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Good morning! I hope the Christians among you had a healthy and hearty Christmas full of fellowship and faith, and that others are enjoying their...
Of Old Dogs and New Tricks When I was young, I looked with bemused tolerance on older people who resisted new technologies and weren’t interested...
_____________________________________________________ USES AND APPLICATIONS OF 35mm LENSES Fisheye: No known uses, except to illustrate fisheye effects in photo how-to books. Ultra-wide rectilinears wider than 19mm:...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 For many years after his death in the early ’80s, the influence of Ansel Adams’s technical...
A Monthly Column By Mike Johnston I have returned to a state of pristine ignorance. Yet again, I know nothing about nothing. I’ve always been...
A Weekly Series of Critical Essays By Mike Johnston Good morning…Today’s the first Sunday in April and it couldn’t have come quickly enough for us here...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Hartmann Single Black: A Procedure For Printing Scanned 35mm Black-and-White Negatives ‚ Part 1‚ Nicholas Hartmann, who earned a...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 The little three-letter word "pro" (it aspires to be a four-letter word but comes up a...
Do You Have a Color Balance? Book, Newsletter, SMP Getting an Overhaul When most publications say "NOW MONTHLY"! It’s usually a good thing. Ordinarily, it...
A Monthly Column By Mike Johnston Good morning! First of all, I’d like to thank everybody who made the introduction ofLenses and the Light-Tight Boxlast...
Konica-Minolta 7D Early Impression With the exception of "Pride-of-Ownership Day" when I bought my first Wista view camera in 1984 or my first Leica M6...
The Filter Flare Factor Do you use a "protective filter" on your lens? I encourage you to take that filter off your lens and leave...
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...