We live in times when people see images or words that conjure the notion of an intent, too often negative,…
When I saw a kingfisher roll his eyes because I was about to take his picture for the thirtieth time,…
. . . marketing people. Sometimes another person’s claim of an experience different from mine leaves me wondering if we…
One Saturday morning back in the early 1980’s, I strode into Willoughby’s in Manhattan looking for an 80-200mm zoom lens…
A few weeks ago some M cameras got a firmware update that enables corrections for perspective. Some examples I’ve seen…
The short end of many standard zooms, 24mm, is about as wide as I usually go, especially in an urban…
Much has been written about the many lenses designed by Dr. Walter Mandler. If a picture is worth a thousand…
Stopping at a viewpoint while driving the Overseas Highway to Key West some many years ago, I grabbed my D40X…
Some years back I had a copy of the Zeiss 2/135 APO Sonnar, capable of spectacularly sharp images—if one could…
It’s been fun trying new things with something other than long lenses. The curious thing is that it’s been as…