All Text and Photos CopyrightTorontowide.comDoug Brown Used to be if you wanted to produce a panoramic format image you had either hardware-based choices - cameras

Tanks and Barracks. Antarctica – February, 2007Hasselblad H2 with 35mm lens and Phase One P45 back. ISO 100The ruins of a whaling station at Gritviken,

By Charles S. Johnson, Jr. PART II: Understanding What Makes a Good Image and Learning How to Use That Knowledge New cameras don’t just capture

______________________________ Lists are often arbitrary and this one is no different.  It springs from my tastes and my opinions and I won't be surprised if

A Bit of HistoryAt the bi-annual Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany last October,Franke and Heideckeannounced the Hy6 medium format camera. Simultaneous with this announcement

Ghostly. August, 2009Panasonic GH1 with 14-140mm, @ ISO 100Photographic equipment, for reasons which will be explored in a moment, is in somewhat of a different

May, 2005 Some BackgroundFor most of the past 10 years (effectively, the entire geological age of digital SLR cameras) photographers have been almost oblivious to

Ansel Adams, by nearly all accounts, was a great photographer. His portraits captured the soul of his subjects. His landscapes inspired countless photographers. He paid

I traveled onthis shootwith three camera systems – a Hasselblad H2 with a Phase One P45 back and three lenses (35mm, 50-110mm & 210mm); a

Basket Carriers – Bangladesh, January, 2005 Canon 1Ds with 70-300mm f/5.5 DO IS Lens at ISO 400 A major two-week-long photographic shoot on the other

Now Shipping – 100 Pages – Hard Cover Only $29.95 – OUT OF PRINT – Have you ever thought about publishing a book of your

by Gerard Kingma After the publication ofFancy Graphics Galore - Some observations on Gamutvision and PrintFIX Proon this site in October 2006 - which you

Essays are generalized as relating to the philosophy of photography and commentary about current issues.  Telling it like it is- Whom Do You Trust to give

The annual spring PMA show is the largest and most important venue for the announcement of new photographic products after Photokina, which is a biennial

We have been using cameras for a century to picture our world. Although the technical process has changed a lot in the past 10 years,

Trade shows are always a good opportunity to gauge the state of health of any industry. Walking the aisles and talking with both exhibitors as

Whom Do You Trust? Few topics seems to arouse photographer's passions these days more than the issue of digital camera image quality and specifically, whether

Below are reader responses to the articleTelling It Like It Is. Michael: I read with great interest your essay on the state of the art

Antarctica – The Global Warningarrived on my desk for review in early August. My first response on glancing at the dust jacket was,what a somber

On a cold but sunny day in late January, 2005, I drove from my home in Toronto to visit withEastman Kodak's Image Sensor Solutions(ISS) division

Baby and Watering Can — Muskoka, Ontario 2004 Panasonic LC1 @ ISO 100 80mm focal length equivalent. f/2.4 at 1/50 sec On the Way to

By Ben Hattenbach and Henry Throop It is the middle of winter and you are in the middle of Alaska.  You have traveled 100 miles

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Good morning! Never hesitant to gird myself with armor and plunge into the holy wars, I

Mo' BettaAre We There Yet?Photographer Michael Friedman, writing in a thread called "16.7MP. Now What?" in the Canon 1D/1Ds forum on dpreview.com, asked what struck

Thoughts About "Full Frame"The last column I published on this site is of a type almost tailor-made to make me look like a fool one

The Bronica RF645 Rangefinder Revisited Last Spring, Bronica sent me a big Pelican case containing an entire Bronica RF645 kit. At the time, I promised

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Good morning! I hope you're enjoying the autumn light. This week, I'd like to catch up

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Hartmann Single Black: A Procedure For Printing Scanned 35mm Black-and-White Negatives ‚ Part II‚            Nicholas Hartmann, who earned a

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