Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
It's all too easy to get sucked into the incredible breadth and range of old cameras available to us - more than any time before in our lifetimes - or indeed anyone's lifetime in history. A quick browse on eBay tonight shows 18139 film cameras, 32014 digital cameras and 32341 lenses for sale in the… Continue reading Collecting Cameras – When No Is Not An Option
This month I'm committing to a single camera again, part of my One Month, One Camera project. For December it's my Panasonic Lumix LX3. I thought I might try some different focal lengths, having used it almost entirely at 35mm previously. So I went with its longest zoom of 60mm for a while, but found… Continue reading How To Convert Your Digital Compact’s Zoom Lens To A 35mm Prime
Somehow, four months have passed since I last updated my About Now page. It'll be a new year before we know it! Anyway, the page is now rewritten to include, well, what I'm up to about now. How about you? What are you doing right now with photography and the other passions in your life? … Continue reading Photography Now!
Around 1993 I bought my first Apple Mac, after using them at University and falling for their simplicity and user friendly design. My current main computer is also Apple - a MacBook Pro (MBP), that I purchased new in 2008, for around £1400. That felt (and was!) a fair chunk of money then, but since… Continue reading The Unthinkable Machines
The internet is awash with camera reviews, either objectively trying to help us find the camera that might best suit us, or more subjectively trying to sell us the latest camera from a certain manufacturer, depending on the review's source and motives. Many articles are crammed with technical specifications, sample shots, graphs, charts and more… Continue reading How To Measure How Good Your Camera Really Is
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