07 Apr Going To The Square To Get Some Air – With Hasselblad and Fujifilm
I take pictures of belly dancers. It is a humble job but someone has to do it...
April 2015
04 Apr A Day’s Grace – Now Rush In…
You've just had a day at home - or wherever you have shifted home to - without being able to come in and buy cameras and lenses and tripods. The pressure to spend has been building up for 24 hours...
02 Apr New Items Available For Rental
No. Not the Cobra car. That is just to attract your wandering attention, as it did mine.Thomas from the Rental Department says there are three new Nikon lenses added to their list for hiring out:1. Nikon AF-D 105mm f:2 DC-Nikkor lens2. Nikon AF-D 135mm f:2...
01 Apr The Leaf Shutter And The GT 40 – Look Into The Lens
Those of you who operate the Hasselblad 500-series cameras can go to coffee. As can the users of Fujifilm X-10, X-20, X-30, X-100 series, Canonets, Bessamatics, and Crown Graphics. The rest of you stick around.The reason they have gone is they know what the leaf...
30 Mar The Green Cross Of Focusness – With Fujifilm
As photographers - workers with light - we do seem to spend a lot of time standing around in dark places...
26 Mar Your Very Favourite Lens Is…
Gone. Gone forever. It has rolled off the roof, where you were taking pictures of the nurse's quarters, and fallen into a newly-opened bottomless pit that has appeared in your back yard.What are you going to do?This depends upon whether you had the foresight to...
25 Mar Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark 567,900 and a half…
It has been a tradition for aircraft developed by the British that each successive important development of a particular airframe has received a sequential Mark number. As the British are all classicists at heart, these numbers are written in Roman numerals. But eventually they ran...
24 Mar The Instant Phenomenon – Fujifilm Instax
Did goe to a sales conference on the weekend and was greatly amused. Salesmen selling to salesmen is always a fun spectacle. And I like the fact that most of these conference places have bowls of mints on the table...
24 Mar Keeping In Touch With Your Social Side – Samsung’s Techno Marvel
Coming from an era when I took pictures, turned the roll of film into the chemist, waited a fortnight, then posted the resulting out-of-focus postcard print to my Auntie Minnie in Missoula...
23 Mar Shake That Booty – With Epson Inkjet Printers
A scary tale with a happy ending.I printed some business cards for myself over the weekend on my Epson R3000 printer. Those of you who have them know how versatile they are - digital art prints, plain parer documents, CD labels, etc. Well, you can...