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November 23, 2018 in Cameras, Lenses, Reviews

Here is a short roll from New York City. Most of it was shot from an apartment on the back end of Billionaires Row overlooking Central Park and down on 59th st. as the famed Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade rolled by…

Read More Tags: Olympus XA, Rangefinder, United States, Unknown, Olympus November 09, 2018 in Cameras, Film, Lenses, Reviews

My first experience with Cinestill 800T (“T” for Tungsten) film was shooting a music video in a barber shop, the music video would be composed wholly of one roll of film images. I’ve shuffled the pictures…

Read More Tags: Olympus OM2, Cinestill 800T, United States, SLR, Olympus October 29, 2018 in Lenses, Cameras, Reviews

People often suggest one the film cameras from the Olympus OM lineup as a good film camera for a first-time-user. I cannot disagree with that and I have done the same. It’s small, attractive (maybe even…

Read More Tags: Olympus OM-2, United States, Unknown, SLR, Olympus October 24, 2018 in Cameras, Reviews

While sorting though a bin of cameras labeled “Broken” at a camera shop in Costa Mesa I found an Olympus XA, a pocket rangefinder camera from the late 1970’s. I had never owned one before…

Read More Tags: Olympus XA, United States, Unknown, Rangefinder, Olympus