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The Middle of Between
Olympus’ bombshell; Leica’s SL2; and ULTRAsomething’s usual assortment of trivial musings…
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Inviting Invectives – The Agat 18K
I once said that “I love all cameras, even the ones I hate.” But that was before I shot with an Agat 18K.
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A Space for Hurdy-Gurdies
With the instinctually purposeful determination of a cicada, I go about satisfying my once-every-13-year mission: fisheye photography.
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Pick (a) Pocket: The Minolta TC-1
The 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.
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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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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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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?
