The flooded playa at Death Valley, as it would be seen by a being who evolved on a planet orbiting a cool red star…
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In late summer 2023, an extreme rainfall event transformed Death Valley’s arid landscape. Flash floods converted the Badwater salt flat into a shallow lake, which was strikingly captured in photographs during a stormy winter evening.
Leave a CommentThe Minolta M Rokkor 28mm f/2.8 may be the 28mm legacy rangefinder lens most suitable for use on digital mirrorless cameras. In addition to outstanding sharpness and contrast, it displays no noticeable corner color shift and easily corrected vignetting.
4 CommentsI remember the short-lived Icarex 35 SLR system from the time when I was becoming interested in photography, in the mid to late 1960’s. Even…
10 CommentsIn an accompanying article I wrote some generalities about the Icarex 35 SLR system from the 1960’s. I wrote there that, in my view, there…
20 CommentsIf there was a way to measure the ratio of quality to price of a photographic lens, then the Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 80-200 mm would almost…
26 CommentsThere are those instances in which it is impossible to describe something (or someone) without falling into clichés or sounding hollow. When one feels that…
20 CommentsIn my experience, many of those who became interested in photography in the last decade or so seem to think that photographic equipment comes in…
15 CommentsAre zooms as good as primes? Conventional wisdom says no. But there are at least two problems with this answer. First, what is the definition…
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