Recent content by Mike Lopez

Or...and hear me out for a minute...maybe the most prolific poster in this thread could step away from the keyboard for a moment and go do something wild, like take a picture or touch grass or something. Jesus...

Except for when it doesn’t. Here’s an example I found while eating dinner at a food cart patio tonight. See that rock peeking out between the legs of this stool, with the little triangle of light above it? The camera (my phone) saw it. I saw it when looking at the phone with both eyes open, and...

Then which of the two “correct” views corresponds to what the camera sees? Neither one does. I suspect we aren’t going to agree on the distinction here, and that’s fine.

I'm not talking about 2-D vs. 3-D, stereoscopes, or any of that. Try this experiment. Look at something out in front of you, ideally a scene with at least two or more vertical elements. Look at it with one eye closed. Now close the open eye, and open the other. Do this back and forth several...

Do you also look at the finished photograph with one eye closed? A waist-level finder (or ground glass) allows one to compose with both eyes open, which I prefer by far. It’s subtle, but the differences are there.

What is it that makes you assume the OP is a married man? 🙄

Kinkade and Meyerowitz aren't the same person...(were you making a joke?)

Ok, then I’m going to take the same approach that @Don_ih took in deleting their last post. We won’t agree, and this is pointless.

Have you never seen Walker Evans' photographs of common hand tools? If you see those photographs in person I suspect you might re-think all of the opinions about tools that you've expressed here. That man could see, and his pictures of tools reveal a certain beauty that might stop you cold.

I logged in just so I could give this a thumbs up. Lovely picture.

That doesn’t follow at all from what @reddesert has said here. Your logic is busted and you’re conflating ideas so you can keep referring to your story about a judge or something.

@Don_ih is correct. Lots of red herrings here, and I'm not even sure that you (@cliveh) understand what you're talking about. It's all over the place.

The link that Koraks posted was not about restoring anything. Did you even click on it?

I think @photogear interpreted your question in a way you perhaps didn't intend (it wasn't very clear) and you wound up talking past each other. Their response appears to assume that you are asking who pays a tariff imposed by Japan when you return equipment to that country. As I read the...

Not to sound snobbish, but it takes a lot for me to buy a photo book with pictures printed across the gutter. That's a terrible design, in my opinion. Most of the finer book publishers seem to agree.