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
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.
John Thawley's DxO One Flickr gallery
Speaking of the DxO One, flickr user John Thawley's DxO One gallery is a good place to start if you want to see what the One can do.
Read moreDxO review their own DxO One
Yes, DxO have reviewed their own camera. The DxO was released yesterday. DPReview were on hand with a nice hand model. Dx0's review goes so far as to add Dxo One combined RAW file results into their scoring system, effectively bumping the camera's base score of 70 to 85.
Read moreFurther thoughts on the Leica Q
New images of Leica's upcoming Q (Typ 116) leaked via Mirrorless Rumors. The Q's uniform Leica layout is a sight for these sore Fujifilm X-series-using eyes. And like all finely crafted cameras, its main photographic feature set can be sussed at a glance:
Read moreImage of the Leica Q Typ 116 leaked
And it looks wonderfully like Leica's X series, and very similar to the M series. This is branding perfected. Well spotted, Digicame Info.
It appears that the Q's manual/AF controls are fastened to the lens in a rotating collar.