The Ancient – M9, 35 Summilux ASPH II, ~f/2.8, 1/350s, ISO 160 USER REPORT: Landscape Photography with the M9 Aravind Krishnaswamy I am a nature photographer. For several years that meant I mostly photographed Avians and Wildlife with some Landscapes thrown in for good measure. I recently started moving away from Avians to concentrate more on Wildlife [Read More...]
USER REPORT: A stitch in time … with an M9 by Kefyn Moss One thing I don’t see very often are stitched images using a Leica camera. Maybe this is anathema to many Leica users or maybe it’s just that the camera is so often used for a different subject matter that doesn’t suit them. [Read More...]
A reader sent this to me last week and though it was kind of…funny. Decided to post it for all of you to enjoy and discuss The Breakup Letter “Dear Leica M9, This may come as a shock to you, but I have decided to leave you. I still love you but I can’t live [Read More...]
Fast and Prime Leica M9 Case/Holsster 1st Look Video! Received the case I was talking about earlier today via Fed Ex from fastandprime.com and had a chance to give it a quick try and decided to make a quick video showing you guys what it looks like and how it works. Mine is the all [Read More...]
Upcoming Reviews and News – Pentax Q arrives! Hello to all! It’s Tuesday at about 7:22 am and I am awaiting a couple of packages today from UPS. It seems that at least once a week something gets delivered to my door and it is always a fun time seeing what is inside. Today I [Read More...]
Easy Street – Photography By D.J. De La Vega I have just returned from my travels around Scotland and after a rewarding spell shooting the Edinburgh Fringe Festival I thought I would share a few thoughts on easy street photography. That is street photography for the bashful or for beginners. I’ve seen helpful tips mentioned [Read More...]
From Steve: Received this post and thought it was worth posting after the last post on cameras and equipment. Benedict used a cel phone to take this shot of his newborn baby. Gorgeous photo but sad story that I would hope is an isolated incident. Still, I congratulate Benedikt on the new baby and the [Read More...]
It’s the photographer not the camera! Or is it? You know I have been thinking and the more I think the more I realize that the old saying of “It’s the photographer, not the camera” is sort of BS. Well, kind of… Sure, someone who knows nothing about photography will not be able to create [Read More...]
I’m traveling again! Some shots from the road with the M9 and NEX-5n! Earlier in the week on Tuesday I left Phoenix, AZ for Chicago and met up with Bradley Graupner who is helping me set up the Chicago workshop on Sep 24th. I was able to meet with him and tour the space as [Read More...]
Hi Steve, I wondered what you thought of this…… Increasingly I’m hearing photographers refer to their pictures as ‘stories’. I’ve even received comments such as “nice story” on some of my photographs.As someone who has a professional interest in story telling, I feel that the notion of a photograph as a story somewhat exaggerated. In [Read More...]
Shooting at Marthas Vineyard by Michael Potiker I was able to spend a few weeks of August photographing the amazingly picturesque island of Martha’s Vineyard with my M9, and am very happy with the variety of images I captured there. I feel that as a long time SLR user, the M system isn’t necessarily as [Read More...]
Wow, just woke up this morning on the bus as we pulled in to Rotterdam Holland. I was dreaming that I was drowning in a big pile of goat cheese…don’t ask me why, I have no clue why I would have a dream like that. Odd Anyway… I left Paris last night around 2Am on [Read More...]
Having some Fun in Pula, Croatia! Behind the Scenes! Wow, what a month! So many cool places and it just keeps getting better. Took some more behind the scenes stuff which is always fun. Last night we stopped over in Pula, Croatia and I managed to squeeze in some time to walk the streets, have [Read More...]
My last 48 hours… in photos… by Steve Huff Wow, I have been one busy guy these last couple of days! It seems like the tour is now picking up steam and there are more and more shows with less days off. In the past 48 hours I have arrived in Moscow Russia, toured the [Read More...]
Know your camera and you can do great things… By Steve Huff So last night I was shooting the Seal show in Vilnius Lithuania and upon arriving to the venue I realized it was going to be my biggest challenge yet for shooting. Why? Well, the arena was sort of drab, dark, and dull AND [Read More...]
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