Ten years ago (probably pretty close to the day) I walked into my local Wolf Camera store with a backpack full of Nikon 35mm gear and walked out with a small box containing a single 2MP Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera. I haven’t looked back since. Then, last week my friend Stephen sent me over [...]
The first 5 weeks of my last semester back at school starts Thursday. I have to take four core classes this summer to complete my degree. It’s all stuff that was added to the curriculum since I left 16 years ago. For the first half of the summer I am taking Introducton to Ethics and [...]
I have blogged before about my DIY super macro set-up. It was essentially free (since I already had the two lenses required) and resulted in some pretty killer macro shots. However, it is a bit clumsy to use and I realize that not everybody has the right combination of lenses to make it work. So, [...]
Anna Kate made homemade Best Recipe pancakes for breakfast this morning. They were delicious but I found myself wanting something a bit more complex for lunch. Raiding the pantry I found some crusty Tuscan bread, Parmesan cheese and Prosciutto ham so I decided to try a bit of a spin on the classic French croque-monsieur [...]
I was playing around last week with a Pentax FA 31mm f/1.8 AL Limited lens on my K10D and I thought I would do a quick FoV (field of view) and IQ (image quality) comparison between it and my Pentax FA 35mm f/2.0 AL lens. Here’s what I found:
