This is the eleventh post in a series about the Leica Q2 Monochrom. You can see all the other posts in the series by looking in the Category List drop-down menu on the right side of the page. I’ve always been a fan of the Thumbs-Up hotshoe-mounted grips for the Leica M cameras. I used… [Read More]
Archives for May 2022
Leica Q2 Monochrom highlight linearity at ISO 100
This is the tenth post in a series about the Leica Q2 Monochrom. You can see all the other posts in the series by looking in the Category List drop-down menu on the right side of the page. When I looked at the engineering dynamic range (EDR) of the Q2 Monochrom, I stumbled onto the… [Read More]
An AA workshop in the golden era
I posted this picture of Ansel Adams on the DPR medium format forum. I made it in August, 1983, at one of the annual Friends of Photography Ansel Adams workshops at Weston Beach in Point Lobos, never printed it, and found it yesterday when I was going through some old negs for scanning. The workshop… [Read More]
How to practice
Someone on DPR asked about one of the Ansel Adams Friends of Photography workshops that I attended in 1983. In preparation for answering the question, I consulted a notebook that I used for every workshop I’ve taken. My first session was with Ruth Bernhard, who had brought her assistant, Michael Kenna, along. One of the… [Read More]
Leica Q2 Monochrom EDR, fake ISO
This is the ninth post in a series about the Leica Q2 Monochrom. You can see all the other posts in the series by looking in the Category List drop-down menu on the right side of the page. It is conventional wisdom that the ISO 100 setting on a Q2 Monochrom is a fake ISO,… [Read More]