Musings on photography both analog and digital
We've had the term "elevator pitch" for a long time now. The idea is having a short, distilled message, usually a sales pitch, that can be given in a short time, hypothetically in the time it takes to share an elevator ride, though I'm not sure how often that has actually been tried. The elevator… Continue reading Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome Review (Over the Phone)
It has been a while since I've revisited this blog. I spent some time in the past year considering ending it and starting a different sort of outlet for my photographs, since they have shifted somewhat in style with the move to an urban location, and the older examples seem a bit less relevant to… Continue reading Shaking Off the Cobwebs
Sometimes there is not enough leisure time to pen the deep photographic insights. In lieu of these (both insights and leisure time), I think there may be space for some simple ramblings. Here is one. It's hard for me to fully express how useful is the venerable DSLR platform. When I purchased the Pentax K-1… Continue reading DSLR Deliberations
In the months since writing my last post, my gear list has remained mostly the same. The Voiglander Bessa-T and Color-Skopar 35mm f2.5 have left, providing some of the funding for the Pentax K-1 Mark II. It has been a busy time outside of my photography hobby, and it culminated in a move to a… Continue reading A New Horizon, A Familiar Skyline
A couple of years ago, I wet my feet in the world of Pentax with a KP, a compact APS-C DSLR which was originally released in 2017. The KP marked a departure from the normal lineup of Pentax DSLRs, as a sort of midrange model which experimented with a different form factor, a few new… Continue reading An Exploration of Full-Frame Digital Via the Pentax K-1 II
The age of COVID has been a rough time to keep a photography blog. Certainly I started out two years ago with the idea that I would be capturing a point history would look back on, with the many facets of our individual perspectives in the world: a time of face masks, social distancing, upheaval… Continue reading A Brave – or Timid – New World
In a previous post, I theorized about the Ricoh GR IIIx before it officially made it to online retail sites. Given I have a longstanding affinity for the 40mm field of view, I was very excited by the announcement, and got my hands on one as soon as I could. Now that I've had it… Continue reading Ricoh GR IIIx Review: The Lens
Last time I wrote about the power to surprise and arrest us that a photograph has by being printed and placed into real-world surroundings. But what if we want to make photographs to appear in a book, or to try and capture a moment of the restless viewer's time on the internet? We can do… Continue reading Two Working Elements of a Photograph, Part 2
What qualities are we looking for when making a photograph? I have a few thoughts on the question (naturally!). At a certain level, I think we are interested in photographs that are both surprising and familiar. There is a process of looking that every good photograph entails in its viewer. It can't be read all… Continue reading Two Working Elements of a Photograph, Part 1
Ricoh recently announced the GR IIIx, a standard-focal-length version of the GR III. By standard, I mean the truer standard, 40mm, not the long-standard which was so prevalent during the early rangefinder and film SLR age. Whereas 50mm has just a bit of telephoto effect, 40mm is closer to life, with a tad more peripheral… Continue reading Thoughts on the New Ricoh GR IIIx
The Sprocket Docket 