“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.”
– Paul Arden
Classic Camera Review: Nikon N90s
Tag: Classic camera
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
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
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
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.
From the B-side: The Humble Cable Release
Underrated, but indispensable.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MD Zoom 28-85mm f3.5-4.5
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
-Ayn Rand
Legacy Lens Review: Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5
I hope I am in similar shape when I am that age. Ok, maybe not heavy and round, but you get what I mean.
From the B-Side: Nikon Lens Scope Converter
Neither tool nor toy, it is a bit of both. There really should be a word for that.
From the B-side: Rubber Lens Hoods
…Because I like my lenses.
Legacy Lens Review: Topcor 3.5cm f2.8
“The horror…The horror.”
– Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now
From the B-side: The Soft Release Button
Another B-Side review of an accessory that you may or may not find useful.
Classic Camera Review: Tower 51 Rangefinder
A lofty name for a humble camera.
From the B-side: A New Category
“What the heck is it, Edgar?”
-Beatrice, Men In Black
Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-2S Program
“Back to Olympus, from the war’s alarms, Return the shining bands of gods in arms; Some proud in triumph, some with rage on fire; And take their thrones around the ethereal sire.”
Homer, The Iliad
Fungus Among Us: Does It Matter?
“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”
-Emily Dickinson
Classic Camera Review: Canon AE-1 Program
In a word, smooth.
Classic Camera Review: Pentax K1000
Another rescue puppy–but this one can hunt.
The Accidental Kit #2: Olympus OM10
“After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I keep it?”
-Bilbo Baggins
Classic Camera Review: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521
More fun with an old folder.
Classic Camera Review: Kodak Retina IIIc
Funky foldable fun.
Classic Camera Review: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 523/16
A truly pocketable medium format folder.