After dealing with what I thought was something broken in the FG for two months, and after finally paying off some debts that had been hovering over us for awhile, and after doing a bunch of research, I bit the bullet and picked up another film SLR. Initially, I wanted to get a Nikon FM3a, …
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New Toys: Micro Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 and PK-13
After many years of hacking together macro things, reversing lenses, stacking lenses together, stacking reversed lenses on extension tubes, picking up old lenses with macro modes, etc., and after liking the results I got with them sometimes, I finally decided to pick up a proper macro lens, mostly to be the major part in a …
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New Toys!
Back during the trip to Chicago (I think) I started having a problem with the meter on the FG: it would stop working at random points, and the M90 leds would start flashing (the 1/60th and 1/125th lights in the finder that flash when you first load a new roll of film, but before the …
he does do windows
One day a couple of weeks ago, I heard a bunch of banging noises. At first, I wasn’t sure what the noise was, but then I realized: window washing day! Thankfully, I had the D7000 and an autofocus lens, and some minutes that I could afford to pause and shoot a bit.
waiting outside
Kodak Porta: flowers, etc.
So let’s wrap up this week of Porta with some pretty pictures, what’s say.
Kodak Porta: around the house and on the road
Over the couple of weeks it took me to shoot through the last of the Porta, I took few random shots around the house, and a few more out the front or side window of the car…
