The devotees of action photography with the ever-popular GoPro Hero 3+ camera sometimes find that the best action occurs after the camera battery runs out of electricity - certainly the best language is heard...
Never mind building models of the Taj Mahal or Neuschwannstein. If you're reading this column you really want to build one of these!Brought back from Japan by our managers and assembled with great precision and his tongue stuck out of the corner of his mouth...
Life at 230 Stirling Street has highlights. One of them occurred yesterday when we had a visit from a coffee-filled hot rod truck. That is a wonderful combination of words, particularly considering the management here bought us all a free brew.Bootlegger Coffee Company in under...
In the interests of having enough room on our second floor to turn around, we have corralled a lot of the Cullmann Magnesit tripods and made a pyramid of them on the sales floor.They are new, but older stock. They will be sold at a...
This post will appeal to those photographers who have done with the boring old representation of reality. Because the fish-eye lens is one of the easiest ways to depart from this.Now, if you are a fish, you can dispute this. When we couple a short...
I came along with you on your holidays. It was quite an experience. Being packed into a small bag together with a passport, spare credit card, and a half-chewed roll of mints. Then pushed through an X-ray machine. Then jammed into the overhead locker under...
The dear old AP Darkroom kit is back in stock.Everything the budding photographer needs for 35mm or 120 film development - and with a bit of imagination the 4 x 5 newbie can also develop sheet film.The kit includes an AP tank with reels, graduated...
Most of us in the trade have seen the Pentax Q7 camera - but sometimes we have failed to see it in it's true light. It is a tiny little studio camera - for tiny little studios.Like most cameras, it has a number of white...
The safari trail used to be an imperceptibly small track the bush - trodden by explorers in pith helmets and natives with big bundles on their heads. The explorers used to carry Holland and Holland Double rifles in tank-stopping calibers.These days the trail is generally...
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