31 Dec Pay Per View – Part One – The List of Shame
Or how to horrify yourself with a pencil and a piece of paper. In my foolish youth ( as opposed to my foolish old age...
December 2019
30 Dec The Emporium
Camera Electronic has always been an emporium - and you are encouraged to go look at the dictionary definition of the word. It has sold a vast array of goods over the last 50 years and it has had an advantage over many of the...
27 Dec Mounting Evidence From Sirui
No surprise that Sirui Optical is a Guangdong company - the products they turn out are excellently made - but it was interesting to google up their main site and see that they've been putting things on the market since 2001 and that they're also...
26 Dec Is Your Photography A Hobby?
Or is it a business? Or a pastime? That's an important question for you to ask yourself - fortunately, you can do it quietly and no-one need hear your answer. But if you can get it straight in your own mind you have a much better...
25 Dec There Are Only So Many Things You Can Do WIth A…
a. Camera. In the end it can only do two things - sit inert or take pictures. Most cameras make good paperweights and in the old days several of them made fine doorstops. It is when you start exposing film or sensors that the complications start....
24 Dec Icebreaker In The Desert
A recent talk by Warwick Williams introducing a new Fujifilm camera also gave him a chance to mention another very successful Fujifilm product line - their Instax instant printers. Here's one of the Mni Link I found at our Murray Street shop. The construction couldn't be...
23 Dec Taking Your Devices For A Holiday
You used to take the kids or Grannie on holiday at the seaside. Now you leave them home and take the phone, tablet, and camera and give them an outing. Which is fair enough, because most photo enthusiasts think more of their equipment than they...
20 Dec The Trip To Japan…or Belgium…or Birmingham
The daughter has just returned from a trip to Japan. It was a short visit, but as she speaks a little of the language, an enjoyable one for her. As it was a quick decision affair, I grabbed one of the spare cameras to send...
19 Dec We All Have our Moments
And some of us have them in colour. Instax cameras from Fujifilm are often in some pretty fashionable colours - they are primarily sold in Japan and the Japanese people have a surprisingly bright taste in colour. Witness the Shinkansen train in Tokyo station a few...
18 Dec More From The Lowepro Clambake
I say clambake, because that is essentially what these little gems are - mollusc shells for your photographic gear. You get to keep your pearls safe. The Hardside CS 60 was the one I first picked up and I was immediately impressed with the rigidity of...