By Paul Perton | Opinion
Whiling away the hours hasn’t been as difficult as I’d imagined it might be. Anyone of retirement age and beyond knows the pleasure of easy days, falling asleep with a good book, binge watching, early starts, late starts, early nights, late nights, opening a beer before 06:00, afternoon naps and more. Watching our adult children […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Author Mike Peart is something of a luminary in railway preservation in the UK. Back at a time when British Railways was making the owners of England’s scrapyards wealthy, he (and four friends) founded the Great Western Society to preserve some of the railway history that was being swept away with such indecent haste. That […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
It’s amazing how much the coronavirus pandemic has dampened my ordinarily good spirits and, thus, my creativity. Each day of persistent uncertainty has drug on in a most alarming way, so much so that I had to have a firm talk with myself about picking up my camera and taking a few photos. Sort of […]
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By John Wilson | Travel Photography
-Prayer Flags of the Kootenay Plains- So how big is your backyard? Your neighborhood, town or city? I’m Canadian and that means I live in the second largest country in the world. For us a 600 mile drive is a jaunt, so my backyard is a “little bigger” than usual. Which leads to my […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Plastic, the 30+ year old lens certainly is. Fantastic remains to be seen 😉 Can a cheap and old design be of any use on a (relatively) modern mirrorless camera that’s not even the right format for it ? Feeling the aperture ring jump hesitantly from one notch to the next brings up […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
The tethering cable for my X-H1 arrived a couple of days ago. It’s a beast; bright orange, 5m long and weighs about as much as a photocopier. I’ll need to anchor it properly to the tripod, or it’ll rip the USB port out of my camera. First job – test with Lightroom to see if […]
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By Jean-Claude Louis | Review
In October 2015, Light, an aptly named California-based company, announced the development of a new camera concept, which claimed to change the way we practice photography. The Light L16 was designed to have 16 lens/sensor modules of various focal lengths and to use computational image technology to stitch and fuse the individual photographs together. Intrigued […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Agility has its manifesto. Zen programming has its manifesto. There are probably more. Technical disciplines often implicitely require much creativity and their most advanced pracitionners seem to create these brief documents to impart an underlying philosophy that elevates the discipline from mere execution and extract the best from it. Digital photography has become very technical […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Thank you! Thank you for your support. Without it, it is absolutely certain we wouldn’t have made it to this landmark post. Your comments have made us think. Your jokes have made us laugh. Your posts have made us learn and enjoy. To celebrate, here is a list of wishes for the futures. Things we, […]
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By Paul Perton | How-To
In an ideal world, we’d all be shooting countless photographs and selling JPGs, or prints as fast as we could make them. Like in Scott Kelby-land, they’d all be 5* images and aside from counting all the revenues, our only concern would likely be ensuring everything is backed-up to further protect our photographic assets. 5* […]
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