Musings on photography both analog and digital
It has been a busy spring, nonetheless I have been photographing as often as I can. Having time afterwards to write, without distractions or mentally churning through past or upcoming tasks, is another story entirely. I typically like to write articles with a sort of theme or lesson (along with the occasional gear-review-flavored morsel), but,… Continue reading Keeping Things Rolling
You don't need to go too far down the home page of this website to see a post about the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome. In that post from May, I made it quite clear that my short time with the camera (in February) left me wanting to keep it and shoot much more with… Continue reading Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome Review – The Advantages
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)
I promised a while back to give a third and final part of my review of the Panasonic GX9, focused on image quality. Truth be told, I hesitated so long because I don’t own the camera anymore. Years of Micro Four Thirds use are behind me, for the time being, as the GX9 was my… Continue reading Lumix GX9 Review Wrap-Up: The Image Quality
Things have been upended, we all know this and deal with it on a daily basis. Even in my neck of the global woods (shout-out to the podcast Stuff They Don't Want You to Know for that line, which I shamelessly stole), daily life has not been the same for quite some time now. Most… Continue reading Street Notes, July 2020
Micro Four Thirds cameras are frequently criticized due to their sensors being smaller than full frame, which makes it harder for photographers to get the "look" that's become emblematic of large sensors: shallow depth-of-field, smooth highlight transitions and lots of dynamic range. These characteristics were usually present (with the exception of the last, which… Continue reading Getting the Analogue Film Look from Micro Four Thirds In-Camera
The snapshot has a longstanding connotation of inferiority. Even if you enjoy making them, you probably acknowledge this apparent consensus, and perhaps even feel guilty about owning up to taking snapshots. This would be a mistake, for to assume that a snapshot must be a bad photograph is to miss what a snapshot is: not… Continue reading Are Snapshots Inferior Photos?
January is a pretty rainy month in the Pacific Northwest, so I have not had many chances to bring the Voigtlander rangefinder from the early 2000's outside to shoot. Currently I have only shot two rolls of film, one a roll of expired Fuji color film which is currently out for development, and the other… Continue reading Voigtlander Bessa T Between Storms
The Sprocket Docket 