Pictures and Pens
A podcast about my passions of photography and fountain pens. Discussions about collecting and using cameras, lenses, pens and associated topics such as photo editing, inks, paper, and coffee.
Pictures and Pens
Latest Episodes
SF Pen Show wrap-up and a wide angle lens
In this episode I share my experience at the San Francisco Pen Show, an annual fountain pen and stationary convention with a strong showing of Japanese vendors. I work the Dromgoole's table at the show and also do my own shopping. I bought a pa...
Film scanning, negative conversion, and the upcoming San Francisco Pen Show
In this episode I discuss scanning my 120 film negatives with the Valoi Easy 120 and my Fujifilm GFX100s the converting the RAW images using Capture One or Negative Lab Pro and Lightroom Classic. Then I give my thoughts about the upcoming San F...
I got my negatives back--what did I think? Plus, I crafted some inks
In this episode I discuss the results and learnings from my first two rolls of 120 film shot on my Mamiya 645 Super camera. It took several weeks to receive the scanned images along with the developed negatives and I'm very mixed on the process...
How I bought a medium format film camera (Mamiya 645 Super) and a discussion of stacked nibs
I bought and started to use a medium format film camera, the Mamiya 645 Super, which is, in fact, super. Two rolls of black and white film down, I discuss how I bought the camera, it's features, and my adventures making images and getting the f...
Discussion of all my Fujifilm GFX lenses and the Montblanc 149 High Artistry A Tribute to Craftsmanship Limited Edition 1994 Fountain Pen
In this episode I discuss my experience with all my native Fujifilm GFX lenses including the 23mm, 30mm T/S, 45mm, 55mm, 110mm, 120mm, and 500mm primes as well as the 20-35mm and 45-100mm zoom lenses. In fountain pens I discuss how I ended up b...