Kirk’s Take (Kirk Tuck #4)
They stole our choice of aspect ratios. Now we’re getting them back By Kirk Tuck When I started taking photographs, back in 1978, I picked up a 35mm camera because that's what matched my budget and, I thought, my needs....
Blue Marble 2012
NASA released this "blue marble" picture two days ago. It was taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP, named in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi of the University...
Michihiro Yamaki, 1933-2012
Michihiro Yamaki of Sigma being presented with the Golden Photokina pin by Oliver P. Kuhrt, Executive Vice President of Koelnmesse GmbH, on the opening day of the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama, Japan, last February 9th (photo...
Ben Syverson’s Mattebox
I don't usually post much about apps, but rules are made to be broken. Ben Syverson (a TOP regular, if you'll excuse the brag) has created the killer iPhone camera app, called Mattebox. The camera interface is based on the...
Lens Test: Voigtlnder Nokton 25mm /0.95 for Micro 4/3
By Ctein John Camp loaned me this lens to play with because he thought it would amuse me. Indeed, it did. Understand that this is a $1,200 toy, a specialized bauble for them what demands fractional aperture numbers (although ƒ/0.95...
Awwww…
Doppelgang, 2001–2012 There are few things in life better than a good dog. Years ago, my mother decided to try a small dog in her small Georgetown home, so she went to a breeder and got a miniature long-haired silver-dapple...
Sensitometry and the Plotter/Matcher, Part II
You probably remember Part I, from a week ago Saturday. You might want to go back and re-read that before diving into this part. First, to reiterate: no B&W film photographer needs to practice sensitometry. It's absolutely not necessary for...
Big Prints From 4/3-Format Sensors
How Big Can You Go? Carl Weese, Trees in fog, Woodbury, CT, 2012 By Carl Weese There's a certain kind of landscape I've done, just once in a while, but for a long time, going all the way back to...
Eagerly Awaiting the New Camera
I had to learn my lesson. I had joined a studio with three other photographers, and I was the odd man out...I used a Contax and had only two lenses, and my three new partners all used Nikons and had...
A Question
From B.J. Segel: "As an aside, a semantic question. Why do we 'capture images' when using digital, but 'take pictures' when using film? I see this all the time." • • • Interesting...it does seems like it means something, doesn't...
A Guess
I'm just gonna throw this out there. (Hey, it's a blog. It'll disappear in the pile in a week and no one will remember it in a month.) I know nothing—absolutely nothing—and I haven't even been around to the various...
Comment o’ the Week: Good Ol’ Days
From Dogman: Among the wonderful memories of doing daily newspaper photography in the '70s & '80s was the hurried darkroom work. NOT! You have never lived a full life until you have faced an 80-mile round trip night sports assignment...
