Meeting Viking Orion
It’s good to be “home” The bus unloads us in what would normally be a parking lot, but which has […]
Flying to Bermuda
What already sucked, sucks harder We took advantage of discounted airfare from Viking, which meant they arranged our flights. In
Preparing for Bermuda
Travel ain’t like it used to be Bermuda is a small Island, and by May of 2021 they’ve almost eliminated
Viking Ocean Cruise
Taking a cruise in the times of Covid We aren’t cruisers … April 2021, and we’ve been largely isolated at
Pentax auto 110
Background This is a real oddity, a precision SLR designed around the tiny 110 film format. Pentax introduced this in
Pentax Spotmatic SPII
Background Introduced in 1971 along with the line of S-M-C Takumar lenses – though still all metal without the rubber
Pentax Spotmatic F
Background Launched in 1973, the Spotmatic F was the first Pentax to offer open-aperture TTL metering – 7 years after
Canon Pellix
This is a definite odd-ball, and example of creativity attempting to solve an engineering problem: how do you capture light
Olympus OM10
In 1972 Olympus introduced their OM line, and reset consumer expectations for the size and heft of a 35mm camera