If you’ve been following my PhotoPlus articles so far, you may note that this post doesn’t headline with ‘Hands-On’. I did handle some Olympus and Panasonic gear, and I’ll discuss, but frankly, neither Panasonic nor Olympus had any truly new products to try out this year. A rather hum-drum PhotoPlus from the two Micro 4/3 makers….
I happend upon the Mitakon booth on my way out of PhotoPlus for the day, and saw the newly announced limited edition 135mm f/1.4, and just had to stop. Along the way, I tried out two other new ultra-fast prime lenses for E-mount and Micro 4/3. Mitakon 135mm f/1.4 This lens, the fastest 135mm available,…
Continuing my coverage from day 1 of PhotoPlus Expo in New York comes the news from Leica. Leica SL The newest mirrorless system is the brand new Leica SL, which was announced just two days ago. The SL bucks the trend of ‘small mirrorless’ and instead simply treats it as any other high-end imaging system…
Fuji has had a pretty quiet PhotoPlus announcement list, with only two new products being announced ahead of the show: the compact XF 35mm f/2 WR and the new 1.4x teleconverter. I had hands on with both products for a short while. XF 35mm f/2 WR The 35mm f/2 WR is the little brother to…
It’s day one of PhotoPlus Expo and there’s plenty to discuss. First stop: Sony. Sony RX1R II It’s not a huge event for Sony this year, but for serious shooters, two new cameras stand out. First, there’ the new Sony RX1R Mark II, which updates the original RX1 with the same 42 megapixel sensor found…
Photography is and always has been a two-sided coin of artistic endeavors. There’s the artistic component, from which the beauty of photographic concept is derived; where the photographers vision of the world around them is realized in a static frame. Then there’s the technical side: the process, the equipment, the optics, the developing (which is…
Today we have a quick battle of portrait lenses. Two of them are current mirrorless portrait primes, both of which are extremely highly regarded. The third lens is a rangefinder lens from the 1990s that is still considered to be an utterly phenomenal optic. The battle: Fuji 56mm f/1.2 vs. Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 vs….
I just got the new Sony A7R Mark II in for review today, and I’ve only had a few hours to mess around with it. This is an exciting camera that packs a lot of great features, including a 42 MP sensor into a small package. There are a lot of great things to discuss…