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Photography

A collection of 62 posts

I canceled my Fujifilm X100VI order

I tried, albeit half-heartedly, for 18 months to grab a Fujifilm X100V at a "normal" price. The X100 series are awesome cameras. I still have an original X100, and had an X100T for a while. The original X100 is just so very slow that I don't

A (small) improvement to photo display on Glass.photo

I don’t like the way Glass shows images in a desktop browser when the browser window is wider than around 1,000 pixels. I prefer the layout in narrower windows, but I never have mine that narrow. This means whenever I’m browsing Glass, I have to shrink the

A brief flashback into Lightroom

For some reason I've been thinking about installing Lightroom again. Of course earlier this year I decided that I was only going to use Capture One and I completely uninstalled everything from Adobe. I prefer Capture One "sessions" to its catalogs because cataloging in C1 has

Lightroom it is, I guess

I canceled my Capture One subscription this morning, before they charged me $180 for another year. I hadn’t planned to do this. The plan was to cancel my Lightroom subscription ($10/month) and run with C1 for the year. Capture One has more to offer, and I like the

Not taking the photo

I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always always regret not taking one. I've been planning to do a series of environmental (large format film) portraits of my close and extended families. The idea is to travel to their homes and photograph them using natural light,

Using old digicams

I posted a thought this morning about the current trend of using very old digicams. I can't decide if the recent trend of using old digicams is fun and nostalgic or just stupid. Dave Rogers responded with a thoughtful bit about the trend. In his post, he linked

I need a new film scanner

My Epson V750 Pro, purchased in 2009, has scanned thousands of rolls of film, slides, and prints. After making strange grinding noises recently, it has finally ground to a halt. Here are the last images it was able to scan from the most recent roll (2022-Roll-066)… So now what? I

The kinds of portraits I prefer…Judith Joy Ross, for example

I recently read Joe McNally’s book, The Real Deal: Field Notes from the Life of a Working Photographer . While I found his anecdotes occasionally interesting, I didn’t really enjoy the book. I think this was because I don’t much care for McNally’s photographs. Here’s one

Comparing film and digital: Mom

I had lunch with my parents recently and took a few photos with both my film and digital cameras. I shot about the same number of photos with each camera, with close to the same number of “keepers”. Which do I prefer? Here I’m showing one of each, digital

Feelings about the Leica M10-R

I’m feeling twitchy about owning the Leica M10-R . The M10-R is an astonishingly good camera. World-beating build quality, timeless design, and a fantastic 40-megapixel sensor, all in a small, beautiful package. Still available new in 2022 for an eye-watering $8,995 (I bought mine used), the M10-R is also