Use the iPad Pro like a Wacom Cintiq

November 20, 2015 ohm

Using Astropad (http://www.astropad.com), I turned my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil into a Wacom Cintiq-like tablet for my Mac and Photoshop. I love this tech, and can't wait to see what other artists do with it.

Assuming the kinks are worked out of the latest Astropad beta, the iPad Pro could disrupt compact direct-input screens built for artists and photographers.

Thanks Daring Fireball

Nutscapes

November 12, 2015 ohm

If there's one thing to be said of smartphones's affect on photography it's this: it affords (and has for years) ballsy opportunities for intrepid photographers such as the curators and masterminds behind Nutscapes.

This one in particular has the feels.

Leica's SL: a Sony A7ii clone

October 22, 2015 ohm

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.

Leica Summicron-S 100 advertising image captured with R8 and DMR

September 3, 2015 ohm

Safari plugin EXIF Viewer says that the above image (which is hosted in this DPReview article) was captured by Leica's 10-megapixel DMR digital back attached to a Leica R8 camera.

Pulling apart Sony's Raw compression

September 3, 2015 ohm

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:

Leica S Typ 007 - £12.900

August 27, 2015 ohm

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.

THE VERY LATE LEICA M TYP 240 REVIEW

August 26, 2015 ohm

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.

Nagano, Japan: through the Summicron 50

July 29, 2015 ohm

In March, I wrote three paragraphs about the V3 Summicron 50. That was a mistake. This lens deserves more. And, it deserves to be shot by a better photographer than me, and to be written about by someone that both understands and loves words more than me.

How to: iPhone bokeh

July 7, 2015 ohm

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:

Fujifilm discounting again

June 25, 2015 ohm

Speaking of dropping brand image, Fujifilm Australia are offering cash back on select camera purchases from 1 June 2015 to 31 July 2015.

Claim it