Photography

Along I-5 South

Got some rolls from the Olympus OM-2N back

I put off taking these rolls from a month ago because the camera back opened while I was rewinding and I wasn't sure what would...

autocuration with Hazel

Hazel is a Mac app that watches folders and does things when something happens inside them. You can base your Hazel rules on "file added...

Some curious place in the Pearl

Chinese Festival at Pioneer Courthouse Square

Ramen and the new Hong Phat in Lents

Pool players at Sam's Billiards

We stopped with some friends for drinks and dinner before going to see Barb Wire at the Hollywood. Al and I sat down next to...

more m43

I sold off a few more lenses I haven't used in years and got an OM System OM-5. It has a pretty specific function, which...

Lava Lake

July is not December

So, I ordered an X100VI from B&H on the third or fourth day of general availability, back in February. Last week I got a friendly...

First roll through an Olympus OM-2N

... and my first roll of film in a very long time, for that matter. Since the year before Ben was born and I was...

The film aesthetic ouroboros

So, I got Al that X-700 for our anniversary. We didn't have to go to the camera store right away because I had a...

Reala Ace on the X-T5

I installed the latest X-T5 firmware update, which includes the new Reala Ace film simulation. From what I've read Reala is more or less Provia,...

The OM-1N

Well, this is the last of the "refactor your hobby" part of the spoils from the Q2 sale: An Olympus OM-1N in Excellent+ condition with...

Seen along the way to a series of places that weren't open

Till Time at the Plaid

A little more on the PEN-F

Well, the PEN-F has been a minor revelation. When I went mirrorless, it was with a Fujifilm X100S, then onto the ILCs with an X-T2....

Dinner on Belmont

Al's anniversary present

Al's anniversary present was another part of the proceeds from the Q2: A Minolta X-700 with a 50mm/f1.4 lens.  Years ago she took a photography...

First Pen F Outing

These are dialed back a little and some are cropped.  I just wanted to see how it would do in the color  mode everyone likes...

Olympus Pen F

A portion of the Q2 proceeds went to an Olympus Pen F (pictured) and an Olympus 17mm/f1.8 to go with it (not pictured). But Mike,...

Dinner at Lechon

Al and I had dinner at Lechon last night. We started with their What the Chef is Drinking, "Lechon fat-washed barrel aged cachaca, Demerara, bitters,...

Farewell, Q2

I bought my Leica Q2 in a very peculiar, troubled, uncertain time. It was the most extravagant thing I'd ever done relative to my life...