Brightin Star 35mm F/1.7 APO Lens – A pReview Of This Leica APO-Summicron Like New Lens Release

The Brightin Star 35mm F/1.7 APO lens (part of its “Apex Series” range) is about to be released. Retailing at around $1199 ($759 early-bird release), this manual focus, high precision Leica M Mount lens looks set to bring the ultimate in manual focus experience to your camera (it can easily be used with adaptors onContinue reading “Brightin Star 35mm F/1.7 APO Lens – A pReview Of This Leica APO-Summicron Like New Lens Release”

Rumoured: A Full Frame Nikon Point And Shoot

Nikon makes the finest cameras, and it’s quite strange that they have not released a new point and shoot camera. However, rumour has it that they are working on a beautiful new… full frame point and shoot fixed lens camera. There are a few great premium point and shoot cameras available, Fujifilm make their X100Continue reading “Rumoured: A Full Frame Nikon Point And Shoot”

Monochrome only cameras – A curiosity or perfection?

With Ricoh announcing a monochrome only camera, and companies like Leica with their M11 and Q2 Monochrom and Pentax with the K3, you have to wonder why these monochrome only cameras exist, and would they be of interest to people? What is a digital monochrome camera? Digital cameras that only take photos in black andContinue reading “Monochrome only cameras – A curiosity or perfection?”