You’ve probably seen photos that make you want to scream: “Wow, how cinematic!” Perhaps you even did it a few times yourself. But why? What does it mean, “cinematic?” What makes a picture similar to a movie and different from “ordinary” photography? And in general, why and why, in fact, […]

As they say, a habit is the second nature. Using Leica M cameras professionally for many years, the only type of photography that I have not done with it was Macro. Everything else, you name it: Editorial, Fashion, Beauty, Advertising, Ballet… Yes, you heard me right, ballet. The real thing […]

Leica introduced its first full-frame mirrorless camera on October 20, 2015. Since then dozens of reviews have been written about how formidable camera it was, and how it was not. While arguing about something like Leica SL reminds me debates on what is wrong with the latest model of Lamborghini, […]

With tons of studio equipment sitting at the studio, I find myself gravitating towards using it less and less. Why? Because the current state of imaging technology completely changed the perspective on usability of available light. While lens design is constrained by the laws of physics that makes high-speed optics rather […]

When Leica Camera AG comes out with a new lens, we all expect something groundbreaking, whether it will be an unbelievably wide aperture, or zero aberrations, or… something. So, when Leica announced that it had resurrected a ghost from the past with a focal length of 28mm and the maximum […]

This morning I read an article, which made me go back in my memory to days of twenty rolls of film in my camera bag and remember how it was like. In my opinion, the author has missed his boat with a story of digital being inferior to film by […]

When photography just started, and a bright idea of an optical enlarger was not born yet, a size of a photograph was determined by the size of a light-sensitive plate used and, consequently, by the size of a camera capable of accommodating that plate. That is why cameras of the […]