“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: Film Photography
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
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: 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: Canon 50mm f1.4 FD and S.S.C.
“Great battles are won with artillery.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Classic Camera Review: Tower 51 Rangefinder
A lofty name for a humble camera.
From the B-Side: Mechanical Self-Timer
“Oh, the Omega 13 device. We found that on the alien planet. We don’t know what it does, either.”
-Captain Jason Taggart, Galaxy Quest
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.
Legacy Lens Review: Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s
Not bad…Not great, but not bad.
A Fortunate Week for Critical Mass
…Where it stops, nobody knows.
Classic Camera Review: Kodak Retina IIIc
Funky foldable fun.
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 35-105mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s
I was pleasantly surprised.