Tuesday, January 24, 2023

A cool, wet and windy day for a swim. Thoughts about work.

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Permanent truss at the Zilker Hillside Theater. Austin, Texas Yesterday saw our weather transition from warmer and partly sunny to cooler wi...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

I dropped by Barton Springs Pool today to make some photographs to remind me of what the pool has looked like since I saw it first in 1974...

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The Leica SL and the Zeiss 50mm f1.4 seemed magnetically attracted to each other from the minute I put them in the same room together. I did...
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Many fast lenses from the 70s, 80s and 90s got bad raps. They were dismissed as being soft when used wide open. I'm started to think a whole lot of reviewers committed user error. Egregiously.

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  When I buy a used, manual lens from the time periods mentioned in the headline I'm generally impatient to see how they perform. If the...
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Sunday, January 22, 2023

A fun and zany video that answers the question: "Why do I choose the cameras I do?"

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1ABLu8w3A
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Weird Lenses Can Be Happy Lenses.

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  I went on a vacation last November and I took a deep breath and only took one camera and one lens. It was a stretch; especially for a guy ...
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Saturday, January 21, 2023

Woke up in a weird mood and went eccentric on my camera and lens choices today. But it was....fun.

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  I took the day off from everything today. Slept in. Skipped swim practice (there will be hell to pay!). Ate a late breakfast. Rummaged thr...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

Earlier today I showed a gallery of color images from yesterday's adventures in the neighborhood across from the UT campus....

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  ...and I mentioned that when I was photographing I had the camera set to record both a DNG file (the  color version) and a large Jpeg file...
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