lens goals: Telephoto autofocus

[Photolog] Telephoto Adventures in the market now for professional glass by Robert Rowsey So now I need a telephoto that’s autofocus, at least 600mm, maybe 800 or even 1000mm. Here’s a pic I shot this morning of some dude at the Shores goofing around in the small surf on his longboard. He started out surfing it regularfoot but then dropped […]

Wedding Season Is Coming

Vacation-Destination Wedding Photography   Due to our weather and fine economy San Diego and Southern California’s wedding season is all year long. words and photos by me, Reviewer Rob As you may know, dear reader, we here at Reviewer Magazine will do pretty much anything legal for money. If you can be paid decently to do it and and not […]

Americana Dance Hall

[Photo log] The Grand Old Office The Americana dance and music scene words and photos by Reviewer Rob One night a month The Office on 30th Street in San Diego (the classic old completely remodeled Scolari’s Office space, remember?) turns into a country-western honky tonk now and it’s a free for all on stage as local talent does their best […]

Photolog: Supermoon, 11-13-16

[Photolog] SUPERMOON! by Reviewer Rob This photo was shot about an hour and a half ago at 6:05 p.m., from a parking lot up on a hilltop overlooking a freeway in north metro San Diego. The area directly in front of me below the plane of the moon was relatively free of urban and streetlight pollution, although there were some […]

photolog: shooting jpeg vs. NEF

  Why I shoot NEF RAW, and other superfluously obvious information by Reviewer Rob I was in Portland last weekend to finish up distributing a few hundred copies of issue 50 that had the Bundy Militia story in it. Ammon Bundy was on the cover in an article where Sarah Glass Shafer met him briefly at the Malheur National Wildlife […]

antique gear: the Zeiss Ikon Contaflex

[Collectibles] IG post: my new old camera outdated cameras are only one of my obsessions by Reviewer Rob originally from an Instagram post here Newly acquired: an early Model Contaflex from the German company Zeiss Icon. Looks like the fixed lens version they came out with in the beginning before interchangeable lenses were included. It’s attractive and serviceable in working […]