22 Mar When You Want To Be A Talking Head…
Specifically, an Australian talking head...
March 2018
21 Mar ” Everyone’s A Critic… “
Especially when they are armed with a mirror-less camera and a macro lens. The ability of a close-focusing optic like the Fujinon XF60mm f 1:2.4 R Macro to show flaws and errors that otherwise slide by the human eye is one of its most disconcerting...
20 Mar ” Tonight You Photograph With The Fishes “
I've been watching too many gangster movies. The dialog is starting to rub off on me. If I don't stop it soon I'll be running for federal parliament...
19 Mar Nu?
Sometimes I go into Camera Electronic and ask what's new - and sometimes they tell me. So far it has not taught me a lesson, because I keep on asking. New is not necessarily good or bad - it is just new. A fresh page in...
16 Mar Pages On Paper – Why You Should Retro It Occasionally
Most of you will be reading this on an electronic screen, as opposed to a paper page. The phosphor dots will flash by and be gone as soon as you close the page...
15 Mar ” Hey! Take My Pitcher! “
Unless it's someone at the beer garden who wants you to clear the table and bring them another, this sort of call is more trouble than it's worth. It's generally said in a semi-agressive way - whether the speaker is known to you or not. It...
14 Mar Reasons To Shop – Or Not…
Don't let your eyebrows rise too high at the title of this column - I'm not going to attempt to destroy the photographic trade. At least not more than I have for the past 50 years...
13 Mar Oops!
Pressed the wrong button, didn't I...
13 Mar Just A Box At Twilight
The heading image of this column is as dull a picture as you could want - a silver and black box on a cardboard carton. It has none of the snap and pizazz of a new camera or lens - none of the technical wizardry...
12 Mar Reasons To Shop
We've all seen those diagrams on social media that look like scientific flow charts but in the end lead you to either espouse some political viewpoint or eat chocolate and drink wine. Every box you enter has a decision you need to make that leads...