Leica T – First thoughts
April 25th, 2014 | by Tobias Weisserth | published in Blog, Gadgets
Leica took its sweet time to release a modern, mirrorless system camera. Dubbed the Leica T, available in black and silver, it resembles a design we have seen from Sony in its NEX cameras. The camera will be manufactured and assembled in a dedicated plant in Germany, while the native lenses for the new T mount will only be Leica branded but in fact be manufactured and assembled by Panasonic</...
Report from the trenches – #1
March 14th, 2014 | by Tobias Weisserth | published in Blog
I thought it's time to share stuff more frequently here, so starting today you will find a selection of interesting finds and reads from all over the Internet. Rather than just resorting to re-tweeting or re-posting stuff on Twitter or Tumblr, it's more fun to post them on this blog where I have the room and freedom to comment with more than just a handful of words. Why "Report from the trenches"?...
A different Minolta CLE review: Minolta CLE versus Minolta XD7
June 8th, 2012 | by Tobias Weisserth | published in Gadgets
There's no doubt a lot has been written on the Internet about this little Minolta rangefinder camera already, even though the camera is out of production since long before the Internet became a reality in the first place. Among all the rangefinder camera systems available throughout the last decades, the CLE has always been somewhat of a dark horse. Minolta was an excellent manufacturer in the day...