The Good Stuff.

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1.25.2023

I am nearly always enchanted by how the old Leica SL (601) cameras render files. Yesterday I shot raw and imported into Lightroom with a David Farkas Preset custom made for this model. A few tweaks with a shadow slider and I was satisfied...

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  So. what does 10,000 ISO look like? Or, 8,000 ISO? enough door signage? And with the Zeiss 50mm all sharp and contrasty... At the other en...
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1.24.2023

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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1.23.2023

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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1.22.2023

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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1.21.2023

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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