09 Feb Who To Sell What To When The Door Is Open
It might seem an odd question for a shopkeeper to ask themselves...
February 2018
08 Feb A Phone In The Hand…
Is worth two in the pocket. A phone on a video rig is worth three just held out at arm's length! But before we begin: A regular reader of this column has asked why I seem to be showing a lot of the packages and boxes of the...
07 Feb Products For the Season-Of-Relativity – Part Two
A recent meme on Facebook asked the difference between in-laws and outlaws. Apparently outlaws are wanted...
06 Feb Guilty As Charged, M’Lud
" My client wishes to plead guilty to the charge of using camera equipment to do things that it was never intended for, M'Lud. He tenders images taken with the Nikon 1 camera in evidence. He wishes to have it noted that he is well...
05 Feb The Prairie Oyster
Before you ring up and complain, the title of the piece was chosen because I am going to try to use an underwater camera out on the Alberta plains - not a place known for fish, corals, or oysters. Just another scale model flight of...
02 Feb The Universal Bracket
Putting a bracket on the universe sounds like rather a large undertaking - daily we are being told that it expands ever further from our comprehension - rather like federal taxation reform and the GST. Stephen Hawking understands the universe but has thrown his hands...
01 Feb Viewing The Moon
Like Admiral Yamaguchi, I spent a good deal of last night admiring the moon...
31 Jan The Sigma Difference
People who read this column regularly are getting pretty used to the flights of fancy that sometimes occur. And they are more critical than you might think. So I don't think I will have any luck telling them that the lens in the heading image...
30 Jan Getting A Grip On Virtuality – Part Two
The great thing about the photographic trade is that it is so diverse and inventive - if a need is identified - or just created - there are a number of manufacturers who will leap up and offer a product. Some of the products may...
29 Jan Getting A Grip On Virtuality – Part One
It seems that everything we see these days on the computer screen is taken with a mobile phone. This was not the case in the 1950's. Many people in Australia were still connected to land lines and it was awkward ringing up Central and trying to...