http://www.peterferenczi.com/photography daily 0.75 2016-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453812401145-OL8PJ3AON5WJZ9NGV8U9/image-asset.jpeg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453812401145-OL8PJ3AON5WJZ9NGV8U9/image-asset.jpeg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453812515616-4X1HPG7LFC4P8OUFOLGO/image-asset.jpeg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453812964956-1D4E0T7UX2AFXEWXTA09/image-asset.jpeg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813022652-HBMS6FYHBF6EZFJIDBST/DSC01013+60+x+40+300+print.jpg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813034527-HSLZDQGBIAKTBQ25NSBH/DSC08481+60+x+40+300+print.jpg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813045756-PGF81U918ZJ6G11YLRY6/P6260175+65+x+50+300+print.jpg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813056296-X0GY0183D12VWEU4G7E8/PC201080+65+x+50+300+print.jpg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813350780-P4V2SO966DRID6HXAYOX/snapseed-105+40+x++40+300.jpg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813366064-1G47PAB5IH6D1KM5TQ7Q/P7280932+65+x+50+300+print.jpg Second Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1453813369185-848ONTRQTGGAS1Q8B2XY/DSC00981+40+x+40+300+print.jpg Second Stories http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog daily 1.0 2025-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1474632012435-UF9LM8PNOY7G0RPRY5X2/02540019+cr.JPG PartialSight (the blog) http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2025/12/22/a-tale-of-two-forties-the-sony-g-40mm-f25-and-the-nikon-z-40mm-f2 monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/f8e26eae-d076-4fa0-aac7-ce0ee892d899/DSC00454_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/ffbfd00f-4803-4e9a-ad2f-f58eb0fa816d/DSC00462_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out The Sony 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon 40mm f/2 are almost exactly the same size and weight. The Nikkor is a 2/3 of a stop faster and over a full stop cheaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/ca4b78ba-0d6a-4a4f-ab64-423132c99fe8/2+v+2.5+center+200+percent.png PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Nikon (left) vs Sony, center crop at 200%. Even at this stupid magnification, you might not see much difference at first glance. If you click through to the full size image, you’ll see the Nikon missed focus on the lamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/f9e27ab7-78c3-483f-a189-465bd76ce1c0/2+v+2.5+top+left+200+percent.png PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Nikon at f/2 (left) vs Sony at f/2.5, top left crop at 200%. The Sony is better, but at realistic magnifications, it’s not much better. Vignetting is also handicapping the Nikon. That clears up a lot at f/2.5. Unfortunately my f/2.5 test shot with the Nikon missed focus even worse than this one, so comparing corner sharpness is bust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/5c85914b-9e4b-419c-a942-c4539f1b5a43/2+vs+2.5+bookshelf.png PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Nikon at f/2 (left) vs Sony at f/2.5, halfway off center crop at 200%. No obvious difference here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/c338ae1a-3867-4bef-b172-839898072278/2.5+vs+2.5+bookshelf+misfocus.png PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Nikon at f/2.5 (left) vs Sony at f/2.5, halfway off center crop at 200%. The Nikon front-focused by enough to be a problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/89c925a0-9f7f-49c7-b5d5-bcd58b40965e/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+15.23.26.png PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Nikon on the left, Sony on the right, fit to screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/82ab13cb-afd1-48e8-84cf-c5cba1dc5758/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+15.27.41.png PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Nikon on left, Sony on right. The Sony gets catty with off-axis light sources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/d7e2bb44-cbd3-4e74-875e-901f44ea664d/DSC00459.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out Two households, both alike in dignity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/ac161927-c0d9-4600-a410-fdac97376d81/DSC00450.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - A Tale of Two Forties: A Semi-Wide Review of the Sony G 40mm f/2.5 and the Nikon Z 40mm f/2 - Make it stand out 40mm across the ages. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2025/1/1/the-sony-a6400-review monthly 0.5 2025-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/9d84dd26-86fc-4268-be0a-66b4a9e11973/Sony+a6400+on+tomatoes PartialSight (the blog) - Finally in from the Cold: The Sony a6400 Review, Coming from Fuji, Panasonic or Olympus - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/9429060c-2f47-4895-9bd0-711ada71cbe9/DSC01291_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Finally in from the Cold: The Sony a6400 Review, Coming from Fuji, Panasonic or Olympus - Make it stand out The art department is still sleeping off a debauched New Year’s Eve, so I’ll just sprinkle in some shots I took at Paris Photo with the a6400 back in November. You always see interesting cameras there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/9579be77-a790-4bdf-8b1b-2acd825ce443/DSC01297_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Finally in from the Cold: The Sony a6400 Review, Coming from Fuji, Panasonic or Olympus - Make it stand out The a6400 has a silent full-electronic shutter mode that’s nice for shooting in public as long as there’s not too much movement (in which case you might get weird rolling shutter artifacts, like in an old Lartigue shot.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/8525ed85-76b3-45e1-b68b-3642cdddaa53/DSC01329_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Finally in from the Cold: The Sony a6400 Review, Coming from Fuji, Panasonic or Olympus - Make it stand out Oh my God, that’s Anders Peterson! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/dae6612f-b8e5-4345-aa20-a0ab7f56fcfe/DSC01324_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Finally in from the Cold: The Sony a6400 Review, Coming from Fuji, Panasonic or Olympus - Make it stand out So meta. Not like Facebook. Or is it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/0d61df6b-3f10-4cbf-b121-141a8e61790a/DSC01285_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Finally in from the Cold: The Sony a6400 Review, Coming from Fuji, Panasonic or Olympus - Make it stand out As a younger man I might have made a crack about Macs and appropriation here, but the older I get, the less sure I am that I understand anything. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2024/5/25/the-traser-p59-review monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/102d3db9-43ea-4b36-9520-fd7e7375452f/P5240053.JPG.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out Sergant Sloth knows what time it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/45fa7311-3a64-4f62-9900-3320c165aee5/P5240051.JPG.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out The traser P59. Somewhat tactical, barely radioactive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/81528da2-c6fd-419b-8e39-275465832450/tsar-bomba-stem.png.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out The “Tsar Bomba” Soviet nuclear test of 1961, the largest explosion humanity has so far set off. Mostly fused hydrogen at work here, yielding a 50 megaton kaboom. (This image is apparently a still from a PR video the Russian atomic agency released in 2020, I guess trying to remind people of the good old days.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/a7370729-a1c0-419c-a9f8-7b4abbcdc199/Screenshot+2024-02-25+at+22.06.17.png PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out Where the magic happens: the mb-microtech facility, in an office park in a suburb of Bern. Check out the company car! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/07cac625-64cd-427c-bba7-6dec21f042af/P5240052.JPG.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out The oddly spaced-out hand stack, using plenty of the generous vertical real estate provided by the oddly recessed dial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/b05546cc-6087-43d7-847b-e8db77906370/P5240055.JPG.