Category Archives: Photography Gear
Finally, I’ve got it !
Canon Japan has had an enormous task on it’s hands in the wake of the devastating earthquake/tsunami earlier this year, with the supply and development of new lenses and camera’s being delayed several months as they attempted to get things back on track. So it was with great delight that I finally managed to get [...]
A bit of new stuff
Here’s my latest creative tools of the trade on order . For those of you who are bored by the technical stuff, please turn away now…. ** Canon EF 8-15 mm f/4L Fisheye USM Lens — Ultra unique and exciting new lens. 180 degree field of view and a 15 cm minimum focus distance. Waiting [...]
Apple iMac 27″
My old Dell laptop computer has been struggling for a while to cope with the massive file sizes of my scanned panoramic images. With a single photo scanned to a tiff file size approaching 900mb , editing was becoming a painfully slow and laborious task. After checking out my options for a replacement system, a [...]
17 – 40mm f4.0 L USM
I’ve been shooting landscapes on the 5D Mk 2 with mostly my 24mm f1.4II L for the last few years, and although it’s a fantastic lens, I’ve sometimes felt the 24 wasn’t quite wide enough in some circumstances to give the photo the maximum impact I was after. Also with fixed focal length lenses, the [...]
Sony Sweep Panorama
MY LATEST TOY…………….I haven’t owned a simple point and shoot camera for several years now, and my old Pentax Optio S has long since called it a day, but the new Sony DSC-W380 Sweep Panorama camera certainly captured my attention as a new and innovative device. For a few hundred bucks this thing automatically stitches [...]