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August 2015

06 Aug

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There are a dozen camera quick-release mounting plates in use today - but fortunately the main manufacturers and their industrial copycats have settled upon a few as standards.One notable one is the Manrotto rectangular PL200 plate - most bigger Manfrotto consumer tripods use this as the connection and it is a very good one. Another form is the Arca-Swiss plate used by that company, 3LT, Cullmann, and any number of other copyists. Unfortunately the Manfrotto rarely goes to Arca-Swiss.Until now. This black casting with the bubble levels and large locking knob is the Manfrotto MSQ6 - it goes onto a Manfrotto ball head in place of the standard PL200 mount and allows you to use all the Arca-Swiss mounts. There is a safety pin to prevent untoward movement of the plate and you can twist it tight onto the receiver. It will hold immense weights....

05 Aug

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We recently added a range of " L's " to our shop. Users of some Sony, Canon, and Nikon cameras will benefit - particularly if he want to do landscape or studio shots. Or both together*.The "l's " are cast metal brackets that fit onto specific camera models to allow them to have an Arca-Swiss mont on the bottom. and the unique feature of these is that you can have the same mount out to the side.We've seen somewhat similar things from some on-line merchants - but they are generally solid castings without the adjustable features of these.The ProMediaGear bracket you see here is cast for the Nikon D7100 camera. The twin steel rails allow the side mount to be placed further from the side of the camera - in case you wish a higher viewpoint for the portrait orientation. This also allows those people who use the side mount as a way of slinging large flash units to move them away from the lens axis. Once you find out where you want to go, you tighten up the screws.Note...

04 Aug

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Here's a heads-up for people who are looking for replacement ink cartridges for their Epson Stylus Pro 3800 and 3880 inkjet printers - there are new inks on the market that may fool you.The Epson Stylus Pro 3880 has been replaced in the Epson lineup with the Epson Surecolor SC - P800. it is an even more capable A2 -sized printer and will become the standard of the line - just as the Epson Surecolor SC-P600 will take over the position formerly occupied by the Stylus Pro R3000.Epson have packaged the new inks for the Sc-P600 in boxes quite different in appearance from that 157-series inks that serve the R3000. No-one will ever mix up the boxes and you won't choose the wrong ink.Not the case with the new inks for the P-800. Their boxes are nearly identical with the ones for the 3800 and 3880. see the heading page - the T5802 is for the older models and the T8502 is for the new SC- P800. If you don't look carefully, you might pick up the wrong ink -...

03 Aug

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Thank you for that phrase, George. It is most useful.One of my work colleagues has just shown us a video of a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket that also features an instant photo printer in a bottom compartment. We guess that it is the mechanism from the Fuji Instax printer adapted to the purpose.On top of the bucket - fried chicken pieces. You eat them and grow fat. At the bottom - a printer that takes a WiFi signal from a mobile phone and then prints it out on the Instax self-developing film. You print things out and grow nostalgic. Hence the name: KFC Memory bucket.It's being shown as a promotional feature for the firm in Canada and they are mooting whether to award a few as prizes in some sort of competition. Commercial release? Your guess is as good as mine as long as it is "no".While normally enthusiastic about all sorts of photography, and some sorts of fried chicken, I cannot see the connection here. The memories one might have of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Canada - and mine...

03 Aug

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Did goe to a photographic exhibition on Saturday night as was greatley entertained. The photographer was handsome, debonair, and charming. I could not have admired him more.The subject of the photographs was the work of another artist - Chelsea Bunz. She sculpts, paints, dances, and poses - quite the renaissance woman. While she could also exhibit some of her smaller sculptures or flatt-work on the walls, many of the things that she  makes, does, or is could only be captured in photographs and framed up.The framing was cutesy of Mr. IKEA. in addition to meatballs and plywood desks, this firm makes a very useful range of small wooden frames at inexpensive prices. The walls of Saturday night's venue held 5 x 7 and A4 examples of the RIBBA frame. It is white and plain, with either glass or acrylic window to display the prints. No great skill needed to frame up small work.The venue? Bar 399 in William Street. Nestled in a little food village that has arrangements to send plates into the bar, it is a particularly welcoming little...

03 Aug

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The Lexar company caters for memory cards of all sizes and capacities - some of these can really be said to be "chips" as much as cards.The action cameras so popular these days take very small chips known as Micro SD XC. Apparently this is also the case with some mobile phones and tablets - and we know of at least three compact cameras of a larger size - and a mirror-less system camera - that also use them. They certainly save size and weight in the camera designs.Here are two different packages - one for use with an adapter in case you need to plug it into a sstandard SD port, and one with the tiniest card reader you have ever seen. It feeds into a 3.0 USB port but if you blink twice you miss it!Note the different capacities and speeds - something for every requirement. Slight increase in price for faster transfer....