Crushing Gravel & Testing Gear

This past weekend marked the start of the gravel racing season here in MN. While my friends were out crushing gravel at Ragnarok, I was out and about testing new equipment for my upcoming trip to Japan. I am narrowing in on my final kit for both bike and camera. I’ll then move onto camping […]

Testing new E mount Sony 50mm 1.8 on NEX 7

Well…My old Minolta 50mm 1.7 kicked the bucket. It no longer changes aperture on my NEX or on my old Konica Minolta 7D. Bummer. With an international trip by bicycle approaching, I needed to get a fast 50 for my NEX so I sold my Nikon 35mm f1.8G lens to fund this one. Last night […]

My 2012 Film Project – March

It’s mid April and I’m once again scanning and processing all my film I shot in March. It was a great month as you may have recognized from some recent posts. I shot quite a bit of film and I also got a new to me old Olympus 35RC rangefinder camera that I am quite […]

Up north on film

Just 1 month ago I was up in northern MN riding Salsa Mukluks with friends. When I scanned these images two nights ago I was shocked. Not because of the images themselves, although I do like them quite a lot, but because of the SNOW! Wow. Just one month ago we were riding in a […]

Olympus 35 RC Rangefinder Camera

So not too long ago, I received a care package from my friend Rob. My friend Rob shares many similar passions as me and over some time had collected quite a few vintage cameras. Knowing that I have been shooting film, Rob sent me up a care package to see if they worked and if […]

Rangefinders

I had planned on taking today off the blog, but thanks to my friend Rob, I received a care package in the mail yesterday. Inside were 3 vintage film/rangefinder cameras. I couldn’t stop thinking about them. So…Since the theme of this week is film and old time camera gear, I thought it would be fitting […]

Old vs New – Revisiting and testing

My film post on Monday has me stuck in time. Old time that is! I want to revisit my Old vs New post. Also note, I’ve moved my Old vs New to a sticky in the header area scroll bar. I’m going to be spending some time talking about this topic in the coming weeks. […]

My 2012 Film Project – February

I know it is mid March but I just got around to scanning my film from February. I made it a second month. I have to be honest, it wasn’t easy this past month as I struggled a bit not with film, but with my photographic mojo. It just wasn’t happening for me. I had […]

My 2012 Film Project

For 2012, I have committed to shooting film. Not all the time. I have to shoot at least one roll of film, get it processed and print the images. It’s been a fun experiment. I’m going to make this post a sticky and I will be updating it each and every month with links to […]

Old vs New

I’ve had some time to think recently and I don’t know about you, but when I have time to think it is sometimes dangerous. Sometimes free thinking is close to being unhealthy. Over the past several days I’ve been wrestling with this notion of old vs new. For me personally, I’m wrestling with the cost […]

Nikon D7000 Impressions

Originally posted October 11, 2011 A while back I wrote about selling my higher end Canon 7D kit and moving to a Nikon D7000 with some cash back in the bank. Beyond that, I haven’t said much about it. Part of that was because I was focused on my small camera situation and looking to […]

Sony NEX-5N – Update and new images

Originally posted February 6th, 2012 Today just an update on my continued use and experience with the Sony NEX-5N mirrorless compact camera. At the time of writing that review, I was sort of on the fence with the Sony. While I was pleased with the images, it just didn’t quite “feel” right. Hard to fully […]

Sony NEX-5N Review

A while back I sold my beloved Panasonic LX-5 premium compact camera to my friend Ben Witt. In my head, I had grand visions of upgrading my portable on bike camera system because I was finding some print limitations with some of the images I took with small sensor cameras. I know one could probably […]