I remember reading somewhere that the blink of an eye is around 1/40th of a second.Pretty small beans when we look at shutters in DSLR and mirror-less cameras that can fire at 1/4000 or 1/8000 of a second. I mean, Crikey - at 1/8000 you...
One of the current buzz phrases is " Elephant in the room ". When we are accused of ignoring something that is glaringly obvious, the implication is that we are remiss in this. Far from it; willful ignorance is one of the most useful social...
There. That states it succinctly. A week devoted to one of the flagship cameras of one of the flagship photographic manufacturers. A full-frame DSLR that embodies most of what Nikon knows about the digital shooting. More sophisticated than I am used to, but a rewarding...
I often go on about the convenience and portability of the cameras and lenses that are sold by Camera Electronic and sometimes get pulled up on it. People have asked whether it is at all important. After all - everything on Earth has a weight...
See? I happened upon a Fujinon XC 50-230mm f 1:4.5-6.7 OIS II lens in the storeroom and leaped on it with a glad cry. I have several small Fujifilm X-series bodies to hand and two airports within a reasonable proximity. What better chance to try the...
At airfield, with onions. I was out at Jandakot aerodrome testing the Fujinon XC50-230mm 1:4.5-6.7 OIS II lens for this column and turned around and there he was - our friend Mark - consummate wedding and aerial photographer of Mark Wagenaar Photography ( go look up...
Packed in the rather small package that contains the Ryze Tello drone are two interesting cards - folded advice slips from model aircraft associations in Australia and New Zealand - the Australian one is yellow and the Kiwi one is orange. They're succinct little warning notices...
There's a special on this Tello drone this week at Camera Electronic - if you go over to the website catalog or the specials you'll see it. I had a notification shoot through my email - oddly enough after I had taken one home to...
We're lucky here in Australia - we can use the word " cheap " to mean " inexpensive " or " frugal ". Charley Carters, the grocery chain, knew that and we could go to a shop that had oiled wooden floorboards and paper bags...
Don't keep hunting for the pickled herring - this is a post about inkjet printing papers. The title is because there are so many papers available - it can be like a photographic smorgasbord. To be certain you have got the right one for your needs...