A lot of manufacturers say that they are dedicated to the small world of macro photography - and they point to one lens in their range with that word on the barrel. Or to a small flower symbol somewhere in their digital menu. Mount the...
The preparation of the new Nikon Z-series mirror-less camera systems must have been a time of furious activity in the Nikon organisation. Leaving aside the marketing questions and the business strategies - forced or otherwise - the idea of a new Nikon lens mount as...
My first fiddle with a Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera and Nikkor S zoom lens today. Not a shooting fiddle*, but a chance to handle and picture it. And mighty impressed. Forgive yourself for not being able to see at first glance that this is the Z6...
Picture taking can be pursued by many different people by many different means - but it is sometimes forgotten that it need not be done at 2000psi with lightning bolts shooting out of the equipment nor blood spurting out of the photographer. There are smaller...
Stan Davies recently wrote us an article for this column that was headed with a wonderful street photography image taken in Norway. You can pop back in the history and look at it - it's worth the read. To get this sort of success he engaged...
The heading image is not manipulated, apart from increasing contrast and dropping tones to give a silhouette. It shows the newest of the Olympus micro 4/3 mirror-less cameras alongside a workshop example of my first digital camera - a Nikon D1x. They are continents apart...
I have just been saved by a super-hero: The Blue Lynx. And we will all benefit. The Blue Lynx, AKA Jennifer Villalobos of our marketing department, came to my rescue when several readers of this column wanted to know the price and internet location of two...
The term " Strobist " was all the rage a few years back - it was applied to people who use small electronic flash units to light their fieldwork. It started out small, then got quite complex as different manufacturers came out with systems of...
Do you have a weekly cleaning day at your house? When you change the sheets, do the laundry, and scrub the floors? Is it a hard day? Down on the knees, hauling heavy baskets, tucking, folding, and scrubbing? Isn't it a real pain? Well, consider the...