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out There’s nothing wrong with a diminutive case diameter if you scale down the thickness appropriately. The case is 10.3 mm deep here, more than a quarter of the width. A good ratio for a hamburger, but not so much for a watch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/4ee5d4b8-a240-4450-8a27-70380cdd4769/P5240066.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out Here we are at T0. Like most lume shots you find online, this is actually brighter than it looked in reality. The coventional lume clearly outshines the tritium tubes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/99241ba2-4d80-4854-a102-20f8d9b5c3d7/P5240070.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out T+3 minutes, approximately. The not-so-Super-LumiNova on the P59 has dimmed to match its tritium. The S100’s lume remains brighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/396a1be8-1fd2-4bdc-b78d-5736b69066fb/P5240073.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out T+5 minutes. The P59’s Super-LumiNova is really fading now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/161275b2-2910-4517-a417-d678c3afd606/P5240075.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The traser P59 Essential S Review: A Glimmer in the Darkness at the End of the World - Make it stand out T+a little more than a half hour. The trigalight is now brighter than the S100’s lume. The P59’s own conventional lume is invisible. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2024/3/1/the-fujifilm-x-h2-viewfinder-review-with-comparison-to-the-panasonic-lumix-s1-absurdist-connoisseurship monthly 0.5 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/d36bccff-e2a8-4c6f-990f-bef80f88c5d1/PXL_20231115_123322586.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Fujifilm X-H2 Viewfinder Review, with Comparison to the Panasonic Lumix S1: Absurdist Connoisseurship - Make it stand out The Fuji X-H2 and the Panasonic S1; two cameras that respect your eye when you peer into the EVF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/c595db06-e9ae-4077-85bb-705f29314951/PXL_20231115_123159203.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Fujifilm X-H2 Viewfinder Review, with Comparison to the Panasonic Lumix S1: Absurdist Connoisseurship - Make it stand out It takes a lot of glass to cover a full-frame sensor. Sure, it’d be more apples-to-apples if I had a 50mm f/2.8 on the S1, but that lens doesn’t exist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/aa6bbeee-46f7-4081-87f5-25066edf126d/DSCF0126_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Fujifilm X-H2 Viewfinder Review, with Comparison to the Panasonic Lumix S1: Absurdist Connoisseurship - Make it stand out I don’t have any more relevant illustrations, so from here on I’ll break up the text with photos taken while looking through the X-H2’s viewfinder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/8b872036-c8ec-4a5a-a977-4e4030dcfdd1/DSCF0561_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Fujifilm X-H2 Viewfinder Review, with Comparison to the Panasonic Lumix S1: Absurdist Connoisseurship - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/d1805ff7-8bcf-4b4d-aebe-45fac0d42dde/DSCF0568_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Fujifilm X-H2 Viewfinder Review, with Comparison to the Panasonic Lumix S1: Absurdist Connoisseurship - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1c1babe0-06fc-488a-9f27-aabab79577ce/DSCF1406_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Fujifilm X-H2 Viewfinder Review, with Comparison to the Panasonic Lumix S1: Absurdist Connoisseurship - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2024/1/6/no-ai-will-not-kill-photography-unless-it-kills-everyone monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/61784875-baab-43ee-ad00-a65c471e5b9b/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+ansel+adams.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - Make it stand out “a photograph in the style of ansel adams,” Microsoft Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/14a87a80-9454-47fa-8d8b-fdf2b7e44e9f/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+Henri+Cartier+Bresson+1.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - Make it stand out “a photograph in the style of Henri Cartier Bresson,” Microsoft Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. I never thought of smugness as an inherent part of HCB’s work, but maybe I missed something. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/dcadba06-9fd2-43e6-93c5-40facee563ea/_139bb130-a171-4b92-a3c9-b42fa0b37689.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - Make it stand out “a photograph of a unicorn talking to an alien in a bar,” Microsoft Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. Pics or it didn’t happen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/186ad667-9fb7-4c09-8435-8510095847de/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+sally+mann.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - Make it stand out “a photograph in the style of sally mann,” Microsoft Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. This seems to have a Hallmark filter applied; Sally’s kids usually look more difficult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/b25395d5-969e-4e14-b9a2-28f21e311851/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+Henri+Cartier+Bresson+2.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - Make it stand out “a photograph in the style of henri cartier bresson,” Microsoft Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. Smug with a side of Exorcist this time. I doubt Henri would have framed this to omit the 12-foot-tall man walking the dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/6d754031-fe1d-4827-a6d3-393ab0e4a74d/_df69d9f5-1e36-4ef0-8a82-7921e98ca890.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - Make it stand out “a photograph of a panda dressed as a US army sergeant fighting in afghanistan,” Microsoft Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. Fake news? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704553655020-X2UCENJX55NDF2Z6SUOU/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+Stephen+Shore.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of stephen shore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704552983411-UYPC9DIXWMCFMNNWH86R/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+Dorothea+Lange.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of dorothea lange https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704552994678-FUBR466WNC52AQY4AJNN/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+Bruce+Gilden.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of bruce gilden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704552945681-RWBLUC7CJGCEKXC3057H/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+gregory+crewdson.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of gregory crewdson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704553010364-OLJ0DAWQVW3O6VVCU5TO/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+elliott+erwitt.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) - a photograph in the style of eliott erwitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704553027505-C36BBFSFBXHTN3IE8I9I/a+black+and+white+photograph+in+the+style+of+robert+frank.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of robert frank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704553154822-ZL0FN7MXR6MODTIRUA35/_6afe082d-0886-4d6a-a0c2-396f2cde5c6f.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of matthew barney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704553235441-15JYUX2Z2PEWE5IG7RPK/_2e7880ee-070d-4601-8037-e1eee54dd604.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of Joel Meyerowitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1704633498251-R184023AD8ISIOJ8JUN8/a+photograph+in+the+style+of+diane+arbus.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - No, AI Will Not Kill Photography (Unless it Kills Everyone) a photograph in the style of diane arbus http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2023/3/19/the-casio-oceanus-s100-review-resolving-my-personal-quartz-crisis monthly 0.5 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/27655492-2a6a-40e1-b40c-ccf461ee563d/P1035718_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/e42ebc93-ff1c-42b4-b02b-3f0064aab3cd/evqz3dv5h8621+copy.