2024
2024 · 29 December 2024
2025 is going to be a year for moving on. Having recently tried and tested the Fujifilm X-Trans system and decided to make the transition to it, things have been busy building a new small Fuji X outfit and disposing of my large collection of micro four thirds gear acquired over the long years as a MFT devotee.
2024 · 20 December 2024
Thomas Carlyle once stated that economics was "the dismal science" and we seem to be in the hands of a bunch of "economists" currently whose performance is pitifully and disgracefully bad, i.e dismal; or dismal like a long spell of cold, dreary Winter's days maybe? Dark times!
2024 · 21 November 2024
Despite the continued development of zoom lenses and the optical marvels they have become with the advancement in glass technology, CAD design and firmware correction of aberrations, to provide high performance, faster aperture optics, there comes a time when only that life long friend the fast prime lens will do.
2024 · 31 October 2024
It's that time again; Christmas! In October! The retailers delight and the consumers nightmare. Mind you we photographers quite like it for the opportunity to snap the seasonal illuminations with a bit of dark light technique to the fore.
2024 · 28 October 2024
Fujifilms' X-Trans CMOS sensor produces high quality images with rich colour, tonality and dimensionality using a unique colour filter array that suppresses moiré and false colours without an optical low-pass filter whilst achieving high resolution comparable to 35 mm full size sensors. Maybe?
2024 · 17 October 2024
As the seasons go round it's once again that time of year, beloved by photographers in the northern hemisphere, Autumn. Season of the glorious colourful change in the leaves of the deciduous trees, of the spectacular display of reds, golds, yellows and bronzes as the leaves begin to fall, the presage of Winter.
2024 · 13 October 2024
I have just acquired a second Nikon F80D 35mm film camera body, this time in silver finish to sit along side my black finish one. Why? Well read on to find out more...
2024 · 04 October 2024
I like photographing trees, through the stages of their lives and through the turning of the seasons. To us humans they are powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth as well as eternity, immortality and fertility. They are glorious things and good for our sense of well being.
2024 · 18 September 2024
Turns out one of my favourite lenses to use with my F80 film camera has become my 85mm f1.8. This so called portrait or short telephoto lens seems to fit with my "minds eye" vision which often tends to mentally crop out the near foreground of a scene to focus in on a subject.
2024 · 11 September 2024
I loathe post processing, adjusting settings, moving sliders back and forth, masking, zooming in and out, spending endless hours editing and previewing images in front of a computer screen is a huge pain. It is one contributing factor as to why I don't use digital much and continue to use mostly film for my photography.