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February 2015

23 Feb

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Look on our Facebook page for the latest note about a Safari Leica. it seems to be one of the M cameras with a silver 35mm lens and a tan leather strap. There are a number of accessories for it as well that suggest rugged travel in African wilds.The camera body is dark green - about the general colour of a Soviet tank. There are silver control knobs and buttons, but no familiar red emblem on the front - presumably to prevent startling the rhinoceri when the photographer pops up a metre in front of them with that 35mm lens.It would appear that it will be in vicinity of $ 13,000 to purchase....

23 Feb

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You all know the Profoto B1 500 Air - the monohead that has the lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack clicked to the side of it - the one that fires incredibly short bursts of light. The one that takes all the Profoto light shapers and sits on the top of a standard light stand.Well I want one. No. I want four of them.I shoot in a darkened studio so that I can see the effect of the light positioning on the models. It does not have to be stygian in there but it is dim - as is my eyesight these days. Currently I have a set of lights that run off the mains power, with proper three-core AC cords and plugs. Because of the power socket position in the studio there are two feed points an two distributor blocks to split this electricity.That makes six power power cords in total. Yesterday I managed to unplug, tangle, and trip over all six at some point in the afternoon. One occasion nearly brought down a main light stand on top of me-...

19 Feb

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You can get a lot of me-too products these days. Once a really popular item takes off from one manufacturer, it's only a matter of time before imitators surface. Sometimes they are other major firms, sometimes they are people of whom you have never heard.This circumstance arose when the GoPro brand came out and presented the world with a chance to record their adventures without having to fiddle with the gear. I suspect they also record a lot more dangerous and disasterous things...

19 Feb

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In my time as an employee here I have seen a number of interesting sights in Stirling Street - generally early in the morning.:1. Two policemen dumpster-diving our rubbish bins on a Friday morning. It was after the council truck had called and before I had wheeled the bins in, so they were doomed to disappointment.2. A woman kicking a Telstra phone booth to death at 10:00 in the morning. As you do...