Stan Banos News Today

Longtime TOP reader and frequent commenter Stan Banos, who comments here as Stan B., is the subject of a new article on A Photo Editor. Impressive. You might recognize Stans "Red" photo from our "It Must Be Color" Bakers dozen....

Havent been following American football* lately? Totally understand. I was away from it too, for years. Sports are the thing I miss most about not owning a TV. For some reason I got back into it this year. Well, the...

[TOP publishes on Mon./Wed./Fri. Comments are added later.] Reader and friend o TOP JG—you might recall the Frankencamera—had an unfortunate accident with this PC-Super-Angulon-R 28mm ƒ/2.8, made by Schneider, I believe, for Leica. "I removed the shift mechanism from the...

Ive just received the "Mikes Miniatures" prints from Ctein in California—theyre little gems. I will sign all of them and return them to him, and then he will ship them to the buyers. By the way, the paper hes using...

[TOP publishes on Mon./Wed./Fri. Comments will be added tomorrow.] The new-old M11 Leica just released the M11, and a new rangefinder M Leica is always going to be an occasion. The "pixel-binning" Leica can be shot at full resolution of...

Weve been talking about riches these past few days. And everybody has different ideas about money. The way Ive always thought about wealth in my own life is that it gets me back to zero. That is, being prosperous is...

The situation: I ask to see a photographers work; he sends me a link to about 850 pictures. Thats a lot to look through, but I find what I wanted. As far as the group as a whole is concerned,...

Just a slight counterpoint to the previous post: We do need to remember that wealth doesnt actually cling to us past death, even though modern society has evidently decided it does. It doesnt actually cling to us even in life....

[TOP publishes on Mon./Wed./Fri. Comments will be posted later.] Thats the advice of Thom Hogan of ByThom.com, who says your New Years resolution should be to never switch camera systems again. He makes the case for it. Charting some of...