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Olympus 40-150mm f/4-5.6 – Sample Photos
Hello everyone I bought a cheap Olympus 40-150mm f/4-5.6 the other day. On micro 4/3 cameras it’s like the FOV of an 80-300mm(!) on larger sensor cameras. But much much smaller. I got this to assemble a light weight kit, and to see if it would possibly work for event photography in quiet environments. Sadly […]
Continue readingCanon EF 50mm f/1.2 – Low Light Samples
More photo samples of the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 in low and ambient light conditions. I think this lens really shows its strengths when the light levels drop (and there are not too many highlights in the scene that will cause purple fringing). Sure far off city lights on the edge of the frame turn […]
Continue readingCanon EF 50mm f/1.2 Samples + Rolling Review
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 Sample Photos and Mini Review The 50mm lens and focal length is one of my favorites and possibly one of my desert island lenses if I was forced to pick. It has a window to the world that shows just enough depending on where you stand, and can work well within […]
Continue readingCanon RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 Samples + Review
Hello everyone, I bought a cheap used RF lens the other day, the 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM. It’s a kit lens (very basic starter one) that they bundle with the R8. It’s a full frame lens, with a wide to normal field of view, but designed for lightweight travel and portability. Meaning it really compromises […]
Continue readingOlympus E-M1 Photo Story Mode
It’s been rumored that Fujifilm will soon release a new “half frame” digital camera with a vertical sensor. That’s a pretty cool feature, daring to be different and promoting the artistic idea of diptychs. (placing two somewhat related/unrelated images together and having that interplay evoke more studying or pondering over a composition that would otherwise […]
Continue reading(Glitchy) Canon S200 Elph – Sample Photos
This lovely vintage Canon S200 Elph digicam was thrifted out in New Mexico! Seeing as how these things are snatched up so quick by savvy resellers I’m glad we visited the store at the right time. This ancient 2 Megapixel imager came with a 256MB (yes Megabytes!) CF card that still had some photos from […]
Continue readingPanasonic Lumix FZ30 – Samples
I got this in the other day, a really affordable Lumix (Panasonic) superzoom digicam from 2005! This class of camera was designated informally as a bridge camera, the ones you bought if you didn’t like the smaller party digicams or didn’t want to invest in an early gen DSLR from the early 2000s. These things […]
Continue readingCanon SX100 IS Digicam Sample Photos
Canon SX100 IS Digicam | Shot with a Nikon D4, edited with my “anime preset” 😉 I bought this camera a few years back for something like $15? I forget exactly, just like how I forgot to do a dedicated post on it. I like this camera a lot. It’s small, takes 2 AA batteries […]
Continue readingFujifilm GFX 50S + (Broken) Nikon 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
Back in February I bought this used super cheap Nikon 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 zoom lens manufactured in the 90’s. It was Nikon’s first attempt at an affordable kit lens with the early batch of consumer autofocus film cameras back in the day. This lens is small, about the size of a modern F mount 50mm 1.8G! […]
Continue readingRandom Thrifting Haul – Olympus C-3000 for $10!
So I got this camera while thrifting the other day–an Olympus C-3000 Zoom from the year 2000! I think I will forever leave the price tag on the body. Sadly though the memory card (a smart media) was like $30 for 32MB! One dollar per Megabyte. Yes kids, 1 MB won’t even store a full […]
Continue readingRandom Bargain Lenses – Nikon 80-200mm f/4.5 and 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
The other day I got some dirt cheap and beat up Nikon lenses. A fully manual Nikon 80-200mm f/4.5 from probably 1977-1980 for $12, and an AF 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 with a broken aperture lever for $20. The 35-70mm from the late 80’s maybe early 1990 still autofocuses, but the lens can’t stop down and will […]
Continue readingRandom Thrifting Haul – Canon Powershot A400 for $5!
Canon PowerShot A400 for $5! To follow up on my previous post, I got also got a screaming deal on this 2004 Canon digicam. $5 and it came with a case! With “lofi” tech like this trending again I can’t believe it wasn’t snatched up by someone else. Ironically though 3.3 megapixel cameras of this […]
Continue readingRandom Thrifting Haul – Minolta 50mm f1.4 for $4!
