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POV
7.4 billion people. 7.4 billion competing points of view. Sometimes it’s therapeutic to have a blog.
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jaPANorama
Who 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.
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Camera Season: The Leica SL
The 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…
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Extending Myers-Briggs
Thanks to yours truly, the oft-maligned corporate tool known as Myers-Briggs has a new extension that applies directly to photographers. Whether or not this is a good thing is totally up to you.
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A Minor Delay
What does one do when one vows to publish at least one article per calendar-month, yet arrives back home — jet lagged and fully booked — on the final day of a month spent mostly in Tokyo? One writes a short article to explain why there’s no article that month — thus honoring (though somewhat…
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On Myth and Minitars
Recently, 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…
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Human 2.0
I haven’t seen any mention via online rumour sites, but I think it would be rather ignorant to assume that someone somewhere isn’t hard at work on the Human 2.0 project. What new features can we look forward to? What bugs will finally be fixed? And is there anything that can be done to actually…
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Copy Proof
In this article, I tackle the trendy subject of copyright infringement, and reveal my secret method for discouraging would-be image thieves.
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Sentences and Sensibility: Leica’s M (246) Pt. 2
This 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…
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Sensors and Sensibility : The Leica M (246) Monochrom
What 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?
