Editor’s Note:This is a guest post from Roger Cicala at LensRentals.com
Picture – A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. Ambrose Bierce
I’m a fan of the satirical and cynical definitions of Ambrose Bierce, first written as a daily newspaper column and later collected in The Devil’s Dictionary. (It was originally called the Cynic’s Word Book, but so many politicians of the day called Bierce a Devil that he felt the new title more appropriate.)
Ambrose Bierce
Unfortunately, very few of Mr. Bierce’s definitions apply to photography. Seeing a need that should be filled, I immediately began working on a Devil’s Dictionary of Photographic terms. Hopefully, some of you will join in and help to expand this desperately needed work.
The Cynic’s Photography Dictionary
Aberration – Something that is wrong with the lens by design, as opposed to something wrong with the lens by…
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