I have always wondered if my threshold for keepers in a roll of film is high or low. I always tend to like quite a bit of photos from one roll, and that makes me wonder…

So I decided to try a thing: Here I submit to your critical eyes a whole roll, fresh from the lab (with some basic adjustments but no cropping), shot with my ‘new’ Canon T90. Continue reading “Finders Keepers – But how many?”

Canon had the F1, their crushing answer to Nikon’s F-cameras. Developed to outdo and best Nikon in every field (well, they had to if they wanted to keep existing as a professional’s choice!). They succeeded with this formidable camera.

But there were others too, more designed to appeal to the enlightened amateurs. Best known were the A-Series, that started off with a flash and a bang…. no, with the great AE-1. The SLR that taught me photography (the few bits I know at least), and there was the A-1, the beautiful thing I watched in the photographer’s shop window but was never able to afford. Continue reading “Beauty and the Beast: Canon A-1 vs T90”

Last Sunday I went for a photo-stroll around my home.

Nothing grand here, just some pictures for you to enjoy (or not). I took my beautiful Canon A-1 with the very fine 28mm f:2.8 lens, a roll of HP5+…..

Here are the results, well, some of them.

Would you like to accompany me for this stroll?

Just stepping out of the garage of our apartment I saw this in a very harsh spring sun:

Continue reading “Sunday Afternoon Walk around Home”

This one reminds me of some SciFi BattleMechs before combat… 😉 Continue reading Just one picture…

This happened some days ago.During my lunch break I took a stroll in the old city of Luxembourg, around the National Museum with my faithful Lomo LC-A+ (well, faithful… we’ll see). Continue reading “A Stroll around the National Museum”