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The 10-megapixel Digital-Modul-R, its official name, was a stop gap solution and a clever one at that, that converted Leica’s chunky R8 and R9 35mm film cameras into DSLRs. It cost $5950 in 2006 dollars or about $9,125 today. Finding one today seems to be a challenge.

Before the Dot Com bust, in addition to writing for photography magazines like Shutterbug, I was a writer and Contributing Editor for several computer magazines, such as ComputerUSER.

Whenever I’m asked to do a presentation to photographic organizations about infrared photography, I always kick it off with a question a reader once e-mailed me: “Why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard?”

And so you may be asking? Haven’t you already beaten photographing the Jacks and Ball sculptures  to death? Yes, I’ll gladly admit that this is true and I even made some portraits there…

People —not-photographers, just regular folks often ask my why I like photography so much. They usually know that I have other interests such as model trains, reading and Lego (analog interests actually) but photography has been a big part of my life since I was eight years old.

During the film days, when I made today’s featured images, I would expose two to three rolls of 35mm film for a typical model test shoot. Sometimes these were only 24 exposure rolls, so a model shoot might consist of my making 72 to 108 images.