As I'm writing the opening to this week's Conversing Cameras, I have a cookbook with some of the most incredible food photography sitting in front of me. Hundreds of photos from Jim's most recent publication covering Authentic Mexican food comprise this recent publication.

This week I'm excited to start off the year with Jim Koenigsaecker. You might have seen Jim's work on the CW blog before. He's been a long-time friend of CW and a phenomenal Leica photographer. Jim uses his photography for his advocacy efforts and uses his Leica to cover cultural events, society, and landscapes, and simply incredible pieces of time all around the globe.

This week I'm excited to start off the year with Jim Koenigsaecker. You might have seen Jim's work on the CW blog before. He's been a long-time friend of CW and a phenomenal Leica photographer. Jim uses his photography for his advocacy efforts and uses his Leica to cover cultural events, society, and landscapes, and simply incredible pieces of time all around the globe.

In this edition of Conversing Cameras, we share close friends of Camera West's photography and story as we talk photography, gear, life, and the nexus connecting all of these particulars. Danny Bligh and I talk cameras nearly every day, it seems.

The GFX line of cameras has come a long way since the GFX 50s. Fujifilm's "better than full-frame" approach to medium format photography has them doing things with the medium format camera that not many have done in this space.

We took a look at the Leica M10-R in Black Paint. This particular camera is going to be limited to 2000 units worldwide. Internally this is the same thing as a Leica M10-R but camera comes with the special Black Paint Finish.

Panasonic has added another lens to their L mount compact lens lineup: the new Lumix S 50mm f1.8 lens.