Sounds like a valet service at a fancy restaurant, doesn't it? Well, you have to do the hard work with this one, but it will be worth it.Carrying a heavy camera on a neck strap is fine, if you look like He-Man or The Incredible Hulk. They have the necks for DSLRs with battery packs and long zoom lenses. In fact carrying these all day is what turns the Hulk green...
We send out lots of goods each week. We receive lots of goods each week. Some of these are cameras and lenses that need to be repaired and some of them have been repaired. The common factor that runs through all of this is making sure that the repairs and goods remain repaired and good. Here's some suggestions that may help.The manufacturers of cameras and lenses have it pretty well taped down by now when it comes to packaging their gear for transport. They put a devil of a lot of work and precision into their products and they want those products to get to your hands in fine shape. By and large they succeed. Oh, we have still had large cardboard boxes arrive from wholesalers with rents in the outer surface and in an extremely small number of cases damage to the contents. Here again the packaging of the individual units nearly always saves the gear. Any disputes are settled smartly between the couriers, the wholesale houses, and our stock controller.So - that gets the camera to you in...
I see there is a new rack of pre-recorded DVD's in the shop. The DVD's have some useful home training courses that may well assist newer digital users - as well as confirm the suspicions of more experienced shooters.There's quite a bundle of them - I'm not sure if they are all going to be applicable to everyone but there should be something there for most tastes. You'll find them behind the counter near the Cokin filter wall. Check out these:1. Learn How Yo Use Your Compact Camera - simple step by step videos.2. Learn How To Use Your SLR Camera - settings and exposure explained.3. Learn Photoshop Elements Quickly and Easily - my favourite program. You're soaking in it now.4. The Ultimate Compact Camera Course - 2-disc set - concentrates on people, travel, and landscape.5. Photoshop Techniques For SLR Photographers -3-disc set - things you really need to know about the king of editing programs.6. The Ultimate Real Estate Photography Course - 3-disc set - things you really need to know about real estate photography. Meet the emotional needs...
Gracie Fields would have been proud...
GoPro Hero 3+ and Hero 4 cameras live and work in many elements - air, water, and on earth certainly, and possibly even in fire for a very short period of time. In a lot of cases the cameras operate in ways that would get their owners very hurt if they were to do the same thing - like hitting things at high speed or being precipitated into very deep water for a long time. Thus is born a dichotomy between what the keen photographer would like to see and what they would like to suffer.The makers of the Removu have an answer to this - they have made an accessory that lets you see what the camera is doing and command its functions but isolate you from the developing disaster.It works by using one of the GoPro components - the LCD Touch Bac Pac - and encloses it in a durable and wearable casing. Then it pumps a signal to and from the Bac Pac via WiFi, letting you monitor and control from the wrist mounting. You can be...
Okay. You're reading this. That headline got you. I knew it would. Read on and see what the connection is.Note: if you are going to be all awkward about the drunk bit, substitute barley water and improving tracts if you wish - the Gary Fong advice still applies.The Gary Fong Lightsphere is a device that has undergone a number of development changes. Early versions were made in two grades; clear and cloudy - and you had to pick the exact model to fit your speed light. Our shop had to stock about eight of them to service all customers. It was a beeping night- mare to get the right diffuser to the right customer.Things have changed. Gary saw the light ( ! ) and got his factory mates to make a universal diffuser that not only fit all comers but was made in flexible plastic to fold down upon itself. It could be used for a whole new range of speed lights.The basic idea of the Lightsphere is to fire the blast of flash light vertically into a roughly spherical...
You and I might be entirely different tourists - you might think sleeping in a hoochie every night surrounded by wild animals and incipient disease is just peachy - I will look for the greatest comfort my money can buy. Me and four-star hotels is friends.With our travel pictures we might be at different poles - you with a giant DSLR and enormous lenses taking 55 megabyte RAW images of steaming landscapes and me with a hand-sized tourist camera taking hot rod shots.Well today's camera won't be for you - you need the Canon EOS 5Ds or EOS 5DsR and some "L" class glass. Good luck hauling them up the montain. I'm going to charge up the battery on the Canon PowerShot G5X and head for the show. What do I get for my money? I get a 1" CMOS sensor - and a swivelling rear screen and a proper electronic view finder. I get an f:1.8-2,8 lens with a 4.2X zoom range. It starts out at the 35mm equivalent point of view of a 24mm lens, so it is quite...
Okay. You've borne with us for the last 12 trading days as we've sung the syren song of photographic retailing. You've steeled yourself not to buy any more camera systems. You've steeled yourself not to buy any more lenses. You've even carbon fibre'd yourself not buy a new tripod...
I have been let into a few secrets by our senior technician regarding sensor cleaning for digital cameras. Here is a précis of the conversation held in the workshop. I have not included the bit about not scrubbing over the sensor with a steel wool Brillo pad as I figure nearly everyone will know that already. But here's some other thoughts:Where do flies go in winter? If you have done pondering that, try this - where does sensor dust come from?Okay, if you have removed the lens of your DSLR or mirror-less camera in the middle of a paddock at ploughing time or in the discharge path of a council mulcher, you may be forgiven for thinking that is the source of your troubles. Possibly, possibly. If you have not had such misfortune consider the other sources of contamination.1. Lenses with open clearances and a considerable 'pumping 'action that operates upon zooming or focusing, dirt gets near moving section of lens, dirt gets drawn in, dirt gets distributed.2. Your clean home is...
We're hitting all the high notes this Christmas in our run up to the day. Each manufacturer has had a bite at the fruitcake - today it is the turn of Olympus.It's Wednesday, the 23rd. If you beat it down to the shop today you can get in on:The Olympus OM-D E-M1 camera with a 12-40..ED Pro lens for $ 1549 and the bonuses are an Olympus $ 200 EFTPOS card and a 45mm f:1.8 lens by redemption.An Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mk II camera with the 12-40 ED pro lens for $ 1599 and the same bonuses - the $ 200 EFTPOS card and the 45mm lens.The Zuiko 17mm f:1.8 lens reduced from $ 599 to $ 389The Zuiko 75mm f:1.8 lens reduced from $ 999 to $ 699The Zuiko 60mm Macro lens reduced from $ 699 to $ 399The Zuiko 8mm f:1.8 fisheye lens reduced from $ 1399 to $ 999 and you get the bonus $ 200 EFTPOS card.The Zuiko 7-14mm f:2.8 Pro lens reduced from $ 1699 to $ 1299 and you get the $ 200 EFTPOS...