This week is the last Leica workshop in a series of four workshops. In case you still have time for friday 22nd this week, you can still sign up. A few weeks ago Leica Netherland organised the first workshop and we all had a great time. Some people used the opportunity to try the Leica […]
Category Archives: Weekly Pic(k)s
Testing Lomography Art Lenses, new Jupiter 3+ coming up!
This week I had a meeting with one of the founders of Lomography Neterlands. Now that Zenit has reintroduced three lenses for the Lomography Art Lens line up, I’ve been asked to shoot these lenses to give them a try. They came to me for a reason, because these lenses are made for the Leica […]
Reflections
Winter is a relatively quiet time for me. It’s also the time that I’m working on my hand made albums. Making an album means re-editing the pictures for optimal performance in the printing process, but during the editing I also get the chance to reflect on a year that has gone by. While I like […]
Maple by Leica
Ice skating is one of my favorite ways to work out. Once you’ve found a steady pace it’s an almost trance like experience. With my SL review, I forgot to mention the macro mode setting on the 24-90, but as you can see, it’s pretty good. It’s not 1:1 ‘real’ macro, but more then good […]
A box with old pictures
Tomorrow one of my old climbing buddies is having a birthday party. We met only recently again, after having not seen each other for years. We don’t climb anymore, but now we tie our ice skates every week and that’s pretty cold as well. I asked him what he’d like to have for his birthday […]
Leica SL try out
This morning I picked up a Leica SL at Transcontinenta – Leica Netherlands – to give it a spin for the next week. First impressions: the SL body is built like a tank, like everyone else says. Also true is what everybody says about the viewfinder: it is amazing. The SL body doesn’t feel really […]
The Cosina Voigtländer 35/1.7 Ultron review
Voigtländer is an interesting company. Every time they release a new lens it seems to be hit: sharp, with character and for a very small price, at least, compared to Leica prices. The Voigtländer 50/1.5 Nokton is such a lens: it’s not so much worse than the Leica 50 Summilux and it sells for less […]
Test driving, uhm, canoeing the Leica Q
Last saturday I did a lecture and workshop for Foto Verschoore in Breda. Leica Netherlands was there to facilitate the workshop with M cameras and a few X cameras. When I left, the Leica representative handed me a Q and asked ‘Care for a test drive?’ So that’s what I’m doing this week. Well, unfortunately […]
The Zeiss C Biogon 35/2.8 review
There are many 35mm lenses to chose from when you’re the lucky owner of a rangefinder camera. Leica, Zeiss, Voigtländer; they all have at least a few 35mm lenses. So which one is the best? Well, that depends on what kind of 35 you’re in for. A fast one (1.4 or faster), a normal one […]
Wednesday Leica Workshop day
For my Dutch friends and international friends with loads of airmiles: on November 7th, I’ll be speaking and teaching in Breda for Foto Verschoore. Although I don’t have enough time and individual attention to cover the some information as I do in my workshops: this is a great chance for a very affordable introduction to […]