Tag: Accessories
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Manfrotto – The Aluminium Tinker Toy
Are you too old for LEGO and too cheap for hot rods? Open a photo studio and get yourself a Manfrotto catalogue. It’s as good as a Sears Christmas flyer and the stuff lasts for years longer. Those of you who remember the Sears, Wards, Eatons, and Hudson’s Bay Christmas catalogues of the 1950’s will…
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Renovate Your Gadget Bag
Move to the cutting edge and trend the paradigm. Don’t let people point at you and laugh. Unless you’re Rodney Dangerfield – and I suppose by now people have stopped pointing… Nevertheless, you want some respect. And respect for a photographer can only be attained by two means; either make so many photos that you…
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The Useless Accessory
Is never useless – if it is in your gadget bag, but has never been needed or operated, it still performed a valuable function; it put money into the pocket of the shopkeeper. The fact that it was your money may be a painful memory, but here again the item starts to pay for itself…
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Betting…
Betting is a favourite pastime of some people. You see casinos full of them. They can also exercise their proclivities within the business of buying and selling…in the case of the photo trade they are helped by the burgeoning accessory manufacturing culture of manufacturing countries. But I noted that sometimes they can catch themselves up.…
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The Hollow Product
We often buy hollow products…cups and glasses are a good example…and how very useful they are, too. Yet there are other hollow products that we shun. And I don’t mean hollow-nose ammunition, either. I mean products that go from introduction as a novelty to relegation as junk stock without ever actually being of any interest…
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The Demise Of The Shutter Button
Don’t panic. The shutter button is till there on your DSLR or mirror-less camera. Right under a right finger somewhere. It may share the position with an on/off switch or a zoom lever, but it is still ready for you to plunge your finger down and take a quiet picture. If you were an old…
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The Sizzle
Selling the sizzle can be a difficult thing to do if people are going to be pedantic and demand actual products with actual value. Sizzle-sellers have few of these to offer – they substitute words and images for actual goods. The best sizzle-sellers don’t even supply real images or specific words – they suggest things…