Hello everyone, for these next series of posts I thought I would just post a few quick thoughts and images on photography gear and techniques I’ve been tinkering with. Some of it is vintage gear that I’ve thrifted, or some odd combination of cameras and lenses that I think would be neat to share with […]
Continue readingRandom Camera Post – Nikon D4 5:4 Crop with DX Lens
Hello everyone, for these next series of posts I thought I would just post a few quick thoughts and images on photography gear and techniques I’ve been tinkering with. Some of it is vintage gear that I’ve thrifted, or some odd combination of cameras and lenses that I think would be neat to share with […]
Continue readingCanon R8 + Nikon 105mm f/1.4E vs Nikon D700 + 200mm f/2G
I have enough material from work level stuff to post this quick comparison. Not to show which one is “better,” but to just simply show the image rendering and bokeh that one can get with these two setups. The idea for this came from the Lunar New Year at Stone Mountain, as I wanted to […]
Continue readingNikon Coolpix 3700 Review!
I keep on forgetting to do a “formal” review of this awesome vintage digicam from 2003! (The thumbnail is an homage to all the digicam love Asian folks in Asia are doing on that Lemon8 SMS. I don’t know where they are getting their supply of old digital point and shoots but man!) Thanks to […]
Continue readingCanon R8 + Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G Samples
Hello everyone, I’ve been using the R8 (Review Here) recently with my old Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G. It’s all manual focus, manual aperture via the adapter’s ring, and no VR, but you know I think it’s workable for me. I have like 20 years experience with this lens on my native Nikons so it’s only a […]
Continue readingVivitar Retro Keychain Camera Review!
Vivitar “Vintage” Keychain Camera Review 5. Five. Cinco. Ha. $5 was what this camera cost. (Thanks Jonathan) 5 bucks will barely get you a Wendy’s meal, but it might not even get you one banh mi in Atlanta these days. For a brief time last week, this camera was on sale for $5 on Wal-Mart. […]
Continue readingNikon 18.5mm f/1.8 Samples + Review
Hello everyone Happy New Year. (The first of many if you cover enough different cultures as I do here in Atlanta!) In cleaning up work and old photos I think I’m going to start off with posting random camera gear thoughts and “reviews” that have been sitting on the back burner for so long. Again, […]
Continue readingNikon 200mm f/2G VR Review…Finally 20 Years Later…
Nikon Nikkor 200mm f/2 G VR Sample Photos + Review It took about 20 years but I finally got one of the lenses that I’ve wanted for so long, the AF-S Nikon 200mm f/2G VR. It’s a heavy relic from the early days of DSLR imaging, announced in May of 2004, long before Nikon had […]
Continue readingWhere to develop 35mm Film in Atlanta?
Updated for 2026 ▛▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝▝ ▜ To the best of my knowledge, here are the few remaining spots where you can get your film developed in Atlanta. (I’m not considering Walgreens/Walmart or similar places because they pretty much don’t give you back your negatives, just prints or scanned photos uploaded somewhere) Some of these places I […]
Continue readingTurning all My Old Cameras into Remote Cameras
The other day I thought it would be cool to turn all my old cameras into remote cameras that I could place in certain spots when I cover events–locations where it would be much easier to click a remote button as opposed to walking across the room and disrupting the flow of an event. So […]
Continue readingFall + Sony A7 + Canon EF 24mm 1.4L
Thanks for reading/viewing along on my journal here. I know the last posts have been more of a visual record of my practicing with my various photography combos. Just like getting up early to walk or shoot hoops, practicing with different camera combos to build up the muscle memory is always a good thing. Plus […]
Continue readingNikon V1 + FT1 + 18-55mm Kit Lens
The other day it dawned on me that I could use the cheap kit lens from the D5300, the ubiquitous 18-55mm on my various Nikon 1 cameras adapted with the FT1. I’ve obviously used all of my F mount lenses on this thing for testing and goofing off purposes many times in the past but […]
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