Photography & Vintage Film Cameras

The backyard cats were a little irritated with me for fooling around with the camera instead of filling the feed bowls. The camera was the O...

A place I look to everyday for inspiration is the Lens blog at the NY Times. Last Friday's offering was an article by Niko Koppel about ...

The al-Barran Chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism was out in force for their weekly martial practice at Bataan Park in Albuq...

I found another mju point-and-shoot, this one at a thrift store on the other side of the Sandia Mountains. It has no light leaks, a...

One of the great virtues of my old Pentax Spotmatic is that it has virtually no shutter lag. So, there is a much better chance of capturing...

A cold winter morning turned out to be a nice time to visit the Rio Grande Zoo. The place was very quiet and we saw several keepers t...

Zeiss introduced the Tessar lens design by Paul Rudolph in 1902. I have examples on cameras dating from the early days to the middle of the...

Albuquerque entrepreneurs are still trying to cash in on Route 66 nostalgia, but the authentic mid-century motels are quickly vanishing....

Between books and cameras, all the shelf space in my little house is accounted for. So, I don't need any more of either. Well, maybe...

This street artist was blowing Christmas ornaments on a Friday night in Albuquerque's Old Town. There was a good turnout for the an...

There are a lot of fine old cameras, mostly made by Kodak, that were designed to use the now-defunct 620 rollfilm format. Many of those cam...