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I have done all of the above. Depends on the circumstances.
Latest purchase is a couple of generations back D7000 camera to compliment my D750. Weird mix? Yes.
The D750 for high quality photos, the D7000 for underwater, just in case it gets wet.
Lose of the D7000 won't hurt too bad and yet it has good enough image quality for what I do. There are lots of other factors affecting underwater photos and pixels isn't the major one.
Strategies for Buying Digital Cameras
Shiny and new: the new Olympus Pen F With expensive but undeniably desirable gadgets that lose value quickly, it's worthwhile to spend a little thought to develop an adoption strategy so you don't waste your resources. Three strategies: Be an early adopter and buy new, but keep the camera on...
Years ago I did some photo work for Kodak Canada. They wanted 100 prints of a photo I took.
I made 100 prints for them and they then noticed that they were not back printed with the Kodak logo. I had to explain to them that the paper I used was Kodak, in fact they had supplied me with the paper. They didn't even know their own products.
Uh-Oh...Somebody's In Big Trouble
Check out this tweet by Irish freelance creative Davy McDonald...it's a poster for Nikon eyeglasses he found at a camera store and opticians in Belfast (I assume a Black & Lizar's?). Whoops! My guess is that somebody at an ad agency somewhere is wishing he lived on a different planet right about...
When I was doing freelance photography I made the decision to only look for clients that had money. Why spend my time chasing clients who could not pay, even if they appreciated my work.
That worked out well for a number of years until I left professional photography.
The best excuse I received was from a non profit (I already gave them a discounted price) for slowness in paying. They said that they were 'managing their money'. My response was that I was trying to manage my money and that it was hard to pay bills if my clients did not pay theirs. The cheque came quickly.
How To Make a Million Dollars in Photography
A few more thoughts about working for free. One thing I'm interested in discussing is how badly it works. Tom Kwas notes that he's done work at deep discount for start-ups that promised him paid work later, once they "get their ducks in a row," only to have the same companies hire ad agencies la...
It is a shame about Rollei, one of the great camera makers of the mid 20th century.
At least in North America, Rollei lost its way in the 70's never advancing, never producing popular products worthy of the name.
Some truly low quality 35 mm SLR cameras, never really catching on in the 120 SLR market, less popular slide projectors, the list could go on.
But in the end, Rollei died of lack of innovation, died of producing a quality product for an ever shrinking market, died of an unwillingness to make the big jump into new technologies and ideas.
[Well, I don't know. I have a 6008AF that was pretty cutting-edge for its day and is still pretty magnificent, in a panzer tank kind of way. I think it's more that the pro market which Rollei and Hasselblad depended on, in Europe and the USA respectively, just had to switch early and hard to digital. --Mike]
The End of the End
Vivian Maier with her Rolleiflex It appears that Rollei has finally used up the last of its nine lives, friend Oren writes. (The link is to an insolvency auction of the assets of DHW Fototechnik GmbH, in Braunschweig, Germany, formerly Franke & Heidecke GmbH, longtime manufacturers of the Rolle...
You're a mean one, mr grinch. The open carry American way of assassinating the being of Burl Ives. The rest of the world would rather boil him in treacle for his festive tunes.
I screamed with laughter at today's missive, it so deservably disembowls the current essence of commercial Christmas that it should be mandatory reading for all of us Bah Bumbug Scrooge wannabes.
The Twelve Songs of Christmas
So I started out meaning to write an amusingly snarky post about bad Christmas songs. Speaking as a critic, there are some things best left uncriticized. For example: few weeks ago, I had a steak at Denny's. Here's my critical take on that meal: Denny's should stop serving steak. All Denny's res...
The two photos show what stepping a couple of feet either side can really change the image.
A good teaching lesson.
But as a former news photographer, we often saw this. What I shot versus the competition.
Open Mike: We Hear from Judy Dater (NSFW)
...No less. Judy was one of the photographers I admired and wanted to emulate when I was in art school, because of my interest in (sorry about the pretentious-sounding term, but it's descriptive) art-photography portraiture. There are nudes past the break, so fair warning. Our site is used in sc...
I could just imagine the kids trying to figure out a 1920's folding Kodak with 616 film.
Or trying to load a Leica 111c
Or getting the film on a Nikkor reel, in the dark.
What joys they have missed.
Who Knew Taking a Picture Could Be Such Hard Work?
"Funny and sad at the same time," said reader Jim H., who sent me the link. This is really cute, though. Give it some time, it gets funnier as you go on and there are some great lines near the end. Mike (Thanks to Jim Hein) Original contents copyright 2014 by Michael C. Johnston and/or the byli...
A friend of mine bought a Porsche by rationalizing to his wife,' it's cheaper than a mistress'!
Maybe you can work that sort of logic, somehow.
