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To tell you the truth, I had almost forgotten that I even owned a Panasonic Lumix GX8 until I was cleaning up my gear closet and saw it setting on the shelf.

For sure, accurate exposure begins with correctly setting lens aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Today’s DSLR’s and mirrorless cameras let you choose to set the exposure manually or let the camera do it for you, including ISO.

There are lots of ways that you can create infrared photographs: You can capture IR images with almost any DSLR or mirrorless camera using an on-lens filter such as Hoya’s R72 Infrared or you can choose to have one of your existing cameras converted for infrared-only capture

Around the turn of the century, a piece of modern business mythology was born. The idea goes something like this: “The customer is always right.” Many small businesses, including photographers, adopted this principle as if it were the golden rule (which is, as we all know is really, “those with the gold rule.”) And it worked—their customers, it was said, loved them. But some photographers did not make enough money to remain in business, all that love notwithstanding.

Scott Fitzgerald once told Ernest Hemingway, “rich people are different from the rest of us.” “Yeah, Hemingway replied, “they have more money.”

You can find all kinds of interesting stuff on the Internet. For instance, I recently found an interview with a photographer whose work I’ve admired for years but when it comes to the topic of Auto Review and Chimping, he doesn’t like it.