by Rod Lawton | Jul 22, 2018 | Opinion
When you actually come to use them and see what they can do, they make you realise the limitations of the light meter built into your camera. That’s not all. A handheld meter could make you realise that, just maybe, you’ve been thinking about light all wrong. So...
by Rod Lawton | Jul 22, 2018 | Opinion
Fujifilm wants to break into the sports and wildlife photography market, and this could be the lens that brings the breakthrough, with specs that rival full-frame telephoto primes at half the price. Fujifilm is determined that its X-series cameras should be seen as...
by Rod Lawton | Aug 14, 2017 | Opinion
It turns out there’s a reason why some things are made the same way for decades For a long time I’ve been a bit dubious about Billingham bags. They’re expensive, they’ve always felt rather floppy and loosely made and they have a ‘country gent’ image that makes...
by Rod Lawton | Oct 25, 2016 | Opinion
No, it’s not broken. The PC Nikkor 19mm f/4E ED tilt-shift lens is supposed to slant and skew like that. And no, the price is not a misprint. It really will cost £3,299 when it becomes available on October 27th 2017. Nikon’s perspective control lenses...
by Rod Lawton | Oct 17, 2016 | Opinion
I was very keen to review the sd Quattro for Digital Camera Magazine because it looked like a very interesting new direction for Sigma’s cameras and Foveon sensor technology. The Foveon sensor, uniquely, uses three sensitised layers to record colour information,...
by Rod Lawton | Oct 16, 2016 | Opinion
I do a lot of iPhone photography. The image quality is fine for a certain style of image-making, and I like the way the world looks while I’m composing shots. It makes me shoot differently and more freely than when I’m holding a DSLR or a CSC. But that...
