I found an old photo album from when I started shooting creatively about a year and a half ago. I was amazed at the sharpness of the prints I took with my Olympus XA 2. Very sharp, great definition, great color. I was spoiled back then - the woman at my one-hour photo lab [...]

Well, I’m getting older. I picked up my first pair of real glasses* on wednesday. I’ve been wearing them for the past few days, and I didn’t realize how much I needed them — until now. My depth perception is much better, and even though I’m far-sighted in one eye and astigmatic in the [...]

The allure of older cameras

The cooler cameras get, the simpler and more old-school I want to go.
I played with a couple of manual-exposure Pentax K-mount SLRs today - a Dakota RZ-2000 and a Ricoh KR-5 Super. Both have mechanical shutters, clear, simple viewfinders, a small kit zoom lens, and use cheap LR-44 batteries. They were very similar, but that’s [...]

LOMOCrawl pictures are here!
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To Little Alyosha…

Thanks to people from lomo.org, I found out that the engraving on my new camera reads:
To little Alyosha [diminutive from Aleksei] on his birthday from grandfather Gosha and grandmother Anya. August 14, 1985.
It’s a shame that the camera didn’t stay in little Aleksei’s hands, but it adds a nice bit of history to [...]

I received my Fed 5 in the mail today, wrapped in the traditional Yak hair string and brown paper wrapping style in which all Russian cameras arrive. It’s a beautiful little camera, a little smaller than I thought it would be - a little bigger than my Canonet, a little smaller than an SLR. [...]

Cleanup time!
I deleted close to 200 pictures from my galleries. I tried to trim out duplicates, tried to keep only the pictures that really captured something. I get in the habit of using my online gallery as a repository for all of my pictures, but I’ve gotten so many that I need to concentrate [...]