Month: June 2013
Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? (“right here in this thrift store”, says the Typewriter Bone)
Binoculars: I bet you can’t eat just one!
Bazooka Joe and the Black Helicopters of DOOM!
A Merry Typewriter Day To All, And To All A Good Night!
Bill Wahl installs Drago’s fresh new platen at his shop on Main Street. Bill’s Olympia Model 8, a popular machine at the last Type-In. The Monsen Type Manual of 1961 was a 2-volume 1,500 page monster. Some more info on the Monsen Type Manual.
Mason Whitlock, most experienced typewriter man alive, hospitalized with Kidney issues
We should send him “Get Well Soon” cards – fire up your typewriters! http://nhregister.com/articles/2013/06/20/opinion/doc51c38b55ae731224109785.txt
We Like The Moon, ‘Cuz It Is Close To Us…
There’s some weird Doppler-effectish color shift at the top and bottom of the moon. Blue-shifted at the top and red-shifted at the bottom. I wonder if that’s subtle camera shake or lens imperfection. Taken with Canon 20D, Five Star 500mm mirrorless lens:
Fun with manual focus lenses of extreme power
I finally got my Nikon F to Canon EF adapter, and it works wonderfully. I played around with it a bit yesterday, learning the ins and outs of the two Nikon lenses I picked up and the macro adapter that came with them: The 75-150mm lens is simply awesome. It’s a short range for telephoto, […]
Happy Father’s Day, Pop!
Holy Moly, it’s an Oly (and a tiny manual 50mm)
Golden Suitcases, Tingling Bones and I’ve got it real bad, don’t I?
I’d just visited the closest Goodwill a couple of days ago and something bugged me about a thing I saw there, so I had to go back. You see, I’d seen a large gold-colored metal suitcase locked up in the glass “good stuff” case and asked the clerk what it was. “Some kinda band instrument” […]
I swear this blog will not turn into “Camera Talk”
The latest round of thriftin’ for lenses has netted me an almost complete kit of Canon EF lenses, quite a few miscellaneous filters, a brand new spare battery charger and as a side effect of the way I’m picking up spare bits, one long-range 35mm SLR kit complete with a brand-new battery and 4 fresh […]
Tucson Is Bust, but Tonight We Eat Steak!
Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away!
Update: I just found this hack for this exact older kit lens that turns it into a hypercharged macro lens, just by removing the front glass ring. If I get tired of this $14.99 lens the way it is, I will probably try this out. I will definitely do so if I find another just […]