Well, maybe anyway. I’m sure there’s something worse out there… Anyway, here’s my fail story. I bought my MB-D200 grip when I bought my D200. Why? I figured I needed the extra battery life as the D200 wasn’t exactly regarded as frugal when it came out. The D200 feels like a well built, solid and [...]
This is an article I’ve thought about writing for a while, two things inspired me to write it, firstly; my love for film photography and secondly; the amount of people asking questions about trying shooting film and how hard it is to find a good, straight and simple answer in the plethora of web forums [...]
This is my first and by no means last “Excellence on Flickr” post, I’d like to share some of my favourite Flickr groups and maybe even some artists with everyone. For this first entry my choice is Film is not dead it just smells funny, the Flickr group for the The International Analogue Photographic Society, [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve have the opportunity to use an Epson V700 a couple of times and overall I’m very impressed with the potential this scanner has, of course there are a few ifs and buts to go along with it. Conventional wisdom is that the quality scale of scanners goes drum at [...]
With the section 92a once again the hot topic in the media it made me think of constant questions posed by photographers round the world in regards to how copyright protects us. What I’m writing here applies to New Zealand copyright law rather than overseas although my understanding that most Commonwealth countries have a similar [...]
That’s a good question, its not many years ago that the answer would have been none. Nowadays it seems you can (or at least could at the end of last year) get a usable, brand name compact camera set up for $249 New Zealand Dollars* The camera came in the form of a Canon Powershot [...]
Carrying too much, admit it, you’ve been guilty of it on more than one occasion! Well I certainly have, there’s something about the thought of not having that vital piece of kit you might need “just in case” that worries so many photographers. As much as I’ve always tried to keep how much camera equipment [...]