Photography Category
Sep 6 | Discovering Bangalore
A lady selling flowers in Nagarthpet, Bangalore I’ve always cherished the opportunity to visit India. Every time I go, I uncover another beautiful or surprising slice of the country, and come away, as many do, changed in indescribable ways. The modern Bangalore metro, with an average ride costing approximately $0.28 This time, I had the […]
Aug 10 | Two days in Niijima and Shikinejima
The view from the deserted Habushiura beach Ever since my failed trip to Oshima 3 years ago, I’ve been meaning to make it to its more charming little sister island, Niijima. Niijima and nearby Shikinejima are sufficiently remote from Tokyo that they feel a bit like a different country altogether: slower paced, quiet, beautiful, and […]
Feb 22 | All About Tokyo Taxis – Part 1
In which I discover a minor taxi racket in Akasaka, ogle taxis from the top of Tokyo station, go taxi hunting, and end up calling myself an otakushii. You can get descriptions to all these photos by reading the alt text (hover) or by looking through this imgur album. New York City has, for all […]
Feb 12 | Strange Dreams from Oshima
In which I sleep walk 20km across an island 120km away from Tokyo, while taking weird photos and searching for warm drinks in the freezing cold. Samyang 14mm f/2.8, 15 second exposure on 5D Mark III, Magic Lantern, shooting once every 1 second at ISO 3200 with mirror lockup to prevent shaking It’s 6:57 when […]
Jan 3 | What’s In My Bag
I’m a photographer based in Tokyo. I collect film Canon SLRs too, though my current bag setup is not built around showing off my cameras! The key components are a Canon 5D Mark III and the Canon A-1, with a Samyang 14mm wide angle lens. I’m chiefly a landscape photographer stuck in an hyper-urban jungle, […]
Dec 26 | 1980 Canon Reflex magazine
Follow my adventures on YouTube at the CanonFilmGuy or see the entire catalogue at canonfd.org This is the 31-page Canon Reflex sales brochure from 1980, and lists information about the Canon F-1, AE-1, AV-1, AT-1 and the A-1. The full version can be downloaded here. A stamp at the back identifies as the store it […]
Dec 24 | What’s in a viewfinder?
Follow my adventures on YouTube at the CanonFilmGuy or see the entire catalogue at canonfd.org The view within a viewfinder has always been an opportunity to display additional information to the user. In the photos below I go over 8 film SLR and rangefinder camera viewfinders. Canonet 19 (1961) The Canonet’s viewfinder, which sported what […]
Dec 22 | Canon A-1 vs. New F-1
Follow my adventures on YouTube at the CanonFilmGuy or see the entire catalogue at canonfd.org Update 12/24: Mike Santos from the Canon FD group on YouTube kindly suggested corrections. Thank you! In the late 1970s and early 1980s Canon released two different 35mm film SLRs: the A-1 and the F-1. They were targeting different buyers: […]
May 2 | Design details of the Tokyo subway ticket machines
I’ve been a big fan of the Germaphobe’s Guide to Buying a Metrocard in it being an elegant exercise of understanding the design decisions behind the things we use every single day. I decided I’d take a similar exercise to the Tokyo subway ticket vending machines, which in some shape form the backbone of the […]
Feb 27 | GPS tracking my ski trip in Vail
This past week I had the chance to ski in Vail, Colorado, and I took with me my BadElf GPS Pro as I skied up and down, into the Back Bowls and the Blue Basin. I’m always interested in recording all sorts of odd bits of data, so I figured my ski tracks would be […]