13 Apr The Hot Photographer
Perth's entry into autumn via a heatwave - and didn't we all just love it when it got over 40ยบ...
April 2016
12 Apr The Round Of The Staff: Ricky
I pester the CE staff members each week - for the look of the thing I pretend it is to gain useful information to pass on to the customers via this weblog column - in reality I just like to pester and they are convenient...
11 Apr Photographic Education For Dummies – the Idiots Guide To Successful Shooting
Well, you've finally recovered from reading the digital photography magazine from the newsagent. The last HDR picture of psychedelic auroras in Aberystwith Gorge has been seen and you've had a Bex and a nice lie down. It is time to decide whether you have learned...
08 Apr The Swedish Undra Maskin
Well, start going to the gym. Do your curls and upper arm exercises. Practise lifting heavy weights. Because the Swedish heavyweight is back.Not Ingmar Johanssen - or Ingmar Bergman - or even Ingrid Bergman - we mean Hasselblad and the new H6D. The bigger medium...
08 Apr The Spur Of The Moment – With The New Fujifilm
Finding myself sober and dressed, and in Camera Electronic, and no-one making use of the new Fujifilm X-70 camera for the moment, I clapped a card into it and shot out the door.I then shot up the Suzuki, the street, and the skyline. Then the...
07 Apr The Stolen Camera
One of the sorest points on the photographic world is the business of stolen photographic equipment.In 7.8 years of shop work I saw little of this - there were really only two times when I saw that we encountered stolen gear, and fortunately the police...
06 Apr The Curious Case Of The Dark Grey Filter
Those of us who use cameras to take pictures in the bright noon sunlight get what we deserve - brilliant colours in the main subjects, overexposed skies, and deep shadows under overhanging objects. These overhangs can be eyebrows, noses, lips, chins, and bosoms. And that's...
05 Apr How To Expan Your Mind
That's not a typo - there are no "d's"in Expan when Manfrotto make them. And you don't need "d's" - the apparatus is perfectly functional as it is.The EXPAN 046 drive is Manfrotto's way of slinging the large rolls of paper or vinyl backdrop material...
03 Apr One Of These Things Is Not Like Others
Oddly enough, all of these things do the same job - when inserted into the appropriate cameras they all take 250 images.In the case of the Canon 250 shot magazine the camera you will need is a one of the F1 film cameras with a...
31 Mar Shady Business In The Leica Cabinet…
Standing in the shop one day idly throwing gravel at the staff to while away the time, I found myself bemused while looking in the Leica cabinet.Of course everything in there was pristine - Leica insist upon this standard of presentation in their shop displays...