The Leica X Vario is point and shoot camera with a crop sensor no viewfinder, a fixed, bulky, slow zoom lens, autofocus and a movie mode.
Sometimes life doesn’t leave as much time as we’d like for photography. That gap in time between one’s bachelor days and retirement can present a potential black hole of creativity and opportunity needed to exercise one’s Photography muscles and shoot like a boss…
Shooting Leica Boss doesn’t always require holding a Leica camera. Even the Boss of Bosses knows that you can get Leica goodness from a number of camera bodies. So the 90mm Summicron f/2 is an amazing tool. This is an early 1980′s Midland version. It’s compact, beautiful, sturdy, & deliberate. The problem is, on an [...]
Heading back from a meeting in beautiful Buena NJ (home of Blackwater Pond Park and a big ass WAWA) I was happy to have my Leic M9 and Summicron 50mm f/2 in the passenger seat. I knew that I was in a beautiful part of the state on a bright sunny day but had that [...]
So, I like this photo. Let’s break it down a bit to see how a simple little “toss away” photo can still have a little bit of punch. Here’s the image:
I’ve slowly been evaluating some of my manual focus lenses with the NEX-7. It’s important to get a good feel for how a lens handles on a new camera body because the whole “previsualization” thing isn’t just a buzzword. It’s important to understand how depth of field, colors, overall rendering, sharpness at various apertures, lens [...]
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air… On April 4, 2011 I captured the first photo with my M8. It was the start of an aesthetic love affair that ended just days ago. While the Leica M8 was exchanged for even happier things, I can’t help but look back on the images and time [...]
So. It’s been a while. But no one cares about that… let’s get to business. Anon made me a cake an awesome image. It’s below. What is it? If you are a boss – you already know. It’s the beacon that is projected into the dark night sky when awesome photographs are needed. It means [...]
It’s Flickr time! take a look at some tasty Leica M5 photo poundcake: Leica M3, Elmar-M 50mm f3.5 Image by bcostin Leica M3 double-stroke, S/N 842 834, which places it in early 1956. The lens here is the somewhat uncommon collapsible Elmar-M 50/3.5, and that’s a Leica-Meter MR mounted on top. My father owned and [...]
Leica Noctilux: Overkill or Necessity When working on assignment, being able to shoot at f/1 (or f/0.95 with the last version) frequently means getting the shot versus not getting it. In professional photography it easily translates into thousands of dollars. Leica M9 , Leica Noctilux 1 … Read more on Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)