11 April, 2024
Going Analog on Okinawa – Part II – The First Roll
This is the second part of this story, you can find part one here I had been on the island about a year – but had rarely shot my DSLR; digital burnout and a lack of inspir...
4 April, 2024
Going Analog on Okinawa – Part I – The Decision
Up until about nine months ago, I was exclusively a DSLR shooter – my photographic journey started with a consumer Nikon APS-C (D5100 in 2010) and topped out at a D750, which I ...
6 March, 2024
Finding War and Peace in London – reflections after shooting London’s grand demonstration for Gaza
“Human-being will always repeat the same mistakes”(“人は同じ過ちを繰り返す”）- Mobile Suits Gundam Z This is a quote from the famous Japanese animation, Mobile Suit Gundam Z, li...
3 September, 2023
The Negative Space – a Portrait of a Local Film Lab
The last decade and a half have been a rough time for people shooting film, watching Kodak in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the discontinuation of favorite film stocks, rising prices, ...
6 June, 2023
5 Frames with a Friendly Deer
Too friendly, if I'm honest. But this is why I carry a camera with me nearly everywhere I go. It's usually something like a Nikon F2 loaded with Tri-X (rated at 1600), with my 3...
In 1973, the year of the Minolta XM's launch, Minolta had been serving the consumer market very successfully for several years with the SR-T . There, it was a hard-to-beat queen...
3 January, 2023
5 Frames on a Morning Walk with a Nikon F2A – By Stephen Hanka
I have been fooling with cameras for almost 60 years, since I was in junior high school in the early 1960s in the Detroit, Michigan area. In those days the Nikon F series of fi...
26 September, 2022
Nikon F2AS Review – The Camera That Filled The Void – By Chris Barrett
On a sticky early morning lines of cars crawling up the small highway give way to vendors for miles on either side of the small country highway. It’s the first weekend of August...