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out Allegedly a photo of the OG Kashio Yubiwa Pipe, uncredited and stolen from a Reddit thread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/aaf0f2e5-c04b-4316-b777-3b7abd0ea4e2/Screenshot+2023-03-19+at+21.38.21.png PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out #1 Best Seller in Men’s Wrist Watches, apparently. Still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/cb757c76-c651-4e84-9431-b998a880ff66/P1035748_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out You have to assume that Casio didn’t worry much about how Oceanus branding would play beyond the home market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/68de9e54-9beb-4ae5-87cb-d14646556bff/P1035709_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/c0eb6e9a-eae1-4319-9c9b-9448546df74c/PXL_20230201_211444218.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out I’ll drop this lume shot here because I need something to break up the text. The lume seems good to me, though I’m not an expert. The hands remain visible all night if you charge them with a flashlight at bedtime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/35d921a0-5386-459f-8810-1bdd8b66e39c/P1035725_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/b9e8187e-8825-40e9-a365-0157d02fddc0/Screenshot+2023-03-19+at+21.52.06.png PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out An Oceanus case back on the Hayashi site. QED. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/d709c2c5-eb29-4dc0-9751-487f1b636906/P1035723_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out The. S100’s crown, a surprisingly rich tactile experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/c5a62989-6cf7-43b3-afc9-8f742c554525/P1035721_DxO-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out The hands look good from above, but if you get down low some rough finishing is visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/532bde67-b73b-4916-9a5a-a042d5c896d3/P1035721_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out Finishing on the date window doesn’t hold up to the generally high standards of the watch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/160a068a-6dfe-46b6-8e6f-4d28a23d3414/fort_collins_people.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out You can’t take a picture of accuracy, but I’ll bet these guys knew what time it was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/dca0f9b1-dac7-410b-9a66-2db6cddb5d32/0600utc.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Casio Oceanus S100 Review: Radio Active - Make it stand out This map of WWVB’s maximal coverage (0600 UTC is midnight in Fort Collins) is courtesy of the NIST, the US governmental agency that operates the station. We see WWVB’s signal flashing out in the night, blanketing North America, washing across the Atlantic and Pacific, whispering the time on beaches in Libera, Sierra Leon, Ginea-Bissau, Suriname, Guyana, Peru. NIST also tracks WWVB’s reception in three of the four US time zones and publishes updates every ten minutes here. In researching this review I came across a PDF scan of a 50-page booklet titled “WWVB Radio Controlled Clocks: Recommended Practices for Manufacturers and Consumers (2009 Edition)” published by the NIST, which I found fascinating despite (or because of) its dry, earnest tone. A representative quote: “When consumers check the accuracy of an analog RCC [Radio Controlled Clock, a term NIST advocates over ‘atomic clock’ unless 'there is actually an atomic oscillator in the RCC’], they need to be sure they are looking straight at the clock face and not viewing it from an angle. Consumers who view the clock from an angle might think it is off by a few seconds even if it is not. This is similar to trying to read the speedometer from the passenger seat of a car and thinking the speed is faster or slower than it actually is.” Clearly the author has some personal experience with an anxious parent or spouse in the passenger seat. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2022/12/6/the-panasonic-s1-review-a-heavy-hitter monthly 0.5 2023-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/fe944d47-9ee2-43d8-8d4a-c600b98f0c96/PB083695_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/2d9c4c40-225d-436c-aeb3-e251dbcf04aa/PB093712_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/33d8e32b-60f7-430c-a28d-86db71ef6562/PXL_20221207_123745622_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out The Panasonic S1 with a 50mm f/1.8 lens next to the Olympus OMD EM-5 III with a 25mm f/1.8. Nearly the same field of view. Both lenses are of modern design and moderate budget, far better corrected than the nifty fifties of yesteryear. Shot wide-open, the Oly will have a broader depth of field (historically a strength, in the current fashion a weakness), but will only grab a quarter of the photons for the same exposure. You probably shouldn’t care. Weights as shown: S1, 1,320 grams. EM5, 555 grams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/e4738735-57e5-40c7-b51e-e8888f016bb0/PB123721_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/bd038cb2-6f0d-492d-a27d-42c7bb77b7ba/PB093702_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/3e021339-592a-46f4-95e2-2963e7c00c1d/PB123722_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/648b1f1c-aba8-4ff9-9649-8eaf8adc22c2/PB063691_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/cf90591a-2c95-4e25-950a-18f1c7683a30/PB063692_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Panasonic S1 2023 Review: When More is More - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2021/12/12/samsung-nx3000-with-samsung-30mm-f2-review-a-grave-robbers-regrets monthly 0.5 2022-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639341984225-Y8M70HJ35D3VQ3D87E44/PB250399.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out The NX3000 prised from the earth, still looking remarkably fresh for a dead camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639342083835-NL9O93J2ZHCNM4VLOS44/Panasonic_Lumix_DMC-GM5_with_45mm_F1.8.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out This is the GM5, the last (and one of the only) enthusiast cameras that really pushed the envelope of how small Micro Four Thirds could go. It was introduced in 2014, apparently a market dead end. 之乎, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639343596268-HT2O8G937Z1QBXR7UZPM/Screenshot+2021-12-12+at+22.11.18.png PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out Here are a Samsung and a Pentax SLR from the partnership period. I’d forgotten that at least they reworked the button shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639342377077-QDNWSIJEUMVB927J3P4Q/PB250403.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out How small is the Samsung 30mm f/2 lens? Here it next to Nikon’s f/1.8 normal prime for its 1 system, which had a 1-inch sensor, roughly a third the area of the NX system’s APS-C sensor. Weird, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639342961177-CP5QQRBP0RBMYMAWJL3Y/PB250405.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out Here you see the NX3000’s top plate, with precious little to offer. Also pictured is the kit 50-200mm zoom, which shows you why putting a big sensor in a small camera doesn’t necessarily result in a small package. Compactness is largely about lenses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639344578746-CMS8D5CA1AMTONJFKME3/leo+oof-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out Here’s one of the kids that lives in my apartment. At ISO 1600, he looks pretty clean, not counting the bolognese sauce. What first looks like noise-reduction softening is actually missed focus — the camera focused back around his ears, so his face is a little blurry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639345481900-50ZEKQT58OO1QEKK35JP/green+leo-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out That kid again. This is with cloudy white balance, but the jpeg is cool and green. At least you see that the 30mm f/2 allows for some real subject separation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639344225499-PEM9ISEIHECT3FV5K90D/billy+record+front+blemish-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out Here’s one of those times the camera wanted to get the background in focus instead of my beautiful children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1639345024451-L2G6YX6KT7NLYFCROM65/scarecrow-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Samsung NX3000 with Samsung 30mm f/2 Review: A Grave Robber’s Regrets - Make it stand out Here’s a wide-open shot, focused on the scarecrow (and underexposed, but I think I did that on purpose to keep the sky in there — I didn’t yet realize I wouldn’t be developing the RAWs). If you look down in the bottom left corner, you’ll see plenty of detail. If this was a real photography review site there would be a snappy way to see a 100% view of the corner. Oh well! http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2021/11/13/the-leica-m10-haptic-fondlers-review-does-it-feel-like-a-real-leica monthly 0.5 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636810548605-TLLN0D4AO3KQCZ0BE2C8/PB120182.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The Leica M10. Beautiful landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636811055908-GBKRBED8UQQ1V55RP2RU/PB120184.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The M10 back to back with a real M. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636811174818-CA6TEQFWCNGUX807LEHP/PB120188.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The M10 is just a little taller than it should be. You wouldn’t think you’d notice it, but you do, if you are me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636996255563-L7QHDE8G4Y29KOOBZE8Z/PB120178.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The power switch, which we just addressed. The shutter speed dial, about which more later. The multifunction wheel, a necessary evil that Leica does not manage to elevate. Here’s something a UX engineer might ask a focus group: “When the red dot is visible, is the camera on or off?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636811792831-RTLCFD5MUHNPA5XGO3KT/PB120176.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The ISO dial. Haters gonna hate. But sometimes the haters are right. No coincidence this is set to 'A.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636812626434-6XCFRXWVW34B77GWLA3H/PB120177+crop.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The buttons. Broad and bold, satisfying but not inspiring intimate caress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1636996296151-N1EOTHU5U0E7UPY9SQFN/PB120175.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Leica M10 Haptic (Fondler’s) Review: Does it Feel Like a Real Leica? - Make it stand out The shutter button and speed dial again, with more context. Photography is really about controlling context. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2020/12/4/the-zeiss-ikon-contarex-review-king-of-kings-or-naked-emperor monthly 0.5 2020-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1607086302111-64U5L9TRB296FZNNN5LR/PB235734_DxO+web.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? The Zeiss Ikon Contarex, a lost ship sailing outside of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1607086990374-69NJD8SASTIWIKCOEH3Z/PB275766_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? Seeing the naked lens mount gives a sense of the mammoth size of the Contarex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1607087121310-LN5VK88XGX03R6457048/P2140968.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? A Leica M2. Beauty that cuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1607086864905-G81DBYRPGX7SL1P0R3AF/nikon+f+135-1.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? The Nikon F echoes through camera designs today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1608585057305-5I5FT8U00O8U92XZMYTD/PB275760_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? The cyclopean light meter of the Contarex: a simple selenium cell behind a complex mechanical iris that’s coupled with the lens. What could go wrong? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1608647739677-RGPW6ZTJNYUXYMOYBSAJ/Screenshot+2020-12-22+at+15.28.44.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? Here is a selection of the Nikon Fs I’ve known. All but one arrived in my hands, after decades of neglect, still essentially functional. (The first in the lineup here was the exception, but it looked like it had been bouncing around in the bed of a pickup truck on rough country roads for years.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1608584245235-AKEGGLKS6W9FNQPQGEI7/PB275762_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? The Contarex shutter release. Precision metal work, but be ready to press it like a reluctant witness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1608584596458-XJPNR6F691XRM0P810P9/PB275763_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? The Contarex shutter release/frame counter/shutter speed dial/film speed selector/exposure compensation dial/arming lever. Simplicity itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1608584434347-W1JUPL4Q54A871XA1TA3/PB275761_DxO.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Zeiss Ikon Contarex Review: King of Kings or Naked Emperor? The Contarex aperture display, to the left of the ridged aperture selector. Innovative, original, a pain in the ass. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2020/3/27/the-nomos-tangente-power-reserve-reference-172-review-pandemic-time-in-colour-with-an-impressive-map-section monthly 0.5 2020-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585320346441-QXTRSLV61WAYPAVWU3UM/tangente+on+box.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section My Tangente on the nifty box it came in. I have a new respect for people who photograph small objects. What a nightmare of filth coats every surface of every thing, and praise be that we at our lofty heights are usually spared it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585400456009-JCVDYRHGKDYWJBS3A6Z6/tangente+wrist.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section On watch forums, this is called a “wrist shot.” It’s like a selfie, but for your watch. Wrist shots make me uncomfortable in a number of ways, but they are also fascinating to look at. I have never adapted to the performative aspect of social media, and the idea of pointing a camera at any part of myself still feels vaguely transgressive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585403826703-0GTNKDKQM82C85CWDKXV/tangente+second+hand.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section The small seconds subdial, actually a bit smaller than on a vanilla Tangente. The concentric design reminds me of a zen garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585320870886-FOB0NK2YM5QCIPN0Q0HQ/tangente+encyclo.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585320947043-XXB9ZV6PZR4RLIZ5J4IV/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section Animals that lived in Glashütte long before the watchmakers arrived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585321323584-3O7VMXBLC4VYL9P43WGA/tangente+map.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section An impressive map section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585321504349-ZDKON3MEF94PBVUTNQ9Z/tangente+power+reserve.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section Power up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585320674331-YR6RQZUQ0OZ4EXRQ83OO/tangente+back.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section It’s not easy to make this movement looks this bad, what with the Glashütte ribbing and the sunburst polishes, the rhodium plating, the neat perlage tucked behind the balance wheel, the blue tempered screws and balance spring. But I have done it, with my own flakes of skin, smears of oil, and some sloppy lighting, produced entirely in-house with no help from the Swiss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1585403524956-6XQXYI5LZY9SBQAR4B1J/tangente+crown.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Nomos Tangente Power Reserve Reference 172 Review: Pandemic Time, In Colour with an Impressive Map Section The Tangente, unlike most cell phones, can tell you the time without being touched. Eventually you will have to touch it to wind it, but you can do this on your own terms, near a bathroom sink and a bottle of good Marseille hand soap. The crown and lugs are quite elegant. