Image © Jeff Chevrier

One of the greatest secrets in photography is the power of always having a camera with you. Here again, the Leica M8.2 went with me to the grocery store, and though not spectacular (this example), a simple reminder that the best images are often the ones you just see in day to day outings. Do you have a great, small walk-around camera? It doesn’t have to be a Leica to do the trick. I have some ideas, call me.

Image © Jeff Chevrier

I was walking in China Town with a Leica M8.2 & Elmarit - M 28mm f2.8 ASPH lens, and I happened upon this sticker-ladened wall outside of a shop on Spadina. Somehow the busy-ness of this appealed to me.

Image © Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett came across this shuttered food stall beside the sea in Barbados while on vacation in January of this year. With his new Canon Powershot G10, he used the camera’s manual exposure mode, 1/125 at f/8 @ ISO 100 to avoid the underexposure that would have normally occurred with the strong beams of light at bottom right. The EXIF data puts the focal length at 9.8 mm.

Image © Jeff Chevrier

I was out shooting at the beaches in Toronto when my eye was caught by a solitary red glove that someone hung on the side of the white hut overlooking Lake Ontario. It was freezing cold, snowy & overcast and I was struck by the fact that everything was white except for the glove. I shot with a Nikon D3X, AFS 24-70mm lens, 1/200 sec. f/8, ISO 400 in RAW (NEF) mode. The D3X produces the most detailed images I have ever seen from any SLR digital camera. In full-resolution files, you can just keep zooming in to see more and more detail! Colour, handling, AF, metering & ISO performance are also incredible!