The Camera Rules – Part 2
The first part of this article can be found here. It is a camera where the battery life is so poor that the manufacturer supplies a spare and it is unlikely that any more than 50 shots will be possible from a single charge. Heavy users regularly carry half a dozen or more batteries. […]
The Camera Rules – Part 1
I have one main rule about the cameras I use, which is that they should not get in the way of the picture making process. Essentially I want to concentrate on the creative aspect without having to be overly concerned about what the camera is doing. Of course, with automation for both focus and exposure, […]
Where’s My Mirrorless Camera?
If you had asked me in 2006 what camera I would be using ten years on in 2016, I would have confidently informed you that it would be a full frame Canon DSLR. At the time I was shooting a Canon 400D, which I had thought was an interim measure pending the purchase of a […]
Tollie Red Kite Centre
I joined local camera dealer Ffordes for a day at the Tollie Red Kite centre for an event organised in conjunction with Tamron. Red kites are magnificent birds and I was interested to see how the centre compared with Gigrin Farm in Wales. Both places feed the birds at a regular time which guarantees that […]
The Haunted Camera?
My Fuji X-Pro1 is remarkable. It does things of which no other camera I have owned or used is capable. Take, for instance, the exposure compensation dial which is easily adjusted while I hold the camera to my eye. A neat feature but quite why it needs me to move it is is something of […]
Overnight Success?
In yesterday’s post about Lytro, I said that it took around 30 years from the creation of the first digital camera before digital photography overtook film. Part of the reason for it taking so long I laid at Kodak’s door. When Stephen Sasson showed his prototype to its board in 1975, its members were horrified. […]
A Footnote In The History of Photography
The development of photographic technology has largely been evolutionary, with the underlying principles established very early on. A modern camera, for all its sophistication, essentially works in much the same way as its Victorian forebears. Light enters via a lens which directs it to a recording medium and is controlled by aperture and exposure time. […]