Richard & Caroline's Blog

There are a number of key specialist lens missing from Nikon’s Z lens range.

Nikon released two macro lens but we are missing some wide-angle primes and specialist lens such as tilt-shift. Despite what some will tell you this cannot be done as well in software as it can with a specialist lens. So there are areas where independents can fill these gaps.

We now have the announcement of this Tilt-Shift from TTArtisan. A welcome addition to the range.

With my day job in IT, I generally work from home but I’ll pop in Lincoln usually at least once a week as I have a client there.

I’ll often have my Leica with me and will snap photos of buildings and people. You never know when you might take a killer shot.

Leica have partnered with phone companies before, but this looks to be their most ambitious collaboration. Lens and interface by Lecia with some manual controls.

I do use my iPhone camera sometimes when nothing else is around, but personally I prefer a good compact or would cary my Leica M10.

The best thing about mirrorless is the ability to mount so many classic lens. Some people are very apprehensive about using manual focus lenses so a number of companies produce adapters that not only adapt the mount but offer additional functionality such as closer focusing ability or in the case of Megadap, they offer autofocus ability.

The Nikon version of this for the Z mount has been out for a while but now they finally announce the Canon RF version.

The way some of the classic lens render is not as clinical as some modern lens are some very beautiful images can be produced.

January saw snow, and I took a number of photographs testing out my Leica 24mm M lens on my Nikon Zf.

Then just a few weeks later we have temperatures over 10C and it feels lovely to see the sun again.

When Nikon came out with their first Z cameras, they release the traditional modern trinity to go with them. The Z 14-24mm, 24-70mm and the 70-200 f/2.8. There were essentially minor reworks of the latest F designs, better but not as good as they could have been given the advantages the new mount gave.

Recently we had the new 24-70mm and now they have announced the new 70-200mm f/2.8.

Smaller, lighter, faster in focus; and finally it comes with an Arc Swiss foot.

The best thing I like about it is the new control ring which can click or be de-clicked. So if your using it for aperture or exposure compensation or maybe ISO, your less likely to knock it to another setting.