I Shoot Film Ride Report, 28 June 2022

Please note: This post also appeared on our sister site, the Bikes and Film Cameras Club blog. Ah, Portland, I love you. I thought I might be the only person to lead a "pedal bikes, shoot film" typed ride for this Pedalpalooza. But no, there was someone else leading one, someone I didn't even know!...

Two more posts up on 35mmc

Hey folks! Yeah, I had a post about found film up on the cool film photography centric website 35mmc back on October 10th. (That post got more reaction than I thought.) Since then, I've had two more posts up! Check them out: Pentax IQZoom 928 Review – My Superzoom of ChoiceSamsung Slim Zoom 1150 Review:...

A Central Oregon trip to Cove Palisades and Smith Rock, 23-26 August 2021

Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint (Crooked River Canyon), 25 August 2021. Pentax IQZoom 928/Cinestill BWXX Last month Emee, her two kids, and I drove to Central Oregon for a bit of end-of-summer relaxation. We rented a cabin at Cove Palisades State Park on the shore of Lake Billy Chinook. This reservoir is where the...

Hello, again: Pentax IQ Zoom (Espio) 928

The past few months I've been on a "reacquire past film cameras" kick. It first started with a Pentax IQZoom 150SL, basically the sister camera to a Pentax IQZoom 170SL I had last year. Then I found a Minolta Freedom Zoom 160 which I liked a bit better than the 150SL. The two cameras were...

Goodbye, Pentax IQZoom 928: The Exit Interview

Another camera leaves the stable, this time the compact superzoom Pentax IQZoom (Espio) 928. I got this camera back in July, and was initally impressed by its charms. Charmed enough that I got rid of the sleeker and zoomier IQZoom 170SL. But over the course of the last half year, I realized that I didn't...

Goodbye, Pentax IQZoom 170SL

From the The Dalles Ramble, Leap Day 2020. It's one of my favorite shots of the year, and it was shot on the Pentax IQZoom 170SL. (Espio 170SL) Another camera departs the flock. This time it was my Pentax IQZoom 170SL, known as the Espio 170SL outside of North America. I got this camera way...

The Pentax IQZoom 928 (Espio 928) enters the camera stable.

Pentax IQZoom 928. Remote control on strap. One of the things I love about getting back into film photography is how many great old cameras there are out there, many of them selling for way less than they did "back-in-the-day". If this was 1980, I'd be scrimpin' pennies to save up for one--and only one--good...