – Maybe you should, though! 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 provide an...
View Article#1267. Canon G650. Preview of a (good) small photo printer
The Canon G650 proves quality isn’t tightly linked to printer size. As regular victims of my self-pitying rants on digital-printing complexity know, I’ve been looking at ways of doing my own test...
View Article#1279. “For god’s sake stop dithering…”
I doubt I’d have justified the cash, if fate hadn’t played a major role; the pay out for a burglary at my home near Cape Town in September last year has been sitting in my bank for a while, giving me...
View Article#1295. Leica SL2 Repair Review – Part 1
This article is going to be a bit of a departure from my usual efforts at showing a travel location in a different light, usually infra-red. But first, we need to have a little background. For the past...
View Article#1304. Leica SL2 and Nikon 50mm AIS Review
Welcome back to my review of the post repair Leica SL2 and a select lens. In this section we will be looking at the Nikon 50mm f1.4 AIS lens mounted on an inexpensive Fotasy “NK-L L” adapter, because...
View Article#1310. Little John, the Laowa 58mm f:2,8 Ultra-macro
There are multiple stories as to why Laowa are called Laowa. The recently-come-to-prominence Chinese lens-making company itself is called Anhui ChangGeng Optics Co. Ltd., and it trades under Venus...
View Article#1312. Leica SL2 and Zeiss 35mm F1.4 ZM Distagon Review
Welcome back to my post-repair review of the Leica SL2 and a selection of third-party lens. In this section we will be looking at the Zeiss 35mm f1.4 ZM Distagon lens, which many readers here at Dear...
View Article#1318. Pushing Boundaries Parr Punchy And TTArtisans
Disclaimer : Right up front for those concerned there is no expectation of privacy in public in the Far South. Street photography is legal and not a crime. I was recently gifted a TTArtisans 23mm F/1.4...
View Article#1337. United Colours of X1D
Since my recent love letter to Hasselblad consisted mainly of b&w photographs, a few readers rightly contested my praise of the X1D’s colour science 😉 This post is here to explain what it is I like...
View Article#1349. Diversity in GAS
This weekend, I was fortunate enough to try 4 cameras Here’s another brief post from me as I return from a quick visit to the UK to see friends and family. My X1D stayed at home to keep luggage...
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