17 Jul The Turn Of The Screen
A gothic mystery story by henry James with heroines and villains. Creepy mansions and ghostly figures. And nearly all of them in the Fujifilm design bureau...
July 2018
16 Jul Look Carefully At The Lettering On The Box…
Yes. Yes, this is the new Fujifilm camera; X-T100. Gotta look intently at Fujifilm packs because they are all so very alike. And the people in the company who name the new products often get the letters and numbers frighteningly close to the old designations. It...
13 Jul ” My Lens Is Only A Kit Lens So They Say I Need Another One…”
Hmmmm. Let's think about this for a bit. Your nose. That one there between your eyes. The one with the spectacles perched on it. Have a feel of it...
12 Jul One Light Is All You Need
Provided you have two lights...
11 Jul Somebody Got Smart – They Used My Head…
It might seem difficult to report anything new about the Joby Gorilla Pod these days - after all the original little Gorilla Pods have been in the shop long enough to register on the inventory of the British Museum.* Well, that is because they actually work....
10 Jul A Ramble Through the Chemical Side
We're lucky at Camera Electronic - we still have ties to the chemical side of photography. Unlike so many stores that have embraced digiatalisation, we find that it pays to remember the older analog processes. There are a steady stream of clients who also remember...
09 Jul The Microphone For The Me Generation
Or the you generation, if you insist. The important thing is that it is a microphone that will make us sound good when we use our smart devices. The Apple iPhone and iPad are wonderful things for communication - they can be as complex as any...
06 Jul Landscapers Need Not be Skyscrapers With Sunwayfoto
I am starting to seriously love Sunwayfoto equipment. It's not a new infatuation as I have had various bits and pieces from their factory for years ( even before Camera Electronic decided to stock it...
05 Jul Product Shipped In A Sealed Package
Kind of ironic, isn't it? A product that I want to take a picture of for the column is sealed into a tamper-proof plastic packet that defies opening. You'd almost think that they were trying to make it water-proof...
04 Jul Right! Sorted! Finally A Wrist Strap For Real Photographers!
Right! Now Chuck Norris can take up photography. Arnold Schwarzenegger can start shooting with a DSLR rather than a Gatling gun. Magda Szubansky can lay into her critics. We've got a camera strap for super-heroes. The Black Rapid Wrist Strap ( catchy name, eh? ) is the...