As they say, a habit is the second nature. Using Leica M cameras professionally for many years, the only type of photography that I have not done with it was Macro. Everything else, you name it: Editorial, Fashion, Beauty, Advertising, Ballet… Yes, you heard me right, ballet. The real thing […]

Leica introduced its first full-frame mirrorless camera on October 20, 2015. Since then dozens of reviews have been written about how formidable camera it was, and how it was not. While arguing about something like Leica SL reminds me debates on what is wrong with the latest model of Lamborghini, […]

With tons of studio equipment sitting at the studio, I find myself gravitating towards using it less and less. Why? Because the current state of imaging technology completely changed the perspective on usability of available light. While lens design is constrained by the laws of physics that makes high-speed optics rather […]

When Leica Camera AG comes out with a new lens, we all expect something groundbreaking, whether it will be an unbelievably wide aperture, or zero aberrations, or… something. So, when Leica announced that it had resurrected a ghost from the past with a focal length of 28mm and the maximum […]

This morning I read an article, which made me go back in my memory to days of twenty rolls of film in my camera bag and remember how it was like. In my opinion, the author has missed his boat with a story of digital being inferior to film by […]

When photography just started, and a bright idea of an optical enlarger was not born yet, a size of a photograph was determined by the size of a light-sensitive plate used and, consequently, by the size of a camera capable of accommodating that plate. That is why cameras of the […]

What makes Leica images so different? Back in those days of film and when my older daughter was little, we used to play this game: I would through a stack of 35mm slides on a light table and asked her to choose which ones she liked the best.  Except for […]

For anyone who is interested, here is a rough description of how the true “base” ISO is determined… Every detector has a quantum efficiency and a full well capacity.  The quantum efficiency is the percentage of photons that are incident on the detector and are actually registered.  Typical values these days are […]

Our previous test was aimed to assess M10 performance under the direct sunlight. It did very well handling extreme contrast. Now it is time to see how good it is in a low-contrast conditions offered by the overcast sky. For the test we chose Elmarit-M 2.8/24 ASPH lens for its known […]

All previous reports on Leica M10 were limited to either studio, or available artificial lighting. Realizing that this is somewhat outside of what most Leica M shooters are used to, now we are conducting a series of tests with natural light. Shooting under the clear skies in the middle of […]