Priceless Memories
I've heard, read, or received some wonderful Kodak stories in the past 32 hours or so, many positive, a few negative, and some just so "Kodak" they're funny. One that made me laugh came in as a comment from Hugh...
Analog Photography, Dept.: New Age, Same Old Disease
It's around again. Never went away, actually. It can't be eradicated. Suppress it here, it pops up over there. A dread disease that wantonly wastes time and ruins photographic work. I'm talking about pushing disease. Even having to write it...
OM Goodness
We—and by we I mean "a bunch of us"—have been asking for it for years. How many times have you read it on forums and photo site comments sections? "I'm waiting for a digital FM3a." "Why can't they just give...
Good News for Photo Majors!
So what's wrong with getting a college degree majoring in, oh, say, Animal Science? Seems like it could be a smart move. After all, the number of jobs in that field is expected to increase a healthy 13% between 2008...
20th-Century Giant Files for Chapter 11
Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York, one of the greatest success stories of American business in the 20th century, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early this morning. Kodak was once nicknamed "the Great Yellow Father" by photographers, after...
Freedom Isn’t Free: Protect the Internet
To all U.S. readers: Take a moment today to go to Wikipedia, enter your ZIP Code, and follow the link to your Congressman. Tell them to vote AGAINST SOPA and PIPA, the two bills now before Congress that would suppress...
Lenses are to Cameras as Applications are to Computers
By Ctein I got a bit of amusement from Mike's #1 choice for "Most Desirable Camera on the Planet" a few weeks ago because only two days previously I had been thinking about that very same camera and...well.... I was...
Ah, January!
First Snow, Chicago, 2012 By Ken Tanaka Here we are in the traditional month for self-assessment and the concomitant vows for change and improvement. Photography is such a natural subject for this ritual. So I thought I'd devote my first...
Request for Help
I need a spot of help—anyone out there who's a whiz with small-scale electronics who could lend me a hand? Perhaps especially conversant with batteries and chargers? Who can solder, and maybe even spot-weld? The job I need doing is...
Painful, Painful
Sunset at Lambeau, in more ways than one. For some reason I don't understand, in sports, the pain of losing is more painful than the joy of winning is joyous. The Giants remind me of the Packers last year: hungry,...
Tokyo and Tel Aviv
With new 35mm-form-factor cameras about to be nipping at their heels more ferociously than ever, Tokyo-based medium-format cameramaker Mamiya and Tel Aviv-based digital medium-format back maker Leaf have joined forces to form a new brand. The beginning of the press...
Open Mike: Inflicted Music
Just a brief off-topic post today before all the football starts. After sitting around waiting for my son at the doctor's office two days ago, I've finally come to the conclusion that human beings, institutions, and establishments of business should...
