Photography by Philip Greenspun

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"I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn." -- Pablo Picasso

Video is the new Photo

• Capturing Family History -- your children and grandchildren will thank you

  Guides and Tutorials

• Making Photographs, an online introductory textbook
  
  
• Portraits
• Gardens
• Architecture
• Interiors
• Macro
• Studio
• Underwater
• Street photography
• Aerial photography
• Star Streaks
• Nudes
• Tourists



• History of Photography (timeline)

  Interviews

• Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
• Ellis Vener

  Exhibits

• many of the articles in the travel section of this site also function as photo exhibits
• various exhibits and collections (highlights:some miscellaneous favorites; flowers in Hawaii; the streets of NYC)

  gear

• Tripods
• Bags
• Cleaning Cameras
• Building a Digital SLR system
• Choosing a Camera for Long Trip
• Choosing a Camera Based on the Project
• Filters
• Projectors (digital and analog!)
• Old (film) SLRs (images created with a 40-year-old classic)

  Canon EOS System (sadly crippled by their crummy sensors)

• D30 body (digital, 2001)
• Digital Rebel XTi (digital, 2006)
• 5D body (digital, 2006)
• 40D body (digital, 2007)
• 1Ds Mark III (digital, 2008)
  
  
• Rebel G body (film, 1995)
• EOS 1n body (film, 1995)
• EOS 5 body (film, 1997)
• EOS 3 body (film, 1999)
• Elan 7 body (film, 2001)
• EOS IX (APS film, 1997)
  
  
• 14/2.8L rectilinear wide angle
• 15 fisheye
• 16-35/2.8L
• 17-40/4L
• EF-S 17-55 (crop sensor only)
• 20-35/2.8L
• 24-70/2.8L non-IS
• 24-85
• 24-105/4L IS
• 35-350L
• 50/1.0L
• 50/1.4
• 50/1.8
• MP-E 65 extreme macro
• 70-200/2.8L IS
• 85/1.8
• 85/1.2L II
• 100/2.8 macro
• 180/3.5L macro
• 600/4L
  
  
• lens motors used by Canon
• macro flash ring and twin lights

  Nikon System (awesome thanks to Sony sensors)

• Nikon D1 (digital, 2001)
• Nikon D1x (digital, 2001)
  
  
• Nikon N80 (film, 2001)
• Nikon F4 (film, 1995)
  
  
• 20/2.8
• 24/2.8
• 60/2.8 macro
• 80-200/2.8
• 300/2.8

  Medium and Large Format

• Fuji 617 panoramic
• Rollei 6008 (6x6 film camera)
• Mamiya 7
• Bronica RF645
• Hasselblad 501cm
• Contax 645 and Mamimya 645AFd (film, 2002)
• Pentax 645N (1998, with autofocus!)
  
  
• Choosing a Large Format Camera
• Linhof Master Technika (better than the Zone VI!)

  Software Tools and Techniques

• Scripting Photoshop -- how to convert Camera RAW images into nice index pages for Web display (example)
• Collage
• Hand Coloring (in Photoshop of course!)

  of historical interest

• labs that will print from RAW images (experiment done in 2008)
• Storing Slides, Negatives, and Photos
• Evaluating Photos with lightbox and loupe
• Framing
• Canon v. Nikon (and today's winner is... Sony!)
• APS (Kodak tried to replace 35mm film just before the digital tsunami wiped them out); Minolta Vectis S1
• Contax N1 (a film camera system introduced in 2001!)
  
  
• Best Digital Camera (of 2007)
• Choosing a Digital Camera (in 1999!)
• Canon S100, the Digital ELPH (2000) and Canon G1
• Yashica S3 (a 2001 super compact digital camera)
• Nikon 775 and Nikon 995 (digicams from 2001)
• Nikon Coolpix 5000 (2002)
• Fuji S1 (Nikon F-mount early DSLR)
• Olympus E-10; Olympus E-20; Olympus E-1 (pioneering "zoom-lens reflex" systems from 2001-2003; see also this 2008 overview)
  
  
• Film Recommendations (from 1996)
• Printers (from 2001)
• Scanners (from 1996)
  
  
• Point and Shoot (film) Cameras (overview created in 1995)
• Minolta Freedom Zoom (sample images with this 1995 point and shoot)