SmilerGrogan

I have an inkling that the reason both the sony and sigma show focus breathing is that it’s an expensive problem to solve.
Non-breathing 35mm cinema lenses like the Canon CN-E 35mm T1.5 start at...

The difference between Mike Johnson and you, me, and everyone else who visits this site is that Mike is a unique, powerful, wide-ranging intellect whose ideas have advanced the field of photography. ...

Complicating the “what is art” question is that at the high end a lot of what gets bought and sold is done as a cover for money laundering and various other illegal transactions. There have been ...

For a monopod has anyone mentioned the oldish Manfrotto monopod head? I’ve had one for 8 or 10 years and it has never gotten in my way. $50-60 and they look like this w

It is fun to create tabletop worlds from either objects you collect around the house or using miniatures like Hot Wheels, and scale model trees and people. If you add a desk lamp or two for ...

I grew up in Los Angeles at the very end of the large-format film era and there were retouchers from the studio era still working. They were artists who used their pencils, inks knives, chalks, ...

The bokeh has a nice swirl to it that adds an appealing dynamism to the photographs.

I love resurrecting dead threads, I’ve been thinking of changing my user name to TheReanimator. But yes, I missed the date. Thanks

How does it perform on noise reduction vs. Photoshop? You

Like all Americans I only know one fact about  about India. The one fact that I know is that they have a huge film industry and so I would assume that there would be lots of lenses being bought ...

When I saw the photo of the person holding the camera to their face my first thought was “how smart, he’s made a face harness to keep his camera ready at eye level!”
But then I figured out it was...

On the topic of rendering doctor, with your unique set of measuring instruments and formidable brain have you solved the mystery of what makes a lens able to capture depth cues that produce a...

Outstanding meeting of lens and subject.

Just like in stills cameras the term “raw” is a convenient lie. Once the light rays hit the front element on your lens they’re being bent, and cramming the data from a three-dimensional world into ...

A friend of mine has one of those and let me use it; I 100% agree, it’s a lens that makes beautiful images.

Don’t project your poor color discrimination onto others. Just be happy there’s someone else out there helping to keep the photo industry alive.

Not a fair comparison, some of those Olympus lenses were far ahead of their time.

That seems like a pretty simple mod using whatever design software. Or an X-acto and some CA glue.

Yes because sensor size doesn’t matter, that’s a lie promulgated by a small group of fifth columnists trying to destroy photography. The only things that matter are lenses, technique, and creativity.