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What I Want In My Next DSLR – Progress Report
Have digital cameras advanced as picture-taking tools for serious photographers since 2010? In 2010 I wrote an article assessing what I thought was then missing from the typical DSLR, in the hope that it might contribute to improving digital cameras … Continue reading
Buttons Or Switches? Buttons Are Better!
My Canon 7D, like the 40D before it, has a feature I love and would find it hard to relinquish – three fully programmable custom modes, right on the mode dial. This makes it possible to sort out the myriad … Continue reading
Unexpected Support
Quick update on the support position for the Panasonic GX7. Phase One won’t commit themselves on Capture One support. It looks like the DNG converter is the best Adobe are going to do. I also haven’t yet managed to track … Continue reading
Getting Ahead of the Curve
The majority of my camera purchases have been somewhat “behind the curve”, to the extent that I’ve purchased some just before the announcement of their replacement. However for my latest purchase I’ve gone right to the other end of the … Continue reading
Capturing the Setting Sun
I’ve been catching up with some of the outstanding shots from our USA trip in 2012. One of the most successful days of the whole trip in photographic terms started in the fascinating Bisti Badlands, and ended on a short … Continue reading
Canon EOS 70D: Cynical, Substantial or Stepping Stone?
I am trying to work out what to make of the announcement of Canon’s new 70D. For those of you who haven’t caught up yet, Canon have finally, after four years, upgraded their APS-C sensor technology, yesterday announcing their new … Continue reading
Iceland Album Now Online!
I’ve finally posted my complete album from the 2011 Iceland Trip! Please look inside and let me know what you think… Continue reading
A Delightful Little Surprise
I’ve just finished processing the photographs from my 2011 trip to Iceland! I’ll get the best up on my site over the next week or so. At least I’ve avoided the second anniversary of the trip… There was a wonderful … Continue reading
Improved Capture
Following on from the last post, I thought I’d pop up an example to highlight the improvements possible through just the right choice and use of software. The picture above was taken back in 2008, on my old Canon 40D. … Continue reading
What’s More Important: Hardware or Software?
We live, as some of you might have noticed, in a digital age. The displacement of older technologies by digital versions has been accompanied and largely enabled by rapid, substantial advances in technology. Yet a couple of recent experiences suggest … Continue reading
Review – Olympus TG2 “Tough” Camera
There’s a salutory lesson here about not jumping to premature conclusions. Based on my first impressions of this camera I had mentally started drafting a review based on praising the hardware, but with some criticism of the software and firmware. … Continue reading
Photographing Waterfalls
I’m afraid I don’t subscribe to the received wisdom that waterfalls should be photographed with long exposures which capture the flow as a sort of silky mush. That might work for gentle trickles in dappled glades, but if you’re looking … Continue reading
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