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2019/8/30/nikon-j5-and-nikkor-185mm-f18-the-last-review monthly 0.5 2021-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567537699360-RDW0OGOA0EO3SO7DRDER/nikon+f2+and+j5.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review The Nikon J5 alongside the Nikon F2. The F2 will stop a bullet but only fires at 5 frames per second with the pictured MD-2 motor drive. The J5 should survive an impact from an errant ping-pong ball and can shoot at 60 frames per second. The F2 makes you feel like a conflict photographer until your shoulder starts to hurt and you realize you wouldn’t last five minutes in the shit. The J5 is so light you forget you’re carrying it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567323495171-DWK1JC6XQBE0VH6GNBHQ/JPEG+image+13.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review DPreview thought that moms would like the 1 system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567323531832-2MGXFJMDU63NOUGOSYU6/JPEG+image+2.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review ISO 800, f/1.8, 1/80 sec. My first APS-C DSLR looked pretty crap at ISO 800, and it only offered half the resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567323576646-10MMYJAVAS1L13SM33TL/JPEG+image+3.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review ISO 1600, f/1.8, 1/40 sec. Even at this relatively high sensitivity, there’s plenty of detail in this dark scene. The J5’s silent operation allowed me to get right next to the water buffalo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567323625972-JJY9XEYEIUSXLCKCVCEH/JPEG+image+9.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review What exactly are your supposed to look at with these things? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567323421082-KP3M0JCBOXJAH60A1WZR/JPEG+image+7.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review The 20.1 megapixel BSI sensor in the J5 can slice bread and fart rainbows. Or not, but it certainly gets the job done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1567342458329-EE8ALP30SG3CZQQDNWCK/JPEG+image+11.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Nikon J5 and Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 : The Last Review You can get the Nikkor 18.5mm to flare if you’re a dick about it. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2018/11/27/the-olympus-om40-om-pc-casual-review-tall-dark-and-ugly monthly 0.5 2018-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1543325008412-FZXU7NP7LACICRIUUPEZ/o40+1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Olympus OM40 / OM-PC Casual Review: Tall, Dark and Ugly Behold the Neanderthal mien of the OM40: heavy shoulders, protuberant brow. I know it’s not fashionable to bash Neaderthals now that we know about the prehistoric hanky-panky we got up to, but on the other hand, I’m probably 2% Neanderthal so I think I have the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1543325359157-GHKSORV4EP2SJ8I4JCF6/om40+2.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Olympus OM40 / OM-PC Casual Review: Tall, Dark and Ugly From above, the OM40 is less objectionable. The same is true of many things, which probably underlies the human urge to fly. Yes, these are my eBay pics. Don’t worry, I’m being honest in the description. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1543326424221-5T2LCK01UD8WB4NE9S2S/om40+sample+neg.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Olympus OM40 / OM-PC Casual Review: Tall, Dark and Ugly Ru-roh, Raggy. After the first frame, things went bad quickly. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2018/1/16/hey-google-the-lightest-metal-mechanical-slr monthly 0.5 2018-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1535722289545-HNLUTVD7U1593PUH9HYK/P8310278+mx.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Hey Google! The Lightest Metal Mechanical SLR It bears repeating, for search optimization: the Pentax MX is the lightest metal mechanical 35mm SLR. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/10/17/not-reasons-i-shoot-film monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476697124288-RCAWIRXFMDFMKM7WKCRV/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Not Reasons I Shoot Film Is it real? Or is it VSCO? Can you tell at web resolution? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476697435791-A4YFZUWYS2PR4O5WW6K7/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Not Reasons I Shoot Film Even if I'd shot this on film, I'd never be cool enough to inhabit this bachelor pad or bestride that magnificent iron steed parked in the living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476697794307-63VB8OP8GRK7C0VLTHN0/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Not Reasons I Shoot Film My negatives won't outlive the fury of the sun, the grandeur of the ocean, or man's hubris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476698224348-6C3D8RTXGT8GZ9S8HNN8/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Not Reasons I Shoot Film Neg Strip Taking a Shower This is not the end of the process. The scanner waits in the other room like a malevolent blue toad. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2018/6/9/an-appreciation-of-ashley-pomeroys-women-and-dreams monthly 0.5 2018-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528632633878-CPQXUKV5JI2C1LQL95N6/neg0006-2.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams When Pomeroy writes a post that doesn't lend itself to illustrations, he often scatters his own photos around to break up the text. I'll do the same here with shots from by back catalog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528632895514-LP9O4KA27I9QRLQZCMK0/snapseed-30.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528632952699-N7QO5SAVWPCAK1UQRZGH/DSC08810.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528633000900-802GJJKGW0CUB67WDBY0/neg0016-8.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528633043374-INBADDY6KDQCZGWMJL5H/neg0029-27.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528633073322-LTD7ICQ65PPXHLJ7RZ37/DSC08080.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528633132806-KISMT2IQ428W69DU26ZV/DSC07977.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1528633188924-QKDWU1FZYJXMIC7WBEJ6/DSC08481.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - An Appreciation of Ashley Pomeroy's Women and Dreams http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2018/4/1/film-digital-and-paradoxical-simplicity monthly 0.5 2018-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1522610896747-9WQ0GMEBBMWIPAQISXCG/neg0039-26.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Film, Digital, and Paradoxical Simplicity Things were simpler, better, before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1522845572116-RRJN65SMBOUQWQKX1KT7/neg0031-5-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Film, Digital, and Paradoxical Simplicity Digital natives performing strange rites. The smart ones may one day recognize the poison of convenience, the corruption of algorithms that presume to create an idealized memory of a fictional moment. Whose ideal? Whose moment? Get off my lawn. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2018/1/9/on-film-forestalling-disappointment monthly 0.5 2018-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1515490483559-FW7M32TEE9LWI22JE326/neg0030-40.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - On Film: Forestalling Disappointment I think there was something here a split second before I took the photo, but maybe not even then. I continued on my merry way, hopeful in the sunshine. The failure was locked away in a latent image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1515490593116-RMMWIMEHEC9P3ODWH5X8/neg0034-20.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - On Film: Forestalling Disappointment I might have been a little drunk for this one. I probably saw something in the looming mass of the back, and hoped the low angle would lead somewhere fruitful. I didn't notice the other head on the right, and even without that, I wouldn't have caught the thing I was after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1515491548737-NKKSWTMUAKKTPYR1SXYW/neg0030-39.