This Machine Photographs People

The Ricoh GRD IV camera is a fluke on the market of small-sensor, compact digital cameras. It is made for photographers

A Simple Box

The little camera that could… dwarfed by it’s lens

Nikon did something audacious with their D3200:

Error Circle

A smurf tied up in the forest

Sometimes there are so many errors in an image that quality comes round again to being, dare I say, good? Example in case above. I had expired

Step Right Up

Photographing photographers has become quite an obsession of mine

Yes, of course I take photographs on the street as well with the Leica M9. Here are some examples from yesterday’s visit to the Christmas Fair.

Seeing What You’re Doing, Or Not

Sometimes you've got to frame your art carefully

Here’s another practical experience with the Leica M9 and the Elmar f/3.4 24 mm. I’ve been photographing a friend’s exhibition opening here in Berlin the day before yesterday.

Black & White Portraiture with the Leica M9 and Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

My father at 79

In my opinion, the forté of the Leica M rangefinder camera is the instantaneous portrait, the situational snapshot, the view from the corner of the eye frozen in time.

Old Lenses, Good Enough?

Old scooters are certainly good enough, and stylish, too!

Ok, second post about my experiences with the Leica M9. As seems to be the case with all high-resolution digital cameras (and the Leica M9 can surely be counted among them, if not for it’s 18 MPix then of course for the lack of an anti-aliasing filter in front of the sensor), it is very demanding of the lenses you use. For example,

From NAS To DRF

A celebratory drink, unsharpened (left) and sharpened, no shadow noise at 360 ISO

Updates have been few and far apart on this site, but this is going to change. The day before yesterday, I traded in all my Nikon gear for a Leica M9 body.

Getting There (With A Few Caveats)

Erfurt market place provided a resolution sample scene

How far along are we with regards to cellphone photography? Well, the 8-megapixel camera in the new iPhone 4s is supposed to be one of the best, and we’re gonna find out some things about it in this post.

Uncrapping a Digicam

The object of today's exercise

Got a Nikon CoolPix S1100PJ digicam yesterday. I confess, it was for the gadget factor. Unfortunately, the built-in pico-projector doesn’t work on Mac OS X Lion. Nikon has promised to look into it. The projector works for slideshows straight from the camera’s SD-card, though, and that is kind of nifty.
But what about the camera qualities of this, well … camera? In the default settings, image quality is crap (by the way: all images in this post can be clicked for large versions):

Let's call this rendition of the berries and the leaves "painterly", shall we?

See those JPEG compression artifacts at the limit of the sensor’s resolution? That’s what you get when you cram 14 megapixel on a sensor smaller than your pinkie’s nail.
But…