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It’s getting to be an old story, but the Ricoh GR keeps shining years after buying it. I’ve come to really like the Positive Film setting, more and more. The Positive Film setting gets me about 90% of what I want. After import, I might push up the whites a bit and lift the shadows […]
Read More Tokyo with the Ricoh GR and Positive FilmI can’t think of a trip that I’ve taken recently when the Fuji 56mm f/1.2 hasn’t joined me. Before purchasing, I looked at a lot of samples around the web and they always impressed me. It’s one of the reasons I’m still hooked on the Fuji X Mount system. There is some excellent Olympus glass […]
Read More Still Lovin’ the Fuji 56mm f/1.2It is always fun to head out onto the streets for some photos and then come back and look through the day’s captures. Sometimes there’s a little surprise. I don’t always realize it at the time, but often, there is some interesting eye contact made. Here are a few images I’ve picked through […]
Read More Eye Contact on the StreetWow, this is an incredible lens. To be more specific, this is the Fuji XF 16mm f/1.4 R WR. It was a rainy night when I headed out for these images and the weather resistance came in handy. I’ve used a few wides in the past, but most of them are f/2.8 some are f/2, […]
Read More Rainy Night in Tokyo with Fuji’s XF 16mm f/1.4A while back I had the chance to shoot the Leica 75mm Summilux and loved the images coming out of that lens. It had a Noctilux-ish feel and there is nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately, Leica stopped producing the 75mm Summilux several years ago and the ones on the used market are quite expensive. There […]
Read More A Dreamy Lens Combo – Canon FD 85mm f/1.2L and the Leica M-P (Typ 240)On this trip to Tokyo I stumbled across the Hie Shrine while wondering around Akasaka. If you approach it from the torii gates you’re in for quite a treat, they’re beautiful and picturesque. By chance I happened to slide in through a side gate right at closing and nearly had the whole place to myself, […]
Read More Hie Shrine – Tokyo