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Custom-Tailored, Anyone? The Quest for the Perfect Camera Bag
Well the title should rather ask, “What’s the Perfect Camera Bag?” The choice of a camera bag is as personal as gear a photographer is working with. Some need no…
Killing the Golden Goose? Adobe’s Repressive Photoshop Cloud Trap
Sad when photography becomes a quasi-political topic. Is Photoshop installed on your computer? Well those days are soon gone. Adobe will no longer be developing its Creative Suite range of…
Thinking Out Loud: The Nikon D800EM for Monochrome
By BENGT NYMAN If some of you recognize part of what follows it’s because it has appeared on one of the Nikonian Forums, where it received mostly boos and oh-nos.…
The Silent Drama of Images — Sebastião Salgado and Photography as a Tool for Social and Environmental Change
This is essential viewing for everyone. His photography is above and beyond most of today’s well-known photographers. The name Sebastião Salgado stands for utterly condense compositions, the redefinition of space…
The Zen Film vs. Digital Scattershot Approach
How many photographs can you look at more than once? Not many, not many. Henri Cartier-Bresson (The following is a free interpretation of Forbes’ excellent Leica M Monochrom review by…
On Camera Intelligence and the Decline of Our Sense of Photography
Well with the “our” in the title I mean the large majority. Not you! Thing is, today’s cameras promise better and better images. Much of “modern” photography that is dictated…
Upgrade or Die? — Selective Vision and Photojournalism
By SARAH COLEMAN If you believe the hype, the next great technological frontier will be in the realm of vision, with digital tools embedded in glasses or in contact lenses…
Why I Love the Imperfection of Old Cameras
Life without fast autofocus and blazing fps is unimaginable for many photographers. Today everything’s done automatically, be it exposure, white balance, mode, whatever. Cameras have become thinking things. All a…
Analysis: Race for World’s First Mirrorless Full-Frame System Camera — Who’s In, Who’s Out, Who’s Ahead?
Call this a little compendium of what lies ahead in the compact full-frame interchangeable lens camera world. I talked with industry insiders and sources. Well it’s hardly any news that…
Marketing, Psychology and Consumer Behavior: Why Most Cameras Never Break Down
A study is keeping Germany abuzz: according to a report by the Green Party, manufacturers of electronic products build selective “predetermined breaking points” into their products to shorten their life…
We Don’t Use Cameras Anymore, They Use Us
The advancements of technology have always given us more control over our lives and time — especially now in the digital age. Take digital cameras. They help us master amazingly…
Exposure Doesn’t Pay Bills
This has become some kind of a phenomenon lately. With the exception of managers, everyone seems to earn less these days. Blame inflation, speculation, oversupplies of everything or whatever, fact…
It’s Getting Personal in the Photography Blogs Hierarchy
Let me start this with a worrying trend: I haven’t received yet a single hate mail. Am I not sticking my neck out far enough? Thanks readers and commentators for…
The Future of Camera Design
Cameras haven’t really come a long way since the days of Karl Nüchterlein, inventor of the first SLR for the mass market, and Oskar Barnack, father of 35mm photography who…
Some Inconvenient Truths — The Actual State of Photography Affairs
Don’t shoot the messenger! These are tidbits heard here and there. Agree or disagree with the points raised below. If you’re a confident shutterbug good at what you’re doing, then…
Are We Done With Film? “Side by Side” — Keanu Reeves Examines the Future of Celluloid
In case you missed it, interesting documentary by Keanu Reeves out in cinemas: Side by Side. Join Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking. Since…
In Photography, Your Credentials Are Worthless
The pursuit of paid photography is one of the few vocations left that are ideal for career changers and newcomers alike. Who needs a degree when great photos can do…
On Motivation and Photography
You, of course, refers to a fictitious person herein. You have all this fantastic gear. A brand new camera, terrific lenses and a designer bag for the whole lot. Everything…
Quality Trumps Size? Portability vs. Image Quality Obsession Revisited
Each job requires a different set of tools. A camera good enough for one job may be completely inadequate when shooting a more demanding job that requires better accuracy and…
The Importance of a Camera’s Mojo
Am moralizing again. This may sound like heresy to some of you, but I’m rather concerned about a camera’s mojo than absolute top-end specs. Here is why. Money can buy…
The Politics of Photography
In this second part of our three-part series on the psychology, philosophy and politics of photography, I’m exploring the relationship between photography and politics. One could go as far and…
On Fast Lenses and Return on Expenditure — It’s No Longer About Speed, but Character, Stupid!
The old argument that I have to spend heavily on good fast prime glass because I love to shoot in low light is dead. That’s a reasoning that dates back…
The Difference Between Simply Making/Taking Pictures and Seeing/Vision
This is, in part, a continuation of the pain expressed in the recent article On Gear Lust — Isn’t It a Perfect Digital Imaging World Already? Point is, quite some…
On Gear Lust — Isn’t It a Perfect Digital Imaging World Already?
Sure, good photography is mostly about the photographer and less about what camera and what lens. Truth seems to be, however, that good photography is more and more about the…
Film vs. Digital Reloaded: No Amount of Technology Will Turn a Mediocre Photographer Into a Great One, But…
“No amount of technology will turn a mediocre photographer into a great one. Nor, in conceptual terms, will it transform a bad idea into a good one. For that you…
A Message of Thanks to Our Readers, Custom-Tailored Deals and an Invitation
First of all, thank you for tuning in to THEME, the thinking photographer’s web portal. Really appreciate each and everyone of you. THEME is growing strongly, thanks to you. Am…
From Camera Obscura to the Age of X — What Is It With Camera Names!
We’re currently living at the threshold of a new camera age. Well that’s what camera names suggest. It’s the age of cameras with a “1″ in their name, symbolizing the…
The Psychology of Photography
Did you ever ask yourself what makes you want to take photos? Simply for the fun of it? To live your artistic streak? To capture memories or make a living?…
Feeling Cloudy? To Photoshop or Not: The Adobe Creative Cloud Money Trap
Been there, done that? You wanted to order Adobe Creative Cloud but decided against it when you saw the price. Didn’t you feel like you were getting ripped off plain…
A Debate in Photographic Nihilism: The Case for 35mm “Full-Frame”
Quote unquote “full-frame,” that is. No one can deny that Micro Four Thirds is as much full-frame as is APS-C as is 35mm-based “full-frame”… Full-frame referring to 35mm format is…
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