Cameras and other things

or, "his whole site is just him ranting" -- Medusula

A little collection of technical and opinion articles.

Cameras

Canon A-1: A legendary 35mm camera from the late 1970s, and my favourite camera ever made.
Canon EOS D30: A long-obsolete, mostly-forgotten 3-megapixel digital SLR.
Canon T50: An ugly, automatic-exposure manual-focus SLR (1983-1989).
Canon T90: Stylistically, the first modern camera (1986).
Fujica ST705: A fully manual M42-mount camera with open-aperture metering.
Kiev 88 "Hasselbladski": A bad Ukrainian Hasselblad copy.
Nikon D1: Nikon's most important camera of the 1990s, and one of the most important cameras ever made.
SUB-ARTICLE: PowerSmart battery for the Nikon D1. Works better than Nikon's own ever did!
Nikon D2H with over 390,000 shutter actuations!: A little celebration of my D2H. Shorter than anything else here.
Nikon D70: Nikon's first cheap digital SLR, from 2004.
Nikon F55: Plastic film SLR from the early-to-mid-2000s.
Olympus Trip 35: No batteries required!
SUB-ARTICLE: Focusing the Olympus Trip 35
Pentax ZX-M/MZ-M: The plastic-fantastic miracle. Weighs less than the motordrive for the A-1! I got it for free.
Praktica MTL3: An extremely tough, fully-manual SLR camera. (1978-1984)
Samsung Galaxy S2: Reviewing the camera on 2011's finest Android phone.

Mir-26b 45mm f/3.5: A chunky 45mm lens for the Kiev 88 and friends.
Nikon 55-200mm VR: One of Nikon's cheapest telephotos, and an inexplicably good one.
Nikon Series E 70-210mm f/4: A great manual focus Nikon lens.
Pentacon 50mm f/1.8: A 50mm lens for M42 cameras.
Compatibility of M42 lenses with modern camera systems: How useful are your M42 lenses on modern cameras?

Some things that aren't cameras, but are closely related:

Instructional and opinion stuff. Have fun.

Background blur: In which I examine background blur with lots of pretty graphs.
Better product photography, for free!: How to get great product photographs on a budget of nothing.
Everything you've learned from photography websites is wrong: Honestly, most photography websites (and especially gadget websites that talk about cameras from time to time) are wrong about everything.
The £30 macro lens for Canon EOS cameras: In which I tell you why you should hit a teleconverter with a hammer.
You are not a photographer either, you just run "youarenotaphotographer.com": Haters gonna hate.
HDR is stupid and it sucks: Or, Lewis sets out some hate-mail bait. Warning: inflammatory opinion and lots of swearing ahead.
"Why are you taking photographs of that?": Great photographs are never where you expect them to be.
How to get great results from film cameras: I shoot film all the time and there's a lot of people out there who are too young or inexperienced to have shot film for seriously good results, so here you go.
Cheap film cameras: A page of ideas/recommendations for cheap film cameras, for those who want to get into film photography.
The Lytro gimmick: Punching Lytro in the face.