The Long Years Are My Compass
April 27, 2025
The first shots out of the Sigma BF1 during a quick 48 hour trip to Osaka for a final test of a soon-to-be-released new bag.
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BF standing for “Beautiful Foolishness”… While its relative foolishness has yet to be fully assessed, one thing is for sure - it is indeed truly beautiful2. ↩
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Naturally, we got the silver edition with matching lens and it now sits on our shelf of beautiful gray objets next to some of our other beautiful silver cameras like our Leica M10 and Q2 “Ghost” Hodinkee Editions. ↩
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Departures
January 23, 2025
Having fun with the Leica Lux app1 during a 36-hour bag-reviewing travel adventure.
Getting the elephant in the room out of the way - it’s really hard to recommend anyone go out and buy this app at its current price point and capabilities. Not only is it extremely limited in what it can do, the so-called lens simulations are a joke2 and the price is… let’s just say misaligned with market expectations.
That said, the UI is of course drop-dead gorgeous and surprisingly, the Leica Looks (from which the app gets its namesake) matches well with the same Leica Looks presets supported by the newer Leica Q3s/SL3s, which actually makes mixing photos shot on iPhone and the Q3 easier and yields a more cohesive end product.
More on that in a future post.
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Cancelling after the trial period of course, because Leica has lost their damn minds with the pricing. Mountain does not make wise financial decision but even I recognise this price is wacko. ↩
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And just furthers Leica’s trend of selling out their brand name in the pursuit of short-term and short-sighted profit but at the cost of inexorably cheapening their brand. It’s kind of an affront to sully the (previously venerable) summilux monikers by reducing them to nothing more than cheap vignette filters applied to the stock iPhone camera… and to do so in an objectively worse say (i.e. the output is constrained to 12MP due to limitations of the OS) and then charge $60 USD a year for that? Damn. ↩
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With The Blue Moon I Saw Through You
January 04, 2025
California still has a hold on our hearts…
Don’t take this personally / but you should be somebody else…
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A World Apart That Is Not Among Men
December 20, 2024
Solitude over the still ice floes of Antarctica…
You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men...
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And We Don't Want To Die Young
November 17, 2024
Views over Tierra Del Fuego at the bottom of the world…
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We've Been Waiting All Winter For Your Love
November 10, 2024
Views of Mount Rundle as autumn starts its slow fade into stillness…
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We Have Bruises That Won't Heal Up
October 12, 2024
Finding solace from the sharp corners of the world in the shadows of the Three Sisters in the Canadian Rockies…
