Tag Archive | "Equipment"

Catching Up After an Unwelcome Break

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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Catching Up After an Unwelcome Break

Mon Dieu! Usually I enjoy every day, I think we should, but really I wouldn't have minded doing a time-warp that had skipped the last 5-6 weeks altogether. I didn't manage to write a single entry for the blog, let alone make any new photographs. After going through a period of extreme stress in August my immune system decided to let its guard down...

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First Impressions of the Lensbaby Fisheye Optic

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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First Impressions of the Lensbaby Fisheye Optic

The fisheye look is not to everyone's taste and I have always been a bit unsure about the look myself. However once I found out Lensbaby had introduced a $149.95 Fisheye Optic for the Lensbaby Optic Swap System I was sold.

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Nikon S1000pj with Built-in Projector!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Nikon S1000pj with Built-in Projector!

Well, occassionally a new interesting camera comes along in the long line of new digital cameras being announced every year. Nikon has just issued a press release announcing the imminent launch of the Nikon S1000pj which is a Coolpix-branded point-and-shoot able to project a 40-inch image onto your wall! Now, this is certainly something I [...]

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Learning to See

Sunday, July 26, 2009

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Learning to See

My very first post on this website was Top 10 Best-Selling Photo Books which featured Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Exposure in spot number one. Bryan Peterson is also the author of another great book titled Learning to See Creatively which is a great book about design, colour and composition in photography. It’s full of great examples [...]

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Not a Point & Shoot. Not an SLR. It’s a PEN.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Not a Point & Shoot. Not an SLR. It’s a PEN.

Earlier this month I posted The PEN Story which included a great stop-motion video produced by Olympus. With its groundbreaking Micro Four Thirds technology and high quality interchangeable lenses, the Olympus PEN gives you all the creativity and control you’d expect from an SLR, in a compact, beautifully designed body. Featuring a 12.3 megapixel high [...]

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New Tilt and Shift Lenses from Canon

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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24mm TS-E f/3.5L II

A couple of months ago Canon announced the arrival of two new tilt and shift lenses, the Ultra-Wide angle TS-E 17mm f/4L and the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II (an upgrade to the popular TS-E 24mm f/3.5L). Canon was the first company to offer 35mm camera users a combined tilt and shift lens and Canon has [...]

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