I am having a big gear sale at the moment of nearly half my cameras and lenses. Some long held treasure is now up for sale such as Iscorama anamorphic lenses, my Panasonic GH5S, Samsung NX1, Blackmagic Pocket 4K, Olympus OM-1 (now sold), Panasonic S1 and Fuji X-T4, plus rarities like my Cooke cinema lenses, Leica M8, Leica Noctilux and more. All are now up on eBay for shipping within…
Month: August 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXRhJfRDbdk This blog began 12 years ago in Taiwan, 2010. I was living there and had just got the Panasonic GH1 from the local family run dealer on a street I called “Camera Avenue” because it had about 40 camera stores all independently run and all in one place in downtown Taipei. Learning about the fascinating history of the island from my girlfriend and her father, who served in the…
With the wholesale shift to mirrorless cameras (Pentax?) the camera world probably thinks it has finally modernised and cosigned the old flappy mirror technology to history (although my Canon 1D C would like a word). But now there is a new threat to the high end camera market and this time not from itself. Sensors in smartphones are getting larger. Much larger. The progress in the last 7 years is…