What if Jane Austin had the opportunity to test and compare Leica's new Type 246 M Monochrom camera against both the existing Monochrom and the M Type 240? Would her first published work have been a tale of romantic fiction? Or would it have been something closer to this?
Traveling to Iceland in the dead of winter? No problem. Traveling to Iceland carrying a backpack and a zoom lens? Now that's culture shock.
In this world, there are things that motivate and things that demotivate. Curiously, what motivates one person might be exactly the same thing that demotivates someone else. Case in point: exotic vacations to scenic locales. For many people, such trips stimulate an outpouring of photographic activity. But for me, the only thing they stimulate is a bout with photographic apathy. Which is why, on a recent late-winter trip to Iceland, I decided to counter my expected languor by doing the opposite of what I would usually do. I would yin every yang.
Does a song need an evolving melody in order to be called a song? Or can something else evolve in its place? Composer and sound designer, Alessandro Cortini claims the latter. And it's a claim I've just appropriated to help describe my latest photographic tendencies.
Fuji and innovation go hand-in-hand. My Hasselblad Xpan? A creation of Fuji's. My pocketable, point-and-shoot Medium Format camera? Also Fuji. My next digital camera? Well, Fuji's new X100T has certainly warranted a meticulous examination — nearly 5,000 words worth of meticulousness! So is that lump in my pocket a new Fuji X100T? Or is it the big wad of cash I saved by deciding not to purchase one? Read the article to find out.
This article is for anyone whose obsessive need to update their social media outlets has forced them to post ill-considered crap. It introduces a conceptual new product called “Whenevergram,” which will force people to post carefully-considered crap instead.
Somewhere in this meandering tale of chance encounters and philosophical philosophizing, there’s a review of the new Leica M-A camera — a camera that just might be the closest any manufacturer has yet come to that elusive quality known as “perfection.”
The Fibonacci sequence might get all the glory, but it won't help anyone predict which photo will be the first to surpass the $7 million mark at auction. For that, you'll need the “Egor sequence.”
For the first time in a decade, I took a break from photography without existential angst being its impetus — but that's not to say it didn't nearly prevent my return.
By employing the world's most circuitous path, this article predicts the impending return of a vibrant and burgeoning film camera market. Crazy? Or crazy like a fox?
