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Panasonic DMC-GF1 Review

In the days before digital you could buy a relatively sophisticated, compact sized camera that came with an absolute minimum number of operating controls. The lens incorporated a focusing ring, and another to set the f stop. Shutter time was dial set and a lever enabled film advance and shutter arming. The settings before releasing the shutter were straightforward and quickly executed.

Panasonic's DMC-GF1 Micro Four Thirds format camera above, can fit Leica lenses.

Step forward into the world of electronics and you find a completely different mindset that attempts to resolve the problems of device and user interaction. It's a conundrum made all the more complex because the nature of the beast means its possible to install a far greater array of features.

read the complete review in this week's British Journal of Photography magazine (18th November, 2009 issue.)

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Olympus Pen E-P1 manual focus assist on 3rd party lenses

SETTING MANUAL FOCUS ASSIST FOR THIRD PARTY MECHANICAL MANUAL FOCUS LENSES USING THIRD PARTY ADAPTERS ON THE OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 CAMERA.

On the Olympus Pen E-P1 digital camera;
1. set the function button to engage the required focus mode.
2. press the INFO button several times until the green AF focus area rectangle shows on the screen.
3. press OK. The small area focus segment appears on screen to enable critical focus.
4.Press OK again once critical focus is established to return to the full screen image to compose the motif.
5. Repeat the above procedure for each new frame.

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Gold Nuggets

"....sometimes you get a rock."



Jeff Widener, looking for gold nuggets on the streets of Birmingham, August 2008, with a Leica M7 and 5cm f/2 Summitar.


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Leica - News

Leica
26th February, 2008.

"This event has caused a lot of problems which will take time to correct and now we want to totally rethink the paths we will take for the future and calm down all this speculation. However, we are optimistic." , said director of business development Stefan Daniel on Tuesday, 26th February, 2008.

The full story will appear in The British Journal of Photography next week, published 5th March, 2008.


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RICHARD KALVAR - Photographs

An Exhibition
19th September to 3rd November at
The Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, New York, USA.

"....he saw a man steal from a passerby, stealthily making off with the most precious belongings. He saw a man, armed with a camera, robbing them of what they would never willingly give up. He saw the man take - and what's more, he was standing right next to them - a picture that they would never have wanted to surrender. The man - an Earthling no doubt - loads his 35mm ammunition....The Earthling wants to see without being seen. He walks along in camouflage. He kills in silence, seeming not to have anything to do with it. When he seizes upon a scene from everyday life, some lurking idea immediately transforms it...It is also a way of unmasking horror. The street photographer hunts down the Freudian slips, ridiculous gestures, comical expressions, grotesque poses, sometimes with misgivings, sometimes with severity. He makes as much fun of the people he sees through the lens as of the lens itself: prying, curious, insatiable and demanding....What he likes, in the end, is the pleasure of being free to act without thinking. The photographer cultivates - and therein lies his art - the instant of seeing." - Seloua Luste Boulbina, from the Preface to Richard Kalvar's just published Earthlings.


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Leica M8 Handbook and Review

2nd August 2007.

The frequency of calls received regarding the possibility of my writing and publishing the Leica M8 handbook has increased in recent weeks.

Any news of the possibility of this event coming to pass in the foreseeable future will be posted on this site. I have first have to make a thorough evaluation of the camera and this is now in progress with a serial production model. I anticipate several more months of use in real assignment situations before any work could start on a handbook. There is also the small problem of a higher frequency of digital model replacement by Leica gnawing at the decision of whether or not to publish.

In the meantime, for those who may be interested, my Leica M8 review report thus far, will be published in The British Journal of Photography issue of 8th August 2007. The magazine is available on newsstands in major cities but should probably be ordered in advance by those resident in the provinces.

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"Faceless and nameless" Photographic icons

The most famous of all these nameless icons, perhaps, is the individual who, in 1989, stepped into Tiananmen Square and stopped an advancing line of tanks. His identity never revealed, he's known only as the 'Unknown Rebel' or 'Tank Man'.
Napalm Girl or Running Girl shows a nine-year-old girl running down a road, fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. She's naked, having torn off her clothes, which were on fire.
The 'Falling Man' came to symbolise the unspeakable horrors of 9/11.
While written testimony has the capacity to shock, a single iconic image has the power to pack an emotional punch that lingers on in the mind. Graeme Green examines the impact of some of the most shocking and memorable images of recent times...........
read his full 'Sunday Herald' story of these and other iconic images at.......
http://www.sundayherald.com/arts/arts/display.var.1494219.0.still_lives.php

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