Joe’s Movie Club: The Best Movies of 2011

Joe’s Movie Club: The Best Movies of 2011

Today’s Post by Joe Farace There appears to be some consensus among many cinema lovers that there are not many great films being released these days. Factoid: Of 2021’s top ten box office hits only one was not a sequel or an IP project. (Intellectual property is...
Film Friday: Joe’s Film Box for August

Film Friday: Joe’s Film Box for August

Today’s Post by Joe Farace No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.—Robert Adams Kodak’s GC/UltraMax 400 is a high-speed daylight-balanced 35mm color negative film that I have been wanting...
How to Please Book and Magazine Publishers

How to Please Book and Magazine Publishers

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”—George Bernard Shaw And to answer the question that I proposed above, I don’t know how. For reasons I’ve never fully understood, over the years,...
In the Field: Laowa 17mm f/1.8

In the Field: Laowa 17mm f/1.8

Today’s Post by Joe Farace With a price tag of $149, as I write this, the Laowa 17mm f/1.8 for the Micro Four-thirds format looks like a good deal. Like the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 lens I previously tested, the build quality of this lens belie it’s modest price, especially...
No Matter What Shape Your Image’s Is In

No Matter What Shape Your Image’s Is In

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)” is an instrumental composition recorded in 1965 by The T-Bones and released as a single the same year. I believe that the kind of camera that you use and the way you use it...