Joe Farace

After I purchased a used Lumix GX1 from Roberts Camera and had it converted for infrared capture using Life Pixel’s Hyper Color filter, I took the camera to the giant “jacks and balls” at Parker CO’s library and immediately began to doubt my choice of cameras.

Richard Avedon once said,“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” I think he meant that when he makes a portrait he likes to control as much of the environment, and maybe even the subject themselves to create a photograph of his subject that reflect his image of them, not how the subject sees themselves.

And so, dear readers what does “crop sensor” mean? If film shooters refer to roll film as 6×6, 6×7, and 6×9 and sheet film as 4×5, 5×7, and 8×10, why can’t we refer to the sensor size by its actual measurements because as you can see, their ain’t nothing standard about ”crop.”