A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
Buying, using and retrospectively reviewing old cameras both film and digital.
One of the biggest problems with the WWW and using it for research is the all too common use of a single source of information, which is then repeated by site after site until its ubiquity alone makes something a…
During my completely unintentional journey to sample pretty much every SLR Canon ever made, I’ve recently been making my way through the rather Marmite (Vegemite for those on the sunnier side of the world) T series of cameras. I started…
The Canon 40D came out in 2007, the latest in a then well established line of “dedicated amateur” cameras. It is significant in that the 40D represented almost the last model designed to shoot only still images. After the 40D…
Getting to the point where I can review a T80 has been a long, long road. Whilst the T90 has a reputation for sticky shutters and dead LCD panels, the T80 seems to be an absolute magnet for exploded, leaking…
Over the last few months I’ve accumulated a few bits and pieces that I’ve picked up for next to nothing as “parts or not working” on eBay. I’ve also been trying, failing, thinking I’ve failed, failing again, discovering a stupid…
Forty years is an unimaginably long time in the world of electronics and computing. The early 1980’s saw the birth of a brand new, ground breaking era of personal technology that was going to revolutionise our lives – “home micro…
I’ve had a poor run of luck with camera equipment lately. A number of times I’ve gone out and suffered from shutter failures, film winders that refuse to wind any more and dealing with the disappointment of lost shots. I…
I’ve owned a lot of cameras in my lifetime, not because I’m loaded and buy the latest and greatest as soon as they come out, but because I have an addiction to buying old things I don’t need from eBay.…
If you’ve no interest in video and just want to take decent digital photos, there is a wealth of choice for the budget photographer. You absolutely do not need 20mp resolution, 100 point dual pixel auto focus, 12fps capability to…
Canon kicked off the new millennium with the release of their first fully home grown digital SLR – the D30. This marked a turning point for Canon as they focussed all their efforts on the newly emerging digital market. The…
