A new Leica M is on the way to be announced On June 11, says the Leica web site. The new model is slated to take the spot between the X2 and the classic digital M system and dubbed the ‘mini’. Presumably, the mini designation means small. This is an…
Borris. Borris is the name of our marshmellow cat. I found him sitting on the deck railing with the setting sun behind him. A perfect opportunity to test the APO corrections to the Leica-M 75mm ASPH APO lens. I think the test is passed. See for yourself. I also included…
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 continues to maze me in terms of dynamic color output in JPEGs. Most folks shy away from using anything but RAW images and there is some safety in that approach. However, for simple shots and images that stay equal to or under the 13″x19″ size, JPEGs from…
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…