Category Archives: Gear & Gadgets

Fujifilm Finepix X100 Hands-on Review

DigitalRev TV put a brilliant, Street Photography oriented, review of the much hyped Fujifilm Finepix X100 online. Check it out!

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Ricoh GR1

The Ricoh GR1 arrived today. The 28mm lens is said to be very sharp, well we will see. Hopefully i will be able to shot one or two rolls with this camera this week.

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Nikon F5, F100 and F6

Just a size comparison of the Nikon F5, the Nikon F100 and Nikon F6. The F6 succeeded the F5 as the top Nikon film camera, which makes the F6 the world’s top 35mm SLR (IMHO). I always liked the F100 better than the F5 – the F6 feels like an upgraded F100.

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M9 Firmware 1.138 released

The improvements in the Firmware Version 1.138 are described on the Leica Blog

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Poor man’s Summilux

Since i bought my first Leica M, i have always been torn between using a focal length of 35mm or 50mm for my street photography. I own both, the Leica 50mm Summicron and 35mm Summicron ASPH but have been thinking about upgrading to Summilux lenses (f 1.4) lately. Instead of spending a huge amount of [...]

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Leica M9 and the missing anti-alias filter

I took the picture below this morning using my Leica M9 and a 24mm/f3.8 Elmar lens. Almost every digital camera on the market uses an anti-aliasing filter while the M9 doesn’t. The lack of an AA filter normally translates into appreciably higher resolving power but may in some cases also lead to aliasing. I took [...]

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MacBook Pro

I got my new MacBook Pro 2,66 Intel Core i7 today. Fortunately i work for a company that knows how to make their employees happy. Much to my surprise the one feature that really stands out is the solid-state drive. I don’t really care about tech specs, but using a computer that is not just [...]

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