January 2, 2009 at 9:57 pm · Filed under Photography
2009 has already sprung onto the scene, taking me quite by surprise – I was ill over the holidays and had only just got used to that Christmas feeling… and now the decorations are coming down! – but in the spirit of the New Year (fresh starts, resolutions and all that gumpf!) I thought I should make a bit more of an effort to post useful(ish) and interesting(ish) things on the blog. We’re already two days into the new year so it’s time for the first post; one of a series called “Serious Compacts of the Moment”.
The name uses some creative license (Some of these cameras have already been superseded after all) but hopefully I’ll be able to discuss some of the most interesting not-so-point-and-shoot-point-and-shoot cameras of the moment, ones which I’ve discovered during my Ricoh GRD forum loafing and DPReview/DCResource trawling. And with that link to Ricoh, it’s time for the first part of this Serious Compact (not-so-complete) Compendium…
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December 9, 2008 at 11:31 pm · Filed under Photography
My second Ricoh is actually a bit special as it’s a brand new one from Calumet Photo’s eBay shop – I’m guessing it’s a NOS example as the outer sleeve to the box was a bit scuffed and mussed but everything underneath was in perfect untouched condition. I managed to snap up one of the 3 remaining GRDs (at the time of writing they have just one left!) for £260, which might sound like a lot of money for a camera released in 2005, but as we shall see, there is method behind the madness…
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December 6, 2008 at 6:18 pm · Filed under Photography
A strong sense of deja vu pervades as I sit here writing about the arrival of my Ricoh GRD; it might have something to do with me buying a GRD back in January of this year and describing my elation when it was delivered… and then writing about it’s departure in March. You will be pleased to hear, however, that I have a list of excuses as long as my arm about why I sold my old Ricoh in the first place (You can even see some of those excuses paraded around in the second post when I waved it goodbye) and why it was actually a good thing that I did and how I am now stupendously better off because of it.
This is going to be good…
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November 18, 2008 at 1:55 pm · Filed under In Brief...
Last day at work today… weird! Still, at least it means
The Sutherland Collection is complete!
November 5, 2008 at 10:58 am · Filed under In Brief...
What a victory! Obama is in and the World need hold it’s breath no longer… Today is a Good Day.
November 4, 2008 at 11:00 am · Filed under Photography
I’m going to hold my hands up – I failed. By the time the Redux was over I should’ve had 50 shots at 50mm from my Canon T90 waiting to drop on to the blog. In fact, I think I’ve shot about 9 frames on the T90 and (as you may have seen from the previous post) am now pouring over my new Leica AF-C1. A hanging of my head in shame and a new project are in order and so, after mulling over the half-baked idea I came up with at the end of the last post, I give you…
40/80!
This is a lot more simple, a lot more manageable and is just far out of my Comfort Zone of Very Little Photography to be doable… so the likelihood of this project actually succeeding is significantly greater than before! After the test roll in the Leica has been finished a roll of XP2 will go in and come out with 36 frames at the Leica’s nifty 40mm and 80mm focal lengths, all of which will be posted, one a day, on the blog. Brave stuff, especially considering the number of misses that are likely to be on there… but at least this will tide me over until the next camera comes along.
No, I mean it, there is another one coming… and this time I am beyond hope.
November 4, 2008 at 12:39 am · Filed under Photography
I’m about to glaze over the fact that though the Redux has gone really well, 50/50 has still not even got through it’s first roll… actually, I won’t glaze over it, I’ll just blame it on this instead:
Yep… got me a Leica!
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October 28, 2008 at 9:50 am · Filed under In Brief...
Been Jagless for 2 weeks and driving it in to work I’ve just fallen in love with it again. It’s just too awesome!
October 16, 2008 at 8:51 pm · Filed under In Brief...
I’ve just bought my first
Minolta Leica… for just over £20!
October 9, 2008 at 11:14 am · Filed under Photography
Redux seems to be going well at the moment, though I’m trying my hardest to pick only the genuinely good “extra” frames from rolls I’ve already featured on the photoblog. It’s like being pulled in two ways at once actually; on the one hand I want to find a few extra images to put on the photoblog, but on the other hand I need to “string it out” a bit longer as I haven’t been able to even finish my first roll of film for the 50/50 challenge yet! Eeek! I’m almost at the end of the film part of my archive now, so there’ll be some digital offcuts popping up in the Redux soon, perhaps followed by another few film images if I start from the beginning all over again…
Now, to repeat the mantra: “Only the strong images, don’t think about 50/50. Only the strong images…”
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