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The Digital Shopping Dilemma People say that digital is fundamentally different from film because it's changing so much more quickly. But it's not like film...
The Magic Bullet The big news this week – and it's great big meaty news – is that, in one bold stroke, Canon has reversed...
Digital Sizzles in the Desert I have to admit I'm utterly dazzled by the torrent of news coming out of Las Vegas. Is digital exploding,...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 I've worked for five or six magazines in my life, as a writer or editor, and...
A Killer Digital Lens (And Other Digital Notes) It's getting so we have almost an embarrassment of riches in DSLRs. From the Digital Rebel's discounted...
A Weekly Series of Critical Essays By Mike Johnston The Importance of Working-Method Goals Scratch most any photographer and you'll find a cameraholic. Some photographers claim...
Keeping Up Good morning. You know, every now and then I start to write one of my characteristic little rants about how annoying it is...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Because of the imperatives of the marketplace, many photographers pay far too much attention to the...
The Case Against Zooms I’m well known for having a prejudice against zoom lenses. I generally don’t like them, generally don’t shoot with them, and...
The Best Lens for a Leica In the last issue of the newsletter, unfortunately, what with all my gushing about the new 50mm and all...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Springtime in Wisconsin Twilight Thunderhead, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Photograph byChris VenHaus.Small format (Canon 35mm). I know it's banal to talk...
Good morning! I'm pleased to announce this week that THE SUNDAY MORNING PHOTOGRAPHER will soon be translated into German as well as Polish. I'll give...
Odds and Ends (and More About Digital B&W) Good morning! This week’s column is mainly housekeeping — I hope you don’t mind. It’s August, the...
Lost in the Gutter Good Morning. Well, I guess it is, anyway. As I write this it's "the Monday after," and I'm feeling dejected about...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2003 Good morning, and Happy New Year to you. My columns for the last several weeks of...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Any idea where the term‚ scuttlebutt came from? The scuttle of the water-butt was the place on tall ships where...
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...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Of the many technical concepts in photography that flummox photographers, flare does not rank very highly. We all believe we...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston The Glow Years ago I worked as the Lab Manager at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. The...
Why 40mm? Good Morning! I'm sorry May's column is so late. It's also not what it was supposed to be – The First Annual 37th...
Books, Nikon Bigots, and B&WP Good morning! A few notes this week: First, a correction. I said last week that Jim Brandenburg¹s pictures from his...
Got a Question? Ask SMP I get questions every week, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. I thought it might be fun to answer...
Taste, Part I: Schubert and Schoenberg I don’t trust people who don’t have strong feelings when it comes to taste. Amend that. I don’t trustcreativepeople...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston TwentyAprils: The Classic Era of the SLR The classic era of the 35mm single-lens-reflex extended, by my personal reckoning, across...
The Gestalt of 35mm Tri-X vs. Digital Update — and Apology First up this morning, an apology to those who pre-ordered copies of my bookThe...
Black-and-White Tonality © Mike Johnston 2002 I'm a little schizophrenic these days. I just bought another new digicam. I'm quite high on it‚ I really...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Key Thoughts and The Zen of Fishing I liken the thoughts that I keep in mind when photographing to "swing...
Eschew Cliché If you're involved in sports, you probably have a hard time believing things. The year you just had ("we had an unbelievable year"),...
Set Yourself Free! As I write this, a gorgeous day in Wisconsin reminds me that spring is around the corner. Spring means better weather, longer...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Courtesy Pass Labs 1. To begin with, I have a bit of a finely-pointed argument to...