If it’s not love at first sight, it’s close. The K-7, which arrived last week, has been a clear winner for me, right from the first touch. It feels as good in the hand as, say, a Nikon F100 without being big and heavy. I’ve been using it every day, especially as I begin to explore the [...]
… Better known as the humble SMC-M 50mm f/1.4, on an APS-C crop body like the Pentax K20D. More playing around with the idea of digital black and white. It’s too smooth for a Tri-X fan like me, but it has its own buttery charm. I’ll be interested to see what these photos look like [...]
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 [...]
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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