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January 2015

29 Jan

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Looks like we get a good day on the 7th of February - one of our favourite Leica photographers will be visiting the Shoot Photography Workshop and conducting a workshop.The 7th of February is a Saturday and the workshop runs between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM. Cost of attending is $ 299 - there will be light refreshments and lunch included in that price. The workshop will be limited in numbers so if you are a Leica fan, get your booking in now.Mathias will be showing some of his recent work from Japan and discussing his methods of using the Leica M system. Of course, it is not all just sit and listen...

20 Jan

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I love writing advertising copy for this place. I get to use all the corny old tabloid headlines as they are appropriate to the products advertised. As yet, I have not been able to incorporate WAR ENDS! in 100-point black bold at the top of the sheet, but I am still hopeful...

19 Jan

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Every photographer's had that awkward moment when someone comes up to you just before you start a job and announces that there will be no flash. This is no problem if you are going to shoot a car show in the Swan Valley at midday - see previous blog post  - because you WILL have light. But bob down the road to St. Grubby's church in the park and get told that you'll have no flash and windows the size of postage stamps...

19 Jan

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Those of you who are feeling the chill of winter settling into your bones would be well advised to visit the Swan Valley on any Sunday in January. The open areas, the reflective grass, and he lack of wind will serve to concentrate the heat for you. Should you be out in the direct rays of the sun at 12:00 you will get the full benefit. As it was, yesterday the mad dogs and the Englishmen were sitting in the shade with cold drinks while the rest of us - the car enthusiasts - strode manfully round the paddocks and fried.In my case it was all science - I was trying out the new Classic Chrome jpeg setting in my Fujifilm X-E2 camera and seeing if I could get the camera and the Fujifilm EF 42 flash to adequately cope with the contrast glare. Those of you who follow this  shop blog or my own " Here All Week" blog at hrhoa.wordpress.com will know that the Fujifilm X-100 cameras and the EF 42 flash are well able to do the...

16 Jan

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One of the interesting things you can do with some modern mirror-less cameras is change the size of the AF area to suit the subject you are dealing with.On my Fujifilm X-E2 I can press the AF button to display the little green AF rectangle and then steer it around with the multi-controller buttons  - much like Pentax, Nikon, and Canon users can do with their respective systems. Good to do if your subject is not dead-centre.What you can also do is press and twirl the little control thumb wheel just above the multi-controller and watch the green AF rectangle get bigger and smaller - it is selecting more of the sensor to use as the AF measuring pad as you do this.Why do this? Well, if you have a subject that has intense contrast and detail, you can use the smallest size of rectangle and get sharp focus...

16 Jan

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I'm proud to say that I was using a radio-link flash trigger in my studio 20 years ago. Prior to that I was using a black cable strung between the Elinchrom lights and the camera stand - I was using it to clothesline myself in the dark.I never managed to pull over an entire light or camera stand with this but I did manage to wrench a PC socket loose from a DSLR. There was language...

16 Jan

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I am fortunate in using cameras from a manufacturer that takes care of their customers well past the point of sale.Every year or so, Fujifilm announce improvements to their operating systems or specifications - some of these become the salient features of fresh cameras and lenses. New customers stream into the shop, purchase the equipment, and go out and have fun.The wonderful thing for me is not the new gear, but the fact that Fujifilm issue some of those same improvements for equipment that has been in the hands of the users for several years. I benefit greatly from this - I use an X-10, and X-100, and an X-E2 that have each had several firmware upgrades and each of them is a better camera for it.Last night I pulled the new upgrade for the X-E2 body off the Fujifilm site on the internet, loaded it into an SD card, and let the camera do the internal computer magic for 90 seconds. I now have their new Classic Chrome mode for jpeg photos and an interval timer release inside the...

15 Jan

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As the owner of a perfectly good set of digital cameras and lenses ( Fujifilm, as it happens.)it might seem foolish of me to complain of what might have been in other times. Let's face it, when the photography world rolled round from silvered plates to glass sheets to flexible films to little weeny electric sensors there were a lot of things that could have happened, but didn't.The two I mourn were the film cassette-shaped digital converter that was promised and the cheap 4" x 5" digital sensor.The first came out as a mock-up and set of promises at an America photo and electronics show and got into the American photo press at the time. Apparently it was going to allow us to make digital cameras out of our 35mm film cameras. It sank without a trace and none of the lifeboats have yet washed up on shore. Our senior technician has assured me it would never have worked but that is little comfort - I WANTED it to work.The promise of a cheap digital sensor for the 4" x...