You’re an old photographer if you can remember: The smell of a freshly opened canister of Kodachrome 135. When those canisters were made of aluminum and had screw-on tops. Having a bunch of those aluminum canisters in your camera bag to hold various small bits. Buying 35mm film in 100-foot rolls and loading the cassettes… [Read More]
Archives for June 2022
DNS maintenance in progress
Some of you have noticed intermittent unavailability of this blog with a 502 error message. My hosting service, which is currently running the domain name server for the site, says the problem is with their name server, and is unlikely to be fixed in the near future. They recommend switching to another name server. So… [Read More]
What’s the focal length of the Leica Q2 lens?
This is the 18th 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 was asked to calculate the focal length of the lens in the Q2. I don’t have… [Read More]
Effect of camera resolution on small prints
There was recently a question thrown out on a public forum that I’ll paraphrase and make more specific here: “How big do you have to print before you can see the difference between the GFX 50x and GFX 100x cameras?” My answer: The pixel aperture of the GFX 100x and GFX 50x is the same… [Read More]
Can you do IR with an unmodified Leica Q2 Monochrom?
This is the 19th 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. With the Q2 Monochrom, Leica doesn’t have to worry about bad color. So I thought maybe they’d… [Read More]