10 Dec The 12 Film Days Of Christmas
Actually there's more than 12 days to go, but the box is such a great package...
December 2021
08 Dec The Best Portable LED Lights For Your Creative Projects
Portable LED lights have transformed the way lighting is used in photography. They’re small, lightweight, and portable enough to be carried around anywhere you’d like. You can also mount these lights anywhere you wish and immediately illuminate the frame. Along with these benefits, the new-age LED lights are cost-effective too. Portable LED lights are powerful and offer a range of features, including Bluetooth connectivity for superior control and customisation. Whether you’re into photography or videography, the quality of your content will be instantly enhanced with an LED light. Therefore, it is undoubtedly the right time to add LED lights to your kit. Depending on your requirements, there are a wide variety of LED lights out there. The smaller LED lights are more beneficial for smaller studios, and you wouldn’t have to compromise and settle for the bigger ones. All you need is a single or group of LED lights, and you’re good to go. Investing in suitable quality LEDs is essential. After all, it is the lighting that can make or break your photos. We’ve chosen some of the best-LED models out there....
08 Dec We Never Know What We’ll Covet Next
That's why we have shops - we need a source of inspiration. Even when we don't know precisely what we need, we know the feeling of yearning. Sometimes it is just infatuation, but occasionally it will blossom into love. That is the case with the Edelkrone slider accessories I took a picture of way back in the 15th of October last year. I was impressed with it in the Stirling St. shop but had no idea exactly what it did. I googled the Edelkrone site and discovered that the parts form a complete camera movement package for video work. I dropped interest, but have now picked it up - I have just the job for the Edelkrone. What you are seeing in parts assembles up to a rotating cradle for your camera that in its turn can be powered to slide down those two long rails as you shoot your footage. There is provision for power from the ubiquitous Sony batteries and control from a smartphone app. In a pinch things can be moved smoothly by hand - and smooth is the name...
06 Dec The Philosophy Of The Sunday Photomarkets
This may seem an odd column to read on the website of a regular retailer - who also opens their doors of a Sunday - but stick with me here. I recently attended the re-opened Photomarkets, had a good time, and saw things. A train of thought led on from seeing some very unusual stuff offered for sale. Now, a short essay on the philosophy of the fair, the garage sale, and the flea market...
03 Dec How Guarded Should We Be About the Old Guard
Reader, you probably have some old equipment about you. Indeed, in whatever you own, something has to be the oldest bit. Should you retain it? Sometimes you wonder. Can a camera, or a lens, or a tripod, or a flash be worth keeping and using when there are newer models and different brands and advanced specifications? What if you are missing out? What if you are not? Well, I wondered that about the Fujifilm X-Pro1 body I own. I'd bought it new from Camera Electronic just before the X- Pro2 came out but never thought myself deprived by having the first model - I'd coveted it since the first brand showing down at Fremantle in 2012, and gradually got the first generation of lenses together to feed it. That's a 35mm f:1.4, an 18mm f:2, and a 14mm f:2.8...
01 Dec H/K From HK?
No, apparently, but the tale is convoluted. Harman/Kardon is a very old US maker of high fidelity equipment with many famous patents and products under their belt. But it was sold to Samsung. And apparently there are a number of Harman/Kardon plants open in mainland China - Shanghai, Suzhou, and Shenzhen. Some may make the speakers seen here, but you'd have to ask the distributor for confirmation. Wherever they originate, the quality of manufacture is superb. The speakers are of the wireless type that depend upon a signal from a smart device or other Bluetooth broadcaster. I note from the bottom of the smaller type - the Citation One Mk II - that there are some connectors - a power supply and a USB service input port. The speaker contains Chromecast and the ability to work with some of the voice-command networks. The larger one is either a Citation 300 or Citation 500 but darn me if I had the wit to turn it over and see which one. Both can do the complete Chromecast, streaming service operation the same as the smaller...
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