I've a few things to say about the latest article by Leigh Diprose for Fujfilm Australia. The first is: bullocks. (All stresses mine.)
Read moreA Pen F for your thoughXTs?
Speaking of rectangular, flat, retro SLRs with off-centre viewfinders, this is what the original Pen F looks like next to a Fujifilm X-T1. While it’s not Rollei 35 tiny, it is nearly as pocketable. Half frame 35mm film is 15% larger than an APS-C sensor, mathing its standard 38mm lens to the APS-C equivalent of ~33mm (virtually the same FOV as 50mm on FF).
Read moreEverything is rangefinder
The PEN-F's retro-inspired lines drew the Rangefinder card from DPReview in today's headline: Olympus PEN-F revives 1960s rangefinder-style design with 20MP sensor, built-in EVF. In their accompanying first impressions article, they describe the Pen-F as having ‘rangefinder-like controls’, and later, ‘sleek rangefinder-style looks’.
Read moredSLR to mirrorless to SLR - one Man's Fujifilm conversion
It’s a ridiculously familiar story: man starts with whisky, man hits up geek: gets lost; man loiters, cultivating his craft, garnering accolades and geek street cred. Man’s business expands. Man begins to hate his clunky A7r. And, many whiskies later, he wonders why the hell he’s wasting dosh renting Phase One backs. He saves. He saves. He saves. It’s a story you’ve heard a million times.
Read moreLeica's SL: a Sony A7ii clone
I've been reading DPReview and Sony Alpha Rumours, and I'm a believer: Leica TOTALLY copied Sony. Yep, the SL is a direct copy of the A7 and A7ii. It's mirrorless. It's 24 megapixels. It has an interchangeable lens mount. It has a shutter button. It has some dials. Check. Check. Check.
Read morePulling apart Sony's Raw compression
One of the longest-running ticks against Sony's A7 line is its lossy compression of RAW files. DPReview puts the issue in layman's terms:
Read moreLeica S Typ 007 - £12.900
This is Leica's winningest price/technology ratio to date. In fact, the new S is just double the price of the competing Pentax.
S Typ 007 benefits from Leica's amazing lens range, greater dynamic range than previous, better high ISO performance than before, WiFi tethering, live view, video, and more.
Read moreTHE VERY LATE LEICA M TYP 240 REVIEW
Børge Indergaard's honest, studied review of the Leica M Typ 240 is well worth a read. His main concerns are: white balance and skin tones.
Read moreHow to: iPhone bokeh
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The iPhone 6's 4,15mm f/2,2 lens returns a field of view between 29mm and 31mm (when normalised for 135 equivalence), which makes bokeh-ing a subject a bit of a chore. While you can mask it with an app like TADAA, if you lack the patience, the play-around dosh, you'll have to stick to tried and true methods, such as the below to get bokeh from your iPhone:
Read moreFujifilm discounting again
Speaking of dropping brand image, Fujifilm Australia are offering cash back on select camera purchases from 1 June 2015 to 31 July 2015.