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...
Art is a Popularity Contest, Not a Democracy
By Ctein I'd planned on writing a technical column this week, but my brain is still too fried from handling the print sale to organize such lofty thoughts. Instead, I'm going to visit a topic I've been writing notes about...
How I Made the $19.95 Print
By Ctein [Note: The example print sale ends Sunday night. —MJ] I came upon the scene right after visiting Pier 24 in San Francisco. Happily for me, I was carrying my trusty Olympus Pen E-P1 with my favorite lens, the...
The $19.95 Micro 4/3 Print Offer
As always, don't count on this illustration to do the print justice. It's a remarkably delicate and finely-detailed photograph. By Ctein If you've been reading me for any length of time, you know that I've written quite a few columns...
The And Now For Something Completely Different Print Offer
As I mentioned a week or two ago, we're having another print sale. But this time it's completely different. All our sales are good bargains for the buyer, we feel, but all of them are designed to earn money for...
End Game
By Ctein Mike and I have been discussing plans for one last dye transfer sale on TOP next year (we're not ready yet to divulge the details), which required me to go through my supply of dye transfer paper and...
OT: From VHS to Virtual (Partly)
By Ctein Digitizing the entertainment media in my house hasn't just been about audio CDs and vinyl records, as I've written about previously (here and here). Paula and I also had a couple of bookcases holding several hundred VHS tapes....
The 2012 iPad, Part II: Bigger Display, Better Camera
By Ctein (Part I is here) This is the second part of my review of new iPad. I strongly recommend the first part and my previous iPad reviews to understand where I'm coming from with this device. I'm reviewing only...
The 2012 iPad, Part I: A Distinct Step Upwards
By Ctein This is the latest in what will obviously be an indefinite series of reviews of new versions of the iPad as they come out. Apparently I'm hooked on upgrading. I'm okay with that. I recommend readers look at...
Does Photofinishing Have a Future?
By Ctein Last summer I wrote "Minority Report," in which I observed that it was tougher these days to figure out exactly what kind of photographs people were making and what they were doing with them. Not impossible, not in...
JPEGophobia
By Ctein As most of you know, I photograph almost exclusively in Raw format (viz. my "JPEG... Seriously?" column). So saying, I very much enjoyed Ken's column of last Friday. Mind you, I disagreed with most of his points and...
OT: Xmas and Parrots
Corrigan, as a baby, loved to be scratched. By Ctein Xmas reveals two unexpected characteristics of the parrots of Chez Ctein. The first is that they don't care a fig about the Xmas tree. That's been consistent behavior amongst all...
