Burning Our Bridges
By Ctein Are we losing the ability to scan film? I like my digital prints from film much better than my darkroom prints (dye transfer notwithstanding). To those of you who still like darkroom printing of film, I think that's...
Which Cameras Do the Best Skin Tones?
Is there any cloud-mind consensus out there as to which DSLRs do skin tones the best? Any portrait or wedding pros care to speak up about this? Just askin'. Mike Send this post to a friend Please help support TOP...
Lytro Launches
Talk about buzz. The biggest photo news on the planet at the moment is the announced launch of the Lytro "light field" camera for early 2012. Articles in the mainstream press are blooming like kudzu, and the Lytro website is...
The Lucky Photographer
One well-armed photographer! That's about $200,000 worth of cameras and lenses, give or take. It's also about 1% of all the Leica S2's in the United States. The occasion was a photo expedition to take pictures of fall foliage in...
Why Would a Digital Camera Have a B&W-Only Sensor?
This is a question that comes up periodically, so I thought I'd answer it, so that I can point future questioners to this page. First of all, it's not a technical issue. People who are technical and practical have a...
Tip for Micro 4/3 Shooters
Incidentally, Carl had a tip for Micro 4/3 shooters: the B+W 46mm Screw-In Folding Rubber Lens Hood #900, a rubber lens hood for normal lenses, works with both the Panasonic Lumix 20mm ƒ/1.7 (40mm equivalent) and the Panasonic 14mm ƒ/2.5...
Gimmicks We Don’t Like
I was going to do a post called "Gimmicks We Like," but then I realized we don't like any gimmicks. Mike, Curmudgeon-in-Training Send this post to a friend Please help support TOP by patronizing our sponsors B&H Photo and Amazon...
Does Equipment Matter? (Indigestion)
This morning, B&H announced some rebates on Canon Rebels. And I found myself composing a sardonic little notice to the effect that 96% of photographers could probably do everything they needed or wanted to do just fine with a Rebel,...
Factoring Value
There have been a lot of great comments to yesterday's question, but it's been tough to "Feature" many of the interesting ideas because they occurred in the context of longer (and sometimes, ah, meandering) comments. I thought I'd take a...
How Much Would You Spend?
Just wondering...do you have any sort of inbuilt limit for how much you'll spend on a major photography purchase, such as a camera, lens, or printer? I recently got the idea to buy a new lens (this one) because I...
The M Module: Zero Percent and 100 Percent
The following is not a critical appraisal, merely a statement of personal preference. Personally, I have zero interest in adapters—broadly stated, anything designed to let you use lenses designed for one type of camera on another type of camera. I...
And Here It Is…
...The Ricoh GXR M-Module. Camera shell, interchangable sensor, Leica M lens mount. Mike (Thanks to Vlatko) Send this post to a friend Please help support TOP by patronizing our sponsors B&H Photo and Amazon Note: Links in this post may...
