More than a year ago, I wrote a post on lens adapter tolerance, bemoaning the fact that all the adapters that I’d tested were too short. I followed that up with a post about how, at least in the case of Novoflex, this was on purpose. As I continued to purchase adapters from various manufacturers,… [Read More]

I used to do a lot of underwater photography. Whenever I was on a dive boat and the crew asked us where we wanted to go next, the non-photographers tended to opt for someplace new. The photographers wanted to go back to a place we’d already dived. Ruth Bernhard used to make repeated suggestions that photographers… [Read More]

There’s an exercise that used to be popular in landscape workshops. The instructor would have all the students line up on what they thought was the best — for them — image to be made at some location. He’d — and it usually was a he — would go around and look at the picture… [Read More]