A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
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 fact. We should never take anything we read online as…
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 out with no affinity nor love for this particular range…
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 the priorities of DSLR manufacturers turned towards video and stills…
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 batteries and other indecipherable electrical faults. It has taken me…
I recently won two Canon EOS 300D’s for the outrageous sum of £10.01 including postage. I didn’t really have a reason to buy them other than they were going cheap, no one seemed to want them and they were listed as spares or repairs. For £10 I didn’t think there…
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 mistake and then succeeding in getting a working Canon T80.…
By the 1870’s photography was already surprisingly advanced, the early Daguerreotype type processes of the 1840’s had been superseded by collodion wet plates around 1850 (film did not come along until 1884) and the race was well and truly on to research and refine faster film processes. One specific goal…
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 computers.” The only problem was that back in 1983, no…
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 very quickly learned to take a backup camera with me…
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. Much though I’d rather not admit it, I turn 40…
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 take amazing pictures that can be printed at a reasonable…
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 D30 was an incredible camera for the time, despite being…