Tag: camera

  • The Kodak V570: A True Digital Lomo?

    The Kodak V570: A True Digital Lomo?

    I realize it may be click-baitey to call any camera a “Digital Lomo.” But I’m quite serious and not at all baiting for clicks. (What good would they do me, anyway? There’s no advertising on my site. It generates zero dollars.) For reasons I’ll explain I think the released-in-2006 Kodak V570 meets my criteria for…

  • Keeping It in the (Sony NEX) Family

    Keeping It in the (Sony NEX) Family

    After writing this post about how much I still love my 8-year-old Sony NEX-5, I did actually buy a new camera. Well, not so much a new camera as a newer camera. I bought the last model in Sony’s NEX line, before it was consolidated into its Alpha line of cameras. In the process of…

  • What video camera should I buy?

    One of the most common questions I hear from educators looking to start producing video is one that I suspect a lot of readers have heard: “What camera should I buy?” On the surface it’s quite an innocuous query, seemingly simple to answer. Yet, bundled up in there is a very common and pernicious assumption,…

  • Rocket Blower, I Love You

    Seems that photography is a topic the moves me to write at the ‘geek. So let me get in a quick post about a simple little device that has blown me away, pun intended. I’ve been shooting, developing and scanning my own black and white film for about two years now. And one of the…