11 December, 2024
GoPro – Treating a Action cam Like a Point & Shoot
GoPros seem to be something that people buy then never use, in fact I’m guilty of this myself. There’s long been an association with GoPro and the intense and dram...
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25 November, 2024
5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5
Cheap zoom lenses have never had a great reputation. Especially in the Digital age, some budget zooms are considered a bit of a plague. Cheap, plasticky, and very poor optically...
15 November, 2024
5 Frames with a Kodak Easyshare DX7630
I’ve had a tumultuous, and possibly longer than I’d like, experience with my Kodak Easyshare DX7630. On one hand, the colors out of the Kodak CCD sensor can be bea...
15 November, 2024
Hasselblad X1D II 50C – A Week of Trying Digital Medium Format
After the recommendation from a friend to check out my school’s lending library, I went on a deep dive through all the gear available. After finding a Plustek 8200i as we...
13 November, 2024
5 Frames with a Yashica Mat 124
I recently ran into a Yashica Mat 124 for sale at a local camera store. Having spent way too much time browsing endless listings for Seagull 4As (which have seemingly only incre...
6 November, 2024
Rollei XF 35 – First Impressions
I ran into this camera almost by accident. I was meandering through a vinyl record and camera store* and saw the small Rollei XF 35 hiding in a glass counter next to the registe...
24 October, 2024
Vivitar 19mm f3.8 – Exactly What it Should Be
Late one night, I was on a deep dive into finding a lens that matched a narrow, and somewhat arbitrary set of requirements I set. A mess of browser tabs covered my monitor. Most...
23 October, 2024
5 Frames with a 1D MkII and a 35mm F1.4L
Slogging around the Canon 1D MkII is my favorite way to pretend I’m a photojournalist. It’s big, bulky, and gets uncomfortable on the neck after about ten minutes....