Summer moon July 2018, Crescent City harbor, 200mm f2.8

Summer moon July 2018, Crescent City harbor, 200mm f2.8

Posted on

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 […]

Posted on

Millions And Millions For Drones In Poway

Poway Drones Huge General Atomics Contracts In The Works by Reviewer Rob When I was a kid in the early-1970’s and my mom worked for a realty company on Poway Road houses were going for about 20 thousand a piece. Now that things have changed and there’s plenty of million-dollar homes dotting the hills above the Poway valley that economic […]

Posted on

Dancing Naked In The Mind Field, signed by author Dr. Kary Mullis, for sale: $195, three-item bundle

[Rare Books] Dr. Kary B. Mullis, Nobel Prize Winner   4sale: $195. Dancing Naked In The Mind Field, 1998. This is a signed and dated first edition with mylar wrap on fine dust-cover and is to be sold bundled with copy of Celebrity Magazine containing an interview with the author that preceded the issue of the book by several years. […]

Posted on

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[Collectibles] IG post: my new old camera outdated cameras are only one of my obsessions by Reviewer Rob originally from an Instagram post here Newly acquired: an early Model Contaflex from the German company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 […]

Posted on

Adobe Lightroom Gallery To The Resue

[hi tec] Automated Picture Displays in Adobe Creative Cloud by Reviewer Rob So, I went to a coffee shop last night at 12:30 and sat down, and by 3 a.m. automated a photo gallery in Adobe Creative Cloud for the first time. For two or three years now I’d been lamenting the absence of the standard included autogallery in Creative […]

Posted on

PHOTOLOG: old glass, Tamron 19mm fixed focal length f3.5-22

[Photolog]  analog lenses, circa 1989 by Reviewer Rob More analog lenses. Here’s my manual-focus 19mm Tamron f3.5 to 22 that I bought new in 1989 or so, when it was modern technology. I got it down at either George’s North Park or Nelson’s in Little Italy. I forget for sure which it was but I’m pretty sure it was Nelson’s. […]

Posted on

I’m Not Really An Unintentional Luddite

[Confession] An Unintentional Luddite? by Reviewer Rob, from 5-29-16, 5:41 p.m. Right Now. Now I’m listening to this Sub Pop label sampler in my car CD player. This is going to sound rightfully dumb, but it is almost June 2016 and this is the very first time I have ever heard a compact disc in my car radio. Don’t bother […]

Posted on