1970s photography – misogyny, paedophilia and snobbery
It’s easy to forget the past and if you forget the past then you can fail to learn from it. Recently I’ve …
Adventures in Photoshop #2
I now have one Photoshop project under my belt (Adventures in Photoshop 1). I’ve been able to slavishly reproduce someone else’s idea …
How things change
How things change. No, not the fact that the man in this cartoon is smoking. It’s the fact that his friend actually …
Adventures in Photoshop #1
As my bio says, I’ve never used Photoshop. I have Photoshop. I’ve loaded up Photoshop on my Mac. I’ve looked at Photoshop. …
“Hard luck, Buster, get the next one insured!”
This cartoon from the December 1962 issue of Photoguide Magazine got me thinking; is your photographic equipment separately insured? If so, who …
The ‘current craze’ for 35mm cameras in 1962.
Mr Waterhouse of Dumbarton says ‘I give up!’ to the ‘Current craze’ for 35mm cameras in the letters page of PhotoGuide Magazine …
Should you buy a Rogue Flashbender kit?
Rogue; what a great name for a company. Flashbender; what a great name for a suite of products. They’re great names, but …
Should you buy a Lensbaby Composer Pro with Edge 80 or Sweet 35 Optic?
This week I tried the Lensbaby Composer Pro with both the Edge 80 and Sweet 35 optics. Are they any good? And …
Should You Buy a Fuji Instax Share SP-1 Printer?
Imagine this. You’re in your early twenties. It is a ‘difficult’ and ‘defining’ moment, made even more ‘difficult’ and ‘defining’ by how …
Should You Buy a Fuji Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic?
The Fuji Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic is the ridiculously-named latest version of Fuji’s highly successful instant print cameras. Does it have …