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Well I christened my new 12-35 Lumix lens at the 2013 Carnaval De Puebla celebration in Philadelphia.  I had never been to it before and thought having a zoom in that range sounded like a good...

Since I'm providing attribution and providing only a short quotation, I'll quote you the final two paragraphs from the article's conclusion, subtitled "The Bottom Line:" Above all, our test proves...

Definitely in the Pantheon of all time greats!

I still count as one of my guilty pleasures just sitting back and luxuriating with a good magazine.  There's just something about holding them in my hands that trumps the latest newsfeed or...

While waiting for my glasses to be repaired yesterday, I wandered into a bookstore in the same shopping mall and picked up a copy of a photo magazine I hadn't seen before: c't Digital Photography. ...

That's way too cool of a way to start off a weekend!

First, remember that often "you get what you pay for."  Want a great starter zoom that maintains the water sealing of your OM-D?  Pay $1200 for the new, fast Panasonic 12-35 f2.8.  I hope that...

Here's a few shots taken at this year's Mummer's Parade in Philly on NYD with the Panny 7-14 mounted on an OM-D.  Note though that a little geometry correction was applied to some of these shots in...

Focal length or aperture?

. . .with lenses?  I was wanting to do some night-time photography on the local playground basketball courts, now that the spring had arrived, and found myself thinking about which lenes might do...

A good photograph is one where the resulting image captures the union of the subject in front of the camera and the photographers soul at the moment the shutter is pressed; and then, when being...

A few weeks back, an old friend, now living on the other side of the country, who's started to get into photography sent me a link to a recent set of photos which she had just shot.  She asked me...

I just figured that the author of the piece didn't know how to read statistics.  Pretty common, unfortunately.  It happens on the evening news all the time.

Al, First my apologies for replying to your question under the heading for RoelHendrickx's posting below.  But I also didn't answer your question about the monochromatic Leica.  I'm only a humble...

You're absolutely correct that DOF can be altered by changing the distance between the focal plane and the subject.  But it is also determined by the aperture, focal length, sensor size, as well as...

No, Thank You!

The important question is "if you appreciate the difference."

It's funny, but my tastes for color and B&W seem to come and go in waves.  5-6 years back I was in what I call my "Fujichrome Phase," where I was tweaking imy colors to emulate the vibrance I used...

I have a new show going up this weekend.  That means that this past week I've been printing and framing 24 mainly 16x20's and 11x14's.  Those of you who've gone through this ordeal know that you...

Far more eloquent than my humble chicken scratchings in this forum.