by activelight | Aug 10, 2017 | Canon, Equipment, How to shoot, Leica, Sports, Travel, Wildlife |
I can shoot that picture in one lens, Tom Before usable zooms, a common question was how many lenses you needed to shoot most pictures. If you were using a rangefinder camera in the early 1960s, you might be carrying a 35mm and a 90mm. You got a mild wide angle and...
by activelight | Dec 14, 2016 | Abstract, Leica, Night Sky, Winter Photography |
Stieglitz and Sky Abstracts Alfred Stieglitz isn’t nearly as well known as his artist wife Georgia O’Keefe, but he was a giant of early 20th century photography. Likely through O’Keefe’s influence, in the early 1920s he began shooting...
by activelight | Aug 11, 2016 | How to shoot, Leica, telephoto, Wildlife |
The Best Lens May Be Manual Focus Only Yes, you read that right. There are many times when autofocus doesn’t cut it, particularly when you want to travel light or it’s dark. And there are some superb, low-bucks manual-focus lenses still out there from...
by activelight | May 19, 2016 | Equipment, Leica, Night Sky, Photographic physics, Travel |
Cameras without SLR mirrors aren’t new. From Oskar Barnack’s first Leica in 1913, photographers have wanted small, light cameras and lenses to reduce their load. Desert cottontail, Petroglyph National Monument Fuji X-E2 camera with Fuji M-adapter and Leitz...
by activelight | May 26, 2014 | Equipment, Leica |
Leica lenses and cameras are the best in the world, but useful only if you can afford them. I’ve used Leica rangefinder equipment since I found Grandpa’s M3 and some lenses in the basement in 1969. Since then, Leica has given us the ultimate 35mm film...
by activelight | Oct 29, 2012 | Landscape photography, Leica, Travel |
Say ‘Las Vegas’ to most people, and they picture the glitter of the Strip, jingling jackpots, and croupiers hauling chips off the board at the roulette tables. But Las Vegas sits in the middle of red, orange and white stone sculpture gardens rivaling...
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