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - On Film: Forestalling Disappointment There was potential in the situation but it needed something else to bring it together, and in any case it's much too far away. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/11/20/scanning-film-doesnt-have-to-hurt-the-pacific-image-primefilm-7250-pro3-relfecta-rps-10-magical-wondermachine-casual-review monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511182579743-GHQF1A5NK2B6RF2XE2RL/neg0025-26.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review Shot on film, scanned with close to no effort. Come closer, and I will whisper my secrets to you. Fujufilm Superia 400. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511183119461-4BQ3DCNX0GFXKE2HXM3X/P9251140.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review Behold, two machines. They work together, despite having almost nothing in common. America, can’t you do the same? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511183180751-XHUWZTD9UAE9FW1I1I1J/neg0024-4.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review Straight analog to digital conversion. There aren’t many options to mess with in the included software. No film profiles, for example. Kodak UltraMax 400. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511183209218-R0XEEG8CXET85B4TMS58/neg0024-4-1.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review Thirty seconds of curves work improves the color. Is this cheating? When people begin to get brain implants and don’t disclose that in job interviews, will that be cheating? It’s a trick question, of course: by then there will be no jobs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511183310367-NDP14P841GHSLJPWS082/neg0028-4.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review I ended up cropping this to fit Instagram. You, dear reader, get to the experience the original. Feel special. All that dead space on the top and bottom is intentional. Not because I didn't want to get too close. Superia 400. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511183887836-N17ZUEC4W4DWIRXA0ALZ/neg0029-27.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review I routinely lift my face to heaven and thank the stars for having been born in the era of great television. Also, in this brief sliver of time between the advent of antibiotics and their exhaustion, the end of nuclear brinkmanship and its resumption, the discovery of carbon fuel's apparent blank check and the revelation of its horrific true cost. I exercise prospective nostalgia as a form of prayer. Agfa Vista Plus 200. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1511184302152-6BCXJOO4NQFD3P9Y6TAC/neg0025-10.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Scanning Film Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Pacific Image PrimeFilm 7250 Pro3 / Reflecta RPS 7200 / Magical Wondermachine Casual Review I like the Dutch. They have wrought their share of pain, but they did it early, and got out while the getting was good, and now we have largely forgotten. They mostly spent their money on the right things and now we can enjoy their beautiful houses these centuries later. Superia 400. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/10/2/harrow-technical-the-robin-gowing-interview monthly 0.5 2017-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1507035275911-SO27U07MJHYZPMW3BIZN/P1020296.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Harrow Technical: The Robin Gowing Interview Fancy camera fixing paraphernalia in Harrow's workshop. Is that a lens collimator? A shutter speed tester? I don't really know but I'd love to poke buttons and twist knobs here. Robin would probably frown on that, though I doubt he'd raise his voice. Anyway, I wasn't there -- Robin courteously, and with minimal prodding, provided the photos for this post (apart from the one I stole from Google below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1506952290165-47VBMEP5DLS6DB51UXZM/Capture.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - Harrow Technical: The Robin Gowing Interview Pentax House, as seen by Google Street View. If it was called House Pentax, I would have made a Game of Thrones reference. It would have been more clever than something about winter coming. This post is trying to write itself across multiple timelines, alternate realities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1506952585675-21QOR7HTAFE3ARWYSE0H/P1020297.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Harrow Technical: The Robin Gowing Interview An MX (not mine, possibly the character's) on Robin's work bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1507035786875-NQ0EHTAQLT08GSNHFNOE/P1020298.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Harrow Technical: The Robin Gowing Interview A wider view of the work bench, since Robin took the trouble to photograph it. The same MX in déshabillé, fumbling hastily for its bottom plate. Looks like some Bonne Maman jam jars back there, probably full of specialty greases and oils. Let's hope Robin doesn't get his marmalade mixed up with his Nye 140C! http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/8/1/walker-evans-shoots-junk-at-the-pompidou-with-david-hockney-bonus monthly 0.5 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1501589006438-NV0R8EU0UIL03D42FJNQ/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Walker Evans Shoots Junk at the Pompidou, with David Hockney Bonus Once you've seen my phone snaps of these photographs, you don't really need to drag yourself to a museum to look at prints and breath air recently exhaled by other humans. (Please note that I am an entirely unironic person.) On a sincere note, I love wrecked cars, and the older, the better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1501589536598-W9MER8W4BFUOANEH26XA/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Walker Evans Shoots Junk at the Pompidou, with David Hockney Bonus Signs, advertising, grinding poverty, wry commentary on consumer capitalism. Nicely done, Mr. Evans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1501589255163-KQZGFI0K8CA8VVKLV9WH/Ordinary+schmoe%2C+rando-snapped. PartialSight (the blog) - Walker Evans Shoots Junk at the Pompidou, with David Hockney Bonus Ordinary schmoe, rando-snapped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1501588941076-T0T49Z64X95Y83ETWF7G/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Walker Evans Shoots Junk at the Pompidou, with David Hockney Bonus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1501590214373-TDK96TR3SQ6T55TJ5C92/david_hockney_the_scrabble_game_d5532678g.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Walker Evans Shoots Junk at the Pompidou, with David Hockney Bonus Photos weren't allowed in the Hockney section, which I find pretty damn petty. So here's something I stole off the Christie's site, of a piece I'm pretty sure I saw in the show. I was going to add a snarky little dig at the auction house, but when I went to their front page I ended up reading a whole article there about a guy who bought a Leica and randomly fell in with Picasso, Matisse, Braque and company immediately thereafter, making his very first exposures of these luminaries and in the process providing Christie's with some expensive stuff to hawk 60 years later but still, a neat article. Nothing is black and white except black and white photography and penguins and zebras to a certain extent, and if you allow yourself too much time to think it becomes difficult to insult anyone properly or even make a decent generalization. