17 Feb Real World Batteries – Toshiba And Fujifilm
I screwed up my courage last week and asked Ernest about batteries for flash guns. Then I took his advice...
February 2015
17 Feb Beat Me Daddy – Eight To The Bar – With Nikon AW 110
Those of you who are into retro swing music will know that line. Those of us who knew the song when it was not retro can smile and nod.The reason it is introduced today is to remind people with a spare $ 149 that we...
17 Feb Cereal Numbers – Or How To Make Porridge Of An Invoice
Readers who deal every day in serial-numbered products will know the nightmare - the goods are there, the customer is there, the money is there, but the serial number is wrong.The fact that the product is pea-pod identical to every other example of the same...
16 Feb Two Legs Bad – Three Legs Good
Comrades.The cause of Photographic Steadiness and Proletarian Imagery will be advanced this week with the Camera Electronic sale of tripods. These are little devices that are easy to operate at a reasonable price - you do not need to pay $ 5.5 million dollars for...
13 Feb The Iconic Image – Camera Electronic On Your PC!
As we get older we discover an amazing phenomenon - young people do not know as much as we do.Young people who wish to take exception to this may protest as much as they like - the replies section on Facebook is open all the...
13 Feb Shooting For Dollars – With Shoot
I type this column for money.If there are new products, no telephone interruptions, and coffee, the daily piece costs the company about $ 11. Hopefully it inspires readers to come in and purchase items and services that yield a profit of more than $ 11...
12 Feb The Constant Shopper – Camera Electronic As A Haven
Every day of her adult life my aunt Minnie went downtown and visited all the shops. Admittedly downtown could not have been all that big as it was Missoula, Montana in the thirties...
12 Feb Now Extended For Your Pleasure – The Fujifilm Rings
If you are a FSLR or a DSLR user you know all about this and can move on to the TAB results and the comic section. If you are a Fujifilm X-camera user, here is some good news.The Fujifilm MCEX-11 and MCEX-16 automatic extension tubes...
11 Feb The Ever Smaller Big Camera And Ever Bigger Small Camera Polka
We certainly do not lack for variety here in the photographic trade - and never more so than in the changing designs of cameras. Since my first paid employment pouring lavender oil over Nièpce's pewter plate I have seen no end of changes in the...
11 Feb Knighthoods For All! – Photographers To Be Honoured!
The news is good. the Government of Ruritania has just announced that knighthoods will be awarded in their annual New Year's Honours list to photographers. Their Royal Heinyesses have placed the seal of approval*on the legislation that was moved in the Volksrat.While we in the...