03 Aug Are We Ready For A New Screen?
Are you sitting there like me while you are reading this*...
August 2018
02 Aug Nikon – The Products Of Imagination In The Ring
Recently at the Camera Electronic Photo Live 2018 Friday night special event - the boxing spectacular - someone used their imagination in a rather dramatic fashion. Of course they had access to some of the most imaginative equipment in the business, as well, but let's remember that the buttons and the lenses only do what someone tells them to do. You've probably all seen historic boxing photos that have been taken from a vantage point up above the ring. In the old film days they would suspend a motorised 35mm camera with a wide-angle lens up there fixing its focus on the canvas. They might have been able to rig a flash on the camera or at least wire-synch it to other strobe lights up in the gantry that hangs over the ring. It was a complex rigging job and somewhat uncertain...
01 Aug For Whom Do You Work? – Part One – Outdoors
That's a very good question for any photographer to ask themselves - for whom do they work? I sometimes wonder if some of the people toting cameras have asked themselves that - and if the answers they might discover could be entirely different from what they themselves think. Let's explore the question for different groups...
31 Jul Saturday Daytime Fever
And you didn't need a white disco suit...
30 Jul Friday Night Is Fight Night!
I'm sorry my Uncle Louie isn't alive - I'd have taken him to the Camera Electronic Special Eve Of Photo Live 2018 event and he'd have loved it. Oh, he never took a picture in his life, but he was a great boxing fan*. And Camera Electronic turned it on last Friday. The Novotel Langley isn't quite quite what you imagine Madison Square Garden to be. It's carpeted floors and mood lighting...
27 Jul Not Only But Also…
Do we all love the household trade pavilion at the Royal Show? I know I do - you can have the midway rides and the petting zoo - give me the spruikers demonstrating tomato slicers any day. If I miss out on seeing the Miracle Window Cleaner take half a kilo of margarine off a sheet of glass I reckon I haven't been to the show. And it's not just for the benefit of the rural seeds - I'm standing there gawping along with them. I get my Jethro on...
26 Jul Lions, Grizzlies, or Humming Birds?
No, it's not a dinner menu. It's news of a great opportunity for landscape and wildlife photographers next year - it's one of the kickers in a unique photo tour for 2019. Dennis Glennon Photography is the firm running the tour under the name Iconic Imagery. Instead of the usual round of African game parks or Alaskan grizzly bears, this tour offers...
25 Jul Press Release…Then Open Door And Jump Out…
It's few enough times we get in our lives when we can have a say in affairs of state. Most of us have never stormed a Bastille and quite a few don't even get past the CWA cake stall when it comes to voting in elections. In our photographic lives we're also mostly told rather than doing the telling...
24 Jul At Last Some Curves
I've been reviewing SanDisk products regularly since I started writing these columns - indeed as long as I have been playing with the digital side of photography - and I have come to trust them. Not to the extent that I insist that they can never fail, but well enough that I am prepared to entrust most memory tasks to them. A case in point is the card readers that the firm makes. From my first CF card reader to my current SD requirements, SanDisk is the one to transfer the goods from the card to the computer. I don't believe that I have lost any data in this stage of the workflow at all. Note: Cards can and do go belly-up from time to time. SanDisk are probably better than most and definitely better than bargain cards picked up on eBay or Alibaba. In my case, if it doesn't say SanDisk, Lexar, or Panasonic, it doesn't go in my camera bag. But back to the readers - They've come a ways since the early days and as they've progressed the data transfer...
22 Jul The Macro Button And The Landscape Badge
On a trip to Japan in 2014 I did the busman's holiday thing and went to visit a couple of camera shops. I was astounded at Bic Camera in the Ginza as well as another large one called Yodabashi, but found the familiarity of the core subject helped me to understand a great deal of what I saw - even though I could not translate the signage. Of course, the cameras were very similar to what we sold here..and the accessories were also familiar - with the exception of the wall of really bad camera straps. I tried to bring myself to buy one of the furry ones, but chickened out in the end as I did not want to weather the scorn of the staff. What I was most impressed with was the way Bic had made it easier for people who don't speak Japanese to find help. Every staff member who spoke a different language as well as Japanese wore a badge on their uniform that was the flag of the country that originated that language. I beetled over to...