Dispensing with temptation
The compact system camera arena is a burgeoning one with many manufacturers having followed Olympus into the fray. In latter months of last year, Nikon finally took the plunge though Canon have yet to do the same. Seeing offers on [...]
All that was needed was a trip to a local shop
In the end, I did take the plunge and acquired a Sigma 50-200 mm f4-5.6 DC OS HSM lens to fit my ever faithful Pentax K10D. After surveying a few online retailers, I plumped for Park Cameras where the total [...]
A tendency for overexposure?
A recent trip to Sweden saw my Canon PowerShot G11 being put to rather more use than was expected. If I had known what might have been coming my way, I may even have eschewed the principle of lightweight packing [...]
A new acquisition
Back in the early days of this blog, I mulled over the idea of having a high-end digital compact camera to complementĀ a DSLR that then was delivering very dusty images; that Canon EOS 10D was cleaned since then and comes [...]
ImageMagick and Ubuntu 9.04
Using a command line tool like ImageMagick for image processing may sound a really counter-intuitive thing to do but there’s no need to do everything on a case by case interactive basis. Image resizing and format conversion come to mind [...]
