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Goodman’s Restaurant & Deli, originally uploaded by john m flores. Bring a camera with you. Always. Throw it in the corner of your bag, stuff it into your pants pocket, buy clothes that are small camera friendly. Do what you must. Because you never know when the light’s going to be just right and a…
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The low winter sun screams through a chill sky and through the branches of a naked tree to warm the brick facade.
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Farewell my beige friends, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:En route to recycling, a Hitachi 17 CRT, circa 1997, an Epson Expression 636 flatbed transparency scanner, and a Dell Precision workstation running Windows NT. I saved the drive cage of the last one, and now have a bunch of 80 and 120GB IDE…
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Here’s a size comparison between the Pentax K-5 and new Pentax K-01. I went old school animated GIF to show that I’ve tried to align the K-mount screws and pins as precisely as possible. Is it a big enough size difference for you? For me, the answer is yes.
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Alex with Nate’s paws, originally uploaded by john m flores.
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Olympus OM-D, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:Another piece of the puzzle…
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Until the release of Panasonic’s diminutive 14mm F2.5, Pentax’s DA40mm F2.8 was the undisputed Mini-me of the camera world. I’ve got both and finally got round to showing how they stack up… My findings: They are nearly the same depth. The Panasonic lens extends farther from the lens mount while the Pentax lens extends farther…
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Back to the mother ship, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:The lens release button disappeared from my Pentax K-5 today while on a shoot. I was at a training facility for operators of bulldozers, backhoes and other big Tonka toys – essentially a giant sandbox. When I reached down to swap out the…
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In the seven years that I’ve been writing motorcycle travel stories, I’ve used a number of cameras, from Nikon and Pentax dSLRs to advanced point-and-shoots from Canon and Ricoh. Last summer I travelled for RoadRUNNER Magazine to Kansas to do a trip on riding and eating barbecue there. It was my first trip using Micro…
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Flower Girl, originally uploaded by john m flores.