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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...
‘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...
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...
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,...
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...
Extra, Extra, Read All About It! Newsletter News & Sundry Business, the Nifty Nikon D70, and Photokina 2004 Good morning! As I originally promised there...
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...
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...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Well, ever since I wrote my column called “The 50mm Lens and Metaphysical Doubt” —...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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?!?"...
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...
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...