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Doug Plummer
Interests: favorite wine: a good california pinot noir, or anything from Syncline, favorite city: new york, favorite magazine: the new yorker, favorite tv show: the west wing, favorite movie: until the end of the world, wim wenders, oregon), favorite ipod selection for a long flight: bach or mozart, favorite bird: bushtit (psaltriparus minimus)
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I actually shot with Olympus OM-2 cameras when I started my professional career in the 1980s. Had used them since I was a teenager, and I felt utterly comfortable with them. They couldn't handle the hard use I was giving them however--I always 4 bodies at at the ready, and one or two were always in the repair shop. Ended up in the Canon fold. So wish I had kept all that glass.
Sweet Sight
eBay photo by John Titterington I have to say, I am just delighted to be able to focus manual cameras again. I can even focus this old beastie, which came out the year I graduated from high school. (This model is popular with young film-camera fans, I hear.) The way it went was something like ...
I have absolutely no interest in camera comparisons or gear reviews. I'm maybe philosophically interested in equipment only in terms of what effect the form factor has on one's relationship with the act of capture. But pixel peeping--utterly irrelevant to anything. Every camera is pretty much amazing now. The limitations of any equipment is what drives a creative process anyway. I can get good photos with my phone even, despite and because it's a horrible way to interact and actually see what's happening (bright sun say, or composing at arms length). I learn something from having to work around all that. But I'd rather shoot with my deeply familiar Canon 5D iii, with a real time and real life view, through a viewfinder, not some weird electronic interpretation of it, and where I have total control of the composition. It's a camera getting long in the tooth, but so what?
Just Wondering (Blog Notes)
Did you notice that TOP hasn't had any posts about gear since February 18th? That's because some people were complaining that they thought the site had gotten to be too much about gear. I thought I'd try doing without it for a while to see how you liked it. What do you think? Do you like it bett...
Being There
Posted Sep 15, 2017 at dispatches
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Staying Limber
Posted Jul 18, 2016 at dispatches
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Where's Contradance Calendar 2015?
Posted May 22, 2014 at dispatches
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The Making of the Megaband Timelapse
There's a ton of great time lapse eye candy out there. Look at very many of them however and they soon seem cut from the same cloth: a stunning landscape or cityscape, amazing light changes, and cinematic camera movement. They... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2014 at dispatches
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Learning piano
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Today I Saw is Moving
I will cease uploading here on 1/1/14. To continue seeing the series, bookmark my Tumblr: http://dougplummer.tumblr.com/ On Facebook and Twitter too. Continue reading
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