“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
-Joan Miró
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 55mm f1.7
Tag: Film Photography
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.
Classic Camera Review: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 523/16
A truly pocketable medium format folder.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta 35-70mm f3.5
Minolta really got it right with this one.
Classic Camera Review: Nikon F3
Yes, there is a pattern forming…
Classic Camera Review: Nikon F
Let’s call it the F. You know, as in “Reflex”.
-Nippon Kogaku