Nokia Asha 300, at the Farmer's Market I

Panoramas: Images with a vintage candy-bar Nokia Asha 300, cropped to the 2.7:1 image aspect, an early morning trip to the Farmer's Market, Part I.

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It has to be a very early morning trudge or even a footslog, verging on dawn, if you are after the best of choice and the widest of selection of farm produce and what have you at the farmer's market. Park your car away from the rush into the site's parking lot, do the walk-in instead, and take your time with the pick, and you can still be done before the sun is up.

Images were shot on the Nokia Asha 300 and cropped to the 2.7:1 image aspect ratio.

Nokia Asha 300

Konica C35 EF, Sights and Scenes II

Analog Diary: Film photography favorites, sights and scenes II, images with a vintage Konica C35 EF, the Pikkari, the first compact camera with a fully built-in electronic flash.

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The second set of images, after Part I, on my walkabout in the city with the Konica C35 EF. Nicknamed 'Pikkari' for being the first 35mm compact camera that came with a built-in flash, the camera was introduced in 1975.

Name-wise, the C stands for 'compact', the 35 for 35mm film, and EF for 'electronic flash'. Focusing is enabled by selecting preset distances on the rotating lens barrel, using the zone focus method.

One regret of the camera over its predecessor, the C35 Automatic, is that the camera is not a rangefinder anymore. It is now a zone-focusing model, with a four-zone setting dial located on the rotating lens barrel. The camera, as dictated by its development, is available in two iterations, one from its release date in 1975 and the second from 1977 onwards.

Konica C35 EF

The difference between the two models is the addition of a self-timer and a new speed of 1/250 second, which is added to the 1/60 and 1/125 from the older model. On the new model, the self-timer lever is located on the left side of the lens, an orange plastic flash release knob (the old one came with a black plastic one), and the focusing symbols on the lens focusing barrel are framed; otherwise, they are similar.

Nokia Asha 300, From Across The Street

Mobile Photography: Image making with a vintage candy-bar Nokia Asha 300, views from across the street.

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Views from across the street, on a quick night out to the local takeaway, with the buildings properly lit up, hardly anybody around, and traffic just as sparse and intermittent. Images shot with the Nokia Asha 300.

AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D, At the Stop

Analog Diary: Film photography favorites, The Nikon F-601, and a vintage AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D, an affordable 35mm film SLR setup for enthusiasts and collectors.

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At the train stop, in the quiet after the morning rush, time almost stood still. I was on my way to an outing in the suburbs and had with me the AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D mounted on the Nikon F601.

The AF Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D, introduced in 1995, was the third and final iteration of the AF Zoom Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5~4.5 series produced by Nikon. The AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D, incidentally, is the only version that is fully compatible with all 35mm SLR Nikon film cameras as well as Nikon FX digital cameras manufactured from 1977 onward.

Nikon F-601, AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D

The Nikon F601, or the N6006 in the US, was introduced in 1991 and featured an improved autofocus system, auto film advance, pop-up electronic flash, a new multi-zone metering program, and a top shutter speed of 1/2000 of a second.

Minolta MD 28mm f/2.8, Low Key Re-Edits

Cameras and Lenses: A low-key re-edit of prior images with a classic vintage Minolta MD 28mm f/2.8 (1977), a widely praised compact, affordable, and sharp legacy lens, a standard normal 56mm full-frame equivalent on the Olympus PEN E-P5.

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A re-edit of the images from the low-key photography session I did quite a while back, with the initial post-processed images posted here. There is not much about this exercise either, just a repeat exercise on the selection of images, cropping, and post-processing, to see whether my post-processing techniques have improved at all.

Supposedly easy to do, low-key photography is actually tough to master. Low-key photography is a genre of shooting dark-colored scenes, with natural or artificial lighting emphasizing only specific areas in the frame. The results are often visually mysterious, seen as compositions of light and shapes interpreted only by the viewer.

Olympus PEN E-P5, Minolta MD 28mm f/2.8

Images were shot in RAW on the Minolta MD 28mm f/2.8, mounted on an Olympus PEN E-P5. Post-processing includes edits in Auto Tone Correction, Crop, Tone Curve, Brightness & Contrast, Hue & Saturation, and Unsharp Mask.