Author: marcsnaps

Fujifilm came out with a new 16-55mm f/2.8, and everybody wants to know what I think. Here is what I think. The original is the OG. The mac daddy. The greatest lens I have ever shot with. My red badge XF 16-55mm f/2.8. That f/2.8 collects all that light. Incredible. The bokeh. The versatility. It…

How many times have you walked up on a scene with your 24mm or 28mm lens and spoiled the whole thing before you got the shot? This video is my case for zoom lenses in street photography. I love the natural eye 40mm as much as anyone. But I want people to know there are…

Are you a camper or a run and gunner? I stole the terms from Call of Duty. Campers settle in and wait for the scene. Run and gunners keep moving. I do both, but I like my camping shots better. There is something about the patience. It feels like an accomplishment. I shot this one…

Is the whatever still good in 2024? Those YouTube videos are pure clickbait. They always conclude yes, because cameras stay good for years. You do not need big money. You do not need a Leica Q2 or Q3. I use ten megapixel cameras every week. The Canon S95, pocketable, wonderful. On a phone screen, nobody…

Do you want results, or do you want the camera? That is the real question. I keep hearing the Fujifilm X-E2 called the poor man’s X100. I owned an X100S and I loved it. So let us compare, side by side, same aperture, same shutter speed. On one side: the X-E2, bought used on MPB…

I do not usually do product reviews, but this one needs a warning. Products are supposed to get better over time. The Galaxy Buds 3 Pro are worse than the Buds 2. The noise cancelling is not good. I heard people talking the whole time with ANC on. The ambient mode is cool but not…

I bought an old camera outfit at a thrift store in Lenoir City, Tennessee. Inside one of the accessory cases, somebody had written Lieutenant William J. Maddox. There was a photo of an Asian woman tucked in with the gear. His father had served in Japan. I did some research and called the son, William…

I was thrifting at the KARM store in Knoxville, which benefits East Tennessee homeless ministries, and I found a seventy four year old Zeiss Ikon camera with Nikon documentation and an old Weston Master 2 light meter. Under a hundred bucks. I ran the serial number and it looks like a Contax III from around…

I watched two YouTube channels I subscribe to quit this week. Not because of the algorithm. Because of the comments. Negative comments drove them off. I have some credentials here. Thirty six years in radio across America. Radio was the original social media. Listener phone calls were instantaneous and brutal, and that was before the…

Back in Boston. Old stomping grounds. I was on the radio at 94.5 WZLX back in 91 and 92, so this town and I go way back. I went out shooting street photography at night during the Santa Lucia parade in the North End. Fujifilm X-H2 with the very inconspicuous silver 16mm f/2.8, which is…