Buyin’ on the ‘Bay
The Panny pancake (28mm equivalent) is cheap right now. The Panasonic GF3 deal from Saturday is over now, but I was wrong this time—the deal actually did last all day. First time I can remember that happening with a camera....
Open Mike: A Mile and a Half to Go
Yesterday's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of the most outstanding horse races in recent memory, with Derby winner I'll Have Another laying well back until clear of the final turn, then storming up on...
Micro 4/3 Blowout
Amazon's "Deal of the Day" today is the super-compact Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 with a 14mm ƒ/2.5 ASPH pancake lens for only $314. That's another $80 off yesterday's already end-of-model-life bargain-basement price. It's not the best Micro 4/3 camera (12MP, last-gen...
Hot Wheels
There are rewards for getting up at 3:30 every morning to unload trucks.... By the way, here's why things were so quiet here on Wednesday...I was helping my son buy his first car! With one thing and another, it took...
A Specific, Detailed Program for Absolutely, Positively Getting Better as a Digital Printmaker
Who this is for: Novice or occasional printmakers (of any skill level as photographers) who currently don't print a lot and feel insecure about their abilities or dissatisfied with their results—and who have the luxury of making a considerable commitment...
What Does It Take to Be a Good Printer?
By Ctein One of the interesting (because it was unexpected) results of the educational print offer of a few weeks back was that people thought I invoked extraordinary measures to come up with a good print of that photograph. Not...
Gone Fishin’
TOP is on a slight hiatus today. I got wrapped up in some other tasks that took me a million miles away. (Note that today's delay is NOT Ctein's fault—he hit his deadline as he invariably does.) I will gear...
Battle Royale (But It’s Not What You Think)
Special effects c. 1954 Yep, it's yet another film vs. digital brouhaha—but not in the way we're used to. The Atlantic (née The Atlantic Monthly) has published an excellent article by Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo called "At the Summer...
Olympus E-M5 First Notes (vs. NEX-7 and E-P3)
Here's a Canon TLb next to the Olympus E-M5. I didn't have an Olympus OM body handy, but I think this still gives a good estimate of how relatively small everyday SLR bodies used to be. By Ken Tanaka So...
(Weekend) Update
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Open Mike: Nefarious Blogger Confesses
I get accused. And I think I should probably confess. As a blogger whose sole reason for existence is to entertain a far-flung and widely divergent audience of individuals, not every one of whom agrees with everything I say in...
Martin Schoeller for TIME
I feel just a little soiled, a little used. As we all know, the newsmagazine business isn't what it once was, and it appears likely that TIME's new cover was deliberately designed from the get-go to—forgive me—titillate. The cover bespeaks...
