Flashback: Infrared photography @ Make Magazine Oh, here’s some teaser photos I’ve taken with the accessory lenses:
Month: August 2013
Thriftin’ trip to Tucson, Kon Tiki again and wedding ring tattoos! (:
Kon Tiki was our lunch stop again – they were having some sort of Luau event, and we got our “United States of Aloha” Passports. If we drink every cocktail they serve, we get a swag bag. Vampire barbeques a wonderful dinner of marinated chicken, sweet potatoes, grilled banannas, pineapple and other fruits. Deee-lish! :D […]
Lens mount mystery: Tele-Lentar 1:5.5 f=300mm
Of all the lenses I have picked up at thrift stores, I have been able to identify every mount save one: This Tele-Lentar 300mm prime telephoto lens. So, I am appealing to the Intartubes for help. The lens has some sort of swappable intermediate mount, so I really have 2 chances of figuring out an […]
Olive Oil on Cotton Balls, great title for a Popeye fanfic, but is also fantastic on Bakelite.
Art Deco Bakelite Cigarette boxes
Finally got my letter from the Register…
“Lettering in futility: the art of being ignored” by Keith Sharon. Keith Sharon’s “Mail Bonding” (behind a paywall, caveat emptor.) Project 88 @ The Typosphere
The Best Traveling Typewriters, IMHO…
Laptop Typewriters: What’s the best travel mate? @ I dream lo-tech
You can’t always get what you want.. oh, wait, you actually can…
The only problem with collecting thrift store camera lenses is that you can only keep so many of them in your kit. That’s fine – you really only need a couple of lenses most of the time, but what do you do with the rest? I was lucky enough to score the big gold metal […]
Thriftin’ for more lenses: The Wide-Angle edition
Camerapedia on the Mamiya/Sekor TL series Pentax Forums on the Vivitar 135mm F2.8 Auto Telephoto Club Snap on the Vivitar 28mm 1:2.5 Auto Wide-Angle
Thrift Store Camera Gear: attaching the Hi-Matic AF lenses to my Canon, and the tiniest SLR I’ve ever seen
I got the adapter ring that allows me to attach these filter-thread-mount Hi-Matic AF lenses I picked up last week to my Canon lenses (well, actually, every lens I have with a 52mm filter thread, which is maybe 5 or 6 of them), and gave them a try. The results were unexpectedly tame, as these […]
Typewriter Repair 101: Adjusting Vertical Typeface Alignment (Carriage-Shift Typewriters)
In part One of this Typewriter Repair 101 series, we discussed adjusting the typeface alignment on Basket/Segment-shifted typewriters. One question that came up pretty quickly was the basket-shifted Royal QDL, which has a more complex 4-point adjustment system that is similar to Carriage-shifted machines. Today, we’ll examine some examples of these carriage-shifted machines, and adjust […]