29 Oct Getting It While The Getting’s Good
And not 15 years later...
October 2021
27 Oct It’s Not Just For Fans
When we have invested time and money in photography gear we become quite protective of our choices. We defend them to others and to ourselves...
25 Oct Coming Late To The Movies
Coming late to the movies may seem like a social mistake, but it does have some advantages...
22 Oct When To Up the Stakes
And when to stand pat. I'm led to believe these terms have something to do with playing cards, but that's just a rumour...
20 Oct ” I’m Sorry Dave…I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That. “
Well here we are, supposedly twenty years later, and some of our photographic space odysseys have become distinctively odd. None more so than the ones we start on when we open the menu for our new camera and see what the factory designers have prepared for...
18 Oct Why Buy Older Gear?
This is a question I was asked at a hobby club when I was seen using an older camera. It was doing the job brilliantly, but when the questioner learned that the design is some 9 years old all credibility seemed to vanish. He'd bought...
15 Oct Stand By Me
You may recall the movie or the song, but remember that every studio needs stands. Camera Stands, light stands, hot dog stands. ( well photography makes you hungry. ) General Custer used to make stands, but his last one was somewhat of a failure. I went looking...
13 Oct Cheap Beggar De Mille
The Hollywood tycoon that other tycoons feared...
11 Oct Essential Stay at Home Photography Tips
All over the world, lockdown has become the norm for many. The most challenging factor of experiencing this is that the freedoms we had prior have been minimised to the size of our own homes. When we purchased our photography gear, we had hopes to...
11 Oct Shorty Forty
The term " Nifty Fifty " was coined a few years ago to make what was the standard focal length for the 35mm camera seem new and exciting for the DSLRs of the time. That's what advertising writers do - they attach adjectives to things and...
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