When I was in my late teens I discovered photography through the lens of a Pentax Spotmatic, with the help of my friend Bob and his Pentax K1000. I was always hanging with Bob back then. He rode a skateboard,…
I have a lot of photographer friends, almost all of them shoot in digital exclusively, yet they probably all have a film camera or two in storage somewhere. More a dozen times one of these friends will get in touch…
This is another one of those cameras billed as an ideal starter camera for photo novices. This was my third camera acquired after getting back into film photography, behind the Pentax Spotmatic and the Pentax K1000. I decided this was…
(I originally wrote this bag-unpacking piece for japancamerahunter.com, linked HERE) Hello and welcome to my bag! It’s a Chrome Industries Niko camera sling that I spent too much money on because the other seven or eight bags in the back…
I got an email from an older step brother one day. “Hey Kev! I’ve got a bunch of old cameras I’m looking to sell, see anything you like?” I think I bought three, one of them was a Yashica-Mat, which…
It’s compact and stylish, and easily one of my favorite cameras to bring with me. It’s easy to take with you, easily one of the smallest SLRs ever made. That was the goal, to create an SLR that could compete…
I was reading reviews of various cameras during my down time at work, and because somehow I’ve confused the term “Camera Review” with “Shopping List,” I decided it would be a good idea to have a super compact camera to…
If you’ve ever taken a photography class in college, odds are you’ve had one of these in your hands. The Time-honored “perfect student camera” is a title often applied to this camera, as well as the Canon AE-1 and, occasionally,…
My first grown-up camera was a Pentax Spotmatic that my mom gave me in my senior year in high school. Before that, I had used various cheap point-and-shoot cameras that used 110 film or, for a brief period, disc film.…