Cameras

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.

Nikon D2H with over 379,000 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.

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.

Film

These days I shoot film most of the time, and shoot digital cameras (and obsolete ones at that) just for kicks. So this section is set to grow, but for now, here's one interesting one:

Tudor colour negative film

I got it free with developing. Holy crap.

Misc

Instructional and opinion stuff. Have fun.

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.