Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
NOTE (2024-08): for the sake of people who like to come to this HTML 1.0 site (nostalgia? masochism? found in a web search?), I am including links to some newer material the new site.
The new site is here.
One lens or many: the Sony A7r Mark II
Sony RX1R Mark II – Son of Hexar
Rolleiflex 2.8F, 2.8GX, and Sith Apprentices
Olympus Pen F: solving problems no one had?
You deserve each other: generational clash in photo forums
Lytro Illum vs Light L16: Computationism
Dear God, the film base is gray
Light L16 computational camera: trypophilia
Trick: punch balloons and Heliopan filters
Get a grip: the 107-year debacle of small-camera ergonomics
I think I see the light (meter): how to buy one
Fuji’s X-series aperture rings?!
Funleader 18mm f/8 Caplens M-Mount
Three tired tropes of analog photography
Venus Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift W-Dreamer FFS Review
Adobe face recognition: beat the system?
Face-off: Apple vs. Adobe face recognition
Guerilla darkroom 2020: what to do with all that stuff
Guerilla darkroom 2020: hardware selection
DX labels: you’ll thank me on your wedding night!
Sony GPS-CS3KA: we’re all seekers
Archivism: immortalitas vel non
Lomo LC-A 120: same disillusion, bigger package
Did we ever really understand film?
Leica Monochrom Typ 246 x PC-Nikkor 28mm f/3.5
Punching your way into film identification
DxO One: Liberté, egalité, insanité
Digital photography – really photography?
Take a stress pill: dual memory cards
Take a stress pill: shutter actuations
The curious case of the Minolta AF-C
Toshiba FlashAir W-04 vs Eyefi Mobi Pro
No love for the Empire? Leica Multifunction Handgrip M 14495
Blade Runner 2049: image and inconsistency
Half Frame + Full Fun: Canon Sure Shot Multi Tele / Prima Tele / Autoboy Tele 6
About that Ari Marcopoulos Camera Bag
The Kodak/Pakon F235 Plus, revisited
Imacon Flextight [343]: odi et amo
Sony a6300 and Techart LM-EA7 II
Zoom lenses: good vs. not good vs. both
Will the real infrared photography please stand up?
50mm f/1.5 Zeiss Sonnar (1937): first
Canon 50mm f/1.2 LTM: not screwmounting around
MS-Optical 50mm f/1.1 Sonnetar: magic time
The Leica Monochrom typ 246 and filters
Fuji X-T10, Time Magazine’s 35mm Camera, and Fuji’s direction
All SLR lenses are Coke® bottles, right?
X100T: Some other things while we’re here
Fuji X100T: Ch-ch-changes (from the X100)
Configuring an iMac Retina 5K for photo editing: tips
Fisher-Price W1458 Kid-Tough Digital Camera
Archive / Index By Subject
Archive / Expanded Index
A cool trick with the iPod video
The Devil is in the Dynamic Range
Explain that Leica M8 upgrade again?
Fuji EF-42 Flash for X100 and X-Pro1
Fuji X100: the dirt on the dirt
Fuji X100: the Pitch Black project
Leica M8 lens testing and other wastes of time
Leica M typ 240: Part 1aLeica M typ 240: Part 3 (pixels)
Leica M typ 240: Part 4 (SF 58 flash)
Leica M typ 240: Part 5 (vs. X-Pro1)
Leica M typ 240 firmware 2.0.1.5: the end of the beginning
Light balancing filters on digital
Metz 45CL-4 Digital + SCA3045 + SCA3502 M5 + Leica M typ 240
Olympus E-P1: (Stylus) Epic Fail?
Outsource, insource, leave me alone
Practical Accessories for the X-Pro1
Sony NEX-5
Sony NEX underexposure recovery
Surviving the horrors of 9/9/M9
Who's afraid of the big bad live view?
Zeiss C Biogon T* 4.5/21 ZM and removing the reds
Nikon FG: little camera that could
Nikon F-Series Accessory Finders
Fuji GW and GSW 6x7, 6x8 and 6x9 Rangefinders
Fuji GSW690III Resolving Power
Fujinon SWS 50mm f/5.6 for G690 G690BL GM670 GL690
Maximizing your Nikon FH-869S
Medium Format Film Holder
Mythology of the Fuji G690BL GM670 GL690
Silvestri H: the 6×12 ultracamera
And now let us praise light, cheap lenses
Block diagrams of Canon Lenses for Leica
Choose your weapon, er... lens.
Evolutionary Chart of Canon Lenses for Leica
Faraway, yet so close: tales of Contax, Nikon, Leica, and Soviet incompatibility
Kobalux 21mm f/2.8 Revisited (M8)
Konica 21-35mm f/3.4-4 M-Hexanon Dual
Leica Universal Wideangle Finder M 12011
Nikkor 70-210/4 AF: Nikon's best midrange zoom
Non-obvious aspects of
accessory viewfinder selection
Sony NEX Wide Adapter VCL-ECU1
Light Meters, Flash, Bags and Tripods
Logan 750 Simplex Plus Mat Cutter
Alternatives to good photography
Can Photodo.com predict real-world differences between lenses?
Cameras, proles, and animals are free
The day you became photographically uncool
Does a rangefinder make you a better photographer?
Leica Rangefinder Self-Adjustment and Other Myths
Lithium-Ion: a modest proposal
The Myth of Mechanical Cameras?
Stop thinking about photography
35mm color vs. the tyranny of the masses
What equipment was used for pictures on this site?
Bottom-feeding in the grey market
Dan Stella's Tenfold Path of Good Photography
Fill flash for amnesicacs (expanded)
Fixing Super Ikonta A, C or Moskva rangefinder alignment.
More lessons from the Guerilla Darkroom
Optical signature manipulation
Surviving a trip with your camera
The Olympus Pen FT: relevant once again?
Scanning 6x12 with Sprintscan 120
or Artixscan 120TF
Twilight of the viewing filter
Carl Zeiss Optical Practicum (with permission)
Achromat, Apochromat, Superachromat - What is the Difference?
Depth of field – An insider's look behind the scenes
How digital one-shot cameras perceive color
How do Zeiss T* and Rollei HFT compare?
How to determine the resolution actually reached in a photograph a practial example
Is rollfilm 220 better than 120 in terms of film flatness?
Resolution of camera lenses where are the limits – and why?
10 Steps to success in high performance photography
Why Carl Zeiss lenses for Contax are made in Japan
A special message from your camera manufacturer.