When the Artemis II mission to fly astronauts to the moon was being prepared for launch, the internet photography media, and its readers, were losing their minds about the astronauts being equipped with  “10-year-old technology.” The technology in question is the Nikon D5, a digital single-lens-reflex design that represented the top of the line when…

Last week I discussed my Uncle Wes’ Canon FTb, a gift to me from his daughter, my Cousin Lori. In the same box she gave me was a much older, odder camera, the Canon II. This camera came out of the post-war period of the twentieth century when camera names were pretty straightforward, unlike today’s…

I was attracted to photography since I was a young kid. The first camera that I owned myself (meaning not my family’s shared camera) was a Yashica GSN Electro 35. A lot of us had this camera in the 1970s because it was cheap, and made great images if you knew what you were doing….