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 [...]
photo: Trinity Alps, 2009 Actually, it’s been a little more than a year. I bought the K20D and a handful of Pentax lenses at the end of 2008, shifting over from Canon, and here it is the beginning of 2010 already. Inspired, in part, by a recent post at Photo.net, “Life with a D300,” I [...]
I shot this photo today to go with an article my son is doing on motorless birding — people who keep lists of birds they’ve discovered within walking/biking distance of their homes. It was late on a cloudy, foggy winter afternoon and I was shooting with the Pentax K20D. While I love the camera, it [...]
It arrived Monday from B&H. Haven’t had much time to play around with it, except to make sure that it actually takes pictures, but I wanted to replace the 10-22 that I had on my Canon 20D. Not too useful for hand colored photography, as it doesn’t attach to any of my film bodies (actually, [...]
The camera is, beyond any doubt, the least important element in the making of any photograph – and by far the most discussed. Photographers argue equipment matters incessantly in a manner that would do medieval theology proud: Canon or Nikon? Hasselblad or Mamiya? Is a Tamron lens as sharp as a Sigma? How many angels [...]
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