28 Feb One Of The Dishes On The Buffet – Tokina
When we get a big-name camera we sometimes get a big name complex...
February 2017
26 Feb An Obscure Product From Ilford
There are times when you just have to let yourself go. You have to go out and go mad. Office Christmas parties and federal elections come to mind, though the snacks are better at the latter than the former...
24 Feb Olympus Week – Addendum To Stacking
I was wrong when I thought that I could not use the focus stacking facility in the new Olympus camera I played with - you can indeed stack close-up images in Photoshop Elements 14 - but not automatically, and not neatly.The process involves using the...
23 Feb Stacking It In the Studio – And not at the Motorcycle Races
I mentioned earlier in the week the unending quest for depth of field with studio tabletop illustration. In most cases of products or packs, we can shoot from such a distance that we avoid running out of depth of field. We select medium focal length...
21 Feb The Wind’s Under Your Wings With Olympus
A sunny morning, Jandakot Aerodrome, and the new Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk II camera. And the 300mm f:4 IS PRO lens buckled on...
21 Feb Don’t Be Shortsighted -Try A MIOPS Pic…
I have waited a decade for a straight line like that...
21 Feb Pixel-Shifting At The Coffee Stand – Olympus In The Studio
Ever since the Olympus company announced that their new cameras could make images with more pixels in them than were on the sensor, I have been longing to try it out. The literature made it sound like they were lifting themselves up by their electronic...
19 Feb New Camera Week – Olympus
One of the splendid perks of being a weblog writer is that you get the chance to try out new photographic equipment in your own time. It is altogether a different experience from that of reading Internet advertising or just hefting the gear in the...
17 Feb A Bunch Of The Boys Was Whoopin’ It Up…*
And they were ably assisted by a bunch of the girls - last night was a special launch party for the Murray Street shop of Camera Electronic - and it featured a surprising number of the movers and shakers of Perth photographic retailing. Not that...
15 Feb You Know, You’re Soaking In it?
Geeze, Narelle, You coulda told me...