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The other day I was browsing the shelf – well shelves – where I display my old film camera collection. Display is used figuratively. Some of them still work and are ready to be picked up and film loaded at a moments notice. My Asahi Pentax falls into that category. It is not the sameContinue reading “Fuji GFX 50S and Vintage Lenses – Part 2”

Yesterday I finally got time to do some shooting with the Fuji GFX and the Zeiss 50 Milvus, the 135 APO and the Voigtlander Ultron 40 lenses. On the GFX sensor these lenses are going to be the 35mm equivalent of a 40mm lens, a 106mm lens, and a 32mm lens respectively. All three lensesContinue reading “Shooting Zeiss and Voigtlander Lenses on the Fuji GFX 50S”

I guess it was over six years ago when photographers were introduced to the Fujifilm GXF camera line. The GFX 50 was introduced near the end of 2016. It came in as a revolutionary move that shook up the digital medium format world. Cutting to the chase, I bought A Fuji GFX 50S two weeksContinue reading “Out With the Old and In With the New”

The world looks different when you focus on the small details. If you are going though the paces, living your life, and don’t have the big picture, I guess you might struggle a bit. We are constantly asked about where we are going, what are you doing, where are you headed. I get it. ButContinue reading “More on the Macro/Micro Thing”

I got my first 35mm camera when I was 14 years old. It was an Argus C20, which was manufactured from 1956 to 1958. I am certain there was a good reason why I got the Argus C20, but that memory is long gone. The choice was probably driven more by price than anything elseContinue reading “In the Beginning, There Was Camera & Film”

It has been a few days – well more than a few days – since the last time we met on these pages. I have been pretty busy with various events and intend to post some pictures soon. I spent some time taking pictures of horses and buggies (wagons?) and also shooting pictures at theContinue reading “Catching Up With the Camera”

Over the course of the last 100 years of the automobile in America, one of the interesting challenges is what to do with the spare tire. Recently, there has been a trend toward shipping cars without spare tires – either the car design just won’t permit a full size tire, or the car is equippedContinue reading “Continental Kits & More”

It’s a happening thing on the square in Georgetown, Texas every third Saturday of the month. I had not been seen last spring. Just couldn’t get it in my head that it’s not the first Saturday or Sunday of the month, nor the last, but the third Saturday Okay, got it. I went today ,Continue reading “Pistons On the Square – Georgetown, Texas”

We live on a larger than normal piece of property at 10 acres and a river divides our property into two pieces. The front side of the 10 acres is nearly six acres and of that, I would guess that four acres belong to the horses, the barn, the pasture and the arena. So whatContinue reading “A Week of Starts and Stops”

It was 1996 when we first set eyes on the land that is now the location of our home. There was a very small ad in the real estate section of the Austin American Statesman talking about acreage along the river. Our interest was piqued and we made the drive out past Leander along highwayContinue reading “Engine 786 – When Will We See You Again?”

The Sunday Film Inventory Project – I guess it was Sunday afternoon and I was planning to pursue an indoor photo project in the comfort of air conditioning; the temperature outside was the high for the year so far at 103 degrees. The goal was to complete an inventory of the film stock that isContinue reading “Film Inventory Project”