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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 Photokina, the world's largest and most important photo equipment show, takes place every even-numbered year in Cologne, Germany, in the...
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...
Photographing Models and Nudes An Interview with Bill BrentPhotos by Bill Brent Mike Johnston:Bill, I've just spent some time poking around on your website,www.bbrent.com. There's...
Clean, Lube, Adjust Should you pay for a CLA when you buy a used camera? It's always a tough decision whether to get a camera...
More on Clichés and How to Avoid 'Em Good morning! Today I'd like to do something I do every once in a while, when it's...
SLRs Part Two: Finding the View The viewfinder is the single most important user interface on any camera. Throughout the history of cameras, the method...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Ah, it's always lovely coming home from vacation, isn't it? The house is messier than you...
The "Compact Disc Effect" and the Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D This morning I've posted my latest book for purchase. It's calledLenses and the Light-Tight Box. It's...
Good Morning once more! This week marks the last installment of "The Sunday Morning Photographer." It has endured more than three years and well over...
Good morning! I hope everybody had a nice and safe Halloween. My son had a grand time posing as a decoration in front of the...
Working For Pay Every now and again, us arty, touchy-feely types provoke the ire and scorn of more hard-headed, practical guys, and I have a...
The K-1000 of Digital SLRs Good morning! I send wishes for good health and good fortune to everyone in the New Year. Unfortunately, however, the...
Everyone has their own approach to image storage and retrieval. Today's 6MP digital cameras produce 18MB RAW files, and at about 30 Megabytes for...
Before linking you to the site's latest article, Mike Johnston's excellent —Understanding SLR Viewfinders— you've been diverted here instead so that I can take a...
The Highs and Lows of the Canon 10D Good morning! This week I've asked my friend Kent Phelan, a longtime photo junkie and all-around good...
Has Leica Lost It? Opinionated Commentary about the M7, MP, and Digilux 2 Good morning, and Happy New Year! Thanks to all who wrote in...
"Tough" and "Sweet" I'd like to try out an idea on you. You know, kinda throw it at the wall and see if it sticks....
Scenic Fatigue Recently I've had occasion to think again about an idea for an article that I've been meaning to write for a long time....
Just to be Contrary As you may know, I'm a CIT (curmudgeon in training). As part of my program, I have to periodically post grumpy,...
Secrets of Success What does it take to succeed as a photographer? Here's an empirical top ten, in order of importance. 1. Energy. Successful photographers,...
Happy Sunday You'd think a guy like me would have published a book by now. I have books in my bloodstream. I've always read, hoarded,...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Fog, photograph by Glenn Gordon Good Morning! One of the pleasures and benefits of writing this...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Kustomizing Kameras Photographers know that there are two kinds of screwmount‚ Leica (39mm) and Pentax (42mm, and actually a German...
Moving Pictures In response to last week's column I received this e-mail from a reader named Steve Jantscher: I'm sure I won't be the only...
Where the HECK is Digital B&W?!? I’m a CIT (Curmudgeon-in-Training), so I have lots of pet peeves. One of the worst of them is the...
Headlines from 2011 My take on what the news might look eight years from now...happy Fourth of July weekend to all yous Americans! >>> British...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 I became aware recently of the work of a photographer named Wade Heninger. Wade, whom I...
The Public and Me:What's an SLR Supposed to Be? I've been reviewing cameras professionally since 1988 — mostly 35mm SLRs, the more expensive 35mm rangefinders,...