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Man, do I love it when TikTok discovers something new. Most of you watching are over 40, so you already know how this works. Interchangeable lens camera. Lens comes off. Body cap goes there. Lens cap goes there. We have known this since roughly the dawn of time. But did you know, and TikTok gets…

First time out with the Ricoh GR III, and it is not a gentle test. Teddy Swims, Birmingham, Alabama, a pit pass, and the kind of harsh stage light that makes cameras cry. Close-ups from the pit, low light, mixed color, the works. This little camera either handles it or it doesn’t. Watch the frames…

I am an absolute bleeping hypocrite. I cannot count how many times the Ricoh GR III sat in a cart. How many Facebook sellers I contacted. How many eBay auctions I was the almost final bidder on. I talked myself out of this camera more times than I can tally, on camera, in public, with…

We all knew the Kodak era could not last forever. We just never expected to read the obituary. Kodak was not a brand. It was a category. Like Xerox. Like Kleenex. It was Kodak. I shot plenty of Fujifilm in the 1980s and I shoot Fujifilm now, but Kodak was synonymous with photography itself. At…

Hello. I am the Canon EOS R8. Big sensor, little bitty body. And with my significant meat paws, the pinky just flails down there with nothing to hold. I need that pinky fresh for propping up my phone while doomscrolling. The fix is the Canon EG-E1 extension grip, and step one is removing the battery…

Bold statement. If you are taking your film scans into Lightroom and cranking the saturation and denoising the grain, you are defeating the purpose of shooting film. Change the color and the grain and you did not shoot film. You manufactured a digital product. Now let me talk myself out of my own argument, because…

People ask what the best Fujifilm lens is for street photography. The honest answer depends on who you are, what you are comfortable with, and, to be quite honest, what you are afraid of. So let’s break it down by generation. Gen X. You grew up feral, like I did. You take the 16mm prime.…

If you are beginning in photography, here is the tip nobody gives you. Shoot auto. Nobody looking at your photographs gives a damn about your ISO. They do not know what aperture means or what depth of field is. They barely care about shutter speed, as long as the picture is not blurry. Because composition…