11 Oct Being Smart When I’m Not
I have come to accept the need for aids in living. I'm not at the stage yet where I'll need an ear trumpet or a wooden leg, but the time cannot be far away. I already need aids to the memory - whenever I enter...
October 2018
10 Oct The Forgotten Lowepro
I hope the Lowepro rep doesn't bristle up too much at that headine...
09 Oct The Dance Of The Numbers
I am surprised that Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton were not keen digital photographers - because anyone who attempts to do photography these days needs to be a mathematician - and it might have been the other way round. We're all familiar with the off-sets and...
08 Oct Acting Upon Reliable information
I proceeded to the Murray Street premises of Camera Electronic and interviewed the store manager, Domenic Papalia. He opened the Canon show cabinet and took out a Canon Macro EF-S 35mm f:2.8 IS STM lens and a Canon 70D camera. After ascertaining that there was a...
05 Oct Champagne Eye
Well, you cannot fault the makers of cameras for being dull bodies - they let their design departments run with the colours and in the cameras we've seen this week we've had a different shade each day. The Fujifilm XF10 today is Champagne Gold. How...
04 Oct Pocket Eye
Eye Eye, Captain. Sorry about the tortured jokes, but the weather is cold and we've run out of rum. The reason the word " eye " has been mentioned is that the camera today - the Panasonic Lumix TZ90 - has a real live viewfinder for...
03 Oct Small Pocket
The days of the good old compact camera are numbered, they tell me - but then they have told me that you can't get film any more and we have fridges full of fresh stocks of it. And people buy it by the bagful...
03 Oct Cool Pocket
The Coolpix model name was a brilliant piece of branding by Nikon - if there was ever any word that would work on the mind of the young and hip, it was that. This camera lives up to it. The portability of the Nikon Coolpix 900...
02 Oct Travels, Tours, And Journeys Coming Up
We must leave you to define tours, travels, and journeys for yourselves - you'll all have different concepts of which is best - based upon what has happened to you in the past. But here are a few hints for the coming few months about...
02 Oct Fujifilm X AUS Community
The use of any particular brand of camera is a uniting force for many people - just mention a maker's name at a camera club meeting and watch the arguments start. But sometimes it goes beyond this to make an actual community throughout the country....