Monthly Archives: March 2009

Eider

To my shame I didn’t actually know it was an Eider. I wondered if it was a black and white duck? I suppose it is a kind of black and white duck. This is a male, the females are brown. A snatched shot from the Gourock to Dunoon ferry just before it left yesterday morning.

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Kenmuir Hill

On Sunday Catherine and I went for a walk around our local landmark, Kenmuir Hill and Elliston Tower at its summit. The sky was rubbish so I left the 40D at home and took the LX3 instead. Here are a few for fun in black and white since the colours were drab anyway. Here’s the...

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Claire

When I did Claire’s portrait, I met her just as the light was failing. That combined with my inexperience at the time meant that I got very few great pictures that did justice to her. I was pleased with this early one from our session before the light went; the low light gave warmth, but...

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Canon 500D

So practically the next day after my previous post about Canon’s questionable “pixels before sensitivity” strategy they anounced the EOS 500D. This puppy replaces the current 450D as the decent amateur camera in the Canon line-up. The 450 had 12 MP and had decent reviews, but none of them raved about it’s low noise performance,...

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Canon losing their way

I noticed in this weeks photographic news that Nikon are selling well in the UK and the current recession is not affecting them; sales of the D90 and D700 DSLR’s are described by Nikon as “outstanding”. This doesn’t surprise me. If I was advising anyone who was buying into digital SLR’s at present which brand...

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