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  • In the Big Apple for the annual IMS Motorcycle Show. The train burrows under the Hudson River and we come up for air at NY Penn Station, a hive of activity. I mean, this is like the crossroads of the world almost and a great location of street photos. But I’m just not feeling it.…


  • I’ll be at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC this Saturday. I’ll be at the RoadRUNNER Magazine booth speaking with subscribers. This is a yearly tradition for many motorcyclists in the New York area. Even if the weather outside is frightful, we gather, bump into friends, and ogle the…


  • I’ll be at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC this Saturday. I’ll be at the RoadRUNNER Magazine booth speaking with subscribers. This is a yearly tradition for many motorcyclists in the New York area. Even if the weather outside is frightful, we gather, bump into friends, and ogle the…


  • No it’s not, actually. I just made that up. But I thought that I’d post some Google Trends of Pentax’s camera line: For those wondering what this is, it’s a graph of how frequently someone has gone to Google and searched for each of the Pentax cameras. It’s interesting that the tiny Q is the…


  • I’m in the midst of doing some market research on a project, and while I was compiling site traffic data on Compete.com, curiosity got the better of me and I started looking at site traffic for some of the photography websites that I visit regularly. One thing led to another and I plotted the 2012…


  • So one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to take fewer pictures. That’s right, to shoot less. I took over 40,000 photos last year, and while I’ve got a ton of hard drive space I don’t have a ton of time to really go through them. There are probably some nice photos in there that…



  • Pentax has announced a new advanced point-and-shoot that carries the vaunted MX name forward. It’s called the MX-1 and it’s got what looks like real imitation leather sandwiched between brass top and bottom plates to like, you know, mimic the past. By the specs it looks like a nice advanced point-and-shoot in the Panasonic LX7 and Olympus…


  • Thoughts and samples to appear in future posts. In the meantime, click here for all posts related to the Nikon V1.


  • [This is the second post in a series. The first, “The Case Against Full-Frame” can be found here. The third, “The Case Against Micro Four-Thirds“, can be found here. The last, “The Case Against 1″ Sensors“, can be found here.] Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth during the Grungeolithic Era (aka, the 1990s), Kodak, Fuji,…