“I mean, Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes that everyone liked…They left that to the Bee Gees.”
Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers), Wayne’s World
Classic Camera Review: Canon A-1
Legacy Lens Review: Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 AF
“I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains
I sing my song to the free.”
-Pete Townshend
Classic Camera Review: Pentax P30t
“Handsome is as handsome does.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
From the B-Side: The Motor Drive
“I have a thing for tools.”
-Tim Allen
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor-O 35mm f2 Pre-Ai
“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Classic Camera Review: Canon EOS Elan 7E
“Eos rose from her bed, where she lay by haughty Tithonos, to carry her light to men and to immortals.”
-Homer, Iliad 11. 1 ff (trans. Lattimore)
Classic Camera Review: Minolta X-7A
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-2n
“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”
― Suzy Kassem
Legacy Lens Review: Pentax Super-Takumar 105mm f2.8
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finally! A Pentax 6×7
“Welcome, Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure.”
-Moff Jerjerrod, Star Wars Episode VI, Return of the Jedi
Legacy Lens Review: Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.8 QBM
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
-Patricia Briggs
From the B-side: Solar Chargers
“Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.”
-William Shakespeare, Richard III (1597)
Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic ES II
“After all, the thing that looks most ordinary might be the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
From the B-Side: Gray, Black and White Cards
“Best analytical skill is to find the simplest solution.”
― Sonal Takalkar
Classic Camera Review: Nikon N90s
“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.”
– Paul Arden
Classic Camera Review: Rolleiflex MX-EVS
“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
From the B-Side: Extension Tubes
“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
-Richie Norton
Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic F
“Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.”
― Marius Vieth
Legacy Lens Review: Olympus Zuiko 65-200mm F/4
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
-Yousuf Karsh
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 55mm f1.7
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
-Joan Miró
Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-4
“The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One’s immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.”
-Homer
From the B-side: The Cone of Shame
“In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.”
-Amit Kalantri
Classic Camera Review: Canon FTb QL
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
-Aaron Siskind
Legacy Lens Review: Konica Hexanon AR 57mm f1.4
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Legacy Lens Review: Canon FDn 70-210mm f4 Zoom
An ordinary lens, if used only for making ordinary photographs.