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Sigma vs. Nerd (Part 1: Sensor School)
Many people love cameras because they love gizmos, gadgets and technology. My love for cameras is more of an adjunct to my true love — photography. But that doesn’t preclude me from occasionally going full-on camera nerd — particularly when it comes to something like Sigma’s Foveon sensor, which has the theoretical potential to transform my…
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A Treatise on X and Z
I’ve often said that photography’s closest art form is not painting, but poetry. So perhaps it’s not surprising that I’ve uncovered yet another link between photography and language.
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Fractured
I can no longer deny my propensity for “fractured photography.” Now I just need to figure out what, exactly, that means.
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Cats and Dogs
It’s not often I give my impressions of modern digital cameras because, frankly, it’s not often that modern digital cameras impress me. So hold onto your socks, because this article contains impressions of not one, but two modern digital cameras — the Olympus OM-D EM-1 and the Ricoh GR.
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How Many Wrongs Make a Right?
If two wrongs don’t make a right, then how many wrongs does it take? At last, the answer is revealed!
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The Ponce Factor
Unsurprisingly (and like most photographers), my Holiday wish list is once again filled with all manner of photo-related paraphernalia. The surprising part lies in my definition of what constitutes “photo-related paraphernalia.”
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Littlefields
My readers are well-aware of how stubbornly I hold onto certain photographic convictions — particularly my belief that photos are best-enjoyed printed. In a time when many photographers have never seen even a single one of their photos in print (much less a collection of prints), it’s a delight to come across a world in…
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Multitasking
What’s a busy fellow to do? Faced with a backlog of photo-related correspondences to write plus another blog article to develop, I had but one choice: Multitask!
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The Other Half Frame
There’s more than one way to fill a negative. So when another attack of flat-back panoramic camera lust flared up recently, I chose to extinguish it not with a big bad Hasselblad Xpan, but with a diminutive little half-frame faux-panoramic camera, called the “Minolta Freedom Vista.”
