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Leica M3 - The best film rangefinder for a 50mm lens
24 Sep 2019
By way of history, I have had a few Leica cameras over the last 20 years, all have been film with the exception of my Leica X typ113. My first Leica was a IIIc, purchased mostly out of curiosity, which I used for a little while with a similarly aged…
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Collecting Photographs
27 Aug 2019
The best advice I have received to improve my own photography is to look at the work of other photographers. Almost everything is available on-line now, but for me nothing compares to printed photographs
Books are good and financially accessible, although generally print runs are small and once a volume…
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Wildlife With the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
12 Aug 2019
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Ring-Tailed Lemur - 40mm f/2.8 1/1250
This is an excuse to share something a bit different for me, aside from documenting family and travel, I typically pick up my camera for street photography. At the end of 2017 I took a one-on-one workshop on landscape photography, not only did this…
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Film vs. Digital Revisited - Opposites Attract
20 Jun 2019
For my street photography, I predominantly use an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II - alongside this but less frequently, I use a 1958 Leica M3 - for me these are close to being the best cameras for the way I take pictures - but they couldn’t be more different
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The Street Photography Audience
17 May 2019
“Photos don’t exist without other peoples’ eyes” Interesting words from photographer John Sevigny on the always thought provoking United Nations of Photography podcast with Grant Scott
For sure there are times that photographs are personal, for me only, but listening to this podcast was one of those moments that I…
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Mugshots - some of the best photography ever
25 Apr 2019
Just a short one…
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John Hollings - Larceny
I was watching “Sofa Sessions” on YouTube just now, a relatively new series where photographer Martin Parr chats with other photographers. This session was with street photographer Bruce Gilden. Towards the end, at around 18 minutes, Gilden is talking about quality in…
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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 17mm 1:1.2 PRO Review
11 Apr 2019
Why have I finally dropped my resistance and chosen to buy this lens
I have always favoured the 35mm focal length in film and “full frame” digital - it’s not the first time I have compromised on weight, size, price, even functionality, to get the best I can possibly squeeze…
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Is Instagram Bad for Photography?
08 Mar 2019
How do we share photographs with nuance and detail now. It’s not the normal and it’s changing photography. Pictures are too small, I think composition and more generally style, is becoming increasingly driven around showing impact in a 2 inch square image - detail is lost, even on the best…
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II versus Nikon Z6
28 Feb 2019
This is the first of a two part article, part 2 which goes into further depth is here
Having spent more time with Nikon cameras than any other brand, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted by the new Z system and for my needs, specifically the…
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It Starts with a Screen
04 Feb 2019
We are abandoning rangefinders and optical viewfinders in DSLRs in favour of EVFs - mirrorless is the future. But this means we now start with an electronic screen - the very beginning of a photograph is now looking at the world on a sub-1” LCD or OLED before pressing the…