Cameras
or, "his whole site is just him ranting" -- Medusula
Psst: Cameras are boring. You should go look at my gallery
instead. Anyway, inexplicably, my various entries about my camera junk were some of the
most popular articles on my old blog. So I re-wrote them for here and
I've kept adding stuff since. Have fun:
- 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 Ukranian Hasselblad copy.
- Nikon D2H with over 390,000 shutter actuations!
- A little celebration of my D2H. Shorter than anything else here.
- Nikon F55
- Plastic film SLR from the early-to-mid-2000s.
- 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.
Hey, I've got a few more cameras I'm planning on writing about. My Voigtlander Vito B and Olympus Trip 35 are foremost among them. If you email me and tell me to hurry the hell up I might even get around to it a little quicker.
Non-cameras
Some things that aren't cameras, but are closely related:
- Fuji Neopan 400CN
- A great C-41 process black-and-white film.
- Lowepro Nova 1 camera bag
- A tiny and entirely excellent little bag.
- Tudor colour negative film
- I got it free with developing. Holy crap.
- Kodak Ektar 100
- The best colour negative film for landscapes and stills.
- Mir-26b 45mm f/3.5
- A chunky 45mm lens for the Kiev 88 and
friends.
- Nikon Series E 70-210mm f/4
- A great manual focus Nikon lens.
Misc
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.
- Focusing the Olympus Trip 35
- While you're waiting for a full article on the Trip, here's something I
wrote to answer a question I got by email.
- 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.