This SX-70 was picked up along with a collection of many other cameras. It worked out to about $5 per camera in the box, though this and the beautiful Polaroid 95a were surely the cream of the crop. Unlike the SX-70 Alpha SE, this model does not have a tripod mount, nor the strap lugs. […]
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Remembering the Canon 1D Mk II
The Canon 1D Mk II was my first professional camera. It is also the only camera which – for a time – I had two identical bodies at the same time. I completely agree with everything the author below wrote about this amazing camera. Sure, its a little long in to tooth now, but for […]
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha SE [1977]
My first Polaroid SX-70, the Alpha SE, came from a happenstance last minute run through an estate sale in my local neighborhood. Two of the cameras which had been for sale had still not been sold: a beat up old Minolta which I passed on, as well as a Polaroid SX-70, Alpha SE with the […]
Canon FX [1964]
As my collection of Canon cameras filled out, I became enamored with early Canon FL mount cameras. Canon is the only major manufacturer to orphan lens mounts from time to time, although the current EF mount has been around for 30 years now, since 1986. Given its prominence in Canon history, and quite frankly the […]
Canon T90 [1986]
I first became interested in Canon cameras after I purchased my first DSLR, a Canon XTi/400D in 2007. Somewhere along the line I learned it could be tinkered with through the CHDK project, and along the way I became interested in Canon history. At the time I didn’t see myself eventually gaining an interest in […]
Lytro (original) [2012]
YES THIS IS A CAMERA! Somehow I find the original Lytro more interesting to play with than the later and more technically advanced Lytro Illum. It is certainly lower resolution, and lower quality images, and less you can do “in camera” to play with the images. However the original Lytro has a tiny form factor and […]