(Or: The Virtual Henri Cartier-Bresson.) I have just for the first time taken advantage of a camera's "Custom" setting. Many cameras have a mode called C, which is whatever settings you want it to be. (Some advanced cameras have more than one.) So I created a "street photography" mode for the Canon S90. I got the idea when I saw accidentally in the manual that the Custom mode would...
Mike Johnston weighs in on the Panasonic GF1 vs Olympus E-P1, the new "big compact" cameras. One thing he says is something I've been trying to suppress in my mind: they are not quite as good in low light as DSLRs with the same size sensor. I love my GF1, but the pictures at 1600 ISO are just barely usable, you really have to fiddle with RAW and such. I'd have expected them to be easily usable...
Notre Dame 40, Washington State 14. Recap via und.com [ here ]. Box score [ here ]. Game notes [ here ]. Streaks. Notre Dame moves to 10-0 versus teams from the state of Washington. The Irish also move to 15-0 all-time on Halloween. Kicking. Speaking of streaks, freshman kicker Nick Tausch hit two field goals -- from 29 and 23 yards, respectively. Tausch has now connected on 14 consecutive field goals...
YouTube via nathanielscott "Recently, Mike Johnston asked me if I could work on his ARP AXXE and cure some of its weird behavior. I was not sure I could fix it but I told him I would take a look because I have never got to fool with an ARP synth. The AXXE is a very cool little synth and I would say that it complements the minimoog well. It has things the minimoog does not like 'sample and hold'...
At the Ritchie Bros. auction yard in Dunnigan, workers Efrain Luna, top, and Francisco Aguerre clean a truck going up for auction next week. Heavy equipment worth millions of dollars is on the block every 10 weeks there. Hard along Interstate 5 in the tiny hamlet of Dunnigan, rows of backhoes, bulldozers and heavy trucks sit silently, gleaming in the sunshine. A week from now, on Sept. 29, this quiet...
Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer has a nice piece about the ethics of reviewing products (here). I’ve been wondering—are the ethical requirements really the same for a personal blog as they are for a magazine? I’ve accepted a camera on extended loan lately for the the first time in my career, too. That is something [...]
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Ken Tanaka on The Online Photographer reviews the Olympus Pen. Is this finally the "Decisive Moment Digital"* that many of us have been waiting for, for most of this decade? Short cheat-note: if it'd had a better screen and much faster autofocus, it could really have been something. *A DMD is a term Mike Johnston coined for the theoretical digital camera Henri Cartier-Bresson might have liked:...
click to enlarge Special thanks to Mr. Mike Johnston for contributing to this article Currently, the U.S. and most of the world is in what would be called the fossil fuel economy. The majority of our power source is from oil, natural gas, coal, and petroleum products. We need energy to keep our world and society running; however, fossil fuel energy also creates problems such as pollution, climate...
Introduction The big digital photography news this month has undoubtedly been the launch of the Olympus PEN E-P1 . If you're not the sort of person who checks sites like DPReview (where the PEN has taken top place in "most popular cameras" ), the E-P1 is a rather strange, interesting new camera. Using a system called Micro Four Thirds, it offers interchangable lenses, a relatively large...
I had a good time at the Centennial Drinking Liberally on Monday, though I have a bad habit. I tend not to talk to the guest. In this case, I talk with him every week (while you all are listening). At the event on Monday were lots of people there to meet him, so I figured it best to let them get in their introductions and pictures. Besides, visiting a new chapter for the first time in a long time,...
Mike Johnston has a funny post about darkrooms and making furniture. Oh, and I just noticed that I have my first-ever "featured comment" on a post on tOP. And to think they said I'd never amount to anything! Well, I showed them.
Today over at The Online Photographer Mike Johnston wrote a post suggesting that spending a year using nothing but a Leica and shooting nothing but black and white film could teach you a lot. I think he’s right about one thing. It would teach you a lot, but about what? I think Johnston’s claim was [...]
Photo via Mike Johnston It's a no brainer that as game fish species are overfished , the species sizes would shrink. But a new census project highlights just how dramatically the ocean's fish species have diminished in both size and diversity over a relatively very short period of time. ...
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