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The 1990s and 2000s were a weird time for film photography and film cameras. Digital was starting to arrive as a medium, and often the first digital cameras were adapted from film cameras. But there was also a push to chase nostalgia, and several companies put out what can only be described as premium options. Sure, you have the standard names like Canon, Nikon, Olympus, and Minolta. However, the biggest player in this push for premium is Kyocera. Kyocera had come in, purchased a couple of historic brands, Yashica and Contax, and began producing cameras and slapping these names on them. Kyocera produced cameras fromRead More →

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It’s hard to believe that I went on a massive trip to Europe ten years ago for three weeks. The trip’s primary purpose was to attend and participate in the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo with a large group of Canadian Reenactors and other reenactors from around the globe to mark a major anniversary of this world-changing battle. The trip also proved to be an adventure and offered many photographic chances. I also made a point to write a journal of my travels. As I was building this post, I ran a search and found out that I had written about it beforeRead More →

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I had to go back into my archives to see if I ever posted anything directly related to my 2015 trip to Europe. And yes, the images did appear in several review posts, but I never made a great post about the trip. I don’t understand why! But it probably got caught up in my poorly managed posting schedule, which I only in the past couple of years got onto the right track and had some semblance of order. But either way, I think for this Friday, I get things in order and revisit a special trip of mine with some insights into that tripRead More →