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I recently purchased a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 headphones for the occasions when I need to wear some closed back headphones. But, as someone who can’t just let things be, I decided to aggressively modify these already perfectly good enough headphones. Not because I wanted to get better sound from them (I have no… Continue reading Breaking your headphones’ warranty for absolutely no reason

Of all the cameras I have, there’s one I keep coming back to, the Olympus OM-2n. I don’t entirely know why. It’s a good camera, but it’s not an outstanding camera. I have a couple other cameras that fill the same compact SLR niche and that have better specs on paper than the OM-2n, but… Continue reading A Comfortable Companion

Being one of their last manual focus cameras, the Nikon FE2 comes very close to perfect. It’s a very solid camera that is very focused at getting out of your way and helping you take the photos you want. On the surface the FE2 may look like almost any other aperture priority SLR (such as… Continue reading Formula Perfected, the Nikon FE2

Generally considered Ilford’s budget brand, I’ve grown to love Kentmere’s two films, Pan 100 and Pan 400. Because the films are somewhat newer (first released in 2009), and because it usually sits on the “student” shelf at stores, these great films are frequently neglected by photographers who would rather go to the more well known… Continue reading Why I love Kentmere Films

One of the nicest convenience features many film cameras come with is a built in light meter. Having one allows you to focus less on making sure the exposure is right and more on the composition of the photo. But sometimes you won’t have a meter. Maybe your batteries died in the middle of shoot.… Continue reading Photography, without a Light Meter