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Why I quit the Leica M bodies for the Sony A7R | Didier Godme

I started being more serious about photography when buying my first Canon DSLR (20D) a few years back and then upgraded to the 5DMII. After 3 years of good use, my neck started feeling bad (especially with the 35 f1.4) Read more …

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Leica M9 Hands-on preview | Digital Photography Review

Three years ago Leica revealed the M8, its first digital rangefinder.  The M8 looked similar to the film M7 but was a completely new body, with a 27 x 18 mm (1.3x FOV crop) 10 megapixel Kodak CCD sensor and Read more …

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Leica M240 Impressions | Luminous-Landscape

As a Leica M user since the 1960’s I’ve found the birth of a new M to be a cause for celebration. The new M240 in particular, because I was one of a small group who, early in the process, Read more …

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Fujifilm WCL-X100 Wide Conversion Lens | SebImagery

Ever shoot with your x100 or x100s and think…damn….I wish this thing was a little bit wider?  Well you bought a fixed lens camera dummy, you should have thought of that sooner!  But that’s ok…Fuji’s got your back. Enter the Read more …

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Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R Review | PhotographyBLOG

The Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R is a superb addition to the X-series range, offering a classic portraiture focal length and an ultra-fast aperture that produces simply beautiful background bokeh with a minimum of fuss. Optically it’s an almost perfect Read more …

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Berlin with the X-Pro1 | Peter Evans

I’d never been to Berlin before, but I’d seen a few films set there. Forefront in my mind was ‚Wings of Desire‘, Wim Wender’s atmospheric tale of an angel (literally) falling for a trapeze artist in 1980’s Berlin. It stars Read more …

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X-T1 vs. X-E1 for long exposure photography | Fuji vs. Fuji

One thing I love about where Fujifilm are with their cameras, and where I really hope they continue to take them,1 is that almost their entire line of X Series cameras have the same 16 MP X-Trans sensor. All we Read more …

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My Fujifilm Love Affair – a X-T1 & XF56mmF1.2 R two week review |
JKsPepper

Why am I calling this a love affair?  Perhaps it’s because this best sums up the experience I have for the Fujifilm devices, both the newly released X-T1 and the aging X-E1 before it.  With the titans of the compact Read more …

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Fujifilm X-T1 review | the Verge

I’ve been shooting with mirrorless cameras for a long time — I was an early converter because I was just tired of lugging my DSLR rig around. But they’ve always involved compromises: while image quality is generally great, control, expandability, Read more …

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Make It Human | David duChemin

“This might end up in crying. If you’re not prepared to cry about it, I’m not sure you’re making art. And if you’re not prepared to dance in anticipation, you’re definitely not making art.” ~ Seth Godin   I don’t Read more …