Author: Mark E. Johnson

When Nikon introduced the Df a few months ago, a lot of us old guys swooned a little … it looked so familiar to us. Of course, it also looked way too cool and obscure, thereby hitting the dual markets of old photographers and young hipsters. So, how does it hold up for the hipster crowd? Lee Morris at Fstoppers...

Since we tend to buy a lot of hard drives, it’s probably not a bad idea to start looking into reliability rates. Over at Backblaze, an online storage company, they run a lot of drives and have posted their reliability rates online. Short version – they run mostly Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital drives and the Hitachis are showing the...

This is a mini-rant, I suppose … for almost two centuries, we have tried to increase both the quality of the photographic process as well as the speed at which it can be delivered. Sure, there have been times when increases in one decreased the other, but the end goal was always the same – high quality quickly. With the...

Yet another list of stuff, but this one comes from someone smart: Over at The Strobist, David Hobby ran through a list of no-reservation recommendations. Some really smart things in there, particularly if you’re going to be lighting a lot of stuff.