Tag: Cameras
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Brick Me Daddy
Eight to the bar. We often hear of people having cameras and electronic equipment stolen while on holidays. Mostly it is overseas, but then overseas is home for lots of crooked people anyway. I do not wish the thieves well, whoever they are. The excuses that are made for them are so much eyewash. But…
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The Constant Update
This is v 3.5 of this post. You should install it in your brain and trash the previous versions. Two of the pleasing aspects of life on Earth are the fact that the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and gravity makes things fall down. People have grown accustomed to…
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I Am Pure And Clean And Moral
I only use the authentic cameras and make authentic images and will undoubtedly be drawn to heaven by angels in an f:1.4 moment. Stand therefore in awe… Or you can look sideways in a sneaky manner and smile and add a Photoshop filter and watermark the result and slide along to the bar and order…
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The Best Films In The Worst Cameras
The 60’s and 70’s were my stomping ground for 35mm cameras. And how I did stomp. I had been given a wonderful Pentax Sv in 1965 – a year when Pentax were wonderful. I was an impecunious student and for the most part could only afford to feed it with with black and white film.…
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The Beaten-up Camera
You may have seen pictures of famous war correspondents and their cameras – sometimes Leica M’s – sometimes Nikon F’s. And all looking like they had just been dive-bombed. This was a real thing amongst people who were being dive-bombed. They sought shelter in slit trenches and by hugging the ground, and their cameras were…
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The Sales Are In Sight
But I cannot say whether they are shrimp boats or pirates. The various camera ships about town are selling themselves, but not short. The numbers they quote for prices, then discounts, seem altogether too high to justify spending. The sad thought that there may be people out there who cannot take pictures because they do…
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Do You Buy Your Cameras And Lenses To Resell?
Well you do if you own a camera shop, but that’s not who I’m writing to – I mean the average photographic user. If you say this is a weird question, remember that I trained in weird and have the papers to prove it. But it is not weird when we look at another big…
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Two-Card Monte
Like three-card Monte but you save on pasteboard. Two cards are the go in a lot of the more expensive digital cameras these days. My Fujifilm X-T2 has two SD slots and I’ve seen similar arrangements on Nikon and Canon offerings. Then there are the higher-end models with a slot for a XQD or CF…
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Makin’ Money Fo’ Free
And if that doesn’t sound like a scam come-on line, I don’t know what does. Relax – I do not want your money. I want mine. Specifically, the stuff I’ve already got. I like it – I have grown accustomed to it – i want it to stay with me. This is why I have…
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Buy Simplicity
Be prepared to pay for it – but that’s what you save money regularly for. I am occasionally consulted for my expertise in studio shooting. This is nonsense – the people who ask me questions would be far better getting a book from the bookstore – preferably by Steve Sint. He knows and he taught…
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