John Greengo

Stop Guessing Your Exposure: A Working Photographer's Guide to the Canon R1's Shooting Modes
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Stop Guessing Your Exposure: A Working Photographer's Guide to the Canon R1's Shooting Modes

I’ll be straight with you: I came up through design, not photography. My whole career started with making graphics in Photoshop, and the camera stuff came later, mostly out of necessity when clients started asking for “the full package.” So exposure modes were always the thing I’d half-understood, nodded through, and quietly Googled afterward. The Canon R1 showed up on my radar recently because a few photographers I work with on composite projects swear by it, and I wanted to understand what I was getting from their raw files.

The GFX100RF Is a Weird Camera — Here's How It Actually Works
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The GFX100RF Is a Weird Camera — Here's How It Actually Works

I’ll be honest: when someone first described the GFX100RF to me at a coffee shop here in Austin, I nodded like I knew exactly what they were talking about and then immediately looked it up on my phone under the table. Medium format? Fixed lens? Rangefinder style? It sounded like someone had described a camera by committee. But the more I dug into it, the more I realized the confusion isn’t a bug, it’s genuinely a weird and interesting camera that borrows from several traditions without fully committing to any of them.