On the subject of extra focal lengths to carry when out looking for pictures, one very useful lens can be a serious telephoto of 400mm or more. The lens in this instance is the 400mm f/6.8 Telyt in Visoflex mount, last mentioned by this writer...
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It's about time to talk about making pictures in snow and cold. This photograph shows the main street of the bustling small New Hampshire town of Peterborough, with about 6,000 residents. It was made just at the end of a two-foot February snowstorm. Not much...
My husband, Chuck, is a romantic sort of guy. He’s also a car guy and a camera guy, which explains why he decided several months ago that we should run his Morgan roadster up the Pacific coast from the San Francisco Bay Area to Vancouver Island...
The recently released Summicron-S 100mm f/2 ASPH lens is reputed to create extraordinarily sharp images, capably resist the effects of flare and reliably produce both accurate skin tone gradations along with a subtle and pleasing bokeh. It equates to an 80mm...
The Far North has captured the imagination since ancient times – uncharted for millennia, believed to be at once an icy cold barren place and a paradise of sorts. As exploration and discovery unveiled the Arctic, the richness of the land and sea became...
My column in the last issue recommended carrying a telephoto of fairly major length either in the shoulder bag or in a backup bag stowed in the car. This time the recommendation is to also have some sort of closeup capability in one of those...
The message on my cellphone simply stated that I didn’t need to come into work that day.It requested that I immediately return the call, but seeing that the message was left sometime in the pre-dawn hours, I didn’t feel an urgent need...
Sometimes having a long lens in the bag can make the full page lead shot for a magazine story. Sometimes it can produce a picture that couldn't have been gotten otherwise due to distance or obstacles in the way. Sometimes, as here, it gets the shot...
”I’d rather have one and not need it, than need one and not have it.”–a wise person It’s a fine line, my wife Laura will tell you, between “collecting” and “hoarding.”1 But each item in my studio is essential,...
It’s official. Leica has just started delivering the world’s fastest medium format digital camera, and perhaps the most advanced. When I met with the product managers for the new S (Typ 007) at Photokina, I was in awe of all the technology...
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