04 Aug Don’t Get the Stink Eye – Get a Hoodman Hood Eye
Sorry, headline opportunities like that come up rarely and we are all human...
August 2016
03 Aug A Colourless Sort Of Post…
For a colourless sort of product. But you could see through that headline - it was transparent...
01 Aug Red Hot Out Of The Courier Van – Tamron 85mm
Tamron is a bit of a dark horse to me - I have never owned one of their lenses, though we have sold hundreds through the shop. Golly - you could probably make that thousands if you look back over the decades - the firm...
01 Aug The Silent Studio Assistants Pop Up
Getting some help in the studio when you are tackling product shots can be nerve wracking. You have to advertise the position, read the resumés, conduct interviews, choose a candidate, fill out the tax file and workers comp forms, and then wonder whether they are...
29 Jul The Instructions Are On the Packet…
They really are.I don't think we need to have any more staff serving at the counter now that we have the new Manfrotto tripod boxes. The questions that the customers ask and the response that we give are all printed on the outside of the...
28 Jul Cutting The Pie
Who gets the largest slice of the retail photographic pie? The retail shop? The wholesale agency? The manufacturer? I've asked and no-one will tell me...
27 Jul Split Personalities?
I take a little amusement in looking at the packaging of photographic goods...
27 Jul The Jacques Cousteau Studio Camera
As a person who does not swim, either regularly or well, and who has never taken a camera underwater at any time. I feel I am perfectly qualified to review the products from Nauticam.They were shown at the recent photo Live Expo 2016, though not...
26 Jul So Whaddawy Get For Me Money?
A good question. And one that the people who go to trade shows might well ask themselves before they go. Keep in mind that there are any number of events of this nature in Perth, and the punters can afford to be selective.The Photo Live...
25 Jul Uncle Dick’s Hot Wash Up – The Photo Live Expo 2016
I hope that all the people who visited us yesterday down at the Novotel Langley hotel got home safely and slept soundly - I know I did. It's because I had a happy day.Tasked with minding the table with the old books o n it,...