Idling User

Thom Hogan prepared a list of lenses that Nikon should be producing. I like his choices. I think my top picks his list would be: […]

I purchased a Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic 45 yesterday - a large format “Press” camera w/ ground-glass view back. The purchase was somewhat spontaneous - I went with Adam to check out the remaining equipment of a friend of a friend’s deceased relative, or something like that. I paid a reasonable price consider that […]

Recently someone told me the story of how they were stopped and detained by police because they photographed the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. They were passing over the bridge while taking the photos out the window. They were well within their rights to take photos of the bridge, however, they were still stopped, detained, […]

As of midnight this evening I will quit smoking. I should post to this blog in the new found spare time.

Gowanus, Brooklyn

QIV has been my image viewer of choice for Linux for at least 4 years. It’s very fast and very bare bones, with some on-the-fly read-only image manipulation (brightness, gamma, contrast). Don’t expect thumbnailing, cataloging or any features like that out of it. My favorite feature is attaching scripts to the 0-9 […]

Charlie, my dog

I was on my way out to dinner in downtown Manhattan the other night and decided to drop by J&R because I was a half hour early. As if I was drawn there, I immediately found the camera section and went downstairs where the hard core tools were. I had been oogling over […]