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-*Updated 02/21: I had to take out the part about not have a phone or a drone because I have those now. Does that make my a hypocrite? Maybe? Probably? Anyway, times change, etc.*
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-Sometimes people email me to ask how I make luxagraf. Here's how I do it: I write, take pictures and combine them into stories.
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-I recognize that this is not particularly helpful. Or it is, I think, but it's not why people email me. They want to know about at the tools I use. Which is fine. I guess. Consumerism! Yay! 
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-Anyway, I decided to make a page I can just point people to. There's no affiliate links and I'd really prefer it if you didn't buy any of this stuff because you don't need it. I don't need it. I could get by with less. I should get by with less. I am in fact always striving to need less and be less particular.
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-Still, for better or worse. Here are the tools I use.
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-## Writing
-### Notebook and Pen
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-My primary "device" is my notebook. I don't have a fancy notebook. I do have several notebooks though. One is in my pocket at all times and is filled with illegible scribbles that I attempt to decipher later. The other is larger and it's my sort of captain's log, though I don't write in with the kind regularity captains do. Or that I imagine captains do. Then I have other notebooks for specific purposes, meditation journal, commonplace book, and so on.
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-I'm not all that picky about notebooks, if they have paper in them I'm happy enough. I used to be very picky about pens, but then I sat down and forced myself to use basic cheap, clear black ink, Bic-style ballpoint pens until they no longer irritated me. And you know what? Now I love them, and that's all I use -- any ballpoint pen. Ballpoint because it runs less when it gets wet, which, given how I live, tends to happen.
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-### Laptop
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-My laptop is a Lenovo x270 I bought off eBay for $384. I upgraded the hard drives and RAM, which brought the total outlay to $489, which is really way too much to spend on a computer these days, but my excuse is that I make money using it. 
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-Why this particular laptop? It's small and the battery lasts quite a while (like 15 hrs when I'm writing, more like 12 when editing photos, 15 minutes when editing video). It also has a removable battery and can be upgraded by the user. I packed in almost 3TB of disk storage, which is nice. Still, like I said, I could get by with less. I should get by with less. 
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-The laptop runs Linux because everything else sucks a lot more than Linux. Which isn't too say that I love Linux, it could use some work too. But it sucks a whole lot less than the rest. I run Arch Linux, which I have [written about elsewhere](/src/why-i-switched-arch-linux). I was also interviewed on the site [Linux Rig](https://linuxrig.com/2018/11/28/the-linux-setup-scott-gilbertson-writer/), which has some more details on how and why I use Linux.
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-## Photos
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-### Camera
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-I use a Sony A7ii. It's a full frame mirrorless camera that happens to make it easy to use legacy lenses. I bought it specifically because it was the only full frame digital camera available that let me use the old lenses that I love. Without the old lenses I find the Sony's output to be a little digital for my tastes, though the RAW files from the A7ii have wonderful dynamic range, which was the other selling point for me. One day when the A7Rii gets cheap enough I may pick one up because the dynamic range is even better.
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-That said, none of the A7 series are cheap cameras. If you want to travel you'd be better off getting something cheaper and using your money to travel. The Sony a6000 is very nearly as good and costs much less. In fact, having tested dozens of cameras for Wired over the years I can say with some authority that the a6000 is the best value for money on the market period, but doubly so if you want at cheap way to test out some older lenses.
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-### Lenses
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-All of my lenses are old and manual focus, which I prefer to autofocus lenses. I am not a sports or wildlife photographer so I have no real need for autofocus. Neither autofocus nor perfect edge to edge sharpness are things I want in a lens. I want, for lack of a better word, *character*. I want a lens that reliable produces what I see in my mind.
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-One fringe benefit of honing your manual focus skills[^1] is that you open a door to world filled with amazing cheap lenses. I have shot Canon, Minolta, Olympus, Nikon, Zeiss, Hexanon, Tokina, and several weird Russian Zeiss clones. In the end I sold almost everything but my Minoltas. Minolta Rokkor lenses tend to reliably produce results closest to what I imagine when I look at the scene.
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-Roughly 95 percent of the time I have one of two lenses on my A7II: a Minolta 50 f/2 or a Minolta 55 f/1.7. I bought the first for $20, the second for $60. About 90 percent of the images on this site were taken with one of those lenses. I prefer the 50mm for non-people images and the 55mm for portraits.
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-I also have a Canon FD 20mm f/2.8, and a Minolta 28 f/2.8 that I use in cities. For portraits I use the Minolta MD 100 f/2. For animals and birds I have a Tokina 100-300mm f/4 which happens to be Minolta mount so I use a Minolta 2X teleconverter with it to make it a 200-600mm lens. It's pretty soft at the edges, but since I mostly use if for wildlife, which I tend to crop anyway, I get by. I also have a crazy Russian fisheye thing I bought one night on eBay after I'd been drinking. It's pretty hilarious bad at anything less than f/11, but it's useful for shooting in small spaces, like the inside of the bus.
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-I also recently reverted to film by buying an old Minolta 35mm rangerfinder, the AL-S. I primarily shoot Tri-X 400 and develop it myself using Ilford chemicals.
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-And there you have it, the technology stack. I am always looking for ways to get by with less, but after years of getting rid of stuff, I think I have reached something close to ideal.
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-[^1]: If you've never shot without autofocus don't try it on a modern lens. Most modern focusing rings are garbage because they're not meant to be used. Some Fujifilm lenses are an exception to that rule, but by and large don't do it. Get an old lens, something under $50, and teach yourself [zone focusing](https://www.ilfordphoto.com/zone-focusing/), use the [Ultimate Exposure Computer](http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm) to learn exposure, and just practice, practice, practice. Practice relentlessly and eventually you'll get there.