Happy 2017 to all my readers! Thanks for reading this last year and I hope that 2017 will bring more Leica stuff. At least we get a new M, so it will be good. One more practical thing: I’ve received some emails from readers that they never got one of my newsletters, even though they […]
Author Archives: Joeri
Continuous light: is it good for (Leica) photography?
For a video job that my wife had, I had the chance to play a bit with a continuous light set made by Hedler. While I seldom use artificial light (apart from available light) I use flash if I have to use extra light. Usually, this is with head shots, where I have to produce […]
Rent a Leica M9… for free
Today I came across a very interesting project. Paul Ripke, a German photographer, has been working with a Leica M9 since 2012. He has been documenting his travels with this marvelous camera (I don’t need to tell you, right?), but after he while he thought:”Why not give other the pleasure to work with this camera?” […]
Arend
I took this picture on July 1st 2014 in the back garden of our friends in Amsterdam. Susannah, mother of Arend, wanted some pictures of her two sons and the children of her day-care centre (very small, just a few kids, organic food, playing outside, lovely!). Just before we left on our canoeing trip through […]
Continuous light
I had the chance to play with a Hedler LED continuous light set. It’s funny what you can do with these things and I like the ‘what you see is what you get’ thing. I might elaborate a bit more on this. Leica M240 with 50/0.95 Noctilux and Hedler Profilux LED 1000X
An ‘entry level’ Leica set: price and weight differences
My experience with the Summarit range has been limited to the Leica Summarit 75/2.5. Until recently, because Leica Netherlands was kind enough to let me have a go with the entire Summarit-M range. The Summarit series was completely updated not long ago and though they are regarded as an ‘entry level’ range, there’s actually nothing […]
The Lomo 20/5.6 New Russar + review
The people at Lomo have been busy lately. They released three new lenses in a relatively short period. I tested the tiny Minitar a few months ago and as I’m writing this review, I’m working with the Lomo 50 New Jupiter. But first things first. Why would you need a 20mm lens? Well, since the […]
Test driving the Lomo 50 Jupiter 3+
It isn’t the sharpest 50 ever made, but that’s not what you should be interested in when shopping in the Lomo shop. It does give you a dramatic, almost cinematic look that makes you think about lenses of the old days. To be continued. Sony A7S with Lomo 50 Jupiter 3+ (the lens is very […]
Six reasons why you need a 28mm lens for your Leica
As you know I shoot most of my wedding work with a 35 and 50. These lenses just work for me and I am used to the way they render a scene. A few years ago I added the tiny 28 Elmarit for two reasons. First, I wanted a slightly wider lens for group portraits. […]
The Beauty and the Leica X-U
As I’m working on my article for Digifotopro Magazine, this is one of the pictures that made it to the selection. I took it on our first day of paddling throough Glaskogen Reserve in Sweden. We had a warm day, even though it was only May yet, and my wife took a swim in the […]