On a recent sunny morning I loaded my recently acquired Canon A-1 with a roll of expired (13 years) Fujifilm Neopan 400 Professional that some consider “one of the greatest and most distinctive black and white emulsions ever produced.” My goal was a casual photo walk in downtown Parker, Colorado to test the camera and a FD 50mm f/3.5 macro lens.

My #thursdaythoughts theme has been retired for 2025. In it's place is something different—Anything Can Happen Day. This was what Thursdays were called on the Mickey Mouse Club where I stole the idea! Today's Post by Joe Farace The countenance is the portrait of the...

The 10-megapixel Digital-Modul-R, its official name, was a stop gap solution and a clever one at that, that converted Leica’s chunky R8 and R9 35mm film cameras into DSLRs. It cost $5950 in 2006 dollars or about $9,125 today. Finding one today seems to be a challenge.

Before the Dot Com bust, in addition to writing for photography magazines like Shutterbug, I was a writer and Contributing Editor for several computer magazines, such as ComputerUSER.

Whenever I’m asked to do a presentation to photographic organizations about infrared photography, I always kick it off with a question a reader once e-mailed me: “Why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?”