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September 11, 2005 - The Last SMP Column
September 4, 2005 - The Magic Bullet
July 31, 2005 - Nothing About Noise
July 24, 2005 - (no article)
July 10, 2005 - The Tale Told by Two Pictures
July 3, 2005 - Catch the Rave!
June 26, 2005 - Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New
June 19, 2005 - The "Compact Disc Effect"
and the Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D
June 5, 2005 - "Tough" and "Sweet"
June 2005 - Fun Stuff: Bokeh Ratings and Lens Awards
April 2005 - SMP's Third Anniversary:
A Digital Black and White Update
March 2005 - Just to be Contrary
February 2005 - The Filter Flare Factor
January 2005 - The K-1000 of Digital SLRs
December 2004 - The Best Lens for a Leica
November 2004 - Killer Digital Lens
(And Other Digital Notes)
October 2004 extra - Thoughts About "Full Frame"
September 12, 2004 - Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
September 2004 - Bronicas and Robot Friends:
What I Did Last Summer
August 2004 - Uses and Applications of 35mm Lenses
July 2004 - Comparisons and the Odious:
Fakery, Actual and Conceptual
May 23, 2004 - Do You Have a Color Balance?
May 16, 2004 - (no article)
May 9, 2004 - Finding The Best CD-Rs
May 2, 2004 - (no article)
April 25, 2004 - 'Almost Every Night We Send Them Home'
April 18, 2004 - Secrets of Success
April 11, 2004 - The Reviewer's Life
April 4, 2004 - Bokeh in Pictures
March 28, 2004 - Review: Cone Editions
Press Complete
Digital Workflow Workshop
March 21, 2004 - (no article)
March 14, 2004 - Moving Pictures
March 7, 2004 - Evidence, not Proof
February 29, 2004 - Set Yourself Free!
February 22, 2004 - Parameters of Lens Specification
and the Properties of Lenses
February 15, 2004 - Digital Sizzles in the Desert
February 8, 2004 - (no article)
February 1, 2004 - Of Old Dogs and New Tricks
January 25, 2004 - Friendly Essays: Frank Van
Riper Talks Photography
January 18, 2004 - Lost in the Gutter
January 11, 2004 - Working For Pay
January 4, 2004 - Has Leica Lost It?
December 28, 2003 - The Other eBay
December 21, 2003 - Can't See The Pictures for the Pixels
December 14, 2003 - Hooray for Hewlett-Packard!
December 7, 2003 - (no article)
November 30, 2003 - Books, Nikon Bigots, and B&WP
November 23, 2003 - Camera Envy: the Nikon D2H
November 16, 2003 - Wedding Photography and the "$39K Schmuck"
November 9, 2003 - (no article)
November 2, 2003 - My Favorite View Cameras
October 26, 2003 - Choosing A First Lens for Large Format
October 19, 2003 - (no article)
October 12, 2003 - The Gestalt of 35mm Tri-X vs. Digital
October 5, 2003 - Got a Question? Ask SMP
September 21, 2003 - Taste, Part I: Schubert and Schoenberg
September 14, 2003 - (no article)
September 7, 2003 - Arguments, Strife, and Polemics:
More on the Killing of Mazen Dana
August 17, 2003 - (no article)
August 10, 2003 - (no article)
August 3, 2003 - Odds and Ends (and More About Digital B&W)
July 27, 2003 - Where the HECK is Digital B&W?!?
July 20, 2003 - (no article)
July 13, 2003 - The Case Against Zooms
July 6, 2003 - Headlines from 2011
June 29, 2003 - (no article)
June 22, 2003 - Clean, Lube, Adjust
June 8, 2003 - More on Clichés and How to Avoid 'Em
May 25, 2003 - The Nun's Hand (and Other Thoughts About Taste)
May 18, 2003 - Photographing Models and Nudes
May 11, 2003 - Getting Better: The Crucial Sentence
May 4, 2003 - Land of the Free
April 27, 2003 - (no article)
April 20, 2003 - The High and Lows of the Canon 10D
April 13, 2003 - (no article)
April 6, 2003 - Two Nikons and a Minolta
March 30, 2003 - SMP's Gala First Anniversary
March 23, 2003 - So You Say You Want To Turn Pro?
March 16, 2003 - SLRs Part Two: Finding the View
March 9, 2003 - The Digital Shopping Dilemma
February 23, 2003 - The Public and Me: What's an SLR Supposed to Be?
February 16, 2003 - The Bronica RF645 Rangefinder Revisited
February 9, 2003 - Lashed to the Mast: The Digital Odyssey
February 2, 2003 - Collecting Photography Books
January 26, 2003 - Best of 2002
January 19, 2003 - Pentax Under Glass
January 5, 2003 - Simplicity, Thy Name Is...Digital?!?
December 22, 2002 - I Get Mail
December 15, 2002 - Confessions of a Cameraholic
December 8, 2002 - How Many is Too Many?
November 24, 2002 - My Favorite Lens
November 17, 2002 - Leica vs. Zeiss: Whose Lenses are Best?
November 10, 2002 - On Photography Magazines
November 3, 2002 - Impressions of the (Particular) Past
October 27, 2002 - This Bothers Me
October 20, 2002 - Miscellaneous Notes #1
October 6, 2002 - Give That Cat The Boot: Editing 101
September 29, 2002 - Kodak Fights Back
September 22, 2002 - The 50mm Lens and Metaphysical Doubt
September 15, 2002 - That Classic Look
September 8, 2002 - Readings for Practicing Photographers
September 1, 2002 - On Self-Assignment
August 25, 2002 - Grandfather Mountain
August 4, 2002 - Photokina 2002 and the 'Olydak'
July 28, 2002 - Real Photographers Don't Use Sonys
July 21, 2002 - 'Just Say NO' to Digital SLRs
July 14, 2002 - Black-and-White Tonality
July 7, 2002 - Key Thoughts and the Zen of Fishing
June 30, 2002 - Hartmann Single Black: Interview With
Nicholas Hartmann, Part II
June 23, 2002 - Caring for Your Cameras
June 9, 2002 - Twenty Aprils: The Classic Era of the SLR
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Mike Johnston is the publisher of
"The 37th Frame," an ink-on-paper
quarterly for a small but select audience that's sardonic, sarcastic,
intelligent, independent, practical, entertaining, funny, and well written.
It's especially notable for detailed subjective reviews of lenses.
He was East Coast Editor of Camera & Darkroom magazine from 1988 to 1994 and Editor-in-Chief of PHOTO Techniques magazine from 1994-2000, where his editorial column "The 37th Frame" was a popular feature and where he presented, among other things, a set of three articles on "bokeh" by John Kennerdell, Oren Grad, and Harold Merklinger that were subsequently widely discussed among photographers. His critical and technical writings have appeared in various publications and newsletters such as The Washington Review and D-Max. A number of his articles written under the pseudonym "L. T. Gray" (el Tigre) appeared in the English magazine Darkroom User. |
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