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Testing 1…2…3… This past weekend I was one of the fortunate folks selected to road test Glyn Dewis’ workshop. Having run training, workshops and delivered presentations many times myself it is always valuable to see how other folk do things, and I was happy to contribute feedback to Glyn on his workshop. The workshop tester …

Last week I was quickly reading some tweets while waiting to start my day’s presenting task and saw a tweet from Dutch photographer Frank Doorhof. I’ve exchanged quite a few twitter conversations with Frank over the last year or more and Frank’s tweet was asking for pictures that he would critique. I had the final …

I received a message that for the 11th consecutive year Canon was the recipient of the ‘Most Trusted Camera Brand’ award from Readers Digest in Finland. The European Trusted Brands survey has been conducted annually since 2001 and surveys 33,000 people in 16 countries. The Readers Digest Trusted Brands site shows only the last five …

I’ve owned an EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens almost since it became available in the UK, but for resons I can’t think of I haven’t shot with it much. I think that more often than not I take the smaller and lighter 70-200mm f/4L lens when I have a bag full of kit, …

All DSLR cameras including the EOS models have a restriction when using flash. Due to the use of a focal plane shutter mechanism there is a maximum shutter speed that can be used with flash. Go faster than the ‘sync speed’ of your camera and you often see black bands on your image. Canon has …

When the EOS-1D Mark III camera was launched one of the features that Canon added to the EOS range was AF micro-adjustment. Intended originally to allow photographers to adjust their cameras in the field when their lenses and cameras have been knocked out of calibration. In theory it should not be necessary to use AF …

When Canon launched the EOS 600D with a built-in Speedlite flash master function, it was quite reasonable for them to introduce a new lower cost entry to the world of off-camera Speedlite flash too. However in the drive for low cost I think they have had to make too many compromises with the Speedlite 270EX …

I’m really fortunate to have visited Japan many times in the past, and have worked alongside many colleagues from Japan during my time at Canon. It’s heart breaking to see the images of Japan after the quake, tsunami and now nuclear disaster. My thoughts are with my friends and former colleagues at this time. Fortunately …