I am puzzled at the position in the Fujifilm family that might be occupied by the Fujifilm X-H1 camera. Is it a little brother, a middle brother, or a big brother? Is it a cousin? The basics of the camera have been known since its introduction;...
Daniel, the tech, has a special relationship with electricity. It's always entertaining to see the blue flash and watch him fly across the room trailing sparks. That's what you get when you repair studio flashes with big capacitors...
Or to put it more clearly - how to transfer your data into something that you can physically misplace...
I admire people who can coordinate multiple lighting setups in the field. And there's a lot of gear on the market with which they can do this these days - many flash makers have TTL and manual wireless triggers and controllers that talk to each...
I watch Carlos closely. He has good ideas and knows what he is doing. He takes good photographs. He speaks well. If he gets to be any more successful I may have to stab him. This is the photo trade after all...
You may be forgiven for thinking that the modern world is a fraud. In addition to some politicians we seem to elect, we always seem to be packaging up things and selling them to ourselves needlessly. The bottled water business - at least in clean...
Why bother with a lot of things, eh? Why to bother making the bed - you'll just be back in it in 12 hours. Why bother cleaning the car - it'll just get dirty again in thee months. Why to bother brushing your teeth - you'll...
Daniel Ray, our tech, buttonholed me yesterday and asked me to pass a message on to the photographers of Western Australia. You know, that state on the left of the continent that is made up of red dust and grains of sand...
I do not often get a chance to test Sigma lenses here in the column - I don't own a Canon, Nikon, or Sony body to which they might be attached. But this week I got the opportunity to grab a demo-body Canon from the...
It should be no secret to the readers of this column that I base many of my stories around the things I find in the Camera Electronic storeroom. A weekly walk-through lets me see if anything new and interesting has arrived and made it through...