Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f1.5 M Aspherical Review

It takes almost 6 months to get my 50mm lens for my M240. Since the Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH was out my budget, and I need want a fast lens,  my choices were downed to Zeiss 50 Sonnar T F/1.5 and Voigtlander Nokton 50mm F/1.5 ASPH. I like the Sonnar, but it suffers from the well known focus shift Issue, so that my final choice is the Voigtlander.

My journey to the Leica M digital begins

You know that I'm a proud Fuji's user but my heart is always on the Leica. I like Leica because of the simplicity(All manual Focus, aperture, shutter speed and shoot), the design(ratio and layout) and of course the Full Frame (FF) sensor. You may ask Fuji share the same identity as the Leica, but I don't think so. I love small camera, when Fuji started the X series, their lens are small and compact but they are not anymore, their premium prime like 14mm and 23mm are pretty huge in size. The size may due to the large aperture and autofocus motor, for my style of photography, I don't need autofocus at all.  My desire is the system has the best image quality along with the smallest package. That's the reason why I go for the Leica.

Fuji X-E2 for streetphotography review

I like my X-E1 it has really amazing image quality, but it is not trusty because the camera has shutter lag and LCD/ viewfinder lag(slow refresh rate which especially at night or low light situation) which cause me some trouble in shooting at night which is the time I do my photography most of the time. When Fuji came up with the X-E2 which promise to deliver better autofocus and also fix all the flaws from the X-E1, so that I bite the bullet and give it a try.

Fuji 18mm review

I have brought a used Fuji 18mm F/2 R despite from the mixed bag reviews among the Internet. The reason is I need a small 28mm full frame equivalent FOV for my street work and the 18mm F/2 lens is the only choice and glad that I made the purchase.

Fuji X-E1 review with Firmware 2.0

One of the reason I sold my Voigtlander 25mm F/0.95 was the cost, it is such an expensive lens for the M43 format. However, I just can't lived without the 50mm equivalent focal length. Instead of buying the Panasonic Leica 25mm F/1.4 lens, I got into another camera and lens combo; Fuji X-E1 with 35mm F/1.4 R. Since Fuji X is using APSC with 1.5x crop sensor, 35mm will become 52mm equivalent. You may ask why I don't go for the Pana Leica 25 and decided to go for another camera system, the reason is I want to bring 2 cameras, one 35mm and one 50mm together for the longer shooting section. 

The X-E1 with 35mm is around the size of the OMD so they are both compact enough to fit in my bag together.

Get out of the comfort zone (shooting in strong sunlight )

I rarely shoot at noon, I intended to go out of the comfort zone (night shots) and capture some moments at Tsuen Wan.

My Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f/1.8 review

After comment from LeeRo (he has a strong Flickr which worth to take a look!), I decided to take the Olympus 17mm and give it a go.