I am led to believe that there will be a photo-walk involving Fujifilm cameras and one of the best trainers in the industry - from Fujifilm, naturally - on the 26th of July.I get to go along and cause trouble assist with the day. I look forward to it as it will be a good opportunity to clear the head and learn new things.My street photography skills are rusty...
The "strobist" fad went through here a couple of years ago and was quite popular for a while - but I suspect it was before its time in some respects.You see, the little clip-on and strap-on accessories that we sold for speed lights were all very well - for the most part they did modify the light output - but they were accompanying large, heavy regular DSLR cameras. In some cases the DSLR's were bearing even larger and heavier lenses. It might have been fun, but it wasn't balanced.The fad seems to have passed - some of the manufacturers have stopped making the accessories, and other fads have appeared. Yet - the time is right to take this up as we have smaller and lighter mirror-less cameras to use now...
I have no idea. Perhaps the Arca company was originally Swiss and now they are French. Whatever the explanation, the pan and tilt head pictured here is a gem.Don't be fooled by first looks - that is a pan and tilt rather than a ball head ( which they also make...
We are going to see a new model of the medium desktop Epson inkjet printer in a little while. We have already seen the replacement of the Stylus Pro R3000 with the SureColor SC-P600 for the small model - capable of prints to A3+.The New SureColor SC-P800 will be capable of he same sort of printing as the P600 except it will have larger ink tanks and go up to A2 in print size.Oddly, this is reminiscent of the Epson Stylus Pro 3880 printer...
It's not as bad as it sounds - he hasn't put on the black cap and the solemn voice...
I have come to terms with printing my digital photos. Where I used to lock myself into a dim room and slop buckets of acidic bleach around in a tank, I now sit in a dim room and poke away at a computer keyboard. The atmosphere is better and there is no clean-up at the end of the evening.The price is better too - colour chemistry wasn't cheap and paper could be of variable quality. Agfa in their last year of production had coating-line disasters that we only saw when we tried to process the stuff -and sometimes the disaster continued for an entire box of paper.Well, the new inkjets make this a thing of the past. If you have a monitor that is anywhere near calibrated...
Dang me if I can figure people out. I came to Australia to escape cold weather and bears. People visit the shop every week seeking new cameras and lenses so that they can go find cold weather and bears. And they want to do it in Manitoba.Manitoba. I ask you. The province that keeps Saskatchewhere? and Onterrible from crashing together, eh?Ah well, no accounting for tastes. If you want polar bears you go to Churchill and freeze. And so do the batteries in your digital camera. You are out there on the snow pursuing the polar bears, or vice versa, and the batteries get cold and quit. Or at least severely drop their output.Not surprising - the chemical reaction inside there that lets out the stored energy in the form of electricity ( or in the case of Newfoundland batteries, in the form of steam, oily water, and cinders...
Samsung Australia have a quick and delightful contest and a very nice prize as a reward - and it is a photo contest so all our readers will be good to go...
Digital shooters can be be spoiled by the wonderful developments that the major manufacturers have made with camera sensors and electronic circuitry. As time has gone on the cameras have been given the ability to make pictures under darker and darker conditions with cleaner and cleaner results. In many cases digital shooters have never thought to turn on any additional artificial light. And many have eschewed it as being somehow "impure"...
We are constantly harping here on the need to carry every lens that you own with you at all times - in case a zeppelin is being moored near you and someone is smoking a cigar. It pays to be optically ready for anything. Landscape photographers who take sunsets also need to make sure they are ready in case the sun whips over to the east and then back again.These people are well catered for by the bag manufacturers who make the equivalent of upholstered sea containers with straps. They can get several DSLR bodies, tele lenses, macro sliders, video rigs, and panorama gear in there, plus a pint of Voltaren. School children line up to see them go by and then run shrieking when they fall over.Those who do not wish to shoulder the burden of centuries - mirror-less camera users or those who use the tiny video cameras - will welcome the Lowepro Photo Traveller 150 backpacks that we have on special. They are small, brown, and tough...