28 Jan Four Good Things
I like visiting Camera Electronics - having worked in the shop for eight years it is still a familiar spot to go to - there is a free coffee, and I get to see new things. Note: I do pay for parking at the council...
January 2019
25 Jan Trooping The Reviews
I cannot decide whether camera and lens reviews on the internet are a good thing or not. On one hand they could be the one way a remote photographer might be able to order their thoughts...
24 Jan The Paint Mule And The Test Shot
Relax. I'm not advocating doing bad things to four-footed animals. This is all about practical science and inveterate curiosity. The photographic test shot is the most basic of Australian images - even more common than the one of the three children in the back yard under...
23 Jan Sneaking A Peek At Gitzo
You don't have to be surreptitious in Camera Electronic when it comes to looking for camera bags - we've had them on the south wall since before the turn of the century - actually it might have been before the turn of several centuries. They've...
22 Jan Peak Design Sneak One In
I suspect that Peak Design made this bag before they decided what it was going to be used for. That's alright - many of the models I make and the images I take are halfway done before I know what they are going to do....
21 Jan Peak Design – The Juggling Act Redefined
You are not really a keen enthusiast photographer until you have done three things; stood at a seashore for 3 hours waiting for the sun to come up or go down to take an image that looks like a postcard - sneaked a box full...
18 Jan The Little Cold Box Of Hope
The heading image is a box of film. To be more specific, it is a box containing a plastic canister with a pop-off lid. Inside the canister is a metal cartridge with a plastic spool in the centre. Around the plastic spool is wound a...
17 Jan When You Have Volts In Your Drawers
Or, more accurately, a drawer full of volts...
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...