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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...
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...