O Lawd Hep Me
First of all, here's the theme song for this post. Secondly, readers can help: you can either post a comment that says, "Mike, the last thing you need is another camera," or else you could helpfully point out deficits, flaws, and shortcomings in the Sony A7s. Thank you. That would be nice of you...
You are so absolutely correct about corporate radio and it's homogeneous character.
Video did not kill the radio star, corporate radio fired him!
8/20/14 The Morning Coffee: Music on the Radio
A Daisy BB gun. It fires tiny metal balls so weakly that you can see their flight through the air and watch the arc of their trajectory as gravity pulls them quickly to earth. A Good Morning to you— XM Radio got cut off in my car the other day—I'd forgotten to re-up—so no more jazz, temporarily...
I went through that a year ago. Cleaned out lots of obsolete stuff gone but not forgotten. Like memories they will soon fade.
Or be replaced by a new object dog desire.
The Morning Coffee 8/13/14
Good morning! It was a gorgeous day in Waukesha yesterday, with a soft primeval green rain in the morning and later, light that looked much more like Autumn than August. Dog training class yesterday afternoon was wonderful, one of Leann's best classes so far. The dogs did so well. (I really cann...
Bypass the whole poop and scoop process, duck tape a plastic bag to the dogs nether regions and then attach the cone of shame.
That way it won't be able to chew the bag off
You could even create a bag harness to hold the bag, much like a woman's hosiery hanger from the forties.. Hey, a business idea for you.
Maybe you will become rich and famous for the selling the TOP Doggie Poop Catcher.
Oh, Poop
Going to be late posting comments today. The dogs broke the screen door yesterday, so last evening after a long dog walk I set out to the local hardware megastore to be frustrated/disappointed as usual. Returned home after an hour to find the puppy had pooped in his crate, and gotten it all over...
Now that you read 1491 absolutely read the follow up book 1493, it gives a very sobering view of how the world changed since Columbus discovered people living in the 'New World'.
And the iPad is very good for magazine reading, though it gets a bit bevy towards the end of the day.
Just don't drop it when you nod off.
The iPad Air for Reading
[This week is Off-Topic Week at TOP—Ctein's forthcoming column (the post above this one) excepted. This is just a temporary interlude, not a permanent change of direction. Please join us next Monday morning when we'll resume normal programming. —Ed.] Despite owning a Kindle Paperwhite, which I d...
In Canada we are quite properly caught on the middle of the fence.
We have an amalgam of English spelling and grammar clashing with what passes as English south of the border.
It gets very frustrating trying to figure out what is the correct spelling of some words depending on the situation. Writing for newspapers was a good example of this.
But, then again we also have to deal with Quebec style French which is just as bi-polar.
Open Mike: Site Style
"Open Mike" is this site's editorial page, which frequently wanders off topic. It appears only, but not always, on Sundays. - Every responsible publication has a style sheet. What's a style sheet? It's a set of institutional guidelines for the presentation of formatted material—mainly, the verba...
One way around all this too many hours per week and we have to pay benefits nonsense is instead to institute a flat rate payroll tax.
Every dollar that gets paid to employees is taxed and those funds go to pay for benefits such as health insurance.
Two benefits, no excuses to not have full time employees because there would be no downsides, financially to having them.
Second, even Mr Big Shot manager/ owner gets to pay and gets to pay according to earnings, fat pay check means paying in more to pay for the benefits of the lower paid workers.
The laws would have to be written in a way that special employees also pay. That would include contractors, commission only, short term hires, casual labour, cash only, etc.
Open Mike: Against a Headwind
My head is full of pictures I didn't take, and they're all eloquent, perfectly composed and thought-provoking. Here's one I missed: The entire world seems crusted in snow. It's eight degrees out (–13°C) and the wind is blowing, which makes the cold worse. A major thoroughfare near where I live, ...
Soon, only the logo will be left for sale.
Kodak Burns More House
Meanwhile, continuing the business news from yesterday, Kodak is continuing its own pathetic/bathetic death wallow. Most recently, it has sold off its profitable CCD sensor division to raise cash. This ain't pretty to watch. Wasn't there an old folk tale about a man who dismantled his house stic...
A number of thoughts flew through my head on this one. The Che photo, the Gene Smith Minimata photo, Barak Obama, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley images. And the ironic twist of an Israeli photogrpahers photo being used as an anti-Iranian government poster. I guess the Zionists are behind all of the protests. Just joking on the last point, before someone goes off the deep end.
The Ultimate Viral Image
Israeli-American photographer Noam Galai's incredible story, from Fstoppers. The ultimate viral image? This is really the sort of thing you can't make happen on purpose—and, as Noam notes at the end of the interview, it's something that couldn't have happened twenty years ago—at least not quite...
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