Alas, for it is in so many ways a sweet little camera. But a couple days using it divulged some critical flaws: First and foremost, it eats batteries. It burned through a set of expensive CR2s in the first four rolls. So I put in a new set, different brand — and they went dead in the [...]
I’ve been playing around with a variety of printing papers lately, trying to find a reasonable substitute for the late, lamented Luminos Charcoal (aka Kentmere Fine Art Classic). I’m afraid there may not be one. The closest I have found was from Bergger, but the quality of two separate orders was so bad — pieces [...]
First impressions: It’s very little! Even by Pentax standards. The body is so tiny and light it’s almost, but not quite, too small for my small hands. It’s quiet. The sound of the shutter is refined but not explosive. The autofocus works better than any Pentax camera I’ve ever handled. It’s fast and sure. More [...]
The wild turkeys are back. Yesterday I looked out and saw nine of them foraging in the orchard. We ran them out last summer when our back porch became overrun by turkeys and turkey poop as they hung out, day in and day out, underneath our bird feeders. (A few days with a loop of [...]
This junco whacked itself semi conscious on the back window this afternoon. I brought it in to warm up for a moment, then photographed it with Noah and we sent it on its way. photo: Junco, 2010
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