ALL POSTS INDEX
A hyperlinked index of every ULTRAsomething post in descending chronological order
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Beaufort Force 2
The turbulent impact of a gentle breeze.
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Spelunking Lightroom
When is an article not an article? When it’s a nerdicle, of course. And this nerdicle is particularly nerdy — being all about Lightroom cataloguing techniques, keywording and photo ranking. Yeah, I know… you’re bored already. What can I say? Knowledge is pain.
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A Space for Hurdy-Gurdies
With the instinctually purposeful determination of a cicada, I go about satisfying my once-every-13-year mission: fisheye photography.
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Pick (a) Pocket: The Minolta TC-1
The Minolta TC-1 is 27% smaller than my iPhone 6S, more ergonomic, and loads the world’s finest collection of retro filters — film. If only it could get a dial tone.
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POV
7.4 billion people. 7.4 billion competing points of view. Sometimes it’s therapeutic to have a blog.
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jaPANorama
Who in their right mind would drag an old Widelux F7 panoramic film camera to Tokyo some 15+ years past the dawn of the 21st Century? Precisely.
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Camera Season: The Leica SL
The Leica SL is a big camera… with a big list of pro features… and a really really big native lens. To review it properly would require an equally big article. Which is exactly why this isn’t a proper review. Instead, this article looks only at one particular aspect of…
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Extending Myers-Briggs
Thanks to yours truly, the oft-maligned corporate tool known as Myers-Briggs has a new extension that applies directly to photographers. Whether or not this is a good thing is totally up to you.
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A Minor Delay
What does one do when one vows to publish at least one article per calendar-month, yet arrives back home — jet lagged and fully booked — on the final day of a month spent mostly in Tokyo? One writes a short article to explain why there’s no article that month…
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Awesome!
The trials and tribulations of the awesomely awesome.
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On Myth and Minitars
Recently, the mad scientists at Lomography surgically removed the Minitar lens from their cult-classic LC-A camera, tarted it up by grafting on a Leica M-mount bayonet, and sent it into the night to tempt us weak and sinful lens addicts. I’m only human. I succumbed. And here, for the benefit…
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Is Relevance Relevant?
A relatively relevant reflection on irrelevance.
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Human 2.0
I haven’t seen any mention via online rumour sites, but I think it would be rather ignorant to assume that someone somewhere isn’t hard at work on the Human 2.0 project. What new features can we look forward to? What bugs will finally be fixed? And is there anything that…
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Copy Proof
In this article, I tackle the trendy subject of copyright infringement, and reveal my secret method for discouraging would-be image thieves.
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Sentences and Sensibility: Leica’s M (246) Pt. 2
This is ULTRAsomething’s second installment in the “Sensibility Series.” It features thousands of words, grouped into hundreds of sentences — a handful of which are actually about the topic it purports to discuss: the Leica M Monochrom (Type 246). I should also mention that it’s populated with over a dozen…
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Sensors and Sensibility : The Leica M (246) Monochrom
What if Jane Austin had the opportunity to test and compare Leica’s new Type 246 M Monochrom camera against both the existing Monochrom and the M Type 240? Would her first published work have been a tale of romantic fiction? Or would it have been something closer to this?
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Yin Every Yang (Part 2)
Traveling to Iceland in the dead of winter? No problem. Traveling to Iceland carrying a backpack and a zoom lens? Now that’s culture shock.
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Yin Every Yang (Part 1)
In this world, there are things that motivate and things that demotivate. Curiously, what motivates one person might be exactly the same thing that demotivates someone else. Case in point: exotic vacations to scenic locales. For many people, such trips stimulate an outpouring of photographic activity. But for me, the…
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Appropriating Cortini
Does a song need an evolving melody in order to be called a song? Or can something else evolve in its place? Composer and sound designer, Alessandro Cortini claims the latter. And it’s a claim I’ve just appropriated to help describe my latest photographic tendencies.
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Up Goes The Ante: Fuji’s X100T
Fuji and innovation go hand-in-hand. My Hasselblad Xpan? A creation of Fuji’s. My pocketable, point-and-shoot Medium Format camera? Also Fuji. My next digital camera? Well, Fuji’s new X100T has certainly warranted a meticulous examination — nearly 5,000 words worth of meticulousness! So is that lump in my pocket a new…