I recently got my hands on this old film camera. It is the Pentax Spotmatic F, circa 1973 -76. It’s got a very popular (even today) SMC Takumar 50mm 1.4 lens on it, so I was very excited to use it. When I got home I loaded up some old film I had laying around. …
Category Archives: Equipment
Canon FD Lens to Samsung NX Converter
I have a Samsung NX100 mirrorless camera that takes really great pictures, especially of people. I also own some great old 70’s era Canon FD manual focus lenses from the film days. So I bought a FD to NX converter to use my Canon FD lenses on my NX100. The converter came in the mail today …
Love For The 1st Canon EF 50mm 1.8
Let me start off by saying I own and often use the Canon EF 50mm 1.2 L Series lens. However, I still love my 50mm 1.8 mark 1, it’s a wonderful lens and produces amazing images. The glass used in the mark 1 is exactly the same as the cheaper built “Plastic Fantastic” 50mm 1.8 …
My 5D Mark iii & 1D Mark iiN
A lot of people get hung up on having the latest and greatest of gear in the hopes that the camera will make them a better photographer. This does have a little bit of truth to it, but as far as camera bodies go, I don’t believe that truth carries much weight. Lenses is a …
Editing Photos On My Ipad
I recently went on a little vacation to a couple select towns in British Columbia. On this trip I decided to try and pack a little light, so I took one camera, 2 lenses and an ipad for gear. I wasn’t planning on editing any of the photos from my trip till I got home. …