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Minolta 50mm f/1.7 AF Lens Review
A 50mm lens is a pretty standard, yet generally high quality optic for a camera system. This Minolta 50mm f/1.7 was made for the film era and we will look and see if it can still be a contender in the digital world!
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Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Review - Retro Fun!
Going back in time, let’s hear a tale of a fateful potential purchase. It was 2005, I was looking to finally ready to go from shooting film to shooting digital.
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Breaking Into Shooting Property Video
Recently I have been getting a fair number of requests to not only shoot the stills for a real estate listing, but to also offer video. I have shied away from offering this service because my knowledge of video is minimal.
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Another Ancient Mac Resurrected
This week I finally got around to upgrading the 13 year old Mac Mini that Ann Shelbourne brought over from B&H for me on our first trip to Sabi Sabi. 
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The pre-focus place into the autofocus era
In still photography or simply in photography, doing prefocus has been a technique that many of us have adopted to make sure that the subject or part of it that will be sharp and detailed.
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The Grand Old Dame On Musgrave
If you have lived in Durban for any length of time you will know that Musgrave Road is in one of its oldest residential neighbourhoods.
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In the crack
As I was flicking through some recent pictures, I realised there was a bit of theme with these shots...
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Shooting Straight
The reality of being a professional photographer is that (for me at least) the opportunities to enjoy taking photos for yourself become somewhat limited in number.
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Storm coming
My first shots of the year.
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Advices from the past for a better future (in photography)
Being fascinated by photography and its process has been always profoundly inlaid into my life since my youngest years.
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The Fujifilm X-E4: The simplicity that could be complex without the complexes!
This is a second time that I give a try to the Fujifilm X-E4 model although the first essay didn't last very long (few days at the most).
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"Scanning" Negs - Sigma sd Quattro-H vs Fuji X-T5 in pixel-shift mode.
This is just the beginning of a journey, but here's a much reduced size comparison between photographing a 6x6 neg with a Sigma sd Quattro H camera and Sigma 70mm f/2.8 Macro lens...
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The 10 Year Old Wunderkind
In 2012 I bought two different, but amazing pieces of equipment. One of them was the original Olympus E-M5 camera. The other was an Apple MacBook Pro 13”.
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Before the OM-1: The Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III breifly summarized by Daniel M
Before OM System has taken over the ownership of the photographic gear division of the Olympus company, many products have been release during their name(Olympus) into the last few years at the control of it.
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45(mm) Higher Love! The Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm F1.8 Premium
My love of the 45mm focal length into the Micro Four Third (MFT) image sensor format is not new (and may have begun with the Leica Summicron 90mm F2.8 into the 35mm film format not so long ago…!).
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Photographing Larger Products
Since an early age I have been obsessed with arranging furniture and objects in rooms. It brings out the creative spark in me, so having this large home studio where almost everything is on wheels really let’s me express that creativity in ways I couldn’t have imagined. 
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Photography Website Revamp
I have mostly stopped getting inquiries for new business since moving house. It's kind of distressing and difficult to put a finger on because it could be a number of things that are in play.
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Another skyline
Had a bit of spare time waiting to pick up one of my kids, so grabbed a few pictures - I'd just missed sunset, but there was still lots of colour in the sky.
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Upper Florentine World Heritage Area Tasmania.
After several years' break I ventured into the old growth forest that was listed as a World Heritage Area in 2014 after an eight year campaign by diverse members of the public who had sought to save it from the logging industry.
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Laowa 10mm f/4 Cookie
An interesting new lens announced this week - Laowa 10mm f/4 Cookie.  Very compact, very wide and apparently very little distortion.
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My Cloud Backup Solution
I can't remember who recommended them but I have ended up subscribing to Backblaze for my backups, since Time Machine is not compatible with my multiple external drives...
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It's Winter in Tasmania again
A small window of conditions I'd usually expect here in winter presented a couple of days ago after months of lousy weather and light, and while I failed to find anything new to photograph on a short drive, on my way home I drove past a scene ...
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Phinda 2022
A challenging safari given the terrain and foliage growth but definitely the place to go for cheetahs if that's your thing vs Kruger.
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The good “kompromises” or how to be clever not follower!
I have often the impression that people are now buying (digital) photographic gear not for themselves but for others…      
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Rail Yard
Some more from the weekend walk about.  After wandering around Docklands for a bit I headed up onto the La Trobe Street bridge wondering what the view would be like.  
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