15 Sep Where’s The Kerboom?
There should be an enormous Kerboom...
September 2017
14 Sep When Adventure Calls…
Make sure that Adventure pays the phone bill - otherwise you are in real trouble...
13 Sep A Great Deal In A Small Compass
The Muraro " Heavy Compact Small Stand " looked like a pretty simple box to bring home. It was sealed and I expected to find a Manfrotto look-alike inside - Boy, was I surprised. To give you a comparison I have included my Manfrotto compact...
12 Sep A New M Enters The Studio – From Italy
We all know about the big M from Italy - the Manfrotto company. They have been making professional lighting and camera support gear for decades and are the mainstay of studios from here to...
11 Sep The Odd Man In
At any one time, our choices in photography can be surprisingly limited. Limited by artistic convention, fashion, and commerce. Often we do not notice it until some exception to the rule comes to hand - then we feel it all the more. This is the...
08 Sep The Long Haul Machine
When we think of long-haul planes we think of Sunderlands, Condors, and Superfortresses...
07 Sep The Fighter-Bomber
What do you do if you have to cope with targets both on the ground and in the air? Leaving aside the suggestion of a Flak 88 and a set of ear plugs, we come to the answer of the fighter-bomber. An aircraft fast and...
06 Sep The Bomber
Well, if you need to do a heavy job and you need to do a lot of it, you need a bomber. And a ground crew. It need not be a light machine, it need not be dazzlingly fast, and it need not be fashionable-looking. It...
05 Sep The Fighter
If we are going to extend yesterday's analogy about aircraft and doughnuts to cameras, let's start with the fighter; the pursuit ship that has to climb, dive, and turn faster than the opposition. This would equate the agile camera that can respond quickly out in...
04 Sep Those Magnificent Men With Their Image Machines
Air forces in the 20th century loved to get new airplanes - in part to replace the ones they lost and in part so they could have new toys to play with. And there was probably a strong streak of the collector in them -...