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November was GGGRREYYY. 17 hours of sun for the whole month where I live (southern Scandinavia). December isn't much brighter. These photos are from October 'til the first week of December. I use a pocketable Canon S90 with a zoom lens. It's set @1600 ASA with autofocus. I prefer to expose with aperture priority to retain some semblance of control over depth-of-field. Which in itself is a struggle considering this camera has a tiny sensor.   I helped my friend make an inventory of a rare species of beetle. Thanks for tagging along! Don't hesitate to comment here or at my Instagram . Visit the photography shop getOBphoto that I run at Etsy.

1: Scandinavian / Skandinavisk These are my 12 photos I made interpreting the themes of this year's covid version of the Photo Marathon in Stockholm in late August.   They are not particularly exciting as photographs, though I did try to make them interesting as such. I am critical of the jurys of the recent Marathons, the way they have not considered the artfulness of the Photography but mostly considered the literal way the themes are interpreted. 2: The good city / Den goda staden 3: 2020 4: Tourist trap / Turistfälla 5: Photo party / Fotofest 6: Simplicity / Enkelhet 7: The foot / Foten 8: New normal / Nytt normalt 9: The city of my dreams / Mina drömmars stad 10: Look / Titta 11: Sustainability / Hållbarhet 12: My participant number / Mitt deltagarnummer (129) I made some - perhaps more inspired - photographs with another camera during the Marathon. Follow this link to see them.   Don't hesitate to comment here or at my Instagram . Visit the photography shop getOBphoto ...

This is my brother's home photographed with an advanced old box. It looks like any old wooden box camera from too long ago to care about. But reader(s) of this blog know that the light shines brightly on the odd stuff here. This is a multi-photo device. You load it with up to eight glass plate/negative/paper holders which are then exposed in succession before you take them out (in the dark) to develop the photographs. [Someone on Instagram called it a 'falling plate camera' or a 'detective camera'. That's something I'd like to know more about.] On the front face of the camera is the hole for the lens (which is covered here). The wheel below is the shutter crank. The arm jutting out from it is the aperture control, which is placed in positions f/11, 14, 22 or 36. Above you see the shutter button, top, and the exposure selector, below. You select between M ~1/60 sec. shutter speed; O which equals Bulb mode - the shutter stays open as long as you press it; and ...

  The 40 mm focal length isn't as common as 50 or 35 mm lenses. It is neither considered wide-angle as the latter, or 'standard' as the former. For me, the focal length is just wide enough, because depending on how you move when composing, it lends itself to a varied use. Minolta Hi-Matic C This is a favourite camera that I've mentioned before . It may be the most complete viewfinder camera that I've encountered, in the way that the design and features are honed to help the user to make the correctly exposed photograph.   Mamiya Family Below are some photographs made with the Mamiya Family camera's 40 mm lens. I love the swirl! The camera is a joy to use. If I didn't already own an SLR or two that I use more I would have kept it, for its small size and ease of use. There's a dragonfly! Pentax 40 mm Finally, here are some photos made with the 40 mm pancake lens mounted on my Chinon CA-4 SLR.   Don't hesitate to comment here or at my Instagram ....