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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....