Like the Economist but without the brains, wit, etc.
I’ve been gone a while. One of the things I was sure to do was, over the course of several flights crisscrossing the country, to finally finish watching Berry Gordy’s Mahogany. It was a 1975 film where Diana Ross was trying to get into Hollywood and Berry Gordy was trying to get into… Hollywood. A […]
On the road to the city of minilabs, the Photographer found himself putzing about in a central business district, looking for something to photograph. He came upon a group of old men at a street corner. They were tapping away on their phones on social media, preparing to ratio a young man who was standing […]
Thanksgiving weekend is a great time to catch up. On sleep. One thing that tends to get lost about the 1980s – among many other things – is that there was nothing such as a point-and-shoot mode on an SLR until 1985. Basically, there were two popular types of 35mm cameras. One was a class […]
It is not a long walk from the door to the pool at the end of the street. The roses, red and orange and yellow, have grown to an incredible height around the lamp post, almost a tree. The purple salvia has reached taller than the yews it replaced. The lavender is somewhere. Left turn […]
SATIRICA, N.Y., MAY 22, 2029 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Electronic Imaging Division, today announced the launch of its FUJIFILM X Half 2™ premium compact digital camera (X Half 2). The X Half 2 builds on many of the core competences of the X Half, including several new exciting features that enhance the half-frame “film” experience. […]
The proposition The rise of one compact, cool, and yet provincial “medium format” digital camera has spurred endless spurious statements about “the medium format look,” particularly an assertion that you can see this undefined quality by comparing two high-resolution digital images. Tell us you don’t know anything about the medium format look without saying that […]
Everyone in those pictures was smiling. There were tens of thousands of them. Some I still know today. Some have changed considerably over time. Some I knew and lost to time: lost friends, lost loves, people whose names I knew for an instant. Some were in the frame, whether parts of larger groups or unlucky […]
Statement of the problem One of the enduring mysteries of the darkroom lies in taking a pile of film, developing it, and getting everything into the right order for prints, scans, or negative pages. The problem with film is that even the most sophisticated data imprinting systems don’t really do the job well – assuming […]
Congratulations to Fujifilm with the GFX100RF and creating a Leica-M-like gatekeeing fanbase where questions about features are met with “you just don’t get GFX.” You’ve made it to the big time. It’s such a familiar pattern from the Leica M world – and an attitude absent among Q fans. Yes, old man, I will be […]
Ben Franklin, sei tu? When I was young, I had a particular distaste for Ben Franklin. It might have been fostered by the Fisher-Price American history story tapes (yes: cassettes) that reinforced his (sanitized) image as an inventive and penny pinching statesman who had a penchant for spouting annoying aphorisms like, “A stitch in time […]