Never discourage anyone … who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. — Plato

Posts Tagged ‘nikon’

travel diary – day 290

day 286 – being on the lake made me feel lazy (well, lazier than usual) and i decided to stay and do some reading. i sold my copy of ‘the beach’ (which was actually very, very good) and snagged a copy of ‘american psycho’ by bret eaton elis. i’ve read it before, but it was [...]

nikon 85mm f1.8

the day i arrived in malaysia i dumped my gear at the hotel and headed across town. my destination was the local tech mall, where i went in search of a lens i’d been wanting to buy – the nikon 85mm f1.8 prime. since i started traveling full time, i’d been carrying three lenses: 18-200mm [...]

medium format digital – under $10k

this is brilliant … and hopefully a stepping stone for future advances (and cost reduction) in digital medium format technology. dpreview have reported that mamiya are releasing a digital medium format body for 6000 british pounds and lenses from 2000 pounds. in dollars, that is around $10k, which is astounding for a digital medium format [...]

open letter to olympus

dear olympus i’m an unhappy camper. i’m unhappy because i’m growing continually more and more frustrated with the olympus business model and approach to selling camera gear. for a long time, i was a great admirer of olympus. you have a strong brand name and a good reputation. back in the day, your film gear [...]

coming and going

i headed out today to do some buying and selling. i sold a few little items, including one of the crumpler camera bags. i also picked up a lens to replace the lens that i sold yesterday. the new (used) lens is the nikkor 35mm f2. it’s a nice sharp lens and a tad wider [...]

pancake lenses

I thought I knew a lot about photography, but I was completely taken by surprise when some photographers started talking about pancake lenses. What is a pancake lens? Jessica, Jeju Island. Photographers are strange people. Sometimes photographers like big lenses, sometimes they like the smallest possible lenses. The smallest lenses available are commonly called pancake [...]

photo a day #85 – under the bridge

photo a day #79 – the streets where i live

photo a day #70 – begging on the subway

  i don’t often post these kinds of photos. i like korea and i prefer to focus on the colourful side of this country’s culture. but last night i was angry and wanted to illustrate that there are many sides to korean culture. one of the most shocking things to me, for a developed country, [...]

geotagging

i’ve got myself a handy little device, a geometr gps unit which attaches to my nikon camera. the unit locks on to satellites and tracks my location. then, when i take a photo, the data is automatically added to the exif data. as a result, i can locate the exact position i was standing when [...]

photo a day #59 – tall trees

photo a day #58 – girl in hanbok [selective colour]

photo a day #37 – ghosts

photo a day #33 – turtle

photo a day #32 – jeju waterfall

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