The Middle of Between
August 3, 202011 CommentsPhoto GearOlympus' bombshell; Leica's SL2; and ULTRAsomething's usual assortment of trivial musings...
Archive for Photo Gear
Paradox View: The M10 Monochrom
January 17, 202077 CommentsPhoto GearTesting the Leica M10 Monochrom.
Inviting Invectives – The Agat 18K
April 4, 201916 CommentsPhoto GearI once said that "I love all cameras, even the ones I hate." But that was before I shot with an Agat 18K.
Sketching With A Ricoh Auto-Half
March 11, 20199 CommentsPhoto GearvBook40 photos from a Ricoh Auto-Half.
A Space for Hurdy-Gurdies
May 1, 20166 CommentsPhoto GearvBookWith the instinctually purposeful determination of a cicada, I go about satisfying my once-every-13-year mission: fisheye photography.
Pick (a) Pocket: The Minolta TC-1
April 1, 201610 CommentsPhoto GearvBookThe Minolta TC-1 is 27% smaller than my iPhone 6S, more ergonomic, and loads the world’s finest collection of retro filters — film. If only it could get a dial tone.
jaPANorama
February 1, 201616 CommentsMusingsPhoto GearvBookWho in their right mind would drag an old Widelux F7 panoramic film camera to Tokyo some 15+ years past the dawn of the 21st Century? Precisely.
Camera Season: The Leica SL
January 1, 201613 CommentsPhoto GearThe Leica SL is a big camera... with a big list of pro features... and a really really big native lens. To review it properly would require an equally big article. Which is exactly why this isn't a proper review. Instead, this article looks only at one particular aspect of the Leica SL — its ability to work with adapted M-mount rangefinder lenses.
On Myth and Minitars
September 17, 201520 CommentsPhoto GearRecently, the mad scientists at Lomography surgically removed the Minitar lens from their cult-classic LC-A camera, tarted it up by grafting on a Leica M-mount bayonet, and sent it into the night to tempt us weak and sinful lens addicts. I'm only human. I succumbed. And here, for the benefit of other weaklings, is my report from the stone-cold morning after.
Sentences and Sensibility: Leica’s M (246) Pt. 2
May 14, 201549 CommentsPhoto GearThis is ULTRAsomething's second installment in the "Sensibility Series." It features thousands of words, grouped into hundreds of sentences — a handful of which are actually about the topic it purports to discuss: the Leica M Monochrom (Type 246). I should also mention that it's populated with over a dozen actual photos — and not a one of them falls into the category of "pretty marketing shot" or "test shot." Undeterred? Then read on.
Sensors and Sensibility : The Leica M (246) Monochrom
April 30, 201543 CommentsPhoto GearWhat if Jane Austin had the opportunity to test and compare Leica's new Type 246 M Monochrom camera against both the existing Monochrom and the M Type 240? Would her first published work have been a tale of romantic fiction? Or would it have been something closer to this?