Wout de Zeeuw

@KeepCalm: If you're upgrading to the newest that's true, but camera's of 3 years ago are great, and you can buy them at a fair price. In that sense the fast innovations make what's already out...

Pitchforks away, the elephants died of natural causes: The sourcing of elephant skin is from elephants that died of natural causes, from governed reserves where the sale of skin goes into managing ...

The limited white black and blue palette works great, very strong colors. Jealous of their architecture too, architects in my city only seem to be able to come up with bland boxes.

I'm sticking with my camera from 2010 and gonna never ever upgrade :D.

Love all the photos, great colors. I'd probably bring an ND filter to those sunny countries to still be able to shoot wide open during the day.

Was it the mark 4? I was hoping they really improved the focusing enough compared to the mark 3.

I've been looking for a birding camera too for a while, and I'm considering the sony rx10 iv. Not cheap, but it's a very nice and versatile bridge camera with 24-600mm equivalent 2.4-4 zoom lens ...

Hello everybody, I wanted to thank you all for all of your recommendations, they were very useful and I've gotten around to put them into practice today! I've bought a used Leica M9 and a 50mm f2 ...

No particular reason, I don't know what I'm doing yet to be honest. I did some test photos first, and some bits were overexposed in aperture priority, so I did some manual shutter settings after ...

Just got my first Leica (M9) this weekend, I couldn't be happier! Took a couple of pics of my mother working on her watercolors (with summikron 90mm f2 asph/apo at f2). Straight out of camera ...

Thank you. I don't have the nerve to clean the sensor myself, if even pros like Thorsten Overgaard don't want to do it himself, I don't think an über amateur like me should do it.

Thank you for the responses guys, looks like the sensor is clean, so I'm going to try to buy it.

I'm hunting for a used M9, here's a photo taken of a white paper so I can check the sensor. The central area has a pinkish color shift, is this alright?

I'm looking to buy a used M9, what's a safe-ish shutter count? There's one with a new sensor on offer for around €2050 with around 21k actuations, the shutter count feels a little on the high side ...

Well, decided to buy 2 used ones. One guy never used it, because he ordered the wrong size, and the other is mint in a 2nd hand camera dealer, so that's good enough for me. Saved €140!

I've found some used filters for around €50 from private persons, and around €65-€85 from pro dealers on ebay. New they're €125 where I live. Can't really tell the shape the filters are in from ...

Didn't know that, useful info! Still I'm not sure if the B&W filter would be to the exact same specs as the Leica one, as the Leica filter seems to be specifically tailored to the M8.

I'm in the process of buying a second hand M8, but it needs an IR filter because the sensor is sensitive to IR. Since the UV/IR filter is not cheap I was thinking of buying that second hand as ...

Thank you Marie, I think the greatest issue is with the camera default's exposure seems to be a bit underexposed. I'll try getting the exposure maxed out with a piece of white paper and then ...

Thank you Lance, I've never tried the white and black sliders to stretch out the range. Until now I've just upped exposure/contrast till it looks like 95% to the real thing (by eye). I'll give all ...