Christopher's Photo and Tech Blog
Random thoughts and views from the mind of Chris Bennett
Following the success of the LCE arranged Doddington Hall Portrait Photo workshop, they have arranged several follow-on workshops. On 28th February we had a Studio Photography Workshop that was hosted by John Clements and this time within the boundaries of Lincoln at the Judge's Lodgings which is adjacent to the main entrance of Lincoln Castle... Continue Reading →
Today's the day of the annual London Camera Exchange (LCE) Lincoln's Photo show at the Lincoln Drill Hall on Free Schhool Lane and runs from 11am - 4pm, entry is as usual free This year it is on a Sunday (previous years were the Wednesday nearest the 5th November - so a bit earlier in... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I attended a local (in Lincoln) LCE-Olympus organised event titled "Driven to Abstraction" which was an Urban Street Photography event, you can read more about this here. However I have copied the synopsis of the event from the Olympus ImageSpace website below: Professional photographer Steve Gosling invites you to get creative with the urban... Continue Reading →
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:... Continue Reading →
It's finally the day of the LCE Photo and Optics show and in less than 4 hours the show will start (it was 4 when when I created and posted this). I have already written quite a few posts about this over the last couple of weeks so please go and read a few of... Continue Reading →
The date for the "Lincoln Photo and Optics Show 2014" is getting nearer, in fact it's 3 weeks away from today (on 5th November). As per the last few years the show is being held at the "Drill Hall" here in Lincoln only a short distance form the host's (LCE) Silver Street store. Apparently this... Continue Reading →
The other parts of the "Revisiting the Olympus MFT System" series can be found below: Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Olympus Telephoto Options here. Part 3 here. Controlled testing of the OM-D E-M1? Continuing on from my previous post I had to go back to the LCE store to re-test the camera. It took... Continue Reading →
The other parts of the "Revisiting the Olympus MFT System" series can be found below: Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Olympus Telephoto Options here. The three way comparison: As planned, I went back to the Silver Street Lincoln LCE store on the first Saturday in October and asked if I could try out the... Continue Reading →
In my previous post (part 1) which you can read here I talked mostly about why I didn't move (back) to Fuji, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Nikon or Canon. I am not a fan of reasoning based on what I don’t like about other stuff but I think it is the easiest way to illustrate why... Continue Reading →
After visiting the Silver Street LCE on Monday I decided to try out the High Street store on the Tuesday as they have a good range of Tamron and Sigma 3rd Party lenses. I noticed that they stock the Tamron 70-300 VC lens as well as the Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 lens (more on that lens... Continue Reading →
