Category: Accessories
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Gotta Get Either…
Better, cheaper, bigger, smaller, or weirder if you are going to make it in the photo world. ‘Cause most of the easy seats are filled and musical chairs is still going on. Suppose you have a standard camera – it can be a full-frame or APS-C – and you fancy a new lens. You probably…
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Kondo Your Camera
Marie Kondo, the famous Japanese désencombreuse, is welcome in my camera room, my computer room, and my hard drive. I might baulk at her moving through the rest of the house – particularly in the scale model workshop or the library, but she can do her best in the photo section. For far too long…
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The Second Time You Leap Off The Cliff
This is not about love affairs or business ventures…it’s about home-designed engineering. The fine art of making a limousine out of a kiddy-car and a bag of dead fish. In my case I have a car so no need for the smelly Roller. But I always need newer and weirder photographic gear, and the prices…
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When You Don’t Know What To Do
You sometimes do far better than otherwise. This sentiment may not apply to flying multi-engine airplanes, but the act of videoing them at the local airport is more forgiving. at least you can come back next week even if you crash. A friend has purchased a long Sigma zoom lens for his Nikon DSLR camera…
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Kerb Collection
We have several religious holidays each year – and supplementary civic and commercial one’s as well to break up the routine. But none are more welcome than the biannual kerb collection of hard goods rubbish. My life is balanced between two councils, so I get four a year. You can be no richer than that.…
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Now You Can App Your Way To The Destination Of Your Choice!
And the first three places on the itinerary are the workhouse, the mad house, and the jailhouse. It looks as though the AI revolution has started to put the first heads on pikes. People are doing things with it – now that someone has told them they can – that are often inappropriate, criminal, and…
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Center-weighted
We have seen any number of metering systems for cameras in the last 7 decades that have tried to better the chances of good exposure. Some of them have worked… My first light meter was a cardboard carton back and instructed me what setting to use for the enclosed proprietary film in certain atmospheric conditions.…
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The Old Shooters Remember The Old Tricks
Like the business of putting one SLR lens in front of another, but reversed. It made for a cheap macro lens. But not a bad one – you sometimes had to do some fancy footwork figuring out the exposure if your camera did not have a TTL meter, but the optical performance was often very…
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Never Buy A Solution
Before you can operate a problem. Far too may photographers buy the solution to a problem they have not got – because the advertising industry connected to the retail photographic industry has persuaded them to do it. Sometimes that persuasion takes months or years out of the saved capital of the shooter, and never returns…
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I Have Sent Off For A Lens
Along with about 56,000 other people this morning. Hopefully we are not competing for the same one. In my case it is not a new release, though I am purchasing a new example of it. I made a series of conscious decisions that I urge other people to do as well: a. I did not…
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