The Photography show 2017

On Sunday I went to this year’s Photography show; this 4-day event runs from Saturday 18th to Tuesday 21st March at the Birmingham NEC. Like previous years, I visited the show with my friend Richard Brown; the only difference is that he drove this year as I no longer have a car. Richard has already...

LCE Photo and Optics Show 2015

Two weeks on Wednesday is this year's London Camera Exchange's Photo and Optics show. I have been attending the show for the last few years now and it gets bigger and better every year, it's a testament to the hard work that's put into this by the LCE staff not only in Lincoln but further...

Nikon D810 Myths and Truths

I've owned my Nikon D810 DSLR camera for just over a month now and although there are many reasons I changed back to a DSLR from the rather good (in fact better than I imagined) Olympus OM-D E-M1, the main two were the fact that I wanted a bigger sensor and much more resolution -...

LCE Lincoln Photo Week

Starting on Monday 8th June both of the Lincoln London Camera Exchanges will be hosting their annual Photo Week. Each store is hosting different events on each day from Monday to Saturday. Unlike last year most companies will only present their company's products at a single Store. Details for the LCE website are as below:...

Off to The Photography Show 2015 today

Thanks to a day off work both Richard and I are off to Birmingham's NEC today to see this year's Photography show. Thankfully Lincoln is not too far from the NEC and so it's only a 1.5 to 2 hour drive depending upon traffic. We both really enjoyed the show last year and although we...

Camera Raw 8.8 now available

Adobe have released Camera Raw 8.8 for Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC. DNG Converter 8.8 is provided for all Lightroom customers and Photoshop customers using versions of Photoshop older than Photoshop CS6. The following cameras are now supported: Casio EX-ZR3500 Canon EOS 750D (Rebel T6i, Kiss X8i) (*) Canon EOS 760D (Rebel T6s, Kiss 8000D)...

Hartsholme Park with OM-D and 1.4x Converter

When I purchased my Olympus OM-D E-M1 in November last year from the LCE Photo and Optics show I also pre-ordered the 40-150mm f2.8 PRO lens and 1.4x teleconverter too. A few months later I got my 40-150mm lens and then soon after the teleconverter. What I have not really had an opportunity to do...

Nikon Announce D7200

Just like the rumour sites said, today Nikon announced the D7200 which is really a slightly souped-up D7100; yes they did fix the achilles heel of the D7100 and it now has a larger buffer: 18 shot RAW 14-bit, buffer with more shots for 12-bit and JPG. There was also a banding issue with the...

Olympus Release Firmware 3.0 for OM-D E-M1

After talking about the OM-D E-M1 firmware v3.0 update for some time now Olympus finally released this update yesterday. Im'm not sure why this minor update required a whole major version number bump from 2.x to 3.x as there are only 2 improvements. Although I regularly check the 43 Rumours site I was actually informed...

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...