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One Camera, One Lens

Photography starts before you even pick up a camera. When I'm shopping for cameras, photography is telling me that I want to take pictures. It is an impulse to frame what is sitting right in front of you. But the gear obsession is a distraction, and an ambient light meter may help your photography more than new gear. You slow down, measure the light falling on the pavement, and pay attention to what matters.

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Virtual Movements

With enough resolution, we can crop in, move a frame around, and simulate a view camera’s movements in post — including rise, fall, and shift.

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Clipped Corners

A ground glass will have missing corners so you can see if the lens is projecting from edge to edge. If you can see the lens, it’s giving full coverage.

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f/8 and be there

F/8 is typically the most optimal aperture for everyday lenses.

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Gear

Sometimes photography feels like it’s 10% taking pictures and 90% watching camera reviews.

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The problem with mirrorless

Someday we’ll call it a camera with interchangeable lenses.

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9x12

Manufactured circa 1928, my Voigtländer is a back-pocket view camera that holds 9x12 cm film or glass plates (daytime film exposure: Foma 100, f/12, 1/100th).