About Stovepipe

I'm a collector and amateur photographer, playing around with mostly used equipment picked up as cheaply as possible from garage sales, ebay, local auctions, etc.

My favorite subjects are my family, my cats, Iowa prairie scenes, the birds who visit my back yard, and whatever mundane objects I see that seem to invite reinterpretation.

I shoot digital and both color and b/w film. The b/w film gets processed and scanned here at home. My digital pictures are sometimes processed with film effects in GIMP as whim dictates; but usually, if you see it in black and white, it means it was shot on film.

Photography Equipment

Film SLR -
Chinon CP-7m; Pentax LX, P30t, K1000, K1000SE.

TLR -
Yashica MAT 124G.

35mm Rangefinder -
Yashica Electro 35 GS, Olympus 35RC, Canonet QL-17.

Digital SLR -
Pentax K100D, *ist DL

Digital compact -
Canon A-80, Motorola Razr phone

Pentax SMC prime lenses -
A28/2.0; M50/2.0; A50/1.7; M50/1.4; FA50/1.4; K50/1.2; K55/2.0; A*85/1.4; M200/4.0; K300/4.0

Pentax SMC zoom lenses -
DFA18-55mm version 1 (*istDL kit); M28-50; M75-150

Other K-mount lenses -
Zenitar fisheye 16/2.8; Vivitar 19/3.9, 28/2.8; Chinar 128/2.8; Tamron (adaptall) 360b 300/2.8

Film scanner -
Epson 4490

Software -
SANE (script-driven scan interface), Cinepaint (initial level adjustments of 16 bit files out of scanner), UFRaw (white balance and initial levels of raw PEF files), GIMP (other processing and touchup tasks); all running on Linux.