Month: June 2018

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Family Update

Its now June, and we have been getting back on top of the garden.   With the guests we had staying over the last few months, Timmy the Greyhound’s vet visits and having to have some of his front teeth out, and finally Caroline having to have a minor operation to remove a small cyst, the garden and our blog has been neglected.

Despite all of this we have managed a few days out and a holiday; I also managed to do a few studio shoots and some corporate portraits.

Now I hope things are getting back to normal and we can get the veg plot planted up and get some photographic shoots organised.

Saturday night was interesting as we had an earthquake.  Very minor as these things generally are here in Lincolnshire but it made the local media.

 

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A new Leica and rumours about the L mount

As I mentioned yesterday we are getting rumours of a new Leica camera to be released soon.

It looks like along side the official opening of Leica Park there will be an announcement of possibly two new cameras, one of which will be a new L mount camera this month. The common rumours are a smaller camera based on the SL with a full frame Leica 35mm sensor but a few people are making claims that the reason the L mount is so large is that it’s designed for medium format. A single mount for all of Leica’s cameras and that we should expect a mirrorless cropped medium format camera to replace the current S range. If that is true then the bank account is about to get a lot lighter.

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A new Leica Mirrorless?

Leica M8 with Summilux-M 50mm

A lot of my general photography and test shots in the studio are taken with Leica equipment so when rumours start to appear of new Leica cameras I aways pay close attention.

It seems we are now going to get a lower end full frame camera based on the Leica SL.  I really hope its true.

While I have no complaints over the Leica M10 and my Nikon D800 produces excellent, it would be nice for a cheaper Leica SL variant.

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The need for more hardware

As a photographer we always want the latest toys; sorry latest necessary tools.

As a photographer I love my Leica M10, and I would love an Hasselblad X1D and Nikon D850.

On the computer side I have the latest MacPro, but my MacBookPro is now ten years old and I feel that my desire for a new laptop is justified.

Leica M8 sample – Boudoir

Now even an old Leica M8 can produce impressive results like that above, but having a modern laptop is extremely useful.

I was disappointed that Apple’sWWDC yesterday did not announce any new hardware but I will be looking out for a new laptop.

After ten years I think deserve one.

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Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference)

This Monday was the start of the Apples’s WWDC.  I always try where possible to listen to the CEO’s opening speech.   Sometimes we have new hardware but mainly new software.

As someone who is trying to be more private on the web, limiting their use of applications like Facebook to only a few times a month and stopping internet access after 9 pm at night, there was much to interest me.

I am a self confessed Twitter addict and in Apple’s iOS 12 it will be interesting if I can use the social media limiting side to control my obsession.  As we try to create the right balance of intake of social media IM and Skype interaction with work, and downtime with friends and family tools like this may help.