Landscape

It's really difficult to criticise this lens; it handles beautifully, looks great and produces wonderful images at all apertures, focal lengths and distances. Flare, chromatic aberrations and vignetting are all really well controlled. Not only that, but for a Leica lens, it's a real bargain... 

The Panasonic Lumix S5 and S5II models are attracting buyers in their 20s and 30s, providing an injection of younger talent into the L-Mount...

Inspired by Australian photographer Peter Dombrovskis, John travels to Tasmania and renews his acquaintance with landscape photography

The Kimberley is an extraordinary place. First, it is vast, at 432,517 km2. Second, it is a true wilderness and very little of it is habitable. There are only three towns of any size and the population of the whole region is no more than 55,000, of which 40% are First Nation people who live predominantly in remote settlements…

As contact sheets were typically kept from curious eyes, it only served to increase our fascination with them...

The Manplan project, which was to become one of the highlights of my career as a photographer, came to me in 1969 from a...

The author uses both his Sony camera and his drone to capture stunning images on a photographic road trip through The Highlands.

It was not until 2016 that we discovered Portugal. If you live in the Europe or the United Kingdom, Portugal is right up there with Spain as a top holiday destination. But living here on the other side of the planet, it is not high up our list of ‘must visit’ places…

The Western United States, including Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, is the perfect venue for a photographic road trip. Dirk and Claudia capture the grandeur of mountains, rivers, and spectacular rock formations, in glorious colour, and black and white.

They say that Chicago has only two seasons, cold and hot. But Jon makes the most of all four, including the short Springs and Auumns...

It's time for a quarterly recap of the most viewed Macfilos articles. No surprise which camera brand dominated the list this time around. Although the site is not devoted exclusively to Leica-related gear, it's clear that's what our readers are most interested in.

The Leica M11-P, announced last month, is the latest iteration of the customary “-P” version of the standard M digital. In June 2011, Leica brought us the M9-P, the first of these modern variants. It's now a tradition that the -P (said to be for “professional”) with its cosmetic and minor technical tweaks, follows on around 18 months after the base model. So it was with the M-P (Typ 240), the M10-P and now the M11-P...

The improvements in the new Leica 28 Summicron-M f/2 are significant, and very much in concert with the recent re-issues of the 35 and 50 Summicron lenses. This lens completes the remake of the 'holy trinity' of high-quality practical lenses for the Leica M...

In the second part of his visit to the Monterey Peninsula, Keith takes us on a brief visit to one of the most famous towns, and most famous coastlines, in California. Armed with an M240 and three lenses, he shows us how well a Leica-M kits handles California's most scenic spots.

Among the most esoteric hobbies known to mankind, train spotting ranks high. It often entails spending days in freezing cold, waiting for fleeting images of railway locomotives and ticking off their numbers in a little book. The aficionados of the cult are variously known affectionately as puffer nutters or anoraks. Surprisingly, they are known as “Pufferküsser” (puffer kissers) in Germany, and “foamers” in the USA — a term which nicely encapsulates the essential tad of eccentricity…