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Decision: Use Digital Zoom or Not?

Decision: Use Digital Zoom or Not?

Today's Post by Joe Farace Most digital point and shoot cameras have optical zoom lenses that allow you to vary their focal length and change the size of an image being captured on the imaging chip. In most camera advertising, zoom lenses are often described by the...

We’re Having a Valentine’s Day Giveaway

We’re Having a Valentine’s Day Giveaway

Today's Post by Joe Farace How I made this shot:  It was shot at Parker, Colorado's Cars & Coffee using an Olympus Pen F with Olympus 25mm /1.8 nifty fifty lens. Program mode exposure, my typical choice for Cars & Coffee, was 1/1250 sec at f/2 and ISO 320....

Photographing Cruise Night: Low Light & Fast lenses

Photographing Cruise Night: Low Light & Fast lenses

Today's Post by Joe Farace Dick Stolley who many consider Time-Life’s best Managing Editor once said that a successful photograph elicited a “Gasp Factor” from the viewer. Stolley went on to say that if an image stopped the reader, forced them to take a second look at...

Our Cars: 1991 Mazda MX-5 Miata

Our Cars: 1991 Mazda MX-5 Miata

Today's Post by Joe Farace We all have cars that we’ve owned and miss because for reasons we can’t always remember, we sold. Today, it's about Mary's Miata. If you would like to write a post about one of your favorite cars, drop me note using the Contact tab above....

I ‘m Still Dreaming of Fiats

I ‘m Still Dreaming of Fiats

Today's Post by Joe Farace As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve had a love affair with Italian cars ever since the early 1970s when I purchased a 1969 Fiat 850 coupe (great car) and then, later a 1970 Fiat 850 Spyder (not so great) that came with all of the...

What Do Leicas and Tractors Have in Common?

What Do Leicas and Tractors Have in Common?

Today's Post by Joe Farace A crop sensor refers to any sensor smaller than a full frame sensor or a 35mm film frame.—Wikipedia. It used to be called the "multiplication factor" but the, for some reason "crop sensor" caught on, I think, because it has fewer syllables....