Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
This is part two of my 4MP digital classics experiment. With 36MP digital cameras widely available, and even smartphones offering 19MP plus, the manufacturers try to tell us the more MP, the better your photography will be. But after coming to love a small collection of classic digital cameras in the last year or so, mostly around… Continue reading Is 4MP Enough In 2018? Part 2 – Olympus Camedia C4040 Zoom Review
As part of my photographic simplification in recent months, I've abandoned social media, unplugged from my online life at weekends, and invested in a few photography books. One of the interesting side effects I've noticed is how I am consuming barely any photography online now. Partly this is because I am online less generally, and… Continue reading How Photography Books Have Radically Reduced My Appetite For New Photos
With 36MP digital cameras widely available, and even smartphones offering 19MP plus, the manufacturers try to tell us the more MP, the better your photography will be. But after coming to love a small collection of classic digital cameras in the last year or so, mostly around 10MP, I'm starting to wonder how many MP… Continue reading Is 4MP Enough In 2018? Part 1 – Sony DSC-L1 Review
The phrase "Classic Camera" for most of us likely conjures images of a Spotmatic, a Canon AE-1 or a Leica III, all metal and glass models with old school knobs and dials that require a strict diet of film. But the first camera with a CCD sensor was available in 1975, and the first DLSR… Continue reading Why I Buy (And Love) Classic Digital Cameras
Since last October I've photographed almost exclusively in black and white. So what's got me keenly embracing colour photography again? The black and white phase began with the coinciding of two events - the autumn season and the arrival of a Ricoh GRD III. I only ever intended to shoot b/w with the Ricoh, and… Continue reading Learning To Love Colour Again (And How To Keep It Simple)
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