Tag: thinning the herd
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Operation Thin the Herd: Canon TLb
The Canon SLR I like best by far: the 1974 Canon TLb.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Minolta Hi-Matic 7
One last spin with my Minolta Hi-Matic 7, an early-mid-60s fixed-lens rangefinder camera.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Progress report
As I continue to thin my herd of cameras, in part through shooting many of them one more time, I’m realizing just which cameras I’m going to center my collection around.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Rollei A110
My tiny Rollei A110, which takes 110 film, gets its turn in Operation Thin the Herd.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Canon AE-1 Program
My Canon AE-1 gets its turn being evaluated. It acquitted itself well at a car show, but merely acquitting itself isn’t necessarily enough to clear the bar to stay in the collection.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Nikon N90s
Sometimes a person needs to just get out and shoot for the joy and fun of it. At such times, a great choice is an auto-everything SLR and a zoom lens. The Nikon N90s is heavy and has more features than you need for such a day, but its very robustness means it will likely…
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Operation Thin the Herd: Zeiss Ikon Contessa LK
Zeiss Ikon’s Contessa LK is a viewfinder camera with a coupled selenium meter. It is just a joy to shoot.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Olympus Trip 35
I took my Olympus Trip 35 on a couple suburban photo walks.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Yashica Electro 35 GSN
I thought surely I’d really like shooting my Yashica Electro 35 GSN again.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Canon EOS 630
Auto-everything film shooting isn’t normally my bag. I’m more a match-needle, twist-to-focus kind of guy. But even I have to admit, sometimes there’s charm in letting a camera do the grunt work. The EOS 630 is a very early EOS camera, dating to about 1989. I’ve only shot this camera once before, that time with…
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Operation Thin the Herd: Kodak VR35 K40
My first Kodak VR35 K40 was a gift, new, from my mom. My second was a $5 Goodwill find. Both were surprisingly good. Here are some recent photos I made with mine.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Olympus XA
I never doubted I’d keep my Olympus XA as I thin the herd of cameras I own. But I shot it anyway because it’s delightful.