Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Putting the digital Leica through its paces
Paso Robles in Central coastal California, close to my home, is a charming town of some thirty thousand people whose interests tend to focus on the outdoors, wine making and agriculture. As luck would have it, yesterday was the occasion of the annual Agriculture Show in the downtown […]

Finally - a digital Leica
Preconceptions abound in our society.
Italians are great lovers.
The French cannot be trusted.
The Welsh are liars.
Poles are stupid.
Jews are smart.
The British cannot cook.
Americans are crass.
And so on.
When it comes to photography, the one that always jumps to mind is:
Leica makes the best lenses.
This is about as accurate as the little collection of […]

And it helps improve the breed, as ever
When I read the other day that Mamiya was quitting the photography business, having blown not a few Yen in developing its medium format digital camera, I confess my first reaction was unease. While Mamiya may have been guilty of poor market analysis - Canon’s 35mm format […]

Maybe these fellows should learn photography first
A recent discussion on Apple’s Aperture discussion board had a couple of posters typifying our day and age. One stated that Aperture was “…useless….” as it couldn’t handle ‘professional shoots’, neatly combining two of the worst words in the photographic language. The other? Well, he made […]

There’s still time to buy the best photo application for very little
Many have criticized Apple for the high $499 price tag for Aperture, especially as the application is still in the development stage. I wrote at length of my experiences with the product in this blog - click on the topical index - and […]

Uccello and Carravaggio had it down 500 years ago
As a boy growing up in London I lose count of the number of visits I made to The National Gallery in London. Whether going through my Impressionist period, High Renaissance or early Renaissance, there was always something there to fascinate and to intrigue. While […]