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/4/25/puglia-and-an-olympus-lens monthly 0.5 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493129140524-8IYS35LOLKCJL9UWLWLV/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens The old port in Monopoli. I looked everywhere for the Thimble, the Boot, and the Wheelbarrow, with no luck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493129277106-N1PMWQHKUMBYBP0YPTXP/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens I don’t zoom, but I crop. This is part of an ongoing series called “Lions by Sculptors Who’ve Never Seen Lions.” We take it for granted now that we know what everything looks like, even the scads of things we’ve never seen in person. Thank you, photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493132925689-CS32O9BY12DNQUB1ZR4I/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens This Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm 1:1.8 lens has just noticed a staggeringly racist restaurant logo in Bari. It furtively looks around and is relieved that there are no black M.Zuiko 17mm lenses around. I personally don't see the appeal of the silver Olympus lenses unless perhaps you have a silver-bodied Pen. Leica has taught me that miscegenation is only permissible between silver bodies and black lenses, not vice versa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493135293840-22I2ZX63KYYQCRSTAVE2/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens I didn’t take any pictures of the seats or airport. They’re serious about recycling in Puglia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493135398235-WPWSWAVNIC90HBJKARRN/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens Visiting a former cave home in Matera, the Casa Grotta di Vico Solitario, at f/1.8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493135451575-R5CEPG7RJDU4WO8GYNEL/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens Trulli with Kodak sign: signs of other times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493135497597-8V2L2YNDXERKED9IEXMO/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens Locorotondo, blinded by the light. Time was I’d have a hundred largely indistinguishable photos like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493135763995-5DOPN198H55WCVII05HB/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens God, like most powerful, busy folks, outsources the cleaning of his house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493136044617-B47E2R7ZCU0OXVY6QYH9/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens Matera at f/8. Sharp like old concrete and tile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493136076528-VBOKY5PSZ0S82IAF219M/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens EMBER CALL UR OTHER (little Magicians ref there, eh): This crop shows some background blur, which doesn’t often happen at this focal length without some effort. It’s not buttery. Is it salty? A bit of vinegar? A hint of macha? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493136219971-Z9VUIKG8Y6P8P9WPKSJR/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens An unremarkable photograph that wasn’t ruined by a spot of flare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1493136282282-S96AGO21DCR4REANDAUR/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Puglia, The Church, Smiling Eyes, Road Martyrs and the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:1.8 Lens PIGs. "They're not very friendly," a friendly Puglian warned me. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/3/23/josef-koudelka-the-making-of-exiles-at-the-pompidou-center-paris monthly 0.5 2017-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490283773220-QO842IU9WFBO12H1NVZA/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490283874766-4I6P3T5CJ55VUVRRNHRQ/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490283965033-CWKGADZAH1DT7SJME0DV/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris The photographer always inserts himself in the photograph, especially when shooting other people's highly reflective photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490284224564-EK26A8FUFAIK29ENSPIB/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490284099821-P8J7BLVXB90OFMEDJCVI/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490284374104-55HN9QTH67WPBUYF99KS/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1490284394512-R6IUJRNZD1GIOOOPAONJ/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles at the Pompidou Center, Paris http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/3/6/the-yashica-electro-35-gsn-dont-get-too-excited monthly 0.5 2021-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1488797927448-39UWD2Y9HOBZRBHUW61P/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Yashica Electro 35 GSN: Don’t Get Too Excited Behold, the Yashica Electro 35 GSN. This is a camera review, not a beauty contest, so I’ll say no more here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1488797985360-K9L811B38VRTEP6SIUQH/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Yashica Electro 35 GSN: Don’t Get Too Excited The Electro 35 can make a properly exposed, in-focus photograph. Sorry about the low-res scan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1488798036069-WKN74SC9U4VMY8DPLDNX/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Yashica Electro 35 GSN: Don’t Get Too Excited Even with a gummy viewfinder, accurate focus is possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1488798174853-YA2ER8FF4RK164SDBTE9/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Yashica Electro 35 GSN: Don’t Get Too Excited Note the Electro’s proud shutter release and the red and yellow over and under-speed warning lights, also visible in the viewfinder. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2017/1/17/r7hrch94chlptvv2w5x1wgcjkimlh9 monthly 0.5 2017-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1484661942541-R8S5LLXVEGXUFU09APZH/DSC07898+edit.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Splitting Utility and Passion Somewhere on this planet, fragments of my skin sloughed DNA shelter in the weather-sealed darkness of a Pentax K10D. For years, one of these was my most prized possession. I carried it all over the world. When I sent it off to KEH, I told myself it would find someone else to love. I used the proceeds to fund a new camera, a better camera, and the cycle began again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1484661130551-LI4TH7J46PT06CM12DKK/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Splitting Utility and Passion It's easy to imagine how much "better" your photographs would be with a "better" camera. The bitter but also beautiful truth is that the only substantive upgrade is "no camera" to "camera." (Be sure to picture my air quotes as you read.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1484666597899-FFIDSJSNFUC0V72G92Y5/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Splitting Utility and Passion To recap: digital cameras are just tools. Embrace extinction. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/12/5/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others monthly 0.5 2017-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1481020663982-JU1K5093TJA9S7SHR6SH/not+like+the+others.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - One of These Things is Not Like the Others Take it away, Kermit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1480956918692-VM7ZUG5XS0NRQEJ1T1UI/similar+duo.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - One of These Things is Not Like the Others Superficial similarity is what makes half of street photography go 'round. These apparent parallels are rare enough to feel like "finds" and they seem vaguely clever if you don't think about them at all. Note how I turn the "people photographed from behind" trope (evident in something more than half of street photography, I'll wager) and use it to my advantage to erase the subjects' otherwise-distracting individuality. That was totally on purpose. