cameras-&-equipment

I don’t really like fisheye lenses. I’ve never found much use for them and find the surreal look of the images to be of limited utility. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t jump at the chance to give a new one a try.

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“Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three”. The Quest for the Holy Grail by the comedy troupe, Monty Python, had it right. There is a Holy Trinity, and many professional photographers abide by it.

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Gura Gear announced a brand-new, $180 sling bag at the Bild Expo last month called the Kiboko City Sling 6L, and from what the company tells me, the idea was so popular that it sold 1,500 of them in just those two days. There is something about this bag that caught people’s eyes, so I decided I needed to see what that was.

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I’ll be honest: I’ve never used a NAS before. As a photographer and content creator, I’ve spent years juggling stacks of external SSDs and hard drives in a messy, chaotic system that has somehow worked. But what I don’t have are enough backups, and the constant worry of a drive failing or getting lost has always nagged at me.

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The post Light Machine Clickster 8MP Digital Camera appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Sime.

I think this sits firmly in the “make photography fun again” camp – not that it isn’t fun, but you know, it’s pretty easy to get into a proverbial slump sometimes.

So the team at Clickster Camera sent us across this little gem to have a play with! It’s a super-simple digital camera, but, it has NO screen! It comes with a memory card and you can shoot a couple of thousand frames before you need to empty the card. It’s kinda like a modern day point and shoot film camera, but you don’t need to send it off to be developed.

The fun, for me at least, is that you take it out for a day, you make all of your photographs, and then, when the time is right, you plug it into your computer and ‘see what you got!’ that anticipation of not knowing, you don’t get to review in camera, you don’t get to check it out via your phone – you have to wait!

It’s as simple as this, here’s pretty much everything in the instruction manual for the Clickster Camera – It has an off/on button, a shutter release button, a USB-C plug for charging and getting your photos off. Right next to the USB-C port you will find an ‘M’ button as well as a + and – They’re for setting the date on your camera. There’s a button on the back where the little digital display is, that is the mode button – you have three options, Mono, Retro and Classic, and if you hold that button in it turns the beepy sound off / on. On the front of the camera (the photo up the top) you can also see the LED flash on/off button.

All you have on the display is what mode you’re in, your battery life (around 500 frames, that’s a lot!) as well as how many frames you’ve taken and the sound on or off icon – again, simples!

It’s a dead simple camera, very easy to use in good light, less than ideal results in the dark unless you’re on a tripod, but then (for subjects in close) you use the flash and you’re cooking with gas, well, LED, but you get me…

Pretty much child-proof and only $120 – well worth a shot! Enough of my rambling! Check out this little video from our friend Andy on his time with the Clickster Camera! (Sub to his Youtube while you’re at it)

Do we think the Clickster is better than the Fujifilm? Well that all depends, doesn’t it? You could grab one and try it out for yourself!

We found them online in Australia for $119 at Teds, Camera House etc, a quick Google should have you up and running.

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Light Lens Lab is all about recreating classic — and hard-to-acquire — lenses from the past. Its latest revelation is a faithful homage to the P. Angenieux S21 50mm f/1.5 lens. Originally designed in the 1950s with an M42 thread mount for the Exacta SLR, the S21 delivered that Silver Screen look, with soft corners and a gentle glow to the frame when shooting wide open.

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The Genki Moonbase is a stylish and powerful power strip that is sure to liven up any workspace. It’s also chock-full of ports, featuring three AC outlets and four USB-C ports.

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Over the last couple of years, the number of computers, headphones, cameras, and portable batteries that charge with USB-C that I’ve acquired has ballooned substantially. I’ve resorted to using batches of individual USB-C plugs cobbled together in my aging infrastructure, but it’s an inelegant solution. That’s where the UGreen Nexode came in.

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The post What’s the new Tamron 16-30mm f/2.8 G2 like? appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Sime.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have been using the new lens for the last few days, thanks to Blonde Robot, Australia’s Tamron distributor ?? While I haven’t had a chance to take it out and spend some time with it yet (hope to over the next few days) I went to the EV Show here in Melbourne and took it along – It’s true of any wide lens, you can warp reality if you try just a little bit! So I had some fun being creative with fast electric cars.

I thought I’d share this video from Michael Ronin (I can confirm he did give the lens back haha) as he takes the ultra-wide and walks you through it in his video. Enjoy!

Do you think an ultra-wide has a place in your camera bag? Do you already have an ultra-wide? Tell us in the comments.

You can learn more about the new Tamron 16-30mm f/2.8 G2 lens on the Tamron Australia website.

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The Honor 400 is a mid-range phone that is as much a showcase of the company’s AI features as it is about mobile photography.

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