Surprisingly everyone that ventured a guess on the site, in person and on Youtube, did so correctly. The Brielle Murch video is indeed the one filmed with a Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M ASPH. Surprisingly, no one mentioned the different exposure as being the primary reason for picking one video over the other. Youtube introduced more compression […]
Last night I was filming with the Fujifilm X-Pro 2 again to test manual video recording and I decided it would be interesting to do a comparison. I wanted to try something extreme, the FujiFilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R vs Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M Aspherical. I moved the camera to try to match the field of view and I focused on the most stationary person before […]
Zhong Yi Optics has announced their new updated Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm f/0.95 Version II for X Mount/E Mount/EOS-M and it is available at Adorama.
Like many photographers, most of my photographs have been taken with sub 100mm lenses over the years. Sure, I have experimented with various telephoto zooms, but I never found them to be convenient tools for a photographer not specializing in nature, sports or any other instance where you can’t zoom with your feet. So, I […]