Love the lens and love the color. Click the images to see the full size. I like the detail rendering with this lens. I was between 1 and 1.5 meters for most of these shots, using f/4.0. Notice the narrow depth of field in spite of the f/stop. The camera…
One of the unique attributes of the FujiFilm X-Series is the way the color pixels are laid out on the sensor. Most color digital sensors have a pattern of red, green and blue pixels. Without going into great scientific detail, there are more green pixels than red or blue, but…
How often in today’s world do we get lazy and let something else make our decisions for us? The Auto Gremlin is culprit. The car will keep the temperature at an automatic level we set. The RSS feeds keep us from having to visit each web site and look to see…
The Monochrom is producing black and white images that remind me so much of my days developing silver halide (which I still do, by the way, with a Leica MP). I have also written a variety of posts on how well the Fuji X100s in-camera JPEG’s deliver in terms of…
It was a dark and stormy night… For those of you who remember the Peanuts cartoon strips, that was the beginning of every story Snoopy wrote on his typewriter, atop his doghouse. In this case, it was a foggy, perfect photo morning. I had been watching for a good…
The Fuji X100s handles high ISO’s very well and produces superb JPEG’s that can be easily printed to large formats. I have always been a fan of RAW images, but keeping high volumes of RAW images, especially uncompressed images, can quickly eat disk space and cause backup nightmares. Thus, I…
No, not another review of the Fuji X100s. Just some real life examples that confirmed why I bought the camera to begin with. This series includes my father-in-law’s old barn. This was used to house equipment for their small farm from his childhood. There was an old red Cub tractor…
After a few weeks shooting daily with the Monochrom, I have begun to remember some of the film training I have not used in a number of years. I spent a cloudy morning on the greenway looking for suitable lighting, contrast and subjects. This is some of what I found…
So many times I read reviews of the Monochrom in which the reviewer says that the Monochrom is a niche camera. They are correct, the Monochrom is a niche camera, even in the world of Leica. However, the reasons I see for reviews placing the Monochrom in a niche are…
First, this is not scientific, but a simple review of two images to compare the flare in two Leica wide angle lenses. In order to make a more thorough conclusion, one would need to take multiple images at varying f/stops and conditions with more measurable data. I decided to make…