Posts Tagged ‘Leica’

planetMitch note: This is great DSLR Video�?history written by Hugh -�?I'll have a post on Monday with more details about the planet5D history... Cue up the opening seconds of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: “It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the…

Leica takes a page from the Apple playbook to good effect – and does them one better. Who would ever think to put the words “Leica” and “chutzpah” in the same sentence? Well, I guess that would be…me. [adrotate group="6"] But it’s not a criticism…

One of the most pleasant moviemaking surprise announcements at this year’s Photokina trade show came from a German company, Leica, rather than the usual Japanese camera makers.[adrotate group="6"] The company that blessed the world with the first 35mm rangefinder camera in 1925 is now supporting…

When I recently borrowed a Panasonic Lumix GH4 for review there was a surprise waiting for me in the courier bag – the wrong lens. In this case the wrong lens turned out to be the right one – it was the Panasonic Lumix G…

Dear Canon: I’ve been a fanboy of yours for just about 45 years, ever since I bought my first SLR – the Canon FT/QL -- at the age of 12. Over the ensuing decades, you were my go-to company as I moved up the 35mm…

We received a veritable firestorm of commentary following our post on Tony Northrup's video. In that video, he challenged the industry -- and conventional wisdom -- about the true nature of differences in performance among full frame and crop sensor cameras and lenses. �?Now, dpreview.com…

I'm guessing many of us have old cameras that shot film but we're either lazy or just love our old bodies and wish we could use them again. Well, if James Jackson has anything to do with it, you'll soon be able to re-use those…

Robert Benson loves his Leica glass - and you and I both know that many times, it isn't the body that makes the shot (tho I also believe the Canon EOS 5D Mark II sensor creates some beautiful images) and Robert has Leica lenses he…