In my camera collection I have a standard amount of Nikon and Canon entries, leaning heavily on the side of Nikon, but then I have an even bigger collection of Olympus and Minolta. I really dig Olympus, probably my favorite…

I often wonder why such an arbitrary number such as “7000” might be attributed to the camera that is the first of many things. Not only was this camera the first in the line of cameras branded under the “Maxxum”…

A decade ago my father passed away from terminal lung cancer. We never really had much of a relationship in my adult years. We drifted apart, and I didn’t feel inclined to pursue him. It was a mutual decision, albeit…

I have several photog friends who will DM me with a “Hey! I’ve got this -mumblemumble- I’m looking to sell, want it?” Occasionally I say “no” but the general rule ends up being “mmmmaybe…?” Bring it, what have you got?…

I was a reluctant admirer of 90’s auto-focus cameras. I had steeped myself in the 60’s and 70’s tea of leather and chrome, manual-everything cameras. Super manual, even a simple “program” mode was a thing for wimps. Light meters were…

I had been shooting a Holga camera here and there, it was fun, but I wanted to explore the world of medium format photography in earnest, with an actual camera, not a plastic toy. So I professed my intentions on…

A friend of mine is a pro photographer. I have a number of those, of course, and they always shoot digital for the most part. So as we’re chatting cameras at a burlesque show he was working at (as a…

I was at work one day when a friend/client came in with something in a weathered leather case. At the end of our service he handed me the case with “and this is for you.” This is a particularly gifty…

I got a familiar type message on my phone, “Hey Kev, we’re moving to Boston, have an old camera that we found when packing, want it?” This time it was a Canon A-1, a somewhat better quality cousin to the…

I love shooting medium format. At present, I have seven such cameras, two of them are Holgas, one is an SLR, one is a (working!) folder from the 1930s, and the other three are twin lens reflexes. Rolleiflex cameras are…