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Ian

Ian has written 19 posts for introducing…

Flatpack furniture

Does anyone else love flatpack furniture as much as I do ? We’re just finishing off the nursery, and the best part of it (other than the baby of course) is having to build all the furniture up !

Anonymise your Camera

Following a few articles I’ve seen lately, plus some practical advice from www.jamessolly.com ( blog at http://jamessolly.blogspot.com ) I sat last night, blacking out all Nikon logos and symbols on both my body and lens.

Nikon F401s

Managed to get a Nikon F401s 35mm Film SLR from ebay… broke the bank at £1.40

A Good Photographer

Right, been reading everywhere, that a good photographer, is a good photographer, regardless of the camera, which I appreciate, however, I noticed a huge improvement in my own photos going from Bridge, to Compact, then to DSLR, a BIG difference.

Why is everything so back to front ?

Right, trying to offload my hire car this morning, as I have my own car back, but the car hire company who shall remain nameless, can’t off-hire it without the insurance company’s say so…

Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens

Nikons second latest lens in the AF-S range, quite a reasonably fast lens for the price thats being asked, and on the DX sensors, it equates to nearer the ‘normal’ equivalent of a 35mm film camera ( 35mm x 1.5 crop = 52.5mm )
I’m aiming for this and the 55-200mm AF-S DX VR lens to cover all [...]

A New Search Engine ?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - it’s bizarre, rather than provide links relating to your query, it tries to answer them itself, computable knowledge…

Trap Focus on the D40/D40x/D60 ( also called Focus Priority )

I don’t really remember reading about this in the manual, but I stumbled across it, and thought i’d share it… you no doubt know about shutter priority and aperture priority if your into photography to any degree, where, in idiot terms, priority is giving to your choice of shutter speed or aperture. Focus Priority it [...]

let’s get started…

Well… first post, suppose I’m expected to talk about myself a bit, which I always find difficult, there’s not that much you really need to know in order to understand what I may or may not write about, i’m just getting into the world of amatuer photography, i’m not a complete stranger to a camera, [...]