On this cold December Saturday, enjoy ye some bloggery.
Eric Swanger considered his Agfa Clack, as I did mine recently, and came to a different conclusion. Read Arms Behind
Using all the old cameras I have has taught me a lot about what kind of gear I like for the kind of photos I shoot. Ming Thien calls this shot confidence — knowing that you can get the shot you want with the gear in your hand. He explains this and a lot more about the experience of using your gear. Read The shooting experience
How should you behave at work in the #MeToo era? Professionally. Johanna Rothman explains. Read Organizations Are Not Family, Part 1
This week’s camera reviews and experience reports:
- Agfa Silette L (Mark O’Brien)
- Agfa Standard, Model 255 (Nicholas Middleton)
- Argus C3 (Barbara Justice)
See my reviews of the C3 here, here, and here. - Zenza Bronica ETRSI (Denys Trofimchuk)
- Olympus OMG (Peggy Anne)
Organizations are not a family is a good one, as was your comment there. Phil Vischer wrote about that in an essay about the collapse of Big Idea Productions (the Veggie Tales folks) that you can’t have a family atmosphere AND layoffs.
https://philvischer.com/news/what-happened-to-big-idea-part-1/
Keep us posted if there’s any follow up articles to that!
The Big Idea story is very instructive for people who are in the church and trying to “do God’s will.”
Ohh shot confidence, I like that!
Yes, it’s a perfect concept for describing when a camera is “right.”
I really enjoy reading about the write up’s on the camera test drives and examples of the photographs with the cameras!
Thank you
Thank you for saying so! More to come.