Two lenses to capture the 2026 Winter Olympics
It has been freaking hot in the Netherlands which might have prompted me to write this post about..... the 2026 Winter Olympics. I wanted to write this post right after our visit but somehow it never happened. Maybe it is my subconscious desire for cold that made me think of it right now. My wife and I are big fans of biathlon. We follow the season on TV (thank you ARD/ZDF) and root for our favorite athletes from a distance. But this year, we got a chance to see them up close
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A Tribute to the Best Lenses I Ever Used: My Top Picks Part 2
Okay..... a lot has happened since that Part 1 post. I am questioning all my gear again, and I even bought back into the Fujifilm system.... Oh boy. Buy hey, I guess that is part of the fun. I feel reacquainted with an old friend. And that friend has been working out and doing a lot of self-improvement! Holy moly, the X-E5 is an amazing camera! I ended up putting the good old 35mm F1.4 on it and I am loving that combo at the moment. However, I did not remember just how much c
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A Tribute to the Best Lenses I Ever Used: My Top Picks Part 1
This post is a tribute to the best lenses I ever used. Most of them have come and gone, they met a need at a certain point in time and that need keeps on drifting as I have now come to accept. That means I shot with a lot of lenses over the years. A lot of very good lenses, I might add. This post will have some short mini-reviews of the lenses that I think are the best of the best. I don't have any test charts or anything, this is based on my experience using the lens. That f
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The Sony RX1R III review; why it works and what's missing (surprisingly little)
After my post about the first impressions of the Sony RX1R III (hereafter to be named III), I feel I have spent enough time with it to discuss its use case more in-depth. Contrary to many keyboard warriors on the internet, I think Sony got this camera right. The III is a product of focus. And focus always comes with trade-offs. The people complaining about it not having weather sealing or a tilting screen are clearly not the target audience for this camera. This camera is ab
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