29 May Fast And Slow – The Hare And The Tortoise In The Studio
Move over Mr. Aesop - we're going to do science, not fables...
May 2017
26 May Melbourne – A Photographer’s Smorgasbord
If you were to visit one capital city in Australia to immerse yourself in photographically then Melbourne would be my first choice hands down. Much of the character of the city centre can be attributed to Robert Hoddle who in 1837 planned the layout of...
26 May Canadian Wilderness – A Travel Tale By Stan Davies
CANADIAN WILDERNESS If you want an Indiana Jones experience, then a trip to the north of the Hudson Bay in search of the elusive Musk Oxen will have you transported in time. Following the long flight to Montreal via Vancouver, the real adventure begins. From Montreal...
26 May Hype, Happiness, and Hahnemühle
We've sold Hahnemühle paper for years at Camera Electronic but oddly enough have rarely used it in our shop printers. The reasons are simple - economics and operational expedience - Hahnemühle paper is expensive in comparison with standard Ilford inkjet material and the small-scale signage that...
25 May The Camera Makers That Keep On Giving
The bottom line in any sales consultation is the bottom line…* In this respect the new graphite Fujifilm X-Pro2 camera with the matching graphite 23mm f:2 lens have somewhat more of a bottom than the same model camera in black with a black lens. About $...
24 May Sorry To Drone On About This…
That is not exactly just a bad pun - I have already commented upon the DJI drone announcement in a different weblog column. But I've been asked to give a more authoritative version of it here on the Camera Electronic page - a note was sent to us...
24 May Fujifilm X-Pro2 – Their Style In Your Own Hands
The X-Pro series of cameras from Fujifilm have been taking pictures long enough for people to have had time to decide whether they like them or not. Of course for the photographers bound to another system or another philosophy of shooting, they may only be of...
23 May The New 23mm Champion
Okay - our last column praised the aesthetics of the new Fujifilm X-Pro2 in the graphite finish. The lens only got a passing mention, but as many of the readers have discovered, many cameras function better with lenses mounted on them...
22 May Just Glorious Graphite
“ Just Glorious ” is not the sort of thing that you generally want to read in a photographic analysis column. Figures on sensor size and density, autofocus speeds and EVF refresh rates, MTF charts…all these are the meat and drink of the avid internet reader....
19 May How To Take A Selfie
Step One: Find a suitable location. Picking a spot to take your own picture can be easy or hard - but it always reflects upon you when you show the result to others. We have all seen the pre-ball, pre-dance show, or pre-wedding selfie taken in the...