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February 2016

10 Feb

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Congratulate yourself - you made it to Wednesday with enough energy to turn the computer on. Now if you can get all your messages done before the battery in the laptop makes the case glow with heat, you might be able to get to Thursday.In the meantime stop in tonight at the shop and see the new Fujifilm gear and mark up your calendar for the Olympus Pen F launch as well - this will be on the 17th of February.Rod Lawson Kerr will be speaking about this new model and there will be a good chance to try it out. Light refreshments at the Camera Electronic Shop at 6:00 on the night but do RSVP to the shop beforehand so that they can reserve a toothpick for you.Note: the shop is air-conditioned but it is unnecessary to wear fur coats or heavy parkas to protect yourself from the cold....

09 Feb

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This is Tuesday the 9th and tomorrow is Wednesday the 10th. It is pretty much as if today was the 24th of December and tomorrow is the 25th, because we get to see the new Fujifilm toys tomorrow.Not under a tree - in the Camera Electronic shop. There will be a Fujifilm product presentation night with some new items. I can't hint about what one of the items will be because I am officially ignorant, but I will be taking my Fujifilm X-pro1 camera body along just in case there is any new and interesting thing with which to compare it...

07 Feb

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Users of older Leica cameras will remember the complicated procedures required for flash usage in the film era. There were quite a few of the screw-mount Leica bodies that started life with no synchronisation and had it added later with marvellous attachments that clamped onto shutter speed dials and then closed contacts with spring levers and rotating arms. Users could dial in all sorts of delay times and I'll bet nearly every one was wrong...

05 Feb

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The same incautious staff member who speculated about Johnny Cash and the ducks also raised a thought about time travel. He was specifically thinking of time lapse movies, which are becoming increasingly popular these days, but there is no reason stop temporal speculation there - our shop can speed time up, slow time down, repeat it, or excise it. We can go forward, backward, and possibly up, down, and sideways.In fact, if the general premise of Dr. Who's Tardis is that of an unimposing structure crammed with more space and more equipment inside, I think that could be said to exactly describe 230 Stirling Street.I shall gloss over who the Weeping Angels, Daleks, and other entertaining staff members and concentrate on the time itself.Speeding it up: This is the province of the time lapse. The camera sits there and shoots a series of pictures at designated intervals - generally over a pretty long period of time. If something that the cameras has been watching over this time has experienced a set of gradual changes, projecting the subsequent series of pictures...

04 Feb

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You should never ask a question of a hungry reporter - as one of our fellow employees has concluded when he idly responded the the question " What's New? ". His speculation about what camera Johnny Cash would use to take photos of ducks was seized upon with avidity for this column...

03 Feb

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You may be forgiven for thinking that the M Magazine from Leica is just the old Leica Fotographie or Leica Fotographie International magazine in a larger size and with a black and white cover. It is similar, of course, but there are subtle differences inside. Fewer pictures of dark-skinned people on beaches in mid-day sun with the contrast turned up high so that they appear blacker. Fewer photos of Hong Kong streets with laundry strung between apartment buildings. Fewer dewy-eyed children around perfectly safe and non-military German Christmas trees.You can still count on New York street pictures with either beggars or lunchtime crowds and there is generally a riot available somewhere that yields good value.At least the price has been kept reasonable - $ 20 per issue. This one is the third in the current series and by the way the company is going there should be a lot more. I'm waiting for the issue with the ghost gum in the paddock, the white cockatoos, and the rusted 1937 Ford ute. Ya can't beat a classic...