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Almost Every Night We Send Them Home

'Almost Every Night We Send Them Home' This is a picture you are not intended to see. It is of a subject the media are...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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5 minutes read


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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston The cover of the March 2002Popular Photographyproclaimed, "The 3 greatest prime lenses we've ever tested!!!", yet nowhere inside the issue...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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9 minutes read


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Rigues

Rogues Naturally, I suppose, a whole bunch of people let me have it last week for my apparent endorsement of a particular brand of camera,...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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7 minutes read


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Arguments

Arguments, Strife, and Polemics: More on the Killing of Mazen Dana It's never been my intention to make this column into a general forum, and...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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5 minutes read


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Extra, Extra

Extra, Extra, Read All About It! Newsletter News & Sundry Business, the Nifty Nikon D70, and Photokina 2004 Good morning! As I originally promised there...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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12 minutes read


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The Nuns Hand

The Nun's Hand (and Other Thoughts About Taste) Good morning! Before we start, a brief bit of newsletter news — I'm talking, of course, about...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read


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Two Nikons and a Minolta

Two Nikons and a Minolta The Nikon F100, Minolta Maxxum 7, and Nikon N80 Over the years, I've seen an amazing number of photographs. Not...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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11 minutes read


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My Favorite Lens

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Well, ever since I wrote my column called "The 50mm Lens and Metaphysical Doubt" —...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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7 minutes read


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Best of 2002

Best of 2002 Good morning! Every year around this time, a favorite feature of many newspapers, magazines, and television shows is the "Best Of" feature....
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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18 minutes read


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Evidence, not Proof

Evidence, not Proof Photograph by S. Liu. Used with permission. Photographer S. Liu instigated a long discussion on photo.net this past week (link below) about...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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10 minutes read


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Frank Van Riper Talks Photography

Friendly Essays: Frank Van Riper Talks Photography If there are two kinds of everything, then there are two kinds of books about photography. The most...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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6 minutes read


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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Thoughts on Digicams‚ Part I © Mike Johnston 2002 Okay, I know this may be a minority opinion. But I...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read


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Land of the Free

Land of the Free Where exactly are you allowed, and not allowed, to photograph? I get this question all the time. Unfortunately, I'm not an...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read


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Finding The Best CDRs

Good morning! I'm pleased to announce that "THE SUNDAY MORNING PHOTOGRAPHER" is now being translated into German, for the convenience of readers in Germany, Austria,...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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5 minutes read


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Modes

A Monthly Column By Mike Johnston The word "mode" has meanings in a great variety of disciplines, including music, philosophy, and mathematics. Although a few...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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4 minutes read


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Cone Editions Workshop

Good morning! A few weeks ago my friend Steve Rosenblum packed himself off to Vermont to take a Jon Cone Workshop. This is his personal...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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17 minutes read


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Hooray for Hewlett-Packard!

Hooray for Hewlett-Packard! HP 7960 / 7660 First Look Back on July 27th, 2003, I wrote a colum called "Where the HECK is Digital B&W?!?"...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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6 minutes read


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The Reviewer's Life

The Reviewer's LifeDedicated to the all-knowing cynics on the DPReview Forums "We'd sell out, if only we knew how."— Jerry Garcia Scene 1 I was...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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15 minutes read


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This Bothers Me

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 There are a number of important questions about being a photographer that I don't know the...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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4 minutes read


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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston As some of you know, I write and publish an independent (we accept no advertising) ink-on-paper quarterly calledThe 37th Frame....
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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4 minutes read


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Bronicas and Robot Friends: What I Did Last Summer

Bronicas and Robot Friends: What I Did Last Summer I thought I was losing my curmudgeon status for a while there. I woke up in...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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15 minutes read


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Parameters of Lenses

Parameters of Lens Specification and the Properties of Lenses— Part One — I'm going to indulge myself a bit here and assume you may not...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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11 minutes read


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SM--07-29

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Thoughts on Digicams, Part II: The Sony DSC-F707Part 1 can be Found Here © Mike Johnston 2002 I buy a...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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19 minutes read


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Collecting Books

Collecting Photography Books The "golden age of book collecting" took place over a period of several decades roughly a century ago. In those days, even...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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15 minutes read


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MJ Pentax Digital

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston I'm hearing dribs and drabs from various sources that makes it seem 90% certain that Pentax will showsomethingconcrete at PMA...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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6 minutes read


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MJ - Lashed to the Mast

Lashed to the Mast: The Digital Odyssey My column two weeks ago, "The Best of 2002," named sixteen products in a wide range of categories...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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10 minutes read


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Bokeh Ratings and Lens Awards

Fun Stuff: Bokeh Ratings and Lens Awards Well, this is possibly the silliest and potentially least useful thing I've ever done in my life as...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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10 minutes read


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How Many is Too Many?

A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Good morning! A few days ago, on a mailing list I frequent, the regular denizens got...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read


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The Crucial Sentance

Getting Better: The Crucial Sentence Are you perfectly happy with your photographs? Do you think you're already as good as you can be? If you're...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read


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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston James Karales' most famous picture: Selma To Montgomery March (clouds), 1965. Karales' estate is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC.Prints are...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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January 13, 2009

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7 minutes read