Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
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
Inevitably in photography - as with most pursuits we explore consistently with commitment and passion - I find myself going around in circles. Not in a bad way, and each time I go around I have more learning and experience under my belt. You never step in the same water twice, so the circles are… Continue reading Pure Distilled Photography – The One Decision You Need To Make
A few years back I was using 35mm film lenses in half a dozen different mounts. Sometimes on the film cameras they were made for, and sometimes on a Sony NEX mirrorless digital camera, with one of many adapters. In no particular order, these are the lens mounts I recall trying - M39 M42 Pentax… Continue reading The Delights And Dangers Of Using Just One Camera System
Once again in the last few weeks I've realised how for me, with photography especially, less is more. The Pentax K30 DSLR I used throughout July is a cracking camera. But... The ways I was using it was already greatly dumbed down, compared to its full capabilities. So I decided for a few reasons to… Continue reading Photography – Finding Happiness In Less
In my experiences with cameras over the last five or six years, I've discovered an inverse relationship with how many functions, features and buttons a camera has, and how much I've enjoyed using it. In other words, the simpler the set up, the more joy I've found. Once all the decisions about settings are out… Continue reading Simplicity Feeds The Flow – In Praise Of Point And Shoot Cameras And Single Speed Bicycles
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