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.
Episodes
10 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...
Prime lens walkabout as well as fountain pen and ink buying in Houston, TX
On a weekend trip to Houston, TX I challenged myself to get some good photos in an essentially random location with a single prime lens. For this exercise I found a location near downtown that I photographed with a 55mm f2.8 Mamiya 645 lens ada...
Zoom Lenses and Fountain Pen Auctions
In this episode I discuss my experience with zoom lenses--I prefer primes--and also my experience with buying fountain pens at auction. First, I talk about Sony G-Master zoom lenses, the 16-35mm f2.8 GMII and the 24-70mm f2.8 GMII, both of whic...
The amazing Sigma 200mm f/2 lens and Pelikan raden fountain pens (a new one was just released)
In this episode I express my enthusiasm for the Sigma 200mm f/2 DG OS Sports lens, a fast telephoto lens that is essentially perfect and one of the best lenses ever made. I picked it up used, almost on a whim, and I'm so glad I did; what a lens...
RAW vs JPEG, DaVinci Resolve news, Platinum converters, and Montblanc Signature nibs
In this episode of Pictures and Pens I discuss my current approach to image capture by file type and camera system: RAW and JPEG for Fujifilm and RAW for Sony. I also discuss the exciting news that DaVinci Resolve has added still photo editing ...
Adapting Voigtlander M-mount lenses and a Nakaya fountain pen
In this first episode I discuss adapting Voigtlander M-mount lenses to Sony E-mount mirroless cameras and the magic of the 40mm f1.2 Nokton Aspherical lens from Voigtlander on my Sony A7RV. Also discussed is a standard cigar shaped urushi fount...