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<\/center><\/p>\nMarch 7 – The Nikkor 500mm f\/8N AI Reflex lens<\/a> is possibly one of Nikon’s most abused and ill-used optics. It is special in every way and I set out to show how to get the best out of it here. I was so irritated about the ineptness of users’ comments all over the web, reflecting nothing more than poor technique, that I really went to town on this one.<\/p>\n March 6 – A simple snap named Pachino<\/a> brought with it a flood of imagination and memories, resulting in another short story to accompany the picture.<\/p>\n March 13 – Alcatraz<\/a> was the destination for a day trip with my boy and it’s almost impossible to make bad pictures there, though I saw many giving it a good try.<\/p>\n March 24 – White Birches<\/a> saw me reminiscing about my time with God. Seldom have I had so much fun writing a short story.<\/p>\n April 6 – Six in sixty and one-twenty<\/a> saw a raw fecundity of output in two minutes with a very wide lens.<\/p>\n April 19 – A face at the window<\/a> showed the benefits of carrying a light and inexpensive zoom along for the trip.<\/p>\n Photographers:<\/b><\/p>\n Feb 13 – Donald Jean<\/a> shared his gorgeous Venetian photographs with readers. Thank you Donald for your outstanding photography.<\/p>\n March 21 – The NYT’s Lens blog did an arresting piece on 1950s images of dirigibles<\/a>.<\/p>\n March 28 – Englishman Martin Parr<\/a> cannot be accused of good taste, doing a number pretty much on anyone he photographs, with hard flash and poses which often ridicule. But this modern imitator of Wegee is worth a look.<\/p>\n April 22 – Photography in Mexico<\/a> was an enthralling show at SF’s MOMA.<\/p>\n Photography:<\/b><\/p>\n January 2 – Fringale<\/a>. At the conclusion of 2011 I made a commitment to share my dining places with readers who might be thinking of visiting the closest thing to Paris in America, San Francisco, a city I photograph weekly. Fringale was the first such in 2012, to be followed by many others.<\/p>\n January 15 – My Desk<\/a> laid it all bare and disclosed the less than ordered work space in my home office. It doesn’t look much better today.<\/p>\n January 26 – Midnight in Paris<\/a> is Woody Allen’s luminous tribute to the Paris of Gertrude Stein and nothing better was made for the cinema in 2012.<\/p>\n February 7 – Legacy Nikon lenses<\/a> was a real Trojan Horse. Little did I suspect that this piece would take me on a tremendous odyssey of rediscovery of old MF Nikkors which I used in my youth, borrowed from my employer, Dixons, in the UK when I was still in short trousers. I ended the year owning all of the lenses in that piece and many more.<\/p>\n March 11 – The Nikon D700 and Geotagging<\/a> was the tale of my determination to confer competent GPS data on my Nikon snaps. It proved successful and far lower cost and better designed than Nikon’s clunky solution.<\/p>\n March 17 – Adding a CPU to MF Nikkor lenses – Part II<\/a> was the culmination of a massive technical exercise into ‘chipping’ old Nikkors. The benefits are huge, the costs minimal.<\/p>\n March 26 – ACR lens profiles<\/a> saw me start publishing lens profiles for all the MF Nikkors I was acquiring. These have proved popular with old lens aficionados, looking to get the best out of their lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking back. It’s proving a bit of a mad dash for the finish line, but come December 31, 2012 I believe that the column count here for the year will be exactly 366. One a day, though if you go to the bottom of the page and click on ‘Archives’ you will see that August … Continue reading Columns of the year 2012 – Part 1 of 3<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Pachinos.jpg\")
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