Anyone that follows my photography knows that I love the Leica M rangefinder system -using digital and film bodies – and the Leica glass is second to none in most instances. So, with 3 new M bodies, 10 new lenses and 4 new cases introduced at Photokina, why am I…
This is a loaded question depending on who you speak with. Some are tied to brands and some to focal lengths. The purpose of this discussion is to figure out what weaknesses a typical lens has and which of those weaknesses may be most important to have fixed. Finding a…
I have an article on What Makes a Great Lens about half-way drafted. As I was working on it, I received back from Leica, NJ my Chrome version of the Leica Elmarit-M 24mm f/2.8 ASPH lens. I had it 6-bit coded and a CLA performed (as an aside, Josh Lehrer at Leica…
Almost sounds like a tongue-twister, huh? This particular shot drew me because the lights from the overhang on the York County Chamber light up the sidewalk even when it’s still dark outside. If you’ve been watching my photography over the last year, you know that I have been concentrating on…
Fuji announced a firmware update for four XF lenses to take advantage of the LMO and PDAF of the Fuji X-E2. This version 3.10 is outstanding as I’ll tell you about in just a moment. First, I always forget what those acronyms stand for. I guess that comes from shooting…
UPDATED: I updated some of the links to Camera Quest and changed ‘dealer’ to ‘distributor’ as Stephen so kindly pointed out! Thanks, Stephen! I received my 10th anniversary, nickel plated, brass housed, Voigtlander 50mm Heliar. This lens is a screw mount and collapsable, reminiscent of the early film days. Voigtlander…
Sometimes you just nail the exposure. I find that when that happens to me, it was really just perfect lighting. Ironically, yesterday I posted about the importance of getting the best possible exposure as the top priority. Today, I went down the Reef Bay trail to some 1,000 year old…
I had two missions – one was to see how my Leica M 28mm ASPH f/2.0 lens looked in black and white film and the second was to see if my out of date black and white film still exposed well. I’ve read in various circles formulas for exposing out…
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…