Tag: Kodak Tri-X 400

  • Casual portraits on Kodak Tri-X 400

    We had another pitch-in recently at church, and I took my camera along again. I was thrilled when several members were very happy to see my Pentax ME hanging from my neck and asked if I’d be sure to photograph them at some point during the meal. Morris was first in line, asking me to photograph…

  • Scenes from a pitch-in

    We call them pitch-ins here in Indiana. I guess people in most of the rest of the country call them potlucks. When people from out of state visit our church and we announce a pitch-in, the “hunh?” look on their faces always turns to an “Oh!” look when we say, “That’s what we call a…

  • Captured: Rife’s Market

    I visited my friend Alice in Columbus, Ohio, the weekend before last. We ended up taking in the galleries, thrift stores, and specialty shops along Grandview Ave. and 5th Ave. near the Upper Arlington neighborhood. Rife’s Market stands on the southeast corner of 5th and Grandview. It’s a real throwback – meat and produce in…

  • Pentax KM

    The Pentax KM is in almost every way the same camera as the Pentax K1000. You see, the KM came first, in 1975. Then in 1976 Pentax removed the KM’s depth-of-field preview button and self timer, called it the K1000, and launched one of the most iconic SLRs of all time. So if you go…

  • Yashica Electro 35 GSN

    A review of the Yashica Electro 35 GSN, a crackerjack 35mm rangefinder camera.

  • Pentax ME

    A review of the Pentax ME, a 35mm SLR and the camera I use most by far.