We take a moment to relax a bit after last week’s fury of activities at Watches & Wonders and look at a camera which was loaned to us for two weeks – the new Sony A7RV. It came with two lenses – a 90mm prime macro lens, and a general purpose 24-70 zoom, from the [...]

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Follow-up to my adventure with the Alpa STC Silver Edition, I was also sent the Alpa Focus Stacking system for a test run. And test it we did. We used the system in several of our shoots at LVMH Watch Week, as well as for the some Watches & Wonders Preview. What was in our [...]

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Follow up to our gear review of the Alpa 12 STC Silver Edition last week, we continue to explore with you the photographs we took over the month or so the camera was on loan to us from Alpa in Zurich. TGIFridays: the new Alpa 12 STC Silver Edition Part 2 – sample photographs Lest [...]

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We spent some time with the Leica SL2 and four lenses, as discussed in our Chillout-TGIFriday last week. Today, we share some images of the Singapore semi-lockdown and our usual watch macros. The Leica SL2 and lenses The system that was loaned to me, courtesy of Leica Singapore comprised of the Leica SL2 body, with [...]

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We bring you this update of living with the new Leica SL2 and use it as our daily camera and for watch macros for a week. Here is our real life review. Leica SL2 The Leica SL2 is the next generation camera to the Leica SL Type 601. The Type 601 nomenclature was something Leica [...]

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We discussed the Fujifilm GFX 100 last week, with lots of details on the camera, lenses, and the pros and cons of such a camera. The GFX 100 is the most technically advanced medium format digital camera in the market. Established. But how do the images look like? Here is our lookbook, with some commentary. [...]

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Followup to our exploration on the benefits of the Micro Four Thirds system as an ideal format for shooting watches, in today’s Chillout, we share the Chief Editor/Photographer’s philosophy for a dual camera system approach to shooting watches. I went through this reasoning and have adopted this philosophy since 2010, when I started my professional [...]

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We covered the Fujifilm GFX 50R in considerable detail in two earlier articles – the camera body and lens review, and a photo essay style to show the photographs. We continue here with the GFX 50S. How does it differ from the 50R? The Fujifilm GFX 50S is Fuji’s first foray into the world of [...]

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As part of our ongoing exploration into high end photography, we received a Fujifilm GFX 50R with two lenses – the Fujinon GF 45mm/f2.8 and the Fujinon GF 120/f4 Macro for our use as a daily camera system for three weeks. I used this camera system to cover events as well as macro photography shoots [...]

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Chill out on Friday!…the weekend is coming! We take time off the horological menu and take a look at Horological Lifestyle – with another camera exploration. Not a full review, though we have hands on with the system for the best part of nearly a month. But here, we share some thoughts on what is [...]

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