Articles by: Damien Demolder

Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) review

By Damien Demolder published 17 June 15

The Leica M Monochrom (Type 246) might well be the best digital camera for black and white photographers.

Video is too great a leap for the DSLR photo enthusiast

By Damien Demolder published 7 November 14

Damien Demolder Shooting video is not like shooting stills, but are the camera makers trying to kid us that it is?

Couldn't Nikon make a better camera phone than Apple?

By Damien Demolder published 24 October 14

Damien Demolder Camera makers have lost huge chunks of the point-and-shoot market, maybe it's time they should act

Is the Samsung NX1 the camera that will change the company's fortunes?

By Damien Demolder published 10 October 14

Damien Demolder Samsung's problems in the past have been less about the cameras it has offered and more about the confidence of the camera-buying market.

Leica M review

By Damien Demolder published 2 October 14

After eight years and a few expensive attempts, has Leica finally got the digital rangefinder camera right? Damien Demolder tests the full frame Leica M type 240

Making a digital camera with no rear screen is a pretty dumb idea. Isn't it?

By Damien Demolder published 26 September 14

Damien Demolder How can you have a camera without an LCD display? Leica thinks you can, and Damien Demolder has plenty to say about it

Fuji's apodisation filter – isn't that just cheating?

Fuji's popular 56mm lens has had a filter added - isn't that just cheating?

By Damien Demolder published 12 September 14

Damien Demolder Does it really matter if filter and firmware tricks are used as long as the image looks great?

Megazooms are completely useless

By Damien Demolder published 27 August 14

Damien Demolder Though there are exceptions, the relationship between a zoom's focal length range and its usefulness is inversely proportional.

Coloured DSLRs are so ugly they should be illegal

By Damien Demolder published 15 August 14

Damien Demolder Being caught in possession of an offensive DSLR is just not cool or responsible.

Pulling stills from video - is that really the way forward?

Will video kill the photography star?

By Damien Demolder published 1 August 14

Damien Demolder Capturing stills from high quality 4K video footage may help you to create perfectly timed photos, but will it replace point and click photography?

Yo ISO, how low can you go?

By Damien Demolder published 18 July 14

Damien Demolder Being able to shoot in the dark is all very well, but extra-low ISO has its benefits too

Leica M Monochrom review

By Damien Demolder published 10 July 14

Why would you buy a camera that shoots only in black and white?

The six million pixel man: why you don't need a camera with more than 6MP

By Damien Demolder published 4 July 14

Damien Demolder We only need around 6-millon pixels to take decent pictures yet we all love high resolution cameras.

The great Adobe Photoshop rip-Off

By Damien Demolder published 20 June 14

Damien Demolder Despite the protests, Adobe's Creative Cloud sales model makes sense.

Why digital technology will never murder the humble optical filter

By Damien Demolder published 13 June 14

Damien Demolder The optical filter is dead and buried, surely, deposed and made redundant by digital photography and the world of powerful imaging software. Isn't it?

So what if Leica uses a single block of metal to make its cameras?

By Damien Demolder published 23 May 14

Damien Demolder The Leica T is the world's first camera to be milled from a solid block of aluminium. But you, and the whole world, know that already, even if you know nothing else about it.

Does anyone really need a digital medium format camera?

By Damien Demolder published 9 May 14

Damien Demolder As Pentax has another go at a 645 camera, Damien Demolder asks, do we really need a medium format digital system?

Can new high ISO settings help photographers beat their fear of noise in the dark?

By Damien Demolder published 25 April 14

Damien Demolder Damien Demolder wonders what's behind camera companies' obsession with ever higher ISO levels.

After compacts, does the smartphone have its sights set on DSLRs?

By Damien Demolder published 11 April 14

Damien Demolder The camera market will never be destroyed by camera phones. Well, not today anyway.

Fuji XQ1 review

By Damien Demolder published 23 December 13

The Fuji XQ1 is a pocket-sized compact camera that features a 25-100mm (equivalent) lens with an aperture range of f/1.8-4.9.