03 Jan Grab Bag
Or perhaps that should read " Fold bag "...
02 Jan Pay Per View – Part Three – Free Film
Watson Bulk Loader. If you have never seen one, google. If you owned one - or one of the other fine bulk load machines - remember how sensible you thought you were going to be. Why, you'd be able to load all your own 35mm cassettes and the film would be cheap and you were going to make masterpiece images with every roll...
01 Jan Pay Per View – Part Two – Captain Frugal In The 2020’s
Good morning. Welcome to a new decade. As it is 2020, let's get the Roaring Twenties joke out of the way straight up - that roaring in your head is the result of the New Year's Eve celebration. It will settle down in about two years...
31 Dec Pay Per View – Part One – The List of Shame
Or how to horrify yourself with a pencil and a piece of paper. In my foolish youth ( as opposed to my foolish old age...
30 Dec The Emporium
Camera Electronic has always been an emporium - and you are encouraged to go look at the dictionary definition of the word. It has sold a vast array of goods over the last 50 years and it has had an advantage over many of the competitors - the owners and operators have maintained secondhand dealer's licences all during that time. This has given the shop the chance to see a lot more of the gear that is actually in use throughout the state - and in some cases it has allowed us to trade it in as well. Has everything that's come past the door sill been good? No. There have been some hair-raising cameras made in the past 100 years and quite a few of them got to Perth in the hands of tourists and migrants. When they palled, the owners would come in and try to sell them. In most cases they could be refused politely - and if we had a chance to show the more modern goods the customer went off with something more suitable. Some could...
27 Dec Mounting Evidence From Sirui
No surprise that Sirui Optical is a Guangdong company - the products they turn out are excellently made - but it was interesting to google up their main site and see that they've been putting things on the market since 2001 and that they're also selling humidity control cabinets. I'll bet they sell like hot ( and wet ) cakes in southern China, given what we see of their weather conditions. The two products today are concerned with tripods, though they are accessories rather than the tripods themselves. Of course we have a good range of those as well in store but sometimes you need a little more than the basic three legger. This arm is designed to attach where you would normally put a or three-way head and it lets you move the action out and away from the centre line of the tripod. This is no new thing - I have a similar accessory for my giant Gitzo Studex but it is a much cruder casting and can only allow 90º displacement from the vertical. This Sirui HA-77 unit tilts as...
26 Dec Is Your Photography A Hobby?
Or is it a business? Or a pastime? That's an important question for you to ask yourself - fortunately you can do it quietly and no-one need hear your answer. But if you can get it straight in your own mind you have a much better chance of being successful and happy in the end. If you are in the photo game as a business, the end result of it needs to be money. Money in your pocket...
25 Dec There Are Only So Many Things You Can Do WIth A…
a. Camera. In the end it can only do two things - sit inert or take pictures. Most cameras make good paperweights and in the old days several of them made fine doorstops. It is when you start exposing film or sensors that the complications start. Not that we should complain - those complications are what keep the shop, the customers, and the manufacturers going. If they get out of hand, you can always switch the thing off and then on again. b. Lens. These are for looking through - either you look through it with your naked eye and curse your horse for running too slow, or you attach a camera to the back end and take pictures. Some lenses see images and some project images. Rather like people in the photo trade, really...
24 Dec Icebreaker In The Desert
A recent talk by Warwick Williams introducing a new Fujifilm camera also gave him a chance to mention another very successful Fujifilm product line - their Instax instant printers. Here's one of the Mni Link I found at our Murray Street shop. The construction couldn't be simpler; one slim case in any fashion colour you like, one door to open for the Instax film pack, and one port to charge it from. You send a signal via magic waves from your mobile phone ( and possibly from other devices...
23 Dec Taking Your Devices For A Holiday
You used to take the kids or Grannie on holiday at the seaside. Now you leave them home and take the phone, tablet, and camera and give them an outing. Which is fair enough, because most photo enthusiasts think more of their equipment than they do of their family anyway. Get your priorities right...