Every single week that I have worked here we have had someone come in looking for a quick-release plate to match their tripod - they have lost the original one or have added more lenses and bodies to their bag and need to connect to...
Never mind the state of the world or the Prime Minister. That can wait. There is a new Fujifilm X lens in the shop and you can try it out right now.The new 16-55mm Fujinon XF has:Constant f:2.8 aperture.Aspherical elements.Water-resistant gasket.Superb X-lens construction - smooth...
A general rule of military operations is to keep things as simple as possible - if there is less to go wrong less will go wrong. It will still go wrong, mind, but the area that you'll need to fix will be smaller.For years I...
The management has returned from the Canon luncheon with a prize - a specification pamphlet from the new Canon EOS cameras. In addition to the features we mentioned earlier today, it would appear that there are some other goodies on the EOS 5Dr and EOS...
Anyone with a digital camera knows the annoyance of discovering spots on your images - no-one more so than wildlife photographers who take pictures of leopards or giraffes. Thus you can understand my problem yesterday on the African savannah. The elephants were fine - the...
Samsung stepped on our stage a few months ago with some very new and highly-featured mirrorless cameras for their new system. The one at the top of the tree is the NX-1. now it has a smaller brother - the NX 500 - with very...
The Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera was a world shaker - little, solid, sealed up, with the kind of image results that made larger DSLR systems jealous. The image-stabiliser system was great and made sharper images in nearly all conditions. Many workers ditched larger and heavier...
Today is the launch day for two new Canon cameras - as I write this, senior figures from Camera Electronic ( and others ) are being feted by the Canon company - eating lark's tongue paté and sipping rare champagne like as not - while...
Colour management has had a bad rap in the last few years - but if you listen to rap, bad is not necessarily bad.As digital photographers discovered that they could no longer push the button and rely upon Kodak to do the rest...
Remember the Megapixel Wars*? When each new camera model from the major manufacturers with the megapixel count jacked up to overtop their compettors. And CHOICE magazine jumping up and down on the side urging the fight...