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/11/20/the-future-of-photography-has-no-cameras-or-photographers-part-2 monthly 0.5 2016-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479650397423-WPO40E1UOKHX016FMX2Y/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 2) Like the smugly flatulent unicorn on the ark, photographers are an endangered species. I'm going to call © Peter M. Ferenczi on this as a derivative work. If some undead medieval glass painter has a problem with that, step up, fool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479737215277-KUAETLJSM00WZ53U2M8Q/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 2) In this PR shot from Narrative, we see an attractive, diverse group of friends wearing the company's life-logger, the Narrative Clip 2. Narrative recently declared on its blog that it was "filing for voluntary dissolution," which is presumably the corporate equivalent of conscious uncoupling. Then, 20 days or so later, the blog blurted out that a group of employees had acquired the assets of the company and it would soldier on in some form. Astoundingly, this announcement was made without reference to "the story continuing" or similar. © Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479737618541-T79YMTSENBA5UU7W8K32/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 2) I find the images in the Narrative press kit strangely compelling. Here, a family, delirious with joy, is abducted by aliens. They whoop as they are beamed up at sunset into the hovering saucer. The father is rising fastest: it seems that the aliens respect our patriarchy. Of course, Narrative's product could not have captured this image, unless another family member, a less favored cousin perhaps, is looking on with his own Clip 2. © Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1480516286120-AUV3XXYEY3J0ZVKKUQ3M/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 2) The problem with writing about the future is that if you don't type with your mouse hovering over the "Publish" button, you find yourself writing about the past. This is a picture of the AirSelfie from a press kit that includes five product shots featuring four disembodied hands but zero confirmably attractive people (I could make guesses based on the hands, but guesses are all they would be). However, the hands are identifiable diverse. The product name is terrible but tells the story effectively. As of my present (your past) the AirSelfie's Kickstarter campaign has pulled in over eight times the funding goal. © AirSelfie Holdings Group http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/11/14/paris-photo-2016-show-report monthly 0.5 2016-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479140626075-ZCDXR2CJ9JW92MZC936O/eye PartialSight (the blog) - Paris Photo 2016 Show Report The Eye of Mammon shines over Paris Photo. It's much nicer since they moved the show from that subterranean warren under the Louvre to the Grand Palais. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479140671587-CXD7TEMS3GWIJBAJJ55L/speaking+to+money PartialSight (the blog) - Paris Photo 2016 Show Report Attractive people spend their time talking on phones amidst enormous prints. I have been attending Paris Photo for over a decade, and the women who work there never seem to get older. What is their secret? Mammon knows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479140950123-IMB3K8Y9ZI302ALJNA2T/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Paris Photo 2016 Show Report A tilt-shift lens, a snappy suit, and a gold-plated handgun are all useful when attending Paris Photo. Flowers are appropriate for any occasion. I had never seen the rather amazing photo by Sean Hemmerle back there on the left (or had I seen it and forgotten it? In which case there is no hope for me). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479142011171-L6QCHOC6EXPODE1RDBIS/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Paris Photo 2016 Show Report The glass ceiling of the Grand Palais reflects the stalls below. If I'd had a tilt-shift lens maybe I could have corrected the perspective distortion evident here. But I didn't, because I don't own one. Ditto a gold-plated handgun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479142258686-4FL8IQS75TWH2QQJK2PF/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Paris Photo 2016 Show Report Galleries are contractually obligated to use only information technology sourced from Apple. This is not true, but the show seems to exist in a pocket universe where the PC and Android never happened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1479141176518-TA6UUQ7NCJ0W5DAVA7OL/IMG_1541.JPG PartialSight (the blog) - Paris Photo 2016 Show Report This might actually be the T rather than the TL, not that it matters. The camera will join the digital junk stream in the near future, but the lens will live on, hopefully taking wide angle views in bright light but probably sitting mintily in a cabinet. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/11/4/the-future-of-photography-has-no-cameras-or-photographers-part-1 monthly 0.5 2016-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1478254702907-GCZRZ0HIZZIUIZFKYJEU/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 1) For a while, these things were everywhere. Then they weren't. It turned out that only a few people really wanted horses. Everyone else just wanted to get where they were going without walking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1478253215073-2DDBPL6A31S8FMPKD6Y8/new+old+cameras.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 1) 128 years separate these cameras. Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. In the distant future archeologists will consider the stratum in which they are buried and marvel at the brief moment of its thinness. The broken camera stratum will overlap slightly with the horse bone stratum, and archeologists may wonder if cameras somehow killed off the once-ubiquitous quadrupeds. Original Kodak Camera by National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, CC attribution noncommercial, Nikon D5 by Kārlis Dambrāns, CC attribution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1478356236612-8KQKS155RHUAJY6ABOPC/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 1) When the future arrives, it's ugly and doesn't work very well. Technology is a strange race where coming in first place often means becoming a historical footnote. Someone farther back watches the fastest runners cross the finish line, stagger to a stop and look around, panting and confused by the lack of cheering. Nokia 9110 by Eirik Solheim, CC attribution sharealike, Google Glass by Kārlis Dambrāns, CC attribution (Also known for his stirring portraits of DSLRs -- weird that searching Flickr with unrelated terms, I picked two photos by the same guy.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1478356978082-DSJC192YM6R0SDEFI6LN/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - The Future of Photography Has No Cameras or Photographers (Part 1) This guy wants to be thinking about his camera. He is not like most people. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/10/18/leica-the-unreasonable-choice monthly 0.5 2021-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476783297993-IHJO2NYYPQOTO8PEOLE7/PA081375-01.jpg PartialSight (the blog) - Leica: The Unreasonable Choice Shhhhh. Just look at it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476783595468-Q1UXFUTXODPOF4ITULVD/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Leica: The Unreasonable Choice Olympus F. Zuiko Auto-S 38mm f1.8 Pen system lens So metal. At first it was just for fun. Then just when I needed it. Then I needed it every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476784409905-77VD9XT8W6CPZI8ECCTK/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Leica: The Unreasonable Choice © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos I have never seen like this. I will never see like this. I fill this sadness with objects. http://www.peterferenczi.com/blog/2016/9/30/found-lost-found monthly 0.5 2016-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1476175261663-SIYT7Z3S1KKOH3Y7L402/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Found, Lost, Found "Karen saw things other people didn't." That's the point of photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1475402392588-QWYAWPTT5WK8FMZ8A8L3/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Found, Lost, Found "The girls were referred to as 'notetakers' in Professor Crispin's contract." A favorite from 2007. Stuff like this rained out of the sky. Until it didn't. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1475403992665-QRAFI5EOFPA203UP2YOZ/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Found, Lost, Found "Lucy's outfits had to match her route to work." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1475404212417-D4NVAKQ5N1DW3MPKJOJG/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Found, Lost, Found Sometimes a shot would still walk up and slap me in the face, but usually it was a pretty obvious one. Who would miss this? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7657b69a91a83ae965850/1475405819769-032DGN4WJUJB702NAF6H/image-asset.jpeg PartialSight (the blog) - Found, Lost, Found "When it came to the ladies, Steve knew it was all about the approach." 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