Category: Stories

If I see one more video whining that the future of photography is pointless, I am going to lose it. Computational photography. What are we even looking at anymore? Stop. Do you like photography? Do you like cameras? Then what does it matter? Yes, professional photography is dead. My very first video on this channel…

I joke about Gear Acquisition Syndrome a lot on this channel. The buying, the needing, the new camera itch. I want to explain where it actually comes from, because maybe it sounds familiar. When I was a kid, we did not have anything. My family could not afford much. And because of that, the things…

I carry a camera at all times, and yet if I am not intentionally out shooting, I never take it out. Hours of walking when I mean it. Nothing when I don’t. So I made myself a promise. See something, snap something. That is the deal. No saving it for the official photo walk. If…

There is a debate online about whether Fujifilm has become a lifestyle brand, and a lot of people are insisting their Fuji is a working camera. Let’s remember something. Fujifilm was never the working camera. The working cameras were Nikon, Canon, Pentax, on the sidelines and in the war zones. Fujifilm was the camera for…

Took the Leica Q out for a black and white street session, shooting like Schaller. And I want to be clear about something: shooting LIKE Schaller, not getting results like Schaller. There is a difference and it matters. You emulate the approach, the process, the way of seeing. You do not chase somebody else’s photographs.…

This is the camera bag review that is not a camera bag review. Uncompensated. I am just a freak about bags. I have them all. The Shimodas, the Lowepros. I hate them, because they look like camera bags, and a bag that screams camera is a bag that asks to be stolen. This is a…

I am so tired of the ‘is this camera still good in 2025?’ videos. So I made one, except the answer is the one nobody wants to hear because it does not sell cameras. If it has a sensor, or it takes film, and it is not broken, then it is still good in 2025.…

The best camera is the one you have with you. Every photographer has heard it, and I agree with it completely. I carry a camera everywhere. Usually two. The little sling, my beloved Canon PowerShot S95 with that CCD sensor your snaps will never look better than, and the X100VI. Here is my confession. When…

Let’s call this one 50mm, a love story. Or, why I bought the one lens I have been avoiding for 45 years. Hello, my name is Marc, and I hate the 50mm lens. It was not always this way. We used to be close. Some might say too close, because 50mm was all I had.…

I have mocked the “is this camera still good” genre before, because unless you are shooting your grandfather’s Brownie, the answer is yes. If it works, it is still good. But today we prove it the hard way. This is the Nikon D7100 I found at an estate sale for a hundred damn dollars, with…