CamerAgX – a new life for old gear

For the readers not familiar with the American retail landscape, Five Below is a chain of stores selling “stuff” (cosmetics, candies, gadgets, beach towels, electronics) for really cheap, like $5.00 and below. Not eveything is under $5.00 – the reusable, waterproof film camera, and the b&w film it needs are both priced over that symbolic mark, at $7.00. There is a cheaper...

I can’t believe I’ve already published 200 entries in this blog. And even more unbelievable, that those pages have been viewed (and I hope read) more than half a million times. To all, thank you for your patience with me and my ramblings.

When I was younger, I used to write for a paycheck. In the French IT press. And I hated the deadlines. I was always procrastinat...

There is much to like in the Pentax KP – it’s a well spec’d, well designed, compact and solid APS-C dSLR, and when paired with the best of the Pentax “Limited” primes, it will deliver really beautiful pictures. One of its unique selling propositions was that the handgrip gracing the right side of the body was removable, and could be had in three different sizes, small, medium...