Columns and Essays

by Mike Johnston:

Essays

Photography's Quiet Giant [1992]

Why I Hate Infrared [early '90s]

All Lens Tests Are Wrong [2001]

Columns

This Bothers Me

The Colors of Black and White

The Case Against Zooms

Getting Better: The Crucial Sentence

The Magic Bullet

'DMD': The Digital Camera I'd Like to Own

On Photo Contests

Book Reviews

Articles

Johnston's Not Much of a System System

Train Your Brain...to Guess Exposure

Lens Sharpness

How To Stress a Camera Lens

Helen Levitt

'Open Mike' (off-topic mini-essays)