I remember fondly the halcyon days of film SLR’s, when it was hard to keep track of how many brands of cameras there were and…
20 CommentsFour Billion Years Posts
It was not all that long ago that I had little use for focal lengths shorter than 50mm. I was always thinking about getting an even…
7 CommentsI daydream of a utopian future Earth—sparsely populated and silent—but I recognize it as an impossibility, owing to the incompatibility between population growth and finite resources.
2 CommentsIt is difficult to explain in words what makes a great lens, and impossible to define it with numbers and charts. Quantitative measurements are the…
25 CommentsAs I have written elsewhere, I think of the lens as the real “maker” of an image, the camera is only the “recorder” . And,…
3 CommentsI am a devout cat lover, and an uncompromising defender of the rights of feral cats. My definition of sentience is that any being who can understand other beings’ intentions, feel fear and pain, and be able to know joy and contentment, is sentient.
6 CommentsI can think of no reason to begin this blog with a post on any particular topic, so I figure I will begin with a bug…
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The Best of Both Worlds
It is not often that one can get it all. But matching the best of twentieth century photographic engineering – or perhaps art – to the…