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I’ve worked with some art directors I’ve wanted to kill by the end of the day, but their talent was fairly valued.
Just like a bag of sand or a pound of hamburger, an art director’s salary is...

Photographers don’t accept the idiocy of “equivalence” because we don’t let our equipment dictate how we take pictures. We bring the light we need to get the shutter speed and f/stop we want.
If...

Very cool lens, but if I recall correctly those old Angenieux lenses like the 12-120 cost the earth which is why no one previously tried to make something similar for this format, no one could...

Sorry this is fake news. The Panasonic lens throat circumference divided by the lens equivalence total light factor means that the shot noise will exceed the flange distance full-well threshold.

I always had faith that Nikon and Canon were unbeatable at making full frame f/1.4 lenses. Thank you for robbing me of my reason to live.

Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. If you think ISO is an invalid concept you can’t then go using it in the term “ISO-invariant” or “ISOless” because you are then endorsing and validating the ...

Would I switch? No, But it is not for the reason that you think.
The real cost of switching it’s a having to forget all the thousands of nuggets of information I’ve accumulated about how to get...

I call appropriation. How dare they steal the name of one of the most fun, most iconic cameras of the 20th century.

Nikon and Canon are “worse performing” but where? Are we talking at the center of the lens (which is useless for photography because centered subjects are hacky and boring) or across the entirety...

Mercy, can you feel the storm building? Soon the comment sections and Forums will be nothing but arguments about the effect of various lens throat diameters and flange focal distances.
On the...

The reason there are these circular arguments is that stills people use the wrong measuring system.  If we were smart we'd do what video people do and set our gain in dBs;  it's 100 percent ...

This app isn’t aimed at you. It’s is for owners of ad agencies, newspapers, and magazines so they can fire all their art directors and graphic designers. This abomination will allow them to...

Those are not fake shadows; in the film world we call it “crushing the blacks.” It’s.a way of eliminating distracting elements, and of course hiding noise.

Steve Jobs tried and tried to kill Flash, but even he, the most creative, powerful, and I daresay ruthless computer executive in our galaxy couldn't do it. It will outlive us all.

Absolutely, just ask E.L. James or Vivian Maier. But I know Vivian worked on her photography almost her whole life, so it's definitely a commitment.

Human skin comes in a remarkably narrow range; what you are seeing is the color of the capillary blood filtered through a fairly neutral-colored skin containing the two or three types of melanin...

By making it easy to produce the look of blurred backgrounds (that are likely nicer than the real thing) Apple has reduced the market value of nice bokeh to $0.
Say you’ve built a portrait business...

With the launch of these phones and their ability to produce even blurrier backgrounds the whole concept of “bokeh” has turned to bitter ashes in our mouths.
Please God command thy editors to...

There are not as many self indulgent, materialistic Americans as you think. The company that produced the Sky Mall catalog went bankrupt in 2015.

And who makes a dress out of grid cloth? That’s a very inside baseball kind of fabric to choose for a press junket. (I’m talking about the woman in the white flowy dress. Thanks to the excellent...