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One of the many things that I like about the Stills group is that there is often genuine interaction between the participants. Unlike public commenting forums Stills generates a certain amount of back and forth. And this discourages incomplete or sloppy thinking. Always a good thing, what?
All of which is an introduction [...]

The first user reports of Sigma’s DP1 are coming through. These are, in the best internet fashion, user reports of a product that you still can’t buy. But it does seem to be getting close.
Here is a largely positive report, and here is a largely negative one.
Regular readers will know that I had [...]

The idea that the best camera is the one that happens to be in your hand at the time you want to take a photograph is something that gets repeated so often that it because the verbal equivalent of a sunset photo. Yeah, right, neat. Next?
It is, however, something that I think a [...]

Straightforward list of all Russian lenses for Contax and Leica screw mount cameras. It appears to be in its early stages, but here is a screen grab of just the Jupiter 12 entry to give some idea of the scale of the enterprise.
Click on the thumbnail for a copy of the screen grab.

I picked up some junk mail advertising an exhibition by Saul Leiter. The name meant nothing to me, but for some reason I didn’t delete. Sometime later I followed the link in the email – mostly whilst trying to work out why I’d kept it rather than trashing it in the first place.
What [...]

American Photo may be correct in that this represents a great business opportunity for photographers, but…

You might remember the debate a while back about whether the qualities of lenses are less important when used on digital cameras. Also the one about how the task of developing a technical stlye seems to have become harder since we swapped chemicals for Photoshop. They are both on TOP somewhere, I think, [...]

An eight minute realplayer video here. Published by KQED, and found via Doug Plummer.
There is no fluff. You get eight minutes of concentrated thought. There are at least a half dozen postable subjects covered – but better to get the original than read it through my filter. Even if you aren’t [...]

Here. Care of the Guardian.

I might make different photos if I lived on the Mediterranean, or in California, but I live in cloudy low contrast Britain.
I look at what some people suggest doing to a photo (thankfully not one of mine) with horror – you’ll see what I mean if you scroll to comment number 6 on that link.
We’re [...]