Author Archives: Andrew
Gordon Lewis at Shutterfinger recently posted bemoaning how Image Stabilisation technology doesn’t work in some circumstances, especially when the camera’s on a tripod. This has caused me a number of jagged fireworks pictures, and others, over the years. Regular readers will recall my suggestion in What I Want In My Next DSLR that it would be easy for camera design to include automatic detection of “tripod mode”, and simply turn IS off, or at least visually warn the user.
Camera manufacturers have made enormous strides in very difficult technology areas, but current DSLRs fall down in so many simple usability areas. Why?
Hi, My new blog is now live. This allows a lot more flexibility, including commenting etc. Please can you make sure you are taking your RSS feed from one of the following: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThoughtsFromAndrewJohnston (preferred) https://www.andrewj.com/blog/index.php/feed/ (straight from my site) I Continue reading →
Sunday, June 20, 2010 in
Website & Blog
Quite a lot of news… Migration of our web sites and email to the new hosting server is almost complete. See previous article/rant for some of my findings. After some initial frustration with my hosting provider (WebFusion) when I discovered Continue reading →
<rant>Apologies if the title is a bit strong, but I think it’s the nearest I can get to the opposite of “In Praise of PHP” I’ve just spent a week-end migrating my website to a new hosting server. As part Continue reading →
What’s missing from the typical DSLR, anno 2010? What could be improved, using simple established technologies, to make the DSLR a better picture-taking device? And why don’t the major DSLR manufacturers do some of these things, which might help sales? Continue reading →
Friday, May 14, 2010 in
Photography
This may amuse you. I went to type “Here are my comments” (something I do fairly frequently), but mis-typed it as “Here are me comments”. Word correctly identifies this as incorrect grammar, with a green line under “are”. Right click, Continue reading →
Thursday, February 4, 2010 in
Thoughts on the World
I’ve added a brief addendum to my piece on Virtual PC technologies. It turns out that VMware Player seems to be able to “fix” unreliable VMs. Microsoft’s lack of attention to compatibility has led me to a better product, and Continue reading →
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