Ah Kodak, fond memories and probably the first name which comes to mind when thinking of either Film or Photography. How the mighty have fallen. This wasn’t the last Eastm...
14 April, 2025
Fujifilm S5 Pro and What does “Film-Like” Even Mean?
Most film shooters would know that over the past few years there’s been chatter about certain older camera sensors, in particular CCD sensors, that are widely reported to have “...
3 February, 2025
Fuji X-Pro3 – 5 years on – Extended Thoughts and my Dream Lens
It’s almost exactly five years since I wrote the first of a three part (now four part) series about my adventures with the Fujifilm X-Pro3. At our five year anniversary the Fuji...
11 December, 2024
GoPro – Treating a Action cam Like a Point & Shoot
GoPros seem to be something that people buy then never use, in fact I’m guilty of this myself. There’s long been an association with GoPro and the intense and dramatic action sp...
15 November, 2024
Hasselblad X1D II 50C – A Week of Trying Digital Medium Format
After the recommendation from a friend to check out my school’s lending library, I went on a deep dive through all the gear available. After finding a Plustek 8200i as well as a...
23 September, 2024
Sony F828 Review – More than Meets the Eye
$995 in 2003 would probably buy a fair amount of Transformers toys, or one brand new Sony F828. It might be easy to mistake the two. Both bend and twist around in unexpected way...
9 September, 2024
Pentax K100D – The only digital camera that I have any affection for
I’ve never really been enthusiastic about digital cameras, seeing them as an necessary inconvenience, I just use them when I need colour photos these days. I do get restle...
In part 1, I talked about the Sony R1, this part is about a camera that represents another key moment in Sony’s APS-C camera history, the Sony a700. In July 2005 Sony anno...