Charlotte Makes Photos

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  • A Camera’s Redemption Arc

    So it turns out that it’s possible that the almost twenty-year-old forum advice was correct: noodling with the exposure compensation dial on the Pentax ES II might have done the trick. I didn’t make many photos on Saturday when Kathleen and I paid visit to a suburban shopping area (bulk loaded ~12 frames), the camera…

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  • “It Puts the Long in the May Long”

    Since I’m not a runner (no thanks), I couldn’t support Monday’s extra day off by putting the run in May Run. And I don’t really drink, so I was not about to put the 2-4 in the May 2-4 weekend either. We’d just have to settle for a nice walk in glorious warm weather we…

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  • Test Flight for a New Arrival

    I recently won a(nother) Minolta XG1 through an eBay auction. They’re lightweight, do what I need them to do, and they allow me to make use of my favourite lenses, like the 58mm Rokkor-PF I’m so fond of. When I saw one nearing its end for $10, I put in a bid, hoping to win…

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  • Kathleen and Charlotte’s Excellent Saturday Adventure

    For our Saturday adventure, Kathleen and I reached for a little bit of tradition and took a nice walk west through Centretown (where we live), Chinatown, Hintonburg, and ended up in Wellington West before turning around for a bus back home. If perhaps a little familiar, we more than made up for it with a…

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  • Bringing You My Worst

    I don’t exactly remember when, but I recently saw a conversation about third-party lenses float through on Bluesky. The conversation’s general direction was that third-party lenses are more often than not just fine and are unfairly maligned. It got me thinking about my own collection and that I don’t have many third-party lenses. There are…

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