By pascaljappy | Review
My intuition and some available tests, online, hinted at the fact that the longer the focal length, the easier it would be for a lens to cover a wider sensor than what it had been designed for. In the case of this Distagon 25, I couldn’t have been more wrong … I feel kind […]
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By AlanMacKenzie | How-To , Review
I hold to my belief that photography is primarily a documentary activity insofar as, unlike painting, photography records reality or some small slice thereof. This characteristic links all the great photographers from Adams to Cartier-Bresson, from Arbus to Karsh, Weegee to Mapplethorpe and Capa to Edgerton. These people were masters of the craft and elevated […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Incubator ˈiNG-,ˈinkyəˌbātər Merriam-Webster definition: an apparatus with a chamber used to provide controlled environmental conditions especially for the cultivation of microorganisms or the care and protection of premature or sick babies This post was written in collaboration with Jean-Claude Louis. Thank you Jean-Claude for making this better in every meaningful way 🙂 Thanks to the […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity
5 more findings from trying to will myself to photographic mastery! In paintings, there is a significant difference, in price at least, between a painting by the great artist himself, or one that looks “just like it”, but “attributed to”, “his studio”, “his circle”, “follower of”, “in the manner of”, “after”. Each step takes the […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Whiling away the hours hasn’t been as difficult as I’d imagined it might be. Anyone of retirement age and beyond knows the pleasure of easy days, falling asleep with a good book, binge watching, early starts, late starts, early nights, late nights, opening a beer before 06:00, afternoon naps and more. Watching our adult children […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Author Mike Peart is something of a luminary in railway preservation in the UK. Back at a time when British Railways was making the owners of England’s scrapyards wealthy, he (and four friends) founded the Great Western Society to preserve some of the railway history that was being swept away with such indecent haste. That […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
It’s amazing how much the coronavirus pandemic has dampened my ordinarily good spirits and, thus, my creativity. Each day of persistent uncertainty has drug on in a most alarming way, so much so that I had to have a firm talk with myself about picking up my camera and taking a few photos. Sort of […]
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By John Wilson | Travel Photography
-Prayer Flags of the Kootenay Plains- So how big is your backyard? Your neighborhood, town or city? I’m Canadian and that means I live in the second largest country in the world. For us a 600 mile drive is a jaunt, so my backyard is a “little bigger” than usual. Which leads to my […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Plastic, the 30+ year old lens certainly is. Fantastic remains to be seen 😉 Can a cheap and old design be of any use on a (relatively) modern mirrorless camera that’s not even the right format for it ? Feeling the aperture ring jump hesitantly from one notch to the next brings up […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
The tethering cable for my X-H1 arrived a couple of days ago. It’s a beast; bright orange, 5m long and weighs about as much as a photocopier. I’ll need to anchor it properly to the tripod, or it’ll rip the USB port out of my camera. First job – test with Lightroom to see if […]
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