The short-range macro lens is an oddity in the optical world. Odd in the sense that the makers of macro lenses nearly always try to get you to buy a longer focal length. Also odd in the ways that it gets used. And this is...
You thought Lifesavers came in little paper rolls? Well the Assorted Fruit and Pep-O-Mint ones might, but you can get other sorts of lifesavers too, and photography sometimes needs them. As we get further from the early start days of digital, we distance ourselves from any...
We've been selling Wimberley heads for years in various forms. When I started working for the shop a decade ago there was a stack of Indian-made castings in the store-room that were intended for use as long-lens gimbals. The quality was on the high agricultural...
Shocked, I tell you. But there is good news - Manfrotto has come up with a cure for shock. I was intrigued to see this big rectangular messenger bag in the storeroom. In the Manfrotto section as well, were you only expect to find light stands,...
Or perhaps it is an increase in confidence on the part of the manufacturer...
No, We're not talking about another footballer's romance or a North Korean threat - it's the Lastolite Ezybox Micro - possibly the lightest of the large diffusers for speed lights. Certainly one of the easiest to put on and off. Speed light diffusers have a long...
I once tried to tether my DSLR camera to my laptop computer in my studio. It was successful, after I studied the camera manual, the camera maker's website, the internet forums, Ken Rockwell, and the entrails of a brace of white doves. I may have...
I couldn't help being impressed by the advertising meme that was printed on the outer cover of a box in our Stirling Street shop: " You have chosen wisely...
Here's one for current professionals, budding professionals, and professionals who have long since gone to seed. A wonderful product that will stop you from killing someone. You're doing an event - a school ball, a corporate dinner, a ceremony...
It all got so much easier - thanks to new advances in technology. The venue was Elizabeth Quay, the event a display called Toyota At the Quay. It was one of four motoring events available on the same day - a case of Perth's feast or...