Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 8:55 A nice (impression) review of the M9 by someone (Darren Rowse) who uses a dSLR in real life.
Leica, M9-P in Photography, Review Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:57
Updated on Friday, August 5, 2011 at 15:03 by
Willem
;)
Panasonic G3The title says it all. Nuff said.
I entered a photocontest a couple of weeks ago @ fotowedstrijd.nl, and totally forgot about it... until today. I received a phonecall from the organizer stating that I had won. At the time I had no idea with which photo (I had to ask....).
Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 17:17 
The Leica M9 has no means of determining foreign or old lenses. The newer Leica lenses have a 6-bit (visual) coding mechanism for determining the lens. Problem is that this is only for (relatively new) Leica lenses. There is the possibility to manually select the lens in the menu of the M9, but that's only limited to the Leica brand lenses. No option for Carl Zeiss lenses.
For certain characteristics, and in-camera processing of the RAW image it's handy to manually select a Leica lens even though you've attached a Zeiss lens. This can be automated by coding the lenses yourself (or have Zeiss do it for €100 a lens).
All this is nice, but it still generates photos with faulty EXIF information, because you shot the photo with a CZ C-Sonnar 1.5/50mm and not with a Leica 1.4/50mm Summilux ASPH....
EXIFTool, Leica, Zeiss in Photography, Software, Tips'n Tricks Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 14:52 After I acquired a Leica M9 with peripheral equipment, I decided to document my M9 learning experiences on a seperate blog on my website. I don't know if I'll keep it like this. I might move the content to this blog. Don't know yet. Time will tell.
Anyway, in the mean time I've added some content to the new Leica blog. Check it out. I hope you'll find it usefull.
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 20:52 Today was one of those days with a typical dutch sky; blue with clouds (and the occasional raindrop). Perfect conditions for doing some (HDR) photography. Location: Papendorp, Utrecht.
This location has lots of really great buildings, and the funny part is that I go there (almost) every week on my way to work for the last three years......
Architecture, Bee, Daisy, HDR, Nature, Papendorp, Utrecht in Photography Friday, April 22, 2011 at 13:51 Focussing manually has it's advantages. First, the number of potential lenses for your body sky-rockets. There are numerous old and new extraordinary good MANUAL FOCUS lenses available for the modern DSLR. Examples are lenses by Voigtlander, Carl Zeiss, and the old Nikon (Ai-S) lenses. The problem is that most of the modern cameras lack a decent (visual) indicator for when your object is in focus. My Nikon D300 has a small indicator (a dot) in the viewfinder which notifies you when you've got focus. But when you shoot with large apertures (e.g. f/2, f/1.8, f/1.4 or f/1.2) on MF lenses you have to keep track of your composition (through the viewfinder), and watch the 'in-focus' indicator. Something I find very hard to do. I allways seem to miss at least one of them. Missing composition is easy to fix in post-processing, but fixing focus can't be done.
Thankfully, there's a solution to this problem; Katz Eye Optics. These guys offer old-skool focusing screens for the modern digital SLR's. All you have to do is replace the focusing screen with theirs. You can do this yourself, or your camera brand service-center should be able to do it for you (at additional cost). I did it myself though, and ran into a problem (of course). But more on that later...
Focusing, Installation, Katz Eye, KatzEye, Nikon, Screen, d300 in Hardware, Photography, Review Monday, April 18, 2011 at 16:01
Updated on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 21:01 by
Willem
Since the Leica still lingers in my head, these videos aren't really helping. Thankfully, my bank account isn't cooperating at this moment.
Or so is this blogpost (by the same author).
Leica, M9 in Personal, Photography Friday, April 15, 2011 at 14:28 ;)
This Wednesday, Jamiroquai played @ the sold out Ahoy in Rotterdam (Netherlands). At first it was uncertain if he could perform, since they had to cancel their german performance due to Jay Kay's flu the evening before.
Jamiroquai, Rock Dust Light Star, ahoy, concert, rotterdam in Personal, Photography, Review Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 16:16 After being gone for at least a decade, Skunk Anansie is back with a new album. Last week thay gave a concert in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam (NL), and it felt like old times.
It wasn't a concert where they played mainly new songs from their new album Wonderlustre. They mainly played those great old songs like Hedonisme, Brazen, Every Day Hurts (Twisted), and many many more.
;)
Skunk Anansie @ HMHThis was also the first time I could use my new Nikon P7000 at a concert. Photo's were pretty much out of the question, since we were sitting all the way at the back. That's to far. Even for the 200mm at the long end on the Nikon. So I shot several videos.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 16:06 
PhotoLinkerI tend to geotag most of my photos. This way I have location information with the photo for future reference. It's also a neat feature that you might exploit when creating photo albums with e.g. iPhoto. The GPS coordinates in the images creates the option to create maps in iPhoto albums.
I use geotagging in two different ways. I use the jf Geocoding plugin in Lightroom and the PhotoLinker application. Both have their (dis)advantages. Something I won't go into in this post.
GPS, Lightroom, Mac, Nikon, OS X, geotag, nef, nrw, p7000, photolinker in Photography, Software, Tips'n Tricks 
