I am a new Leica user, or to be more precisely a new Leica learner. The featured images of my latest posts were taken mostly from the Leica M9. I do not how many images I have taken with it, but it has become the only camera I carry all the time. It is lighter in weight. The image quality taken by the Leica lens is superb. Before April 2011, I basically used Canon...
Read More
Of all the reference books about Leica, I give three thumbs up to Erwin Puts’s Leica Compendium. This is so far the best reference about Leica. As the subtitle of this book suggests, it is truly a book about the company, the cameras and the lenses. This is also a massive and comprehensive attempt to give a full account of everything about Leica in totally...
Read More
If you ask me to recommend a must-see destination in Australia, I have to think about it carefully. Living in Sydney makes no difference than living in other big cities, I cannot easily think of those favourites I love to go. When every day is a routine, you do not realise there is any real meaning behind every single move. Every day is the same old day. This is...
Read More
Not long ago I mentioned about how delighted I was to find the Book tab in Adobe Lightroom 4. This is an all-in-one solution: original Adobe Lightroom full photo processing feature integrated with Blurb bookmaking capability. Recently after giving a few tries, I have finally made a photo book using this function in the current free beta version. Here are the steps...
Read More
Publishing a book through Blurb? An online printer? No way! I have never thought of doing so until I heard of it. Sooner than ever I discovered the process is so easy and direct. To begin with, register as a user on the Blurb site. Then download the application called BookSmart for your Windows PC or Mac. Next install and run it. Just that simple. BookSmart may...
Read More
