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It’s Holga Week, from October 1-7, and it’s a good time to shoot with that plastic-fantastic camera.   I’ve used Holgas since about 2002, and over time, I have figured out that it does not pay to obsess trying to get a “perfect” image from them. You cannot get perfection from an imperfect device, but you can get satisfaction. A Holga is a great way to take a photograph

Back in August, I drove a 15ft U-Haul truck from Tucson, AZ back to Asheville, NC.  I've already posted on the trip here. Before the trip, I had mailed my film and my RETO Ultra-wide and Slim to my daughter in Tucson.  I hadn't used the UW&S for quite a while, and figured that it would be a fun thing to have with me for the trip back, in addition to my Pentax Spotmatic F and my

Every once in a while, I find a gem among expired films.  When it comes to color emulsions, it's almost always a guessing game, unless I know the history of the film - how it was stored, and when it expired.  While there are general rules of thumb about exposing out-of-date films, some films age better than others (slow black and white films always age the best), and I end up ha...

Pentax introduced the K-mount fifty-one years ago, and these three SLRs were the first K-mount bodies. The Pentax KM - a fully manual SLR with the ability to operate without a battery for the meter. It is basically a Pentax Spotmatic F, and far better than the K1000 that replaced it later. The Pentax KX uses a match-needle in the viewfinder to choose the appropriate shutter spe...