Family Photo Shoot

Last week was half-term week and we had the pleasure to look after my nephew Jack for the week. He was dropped off on Saturday by his Mum and Dad and collected the following weekend by his Mum (my sister - Louise). When he was here over Christmas we never managed to get any photographs...

Updating the firmware on Cactus devices

I have been meaning to write this post for a few months but for one reason or other I never got round to it. However after using the RF60 speedlights and the V6 transceiver in a real-world(ish) situation over the last couple of days I decided that enough was enough I was going to update...

Christmas Dogs 2014

A few years ago back when we had two other dogs - Tessa and Topaz, I took a few photographs (snapshots really) of them wearing a full size Christmas hat calling Xmas Dogs. They were captured using a 1.7MP Fuji MX1700 digital camera which in 2000 was the only realistically priced digital camera around; this...

OM-D E-M1 and Speed Lights

Some time ago (back when I was using Canon) I wrote four articles on using Canon Speedlites as well as the other items you will need, you can read these articles below: Canon Flash Part 1 - Choosing a Flashh Canon Flash Part 2 - Batteries Canon Flash Part 3 - Chargers Canon Flash Part...

Firmware updates update

I received my Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro lens this morning (more to come about the lens in a later post) and one of the first things I checked was the firmware version. Unfortunately it was v1.0 and not v1.1 so it will need to be updated; I guess it must have been in stock...