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Grandma’s Kodachrome, Part 1

As I explained in a previous post, my relatively recent purchase of a film scanner, the Plustek Opticfilm 7200, was mostly to tolerated the fact that I was going to be dealing with film photography up until the purchase of a D300s to replace my D40. However, during the holidays, the new toy quickly found [ READ MORE ]

Plustek Opticfilm 7200 Review

I wrote up a more extensive review of my new, much beloved film scanner, a Plustek Opticfilm 7200, over at Epinions. Have a read: I’ve started shooting film again with an old hand-me-down SLR to practice my skills as a photograph in general, to get myself to think more about each shot before I pull the [ READ MORE ]

My Return to 35mm: Pentax Rig & Opticfilm 7200

Digital photography isn’t a fact anymore, it’s a standard. When I bought my DSLR over a year ago, I never even considered film as a viable option, even though my father’s Pentax Super Program was just begging to be used, old and dusty in a long forgotten bag. It’s not practical, it’s clunky, it’s expensive… [ READ MORE ]

Prime Time

I’ve been telling myself to drag my camera around more often when I go places, but because of the nature of where I am at, it’s not always easy. But, lately I’ve been getting better at it. And it somehow turns out that ever since the purchase of my 35mm F1.8, I’ve been shooting mostly [ READ MORE ]

A Lesson In Photography: Subject/Frame Parallelism

I’ve received my D40 just a while back, so I still consider myself a photography noob, but in the ~300 pics that I have taken so far, I’ve notice some aspects of photography that I’d read about on the internet really have a huge impacts on my shots. One of those silly yet very [ READ MORE ]

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