Happy SUNday! – images from a 1959 lens.

August 31, 2025August 31, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Very nice colors and contrast. This 35mm lens, when used on a crop sensor camera like the Fuji, provides an effective focal length of approximately 52mm, which is considered a “normal” or “standard” lens.

A test picture showing nice contrast and color from a sixty-five-year-old lens.

An Asahi Takumar f3.5 35mm wide-angle lens from 1959 mounted on my modern Fujifilm mirrorless camera via an adapter.

This classic lens looks right at home on my Fuji X-T2.

I enjoy using classic lenses on my modern cameras. It’s easy and inexpensive to adapt your lenses to your mirrorless digital cameras.

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Happy SUNday! – strange stuff

August 17, 2025August 17, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

I have two Martin County, Florida, House of Refuge Bicentennial Medals (1776-1976) and one Sears Centennial Coin (1886-1986).

Lens caps and a Leica Inspection Tag (Hang Tag).

I found a box in my home office-studio with some cool old stuff. I put these on Mercari in case someone might have a desire to add them to their strange stuff box.

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Happy SUNday! – my dad

August 10, 2025August 10, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Brooklyn, New York, c1919.

This isn’t a souvenir picture; my grandfather drove a horse-drawn Borden’s milk wagon, and my dad, Paul, grew up around horses. He’s about 6 or 7 in this photo.

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Happy SUNday! – this weeks cameras.

August 3, 2025August 3, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Classic Canon AE-1 with sharp Canon NFD 50mm f/1.8 lens. A late 1970s staple of the Canon ‘A ‘ Series cameras.

This one comes complete as part of the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics set.

Sharp little digicam from Fujifilm. The S3100 is a 4 megapixel bridge camera with an outstanding Fujinon 6x zoom lens.

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Happy SUNday!

July 27, 2025July 27, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Pirate Pete and friends, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Florida.
The look of film, actual film. Fujifilm 200.
These images are from a recent photo walk around the island with my 1983 Nikon L35AF 35mm film camera.
Autofocus and auto exposure were spot on. These scans are from The Darkroom lab in San Clemente, California. No post-processing by me or them.

Elsewhere in the historic district.

Centre Street, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island.

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Happy SUNday!

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

A ‘gift’ from Canada.

I received a package from Canada the other day, and these lovely stamps were carefully attached and not cancelled.

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SUNday’s Cameras – Fujifilm Fun

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Fujifilm FinePix S3380 14MP CCD sensor bridge camera.

There’s plenty of fun to be had with these two from Fujifilm. The super compact FinePix AX330, which fits in a shirt pocket, to the powerful FinePix S3380 bridge camera with a 26x 500mm Fujinon zoom lens and image stabilization, in a package that’s smaller than a typical DSLR or mirrorless camera. They are both in my Etsy camera shop now and available for purchase at http://www.ccstudio2380.com.

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Happy SUNday!

July 6, 2025July 6, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

A hydoponically grown pansy.

Fujifilm X-T2 mirrorless digital camera. Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS lens at 24mm. Velvia Vivid.

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Happy SUNday! – I take an old friend out for a photowalk.

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025Chris and Carol Leave a comment

The Nikon L35AF was Nikon’s first 35mm autofocus camera. Its reputation is top-notch, which is the name it is known by in Japan – Picaichi. No swooping lines here, just a solidly built gem from the 1980s.

The Nikon features a super-sharp f/2.8 35mm lens.

Loaded with fresh Fujifilm 200. Not my favorite since Fuji dropped the better versions, but it’s still colorful and contrasty.

They came in two models. The first was an ISO 400, and the updated one was ISO 1000. This is the latter ISO 1000 one.

I just added this very nice, unused Canon CPS Think Tank camera bag to my Etsy camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com.

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