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June 25, 2025
Voigtländer Snapshot Skopar 25mm f4
Another in a series of Farewell to Gear, where I bid fond adieu to cameras and lens.   Once in a while (Edit: I mean, often), there are lenses you pick up out of curiosity, fall in love with, and then never let go of (Edit: until I had to let it go). The Voigtländer ...
June 25, 2025
Easy way to update firmware on Godox TT350

I thought I’d share with you my experience trying to get TT350S to work with X2T-F Couldn’t figure out buttons and menus. I never read instruction manuals but this time I had to. Manuals makes no sense.  No spelling errors, but also makes no sense. Went online to watch youtube how-tos.  Very little info. Got …

June 25, 2025
Go(dox)damit!

I heard that recent Godox triggers will work on all recent Godox flashes.  Even across brands.  For example, a X2T-F trigger (which is for Fujifilm  hotshoe mount) can fire a TT685S flash which is for Sony hotshoe mount). I saw a few onsale on Carousell.   Hmmm… buy and try!  What can go wrong?   …

June 24, 2025
The X-Pro1 in 2025 — Still My Quiet Workhorse
Self-portrait (I'm in the sliver in the centre of the revolving door, right where the arrows are pointing) shot with x-Pro1 and XF14mm f/2.8. The ISO was 200.  I slowed the shutter to 1/17s so that I can get motion blur on the lady.  Being set on AE priority, the computer inside X-Pro1 worked out ...
June 21, 2025
Modern Mayhem

The Summarit 5cm f/1.5: Old Soul, New Body There’s something beautifully rebellious about putting a 1950s Leica lens on a digital Fuji body. It’s a quiet protest against megapixels and MTF charts. A reminder that character beats clinical every single time. The lens in question? The Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Summarit 5cm f/1.5, proudly perched here on …

June 21, 2025
The Nifty Sixty (Three) GF63mm
Let’s talk about the GF63mm lens.   If you shoot GFX, you probably already own it because was the "normal" lens that was paired as the "kit" lens with the early GFX bodies.  The later bodies, like the GFX 50S II I own, are paired with the GF35-70mm lens (another great lens). For the longest ...
May 29, 2025
Portrait Photography

My Fine Art Portraiture photography sessions are designed for artists, survivors, seekers.  You may be marking a transition, commemorating a milestone, or just be needing a new Linkedin pic.  But together we can create something special. Before the Shoot: A Conversation, Not a Questionnaire Before we ever pick up the camera, we’ll schedule a reflective …

May 28, 2025
Myth of the “Intuitive” Photographer
I was watching (something online, can't remember) recently and I saw a very famous photographer saying something like:  “Oh, I’m not a technical photographer.” while palming off their $20,000 Phase One to one of their many assistants. And every time I hear a famous photographer I admire proclaim that they are "not technical", a little ...
May 28, 2025
What a Fine Arts Degree Didn’t Teach Me (And What David Hobby Did)
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the University of Washington. Four years of critique sessions, darkroom fumes, conceptual frameworks, and endlessly fascinating discussions about whether photography as art. And to be clear - I’m grateful for all of it. Those years shaped how I see, how I think, how I ...
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