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Heralder 38 – a very clever camera bag The Vanguard Heralder range of camera bags picked up a TIPA award this year, so have obviously caught the attention of many photo magazine reviewers, I thought it would be good to have a look and see if they had all gone mad or been seduced by …

Canon launches specialist EOS 60Da for astrophotography The EOS 60Da is the company’s second specialist astrophotography model, many years ago Canon they produced the EOS 20Da with a specially modified low-pass filter and an early implementation of live view mode. According to Canon… EOS 60Da supplied with essential accessories for astrophotography The EOS 60Da includes …

Last week during a joking twitter conversation with good friend Keith Hammond “someone” mentioned selective colour and the next thing was a suggestion of that same someone possibly having a VHS cassette with a selective colour tutorial on it. Suddenly, and for no obvious reason, the phrase “what on earth is a video casssette recorder” …

With the new EOS 5D Mark III getting in to the hands of the first customers (Dan Chung / @DSLRinformer has one) it’s just great that the old EOS 5D Mark II still gets firmware updates; it’s probably the most updated camera in the whole of Canon’s digital SLR line-up. Formware 2.1.2 improves support for …

So that was Focus 2012… Finally with the doors closed, the visitors gone and stands packed down I think it’s time to share my thoughts on the Focus on Imaging show. I haven’t seen official attendance figures, but there were times each day when some walkways were so busy it was hard to move around …

As a photographer I always try to show my images in the best possible light, wether in print or on screen, but there’s one place that’s almost sure to deliver unpredictable results and that’s when the images are projected for a big audience with a digital projector. All too often the crafted files take on …

Canon first introduced Wireless File Transmitters to it’s cameras with the WFT-E1 for the EOS-1Ds Mark II way back in history, and since then has provided WiFi transmitters for most of the advanced and professional bodies. With the introduction of the EOS 7D and the WFT-E5 several new and updated features appeared and also several …

It often surprises me to see photographers with expensive cameras and lenses balanced on the most unsecure tripods. Your tripod should be sturdy and hold your kit safely and still. Spending somewhere between ten and twenty percent of the value of the kit you put on a tripod seems a reasoned investment. I was asked …

For me the answer to this question is a certain no, and here’s my reasoning: The ‘man in Japan’ most certainly didn’t factor in the inexpensive bit of glass you are planning to add to his optical engineering masterpiece. You might think that protecting a lens front element from scratches is good, and it is. …

Over the years I have often found thatI prefer my DSLR cameras with battery grips on them. From the early days with the EOS D30 right up to the modern day, if there was a battery grip for a camera I most likely had it on mine. I like them as they duplicate most of …