One of the thing that I like to do is customize my cameras. In scouring the Web for gadgets and gizmos I sometimes stumble across other kinds of interesting photographic items, such as the Skink Pinhole Pancake lens

After  FUJIFILM announced that its GFX 100 II Medium-Format Camera would have a 102 megapixel imaging sensor, I had to dust off and update one of my old posts that addresses the question of “How many megapixels is enough?” So here goes…

The focal length of any optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system’s optical power.

My advice: Don’t let other other people, especially other photographers, determine how you spend your money. Having too much money tied up in cameras, lenses and lights or worse, debt for all that gear will sink a new portrait photographer faster than anything else.

For too long I considered considered the 3:2 rectangle as sacred and I will admit that it’s still my default shooting crop with my mirrorless cameras, not the 4:3 that is standard. I’m gradually getting over that kind of thinking too. But sometimes this idea can be carried to extremes, I think, as evidenced by the SOOC movement, not as Seinfeld once said, not that there’s anything wrong with it.”