I got this mail a few days ago: Heya! I’ve read your reviews on both lenses but I got some questions. I do own the F2.4 50mm Summarit and i am very happy with it. It’s totally usable wide open and really sharp and smooth. Build quality is great, too. But you know the nagging […]
Author Archives: Joeri
A Leica group shot: how I did it
Group shots are a nightmare for most photographers and I’m not an exception. While I’m quite comfortable with single person portraits, a group shot is completely different. The difference between these two has everything to do with being in control. With a single person corporate headshot I use my own portable studio, consisting of two […]
The Panasonic Lumix S 24-105/f4 lens is here
While the ‘true’ Leica photographer may already have frowned upon my praise of the Leica SL and the Leica CL, it gets worse from here for those people. Yes, I just acquired a (relatively) cheap zoom lens with autofocus from a non-Leica brand. The reason: I wanted a relatively cheap zoom lens with autofocus. Leica […]
Dorus
Dorus is (slowly) getting bigger. He’s 11 months old now and while he used to gain more than a kilo a week, he now starts to get some serious muscles. Even though he could chew off my hand in a second if he wanted to, he’s incredibly kind and sweet. He does tear up the […]
Grandad
I still have two grandads, one of them being 92, the other 90. The grandad in this picture used to work in the Dutch air force. When I was a kid, I wanted to become a fighter pilot and my grandad used to tell me stories of the Gloster Meteor (the first allied jet fighter), […]
The Leica CL works perfectly fine as a pro tool
This summer I visited my parents in Sweden and decided to bring my gravel bike (a road bike with disc brakes and a slightly different geometry that allows for bigger tyres). After my first day I realized the riding over there was that much fun that I wanted to pitch a story for a cycling […]
Good deal on occasion Leica 23/2.0 Summicron
Kamera Express has a temporary discount of 10% on all occasion cameras, lenses and other gear. I briefly looked at what they have in stock for Leica. The most interesting lens is an occasion Leica Summicron-TL 23/2.0 for 1079 euro. It seems that the front cap has been replaced with a non-original one, but that […]
The Billingham Hadley Large Pro review
The Billingham Hadley Large Pro is the biggest bag in the Hadley series and yes, it’s pretty big. The reason I asked for this bag at my contact at Degreef & Partner (the representative of Billingham in the Netherlands) is not because I wanted to carry my M-gear around. Unless you have a lot of […]
Leica M10-P for cinematographers
The American Society of Cinematographers celebrates its 100th anniversary and Leica introduces a new version of the Leica M10-P, aimed at cinematographers. The Leica M10-P ASC 100 Edition is equipped with the Visoflex and with the M-PL lens mount adapter. Also, there’s a gold (ish) Summicron 35/2.0 ASPH with a nice metal lens cap. However, […]
With the Leica 24/1.4 Summilux in a bread ‘bakery’
I don’t exclusively shoot weddings. No thanks, I’ve been there and it’s too much stress. In fact, a part of my work involves visiting industrial companies and write about what they do. The text is usually accompanied by my pictures. As a former neuroscientist I have a ‘natural tendency’ to figure out how things work […]