Tampa Pro 2012 : the weekend
Another weekend at the SPOT. Here’s Saturday & Sunday. Always a blast with the best skating in world. Live. Here are photos of no one skating. Click fer bigger and slideshow.
Portraits from the 2011 TampaAM
An hour spent at the SPoT spread across two days. Here are some portraits from the weekend. Click fer bigger and slideshow:
21 minutes through FetishCon 2011
…and to the Hub. On a long stroll through downtown Tampa, I happened upon Fetish Con again (like I had managed a year before). I didn’t really feel up to a prolonged stay this time around, as I was meeting a friend at the Hub. Next year maybe I’ll be in the mood to shoot more. There’s little escape from the energy that this event creates in that town. The last few moments of our evening were of the delightful fellow pictured propositioning me and Andy to “Go dancing, if we knew what he mean’d.” We would then motion to the several 50 dollar bills he spread on the table. Andy repeated and repeated: “The friendly’s wearing off.”
He never really understood that meant “no.”
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12 Hours at MetroCon 2011
Pictures from an Anime convention from either a Epson RD-1 w/ Rokkor 40/2 and Leica M9 w/ Summicron 35/2 v4. Click for bigger n’ slideshow:
Rokkoring the Fungus
Sometimes the horrible growths inside a lens can yield an interesting look. Minolta M-Rokkor 28/2.8 on a M9 clicker fer bigger:
Robbing the weekend away
Stealing a weekend back. Packed light and dirty. Only brought the Epson RD-1 rangefinder and a M-Rokkor 40/2. Great lens, but becomes like a 65mm on the RD-1. Wish I had a thrown a wide in the bag, but I also wish I had a beater Leica M9. Oh well… Click image to start slideshow:
Accelerated Lenses? 1/5000th ISO?
Prepare to have your fucking head blow’d off. Well, if you’re a photo geek. Light acceleration with electromagnets. I’ll take one. Analogue is back… in the terabytes.
Fastest Tool to clear yellowed Thorium lenses
Hi all, just wanted to share the absolute fastest way I have found to clear up the yellowing of lenses due to rare earth content. I’ve cleaned up several Takumars and now a 50/2 Wetzlar rigid ‘Cron with this lamp. After witnessing the speed in which it just cleaned up this Leica beauty from 1970, I was compelled to share this technique. For whatever reasons, it is able to clear up the yellowing of lenses FAST. Like in all of 24 hours. Not a week of sitting in the windowsill trying to harness the sun.
So here’s the secret tool.
The JANSJÖ work lamp from Ikea. Item number 101.287.34
It’s an LED unit, but evidently puts out a highly focused beam of UV light that you can bend down right into the barrel of your lens. Seriously this thing works awesome. I’ve tried other UV bulbs to some good results but still those take days to undo the yellowing of decades of the radioactive breakdown. This lamp will cure it overnight. 2 nights, and you’re back to like new.
Hope this is helpful to someone… other than just Ikea’s lamp sales.
Real reel 2 reel sound.
Hooked up on a Teac A-4300SX for Fates’ Florida animation studios audiophile room today. Great sounding ‘prosumer’ unit. The real find was the old mustachioed guy’s collection of 20+ reels of rare recordings of everyone from Howlin Wolf to Leon Redbone. Sounds awesome blasting out of the DynaKit system. Keep listening analogue fans; as the ad below says, don’t let the music stop!
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28 hours left
Random R-D1 snaps with Russian Glass from 1959 (Jupiter 3 & 12 ). Click thumbnail for big size and slide show:
Street Love
If you have to ask about these… you don’t want to know.
R-D1 with CV 21/4 (terrible low light lens btw) shots (click one to start slide show):
Epson R-D1 : Day One
So I finally found an affordable Epson R-D1. That’s a digital rangefinder camera. What’s fun is you can easily trick people into thinking it’s a film camera. It definitely is a challenge to use, but pushes the way you think about framing… and unmistakably makes you more deliberate in your clicks. One real bit of odd history with this camera is that it was announced in 2004, and subsequently has been released twice more (R-D1s & R-D1x) without ANY UPDATES to the taking sensor! It is a cult classic for that reason alone. Read about the R-D1 here in an early article.
Anyway, been snapping some stuff with it. Here are some early shots (click one to start slide show):
Guinness : The Perfect Pint
Print & Digital Ad for Guinness served at the Perfect Pint bars in Manhattan. Click for larger size:
… and below is the original photo minus the text & graphics. Click for larger size: 
Guinness : St. Patty’s Day
Maybe you’ve seen these hanging around NYC. Not the most well known (or known period) street photog but I do love interacting with interesting people on the street for a few random moments in time. Click image for bigger image:
