17 Sep Does This Lens Feel Funny To You?
Well, no. Or yes, if that would be better...
September 2015
17 Sep Beat The Winter Photography Blues – Buy More Cameras and Lenses
We all have slow periods in out photography - times when there seems to be no new thing to do or to photograph - times when the Latest New Look has been recycled from 1987. Our monthly visits to the camera club begin to pall and even a good argument late at night on a camera-fan forum seems to be unrewarding...
16 Sep The Wooden Walls Of England
Those of you with a historical bent will know what title means. The rest will think we are discussing building detail. Which leads into the topic of the post - architectural photography.Never mind what you thought architecture was. It might have been that way but it isn't any more. Universities and Institutes of Technology turn out hundreds of architects each year and from the looks of some of the designs they produce a few of them have even less sense of responsibility than photography students...
16 Sep Search Parties Have Been Organised
And party hats and balloons have been ordered. There will be ice-cream cake.Finding things is dead easy. All you have to do is go where they are and...
16 Sep Clip Leg Or Twist Leg Or Thumbscrew? A Tripod Debate
No matter where you stand on this question, there is one thing certain - you will be firmly on three legs...
16 Sep Epsonnews – Money Is In The Pipeline
Two good bits of economic news from Epson - makers of fine inkjet printers, inks, and media.1. The cash back offer to purchasers of Epson Stylus Pro SP-4900 printers has been extended. From the 15th of September to the 31st of October 2015 you can receive a $ 500 cash back from Epson on these fine devices. Of course you have to buy it from a dealer - like us - between these two dates, but all you have to do is contact them online after you have your printer and let them sight your serial number and invoice.The 4900 is a very sophisticated A2 roll and sheet printer. It can produce all day, every day.2. You can also participate in the Epson cash back festival by purchasing one of the new Epson SureColor SC-P600 inkjet printers between the 15th of September and the 15th of November 2015. In this case you do the same proof of purchase to Epson and receive $ 300 cash back.The SC-600 would be ideal for the home printer and enthusiast. It can take roll...
15 Sep Wot We Got, Wot We Gonna Get…
An order came down from the bridge today to make you aware of three new products. One we got, two are coming.The one we got right now is the Nikon 24mm AF-s 1.8G ED lens . It is the heading image. Full-frame, moderate weight, fast aperture, focuses to 23cm. Looks like a great optic for interiors and large groups. Come try it out.We'll also be getting a new Canon lens soon. The new 35mm EF f:1.4L II lens should be a high speed undistorted landscape lens for the EOS system. We'll tell you when to stream in to see it when it hits the shop.November will also be a big month for the Sony fans. We anticipate the arrival of a new full-frame mirror-less camera from this maker. The A7s II will be strongly followed - heck we have people asking about it now. There will be a launch in November here at the shop. More details as we think them up....
15 Sep The Solar Powered Camera
It should be possible to capture, modify, project, and publish our images totally with solar power. The dream of those great advocates of eco-friendly green sustainable art - J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie - is to become real at last. We are to get solar panels for the roof.By we, I mean we here at Camera Electronic. They are installing solar panels on the roof and presumably will be leading the resultant electricity into the building somewhere*. If they just left it around on two bare wires I could see trouble, but I think they will connect it into the regular wires. Some f he sunlight will come down to the shop, the camera batteries will absorb it, and it will go onto the memory cards. And since the computer and the printer are connected to the mains, there it will be in them.The business is not new to me - our house has had a set of panels for a year and a bit and the electricity bills are considerably reduced. They would be further lessened if the family...
15 Sep Where It Is At – Where It Is Not At
Armed with a Pentax SV, a roll of Plus-X, and 55mm Super Takumar lens, I roamed the streets. I roamed them on Saturday afternoons when the rest of Perth had shut their shop doors and gone to the football. I roamed them on Saturday nights when I should have been out at the movies with girls. I roamed them on dead Sunday afternoons when nothing moved except for the tumbleweeds and Holden Fj's. I have reviewed my negatives and prints of the period and they all reflect the fact that I had no idea what I was doing - it was not that the 60's was a haze of drugs or anything - I just had no skill as a street photographer.I have recently gone out again on Saturday and Sunday armed with a digital camera. The streets are busy to bursting these days and there are images everywhere ready to be scooped up on a photosensitive surface. The scooping costs considerably less than it did in the film era. I should be happy and productive and famous by now.Hah. I...
15 Sep The Difference Between A Self Portrait And A Selfie
The difference between a self-portrait and a selfie can be far more than the equipment that is used for the image - and far more than the location or occasion. It can be the difference between a portrayal and a betrayal.We are beset or blessed by social media - Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, Blatt, Squeal, Overshare, and Timewastr. We all need photos of ourselves to put on the top or the bottom of the page - or, in the case of one of my FB friends...