Oona, my daughter, arrives safe and sound!

"bleb"

cat basket

first snow - Pat's Store

first snow

peanut counters

Man On Wire materials

the window

cat pile

Under The Sun Poster

Print ad

hole

FrameX screening for Nocturne

pip wants out

Tinity Church end times

Sue Biely: what's up in no uncertain terms

Frame X DVD label

Herzog print ad

Edge Of Heaven print ad

pip on deck

pip steps out

Standard Operating Procedure poster

AFF Volunteer round-up 2008

Krista and Faith organize, Gregor motivates.

Film5 ad

fog on the harbour

Pip keeping an eye on the world from the 2nd flloor

Amanda returns

...to Halifax to host the Vancouver Film Experiments screening, programmed by Ben Donoghue.

Vancouver handmade films small print ad 2

Lenses seek good home, selling 24, 28, 35mm

Selling my K 24mm f2.8, K 28mm f3.5, and M 35mm f2.0.
Just bought A series of the same lenses.

K 24mm f2.8 is in excellent condition, paint job 95% intact, glass clean.
M Series 35mm f2.0 cosmetically more worn but works fine, glass clean.
K 28mm f3.5 in excellent condition - famously sharp lens, paint 95% intact, glass clean.
All aperture blades work down to f22 (some older ones close to f16 and not 22).
Focus rings motion smooth and steady.

Lenses work on DSLRs in M mode (light reading by pressing AE-Lock button) and Av mode (in Av they meter and shoot only at max aperture but meter activates normally via shutter release and AE-Lock is just an AE-Lock).

Prices vary a lot on these things, so if interested send me an offer in Cdn or US dollars. Buyer pays shipping and insurance. Any border fees or taxes are buyer's problem, I am not familiar with current US border shipping situation, and honestly, don't want to have to deal with insane terror-paranoid customs guys.
Shipping on receipt of payment - will provide full contact details.
Payment by Paypal or Interac transfer. Cheque ok but must clear before shipping. MO ok but slow.

email me at p1x.photo(at)yahoo.ca

exit

Tony's late night

old poster

Gelato poster I designed years ago spotted in a health food co-op window.

Unlikely sighting

Vancouver handmade films small print ad

Vuk Vuksanovic comments on DSLR viewfinders

"One month before I sat down to compose this review, the tedium of scanning colour slides made me head out yet again to a couple of our big camera shops in Toronto to see if I could finally persuade myself the Nikon D70 viewfinder really wasn't that awful after all. I couldn't. Another big company's offering at the price point did little more for me (though I was actually somewhat relieved: didn't relish learning to cope with the ergonomic regression of lenses with no aperture ring). In an age when marketing departments have so much say, the calculated absence of critical 50-year-old technology shouldn't come as much of a surprise. It's pretty much common knowledge these days that a serious problem with entry-level digital SLRs is how very little of the budget finds its way to the viewfinder, which I maintain is one of the handful of body features to approach anything resembling a sine qua non of successful camera design: if you can't see clearly what you're shooting, how can you shoot clearly?"
More > photo.net/equipment/pentax/istds/

I posted this because it summarizes nicely the problem I've had with all my Nikons. The Pentax K100DS has been an improvement, but as Vuk found with the istDS, still not up to the standards found in film SLRs. The K100DS has a .85x viewfinder magnification, the istDS is .95. I am very interested to use a K10D or K20D which also are .95 mag., and see if that helps much.

I attached a magnifying eyepiece to the K100DS and it improves the viewfinder image, but makes the field of view very tight. I can't decide if it is or isn't an improvement overall.

Bike Week poster 2008

Pawnshop movie set being dressed

the watcher

spring finally

pylons