3 September, 2025
5 Frames in Waco, Texas with a Pentax K1000
I spent several years after my PhD working for Baylor University in Waco, Texas; First as a post-doc and then as a lecturer at the Physics Department. Waco is a mid-sized but qu...
25 November, 2024
5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5
Cheap zoom lenses have never had a great reputation. Especially in the Digital age, some budget zooms are considered a bit of a plague. Cheap, plasticky, and very poor optically...
22 December, 2023
The Whole Roll – Weekend in Northern Quebec
This roll of film was taken in northern Quebec, during a weekend road trip. I had wanted to see Tadoussac for a number of years but had not found time until this summer. I drove...
20 September, 2023
A Walk Through Western New York Wine Country
“When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.“ (George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons...
Being primarily a Nikon and Minolta (film) user, I surprised myself by becoming the owner of a Pentax K1000 recently. I had been in the process of buying a Minolta X300 locally ...
I’ve been a Pentax user since the days before people called themselves ‘shooters’ – since 1984, to be exact. The ME Super I bought then is worth far more to me than to anyone el...
3 January, 2020
5 frames with an Asahi Pentax K1000 – By Oscar Capdevila
Entering the world of film photography was a bit painful for me as I didn’t get to see the results from the first 2 film rolls I shot. The first one was loaded incorrectly and t...