I’m lazy, or busy, depending on how you might look at it! I still have a bunch of posts to write on (amongst others) Nikon AIS lenses, the Fujifilm X-E2 and the (surprisingly great) Samyang 8mm for Fuji X and 14mm for Nikon F mount. But those are for another time! As a goodbye to …
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Fear at St Paul’s
Absolute terror. Buttock clenching, stomach churning fear. That’s what happens when I go to high places. “to pull the higgle” is how my son refers to St Paul’s Cathedral. Now I’ve explained to him how I felt at the golden gallery he’s fascinated by the pictures of “the higgle”, and tells me how I was …
More Df fun…
This camera is distractingly good. I’m actually struggling to think of a camera where the fun has matched the final results so well. The original X100 and the X100S come close, but they aren’t as consistent, nor as quick to focus. The eye catching features of this camera are its high ISO ability (which is …
Nikon Df Impressions continued
This is really just a gallery of Nikon Df example shots from a day’s (more like an hours!) shooting at Alexandra palace. I took along my Samyang 14mm, Voigtlander 20mm, Zeiss 25mm, Nikon 28mm AI-S F2 (yes, I like wide angles), Nikon 50mm F1.8G special edition and Nikon 105mm AI-S F2.5. The ergonomics are great …
Nikon Df arrives…
For a few weeks now I’ve been wrestling with my conscience and common sense regarding a new camera. Not the Sony A7/r (which just did not interest me) but the Nikon Df. One of my favourite film cameras is the Nikon FM3a, which a joyfully simple camera. Nikon ran a teaser ad campaign about the …
Food riot
On my way to the Collect+ dropoff at my local newsagent yesterday it was slightly bizarre to come across people dressed as riot police and food all over the road! This was literally about 100 yards from the front of my office. It turned out this was a scene from a TV show being filmed …
M Typ 240 – a Terrible Camera?
You would believe it if you read everything on the internet (mind you, you would believe Elvis was alive and riding around on a London bus on the moon if you read everything on the internet). The feedback from many sources (notably Peter Prosophos, but he isn’t alone in his views) seems to have been …
Blues & Royals hit Liverpool Street
This lunchtime I headed over to Liverpool street station to grab lunch. While there I heard a band playing. It wasn’t until I headed into the station proper that I realised it wasn’t just a band, it was the band of the Blues & Royals, a cavalry regiment of the British Army. The Band is …
Some “fun” with the Olympus E-M1
This started out as a quasi ironic title, because I wasn’t having so much fun shooting with the E-M1, or at least not as much as I’ve had with two other recent stand out M43s cameras, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 or the Panasonic GH3. The GH3 in particular wowed me in initial use, but just …
Birthrights Dignity Forum
This week, my employer and manager (thanks Joe) gave me a day off to do some charity volunteering for the UK Charity, Birthrights. The story starts earlier in the year, when, after covering the Birthrights launch, the trustees asked me to cover this event, held at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Of course, …
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