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....
At Last, A Monochrome Camera
"As John Cheever said, the main emotion of the adult Northeastern American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment." —Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos Regular readers will know that I've been calling for...
It’s Memory Card Day
There's a pricing war going on—take advantage of it. I'm told the following deals "could be" expiring at midnight tonight: SanDisk 32GB CompactFlash Memory Card Extreme 400x UDMA, usually $153.95, today $84.95 SanDisk 64GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card, usually $454.95,...
Need a Scanner?
I've got to apologize in advance—this could possibly turn out to be the most boring week ever in the history of TOP.* At least I'm making progress.... Mike's library. This is about two-thirds of the books from the living room...
LED Lighting for Photography: Kirk Tuck
Why LEDs? And what was I thinking? The "classic." A one-foot-by-one-foot panel from Litepanels. One of the few U.S. companies making LED panel products. Also, one of the very first. By Kirk Tuck So. I finished writing four books and...
The Early Days of Digital
Photo by moaby, taken with the 1991 Kodak DCS 100 pictured Montréaler Marc Aubry's Ma Collection de Reflex Numérique, a collection of self-portraits taken with cameras from the early days of digital. If he had owned all those cameras when...
Existential Angst and the Leica Rumor
Talk about your rock and your hard place. I've been kvetching for years about how photography—not the camera market, but creative photographers—need a B&W-only camera. At least one. As an option, a choice. I've made the argument why in detail...
Do Smaller Cameras Hurt Pros’ Image?
Editor's Note: I was just about to post this below Kirk's Panasonic 25mm review, at the bottom of the existing Featured Comments, but I thought too many people might miss it way down there and it seems like an interesting...
Aspects of Aspect Ratios
"I never, ever crop...except when I want to." —Frank DiPerna, about 1983 Sorry I didn't pull "featured comments" for Kirk yesterday. I was feeling unaccountably out of sorts, and probably would have mucked up the conversation. I've never shot square,...
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....
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...
Tripod Technology: The Epilogue (Part IV)
You'll recall that we previously followed our hero (me) over hill, over dale, and through the woods on a search for the perfectly adequate tripod, in a series of posts called "Tripod Technology." In Part I, back in June of...
