#camera reviews

fantastic review of what is otherwise a really interesting camera - basically an extension of your phone using a serious sensor and lens

but at least as interesting to me as a creator and educator is her exploration of the dangers of "AI" intruding deeper into creative spaces:

I can see the utility of the automated editing tools she describes for cleaning up actual human-created images much faster than using something like Photoshop, but the danger is the built-in LLM prompt engine

is it really "photography" if you fake an image before, during, or after through prompting the plagiarism machine?

she offers a great philosophical discussion about this growing issue, and makes an overt declaration that she will never "create" photos using AI - unexpected from what could have been a simple review video. bravo!

I own a Sears KS2 35mm SLR. It’s a little strange to think back to a time when there were store brand cameras. Beneath the branding this one is a repurposed Ricoh SLR and takes Pentax K mount lenses. 

Cameras and photography used to advance by inches at a terribly slow pace. Every now and again someone would introduce a new film or an advance in lens technology. But the seismic shifts we’ve become accustomed to on a twice yearly basis in the digital age were unheard of. It left room for retailers to get in and put their name on products like the KS2 because the manufacturers weren’t all that precious about technology that hadn’t substantially changed in decades, and was not likely to for a few decades more. 

Who can imagine Panasonic or Pentax allowing Amazon or Wal-Mart to sell a re-branded version of their latest camera now? It would never happen because the cameras themselves are the stuff of innovation and reputation, they ARE the brand.

But back in the 80s a camera was a camera  and a middle tier manufacturer like Ricoh might well pad out their sales by letting retailers who might not stock their product otherwise slap their own name on the back. 

The KS2 is simple and a joy to use for any film shooter. A bit plasticky if you’re used to sturdier items like the K1000 or Nikon F series. But it is more than capable.

I recently loaded a roll of Fomapan’s Retro 320 film into my still spry KS2. I had a surprisingly well rounded 105mm f/2.8 lens mounted on it, sharp and fast enough for real versatility. I developed the film at home in the recommended Fomapan Retro Special Developer.

Retropan is an interesting mixture of blessing and curse. Blessing because it was a new film stock recently introduced in a time of limited choices. Curse because it is temperamental and strange. It behaves almost like a mistake in research and development that Fomapan decided to market anyway, lemons from lemonade. Its grain is obtrusive, its contrast is extremely low and the emulsion nearly explodes under strong light. 

All that being said the company’s promotional material is not wrong in that the film, when handled correctly, gives a pleasingly soft and evocative image. For evocations of time and gauzy imagination it is a very effective tool.

My Lecia M6 is probably not worth what I paid for it. 

Good morning.

Today I’ve cried, because I was too happy.

Today I found out, that dreams actually do come true sometimes, if you wait long enough.

(I’m writing it almost a week later and I still cannot believe it happened. I was shaking. I’m shaking still.)

I started saving money to buy camera in 2014. I think that I’ve started to want to buy camera even earlier, but what I remember for sure, is that I bought some One Direction fangirl shit in the start of 2014, and decided to stop buying useless stuff, and start saving to buy camera. It’s been 3 years. And today, I have finally bought a camera.

Funny thing is, I chose a specific camera, after a long long research, I decided to buy CANON 600D. I knew its price, and I knew it will take a while to have enough. Well, it did take a while, 3 years is a long term. And when I finally realized that I actually have enough money, and searched for shop where I can buy my baby, I found out that they stopped selling it. It was removed from producing. I was saving for so long that they stopped selling it!

So I started getting all stressed out, as looking for a new kind of camera took so much time. I saw so many cameras, but all of them either haven’t had everything I need, or was too expensive. But then I found where I can buy this camera, the camera I fell in love with back then, in 2014. Well, it is already used and not new, but it’s good. It’s almost new anyway, and I believe that with all love I give to my CANON 600D it can become young again.

I have no words to describe how happy I am now. I’m not even sad about giving away almost all of money I had. You can buy happiness for money, and I just bought a pricey, but very high-quality happiness.

Looking forward for showing how beautiful the world that I see is with a help of my 18 million pixels ability,

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