Author Archives: sgoldswo

Zoo

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We had intended to visit Colchester Zoo for our son’s birthday. Unfortunately, the last week he has had Chickenpox and hasn’t felt great – his birthday this week was no exception. Poor little chap – I don’t think he knew what had hit him. In the end we decided to try and go on Saturday …

Clarity

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Which is something I’m searching for at the minute. I hadn’t intended to like the RX1 so much, it was intended to be more of a review and debunk purchase followed by a rapid transition to eBay. What I hadn’t expected was how much I would like it and the images it makes. In any …

Oil Seed Rape and the Sony RX1

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A bit of a random title, I will admit! This post is inspired by the fact that it feels like the countryside around where I live has turned yellow. The bright yellow flowers of oilseed rape have become a familiar sight across UK farmland in recent years. I remember it being grown in Oxfordshire in the …

D800E and AF-S NIKKOR VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G

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A very long name for what is a relatively cheap (but FX or full frame) zoom in the Nikon lens line up. The only FX lens I have which was cheaper is my 50mm F1.4. According to the reports I read buying it is is great until 200mm then it falls off a lot. Nonetheless, …

Perspectives on the City

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I’ve had a funny old time taking pictures this last week. I’m conscious that lots of natural light (probably too much) and being able to call on two excellent cameras in the form of the X-Pro1 (largely with the 14mm lens permanently mounted) and the X100S has meant I’ve become somewhat more focused on buildings, …

A segue into something a bit bigger…

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My D600 bit the dust. It was unfortunate, because I liked it, but the bracket mode fault I reported in my mini-review didn’t go away and in the end it was almost permanently stuck in bracket mode. I decided it was time to send it back to the shop and at the same time consider …

St George’s Day at Leadenhall Market

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I would like to start this post by saying thank you (as a Welshman) to all my English friends for the kind wishes they’ve given me over the years on Wales’ national day, “St Patrick’s Day”, nuff said… 😉 I jest but I’ve never understood how it has ended up that the national day of …

X-Trans RAW Conversion Comparisons

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You may well have seen the blog post I made at the time Capture One 7.02 was released, which compared the OOC Jpegs with Lightroom (LR) and Capture One (C1). I wanted to extend this comparison to include Aperture, since its really very good RAW conversion capability was included. I also wanted to update the …

The future of X-Trans RAW: Apple Aperture?

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I was really surprised at the message telling me Apple Aperture had acquired Fuji X-trans compatibility (for use with the X-Pro1, X-E1 and X100S). I downloaded it, gave a conversion a look, thought it looked OK and disregarded it on the basis that Aperture is way overdue for an update and lacks decent CA control …