Category Archives: Gear

After years of tinkering, finally, yesterday, I, more or less, perfected the prototype, swing/shift/tilt, platform for digital, mirrorless bodies

Based on a Leica M Bellows, disassembled, and carefully hacksawed, a Novoflex Castel Q focusing rail, 2 Chinese Rotating quick release clamps, and both Really Right Stuff and Chinese quick release plates. The device goes together and comes apart in a minute or two; and allows for swinging and shifting both lens and body, and […]

Friday: about flowers and lenses

So I “needed” a backup… second body to photograph an upcoming wedding. I scanned eBay over a month or two to get an idea of market prices; finally went for a kit which included what appeared to be a low mileage 5D body, genuine Canon Backpack case, a few batteries, charger, a remote timer/trigger, some […]

iPhone photography: personal and immediate

As a photographer who has always had a camera nearby, within reach, or at least within a few steps, certainly in the next room anyway — I’ve definitely always used my 35mm and digital cameras for very personal observations and documentation. The bigger cameras, the medium format, 4×5 – 12×20 view cameras, demanded far more deliberation; tripods; more […]

Friday’s flowers with iPro 2X Tele and .45X Super Wide

Curiosity drives exploration. The ProCamera app, and many others, on the iPhone 6S, allows manual control of ISO, Shutter Speed and more. And what about these other two lenses in my pocket? iPhone 6S, iPro 2x Tele, ISO 32, 1/15, f:2.2 iPhone 6S, iPro .45x Super Wide, ISO 40, 1/15, F:2.2 iPhone 6S, iPro .45x […]

The Free (and the phoenix)

For the past ten days I’ve been clearing 45 years of accumulated “stuff” out of my 1600 square foot quonset hut. This includes long forgotten “projects;” 40 year old client files from the days of reproduction art on illustration board; silk screens and squeegees; potters wheel and kiln; sculpting clay and tools; frames and glass; […]