Basically Russian
December 7, 2011 – 5:12 am | 2 Comments

- by Rick Drawbridge -
Surprisingly, considering the vast numbers of Zenit B’s manufactured, I’ve waited quite some time to acquire a tidy example. I guess they were such a cheap camera, a sort of Box …

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Street Photography Workshop in Singapore
December 30, 2011 – 3:58 pm | No Comment
Street Photography Workshop in Singapore

Celebrated LA-based street photographer Eric Kim will be delivering a 2-day intensive advanced street photography workshop in Singapore on 14 and 15 January. Aside from studying projects done by Magnum photographers, participants will also brainstorm …

A fragmented portrait of the Indonesian wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson
July 20, 2011 – 9:54 am | 2 Comments
A fragmented portrait of the Indonesian wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson

Kunang Helmi wrote an incomplete portrait of Ratna “Elie” Mohini, the Indonesian wife of the renown photo journalist Henri Cartier-Bresson:

“Ratna Cartier-Bresson was born in Batavia in 1904 and spent her formative years on Java. She …

Leica AG announces new Leica S-Adapter for third-party lenses
July 19, 2011 – 8:53 pm | No Comment
Leica AG announces new Leica S-Adapter for third-party lenses

From the press release:
Leica Camera has expanded the range of accessories for the Leica S2 professional camera system. As of August 2011, we are offering three new Leica S-Adapters that allow users to attach medium-format …

Leica M9-P - less for more or the revenge of the marketing department
June 22, 2011 – 11:50 am | One Comment
Leica M9-P - less for more or the revenge of the marketing department

- OPINION -
Leica introduced the new LEICA M9-P, a slightly different version of the current full frame digital M9. It seems that their cooperation with Magnum inspired the facelifting. Finally the camera body doesn’t feature …

Capturing Beauty in Jakarta
June 6, 2011 – 2:30 pm | One Comment
Capturing Beauty in Jakarta

- by Neil Buchan-Grant -
I have been making landscapes for over 30 years, the last 10 of these using digital cameras. During this period I was commissioned to shoot several travel guides for Insight and …

Leica lens cutaway - not for the faint-hearted!
May 22, 2011 – 1:09 am | No Comment
Leica lens cutaway - not for the faint-hearted!

Want to share your lens, cut it in half!
Students cut Leica’s Tri-Elmar-M 1:4/28-35-50 in half. Maybe to see whether there is a German engineer sitting in there? Whatever the reason for such barbaric act, next …

Street photographer Craig Semetko on his book Unposed
May 10, 2011 – 2:06 pm | No Comment
Street photographer Craig Semetko on his book Unposed

Documentary Photographer Craig Semetko talks about his photography, his Leica M9 and MP and his new book ‘UNPOSED‘. See why his work is endorsed by the great Elliott Erwitt of Magnum.

Craig serves as one of …

Celebs and their cameras
April 7, 2011 – 3:48 pm | No Comment
Celebs and their cameras

Just for the fun of it, here are some more celebs with their photo cameras. “Hey, Victoria and Eric, that’s not gonna work!” (s.picture below)

World’s best 50mm lens? Leica Noctilux f/0.95 review - only for Leica fans
March 29, 2011 – 12:17 am | No Comment
World’s best 50mm lens? Leica Noctilux f/0.95 review - only for Leica fans

This young man in his hip outfit will talk about the Leica M Noctilux f/0.95, the world’s fastest 50mm lens in production. Let’s hope, he will make good use of it! (I like his hat.)
This …

A light meter for free
February 28, 2011 – 12:26 am | 4 Comments
A light meter for free

Many photographers still like to take pictures with analog cameras, like me. All the digital cameras just do not “feel right” sometimes and it is just great to go shooting with a Holga, Lomo, Leica, …

James Nachtwey has a new hobby - photography
February 25, 2011 – 2:52 am | No Comment
James Nachtwey has a new hobby - photography

—OPINION—
Magnum, the greatest name in photographers owned agencies, just announced a “technological and photographic collaboration” with Leica, German camera manufacturer of the legendary rangefinder camera, which in the very hands of the founders of the …

New Voigtländer 35mm Nokton announced
February 24, 2011 – 9:20 pm | No Comment
New Voigtländer 35mm Nokton announced

Here is a list of the technical specification of Voigtländer’s new Nokton 1,2/35 mm:

Photography with toy cameras: Bombastic - toytastic - Klastic
January 29, 2011 – 9:20 pm | 2 Comments
Photography with toy cameras: Bombastic - toytastic - Klastic

Shooting with a Holga, Lomo, or an iPhone is quite trendy, even for professional photographers (e.g. Benjamin Lowy). In Jakarta we don’t just take pictures with these ‘toys’, we build a whole community around …

$10.000 for an 1.3 mp Nikon DSLR
September 23, 2009 – 12:06 am | No Comment
$10.000 for an 1.3 mp Nikon DSLR

In 1996/97 that is what people paid for a Nikon with just 1.3 megapixels, as Jarie Aasland is telling us on his nikonweb site. Such and many other stories about Nikon are to be found …