By pascaljappy | Opinion
“Why do we fall Master Bruce?”“So that we can learn to pick ourselves up” Co-conspirer Philippe recently wrote a farewell to Olympus in which he described the terrible decline of the photo market. More recently Steve Huff posted a similar obituary under the title Photography has become disposable. This may feel sad, particularly […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
The camera market may be 84% off its peak, a horrendous fall, and that even pre-COVID, but that doesn’t stop the release of new gear. In this instance, 3 new camera bodies in just a few weeks, each of which is significant in its own way. Meet the Canon R5, the Leica M10R, and the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Imagine you could have the camera you want, any camera, any resolution, any feature set, any lens compatibility, anything … what would it be? To answer this for myself, I turned to my local HiFi retailer 😉 Steve Jobs was notorious for ignoring such user input and one upping it with some far […]
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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 | 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 pascaljappy | Opinion
Five years ago, I would have begged to have such a sensor in my camera. How about today ? Several readers have sent me the news about the new thechnology. Curved sensors, at last, seem to be ready to take a giant leap from the realm of tiny dimensions into the hairy-chested kingdom […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
At uni, we (computer science and robotics students) were given fantastic Spark workstations made by Sun. I couldn’t believe my luck, or understand where the money came from. But they ran Unix and students in other departments were handed much less interesting and powerful computers that ran the first version of window-based operating systems. And […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
If our recent confinement photography challenge results prove anything, it’s that we are all capable of creating wonderful photographs stuck within four walls or within the corner posts of a garden, or the tolerated walks we can take. My cheeky question is : does this lack of freedom actually make us better? 😉 […]
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By Paul Barclay | Opinion
The first two images below may look familiar to everyone. These are two of the images I submitted to the recent Blurry Image Challenge. The paragraph below is what I included with my Blurry Challenge images. “These images were made a couple of years ago when Dear Susan was publishing a series of […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Uncategorized
Paul Watson is a Cape Town-based photographer. He travels a lot (not as much now as he used to – Ed) and has had more than his fair share of experiences. He shares some sage words with DearSusan readers… **************************************************************************** As an avid street photographer and adventurer, I have walked many miles in many cities […]
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