I was in Leadenhall Market grabbing my lunch this week and I wandered over to the market stalls under the cupola. I had seen one particular stall before selling what I thought was glass ornaments. When I looked at them I realised they were Lightmills, otherwise known as a Crookes radiometer, which consists of an …
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iPhone 5 vs X-Pro1
This is an immensely silly post motivated by no more than having some fun. Of course the iPhone will be worse than a camera with an APS-C sensor, it has a sensor about the size of a grain of rice… Nevertheless this is a fun comparison to show people why a real camera is worthwhile …
Christ Church Spitalfields
Yesterday, inspired by my walk past it the other day, I popped into Christ Church Spitalfields, the magnificent Church next to Spitalfields market. Christ Church was built under the Act of Parliament of 1711 which required the building of fifty new churches to serve the new populations on the fringes of London. The Act established …
Spitalfields Market
Today at lunchtime I walked through the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate and then on to Spitalfields. Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to …
A walk past Rectory Farm
So this old, dead farm is coming very firmly back to life. To those who haven’t seen my other posts on this topic, there was a derelict farm not far from where I live in Enfield, North London, which has been planted up as an arable farm and “brought back to life”. Yesterday we went …
Impressions of X-pro1 firmware 2.0 after some “street” shooting
So a week or two ago Fujifilm announced its new middle of the range camera, the X-E1 which apparently resolved all the AF issues that the X-Pro1 has AND also announced that the X-Pro1 would get all of these AF improvements by way of a firmware upgrade on 18 September. That’s today incase you had …
The Swans of Verulamium Park with my X-Pro1
Look, I realise the title is rubbish… Never mind. Today we visited St Albans (more difficult than usual as the road to the M25 is being resurfaced). I decided to take along my X-Pro1. I apologise now that I have precisely zero interesting shots of anything interesting from the park other than Swans (and an …
A trip to Lee Valley Park Farms with my X-Pro1 (and some thoughts on the X-Pro1)
I decided my X-Pro1 was looking a bit underloved. It wasn’t getting any use and I had even been wondering if I should sell it. I wasn’t very inspired by the new Fuji offering announced yesterday, the X-E1, but but it did make me think about taking my X-Pro1 out for once. As we were …
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