My wife and I have been talking about a tiny home. We're by no means indulgent or hoarders, and our house is modest for two adults and three children, but it's still prompting some interesting discussions about how we could live with less, to live with more. Less outgoings therefore less need to work to… Continue reading My Super Stripped Down Camera Dream Kit
Month: July 2020
The Fabulous 55s
The first SLR I owned, back in 2013, was a late '70s Praktica BMS Electronic, with a Prakticar Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens. It turns out that whilst this wasn't the most refined SLR ever made, it was pretty reliable, and the Pentacon 50/1.8 is very decent indeed. I later went on to enjoy perhaps half… Continue reading The Fabulous 55s
Blogging From Hand To Mouth
For a large part of last year I experimented with publishing a new blog post here on 35hunter every 36 hours. It didn't result in a dramatic growth of readership or comments, and whilst I didn't have a shortage of ideas, and found my groove with posting this frequently, I decided to ease off a… Continue reading Blogging From Hand To Mouth
One Month One Camera – July 2020 (II) – The Luxury Of Simplicity
So this month I'm back on my One Month One Camera (OMOC) project, and the camera I've chosen is a Samsung GX-1S Pentax K mount DSLR. You can read the intro post here. Now in all honesty the little Samsung isn't radically different from my other two Pentax K mount DSLRs with CCD sensors, the… Continue reading One Month One Camera – July 2020 (II) – The Luxury Of Simplicity
To Those Remaining… (My Camera Inventory July 2020)
Periodically I realise I have too much photography gear. My main cluster of cameras starts creeping on to additional bookshelves. A shoebox or two (or three!) is hidden under the baby's cot with cameras I've not looked at in months. I start finding it awkward removing a camera from a shelf, precariously weaving through the… Continue reading To Those Remaining… (My Camera Inventory July 2020)