When my father passed I inherited a few cameras from him. A Roleiflex TLR, a Pentax Spotmatic, a couple of Polaroids, some shelf decoration classics, and this Kodak point-and-shoot. When I got it I thought it looked familiar, as in…

Ever wonder how someone can have more than two dozen film cameras? Let me describe the process with a simple day-in-the-life. I was looking at an article or ad photo or blog review or something else about the Nikon F4…

I have a Minolta X-7A that I love shooting, so much so that I decided I wanted another Minolta. Something a bit higher up the Minolta food chain. There were some options, the A9 is a great pro-spec Minolta, but…

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…