17 Jan When You Have Volts In Your Drawers
Or, more accurately, a drawer full of volts...
January 2019
15 Jan The Longer Arm And the Higher Point Of View
What do you do when you run out of arm? When you cannot hold a camera high enough - or low enough - or far enough outside a railway carriage - to get the shot you need? Why you hire an assistant who is built...
14 Jan The Stiff Upper Lip
We were always expected to maintain a stiff upper lip in school - even when the various pedants set above us had descended to throwing chalkboard erasers and hitting us with sticks. It was meant to show character. I was fortunate in that I had...
11 Jan For Whom Do You Work – Part Four – The Bridal Trade
And who wouldn't trade a bride if they could, eh? I stopped being romantic about weddings a long time ago, but I suspect that there are many who still are - not least the people getting married. Thus the business of wedding photography employs quite a...
10 Jan Sirix – Plastic Never Dies
Okay, that's hooey. Plastic dies regularly - just when you need it most. It explodes into shards and falls to the ground. Witness plastic cutlery and dinner plates. But plastic design never does - and we've been seeing plastic design in the matter of photo...
09 Jan Phone Phun Stuff
Here's a little product that was lurking on the sales floor this morning in CE - the Kii Pix instant printer. It is the sort of device that is somewhat practical ad totally fun. And it will sit and fit with a lot more people...
08 Jan This Retirement Thing Has Knobs On It
Knobs, as opposed to buttons. Some retirements have calibrated dials and vacuum tubes that need to warm up before they work - that is why retirees rarely start to really move before 9:00 in the morning. ( Except for the ones who have a front...
07 Jan Silver Belle
I reported on the Fujifilm X-100F some time ago - comparing and contrasting the black version of this camera with the black X-100 that I owned at that time. They were separated by a number of generations of development but closely tied in form and...
04 Jan That Sticky Question
And this time it's not the maple syrup - it's the vexed question of what lens to get whan you have no idea - no idea what you you will be taking pictures of, what your camera can do, where you'll be going, or why...