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Joel Richards
October 22, 2010

Vintage Photography #2

As a partly related post to the blog post vintage digital photograhpy a more recent project of mine has involved converting an large format, plate camera lens (~1895-1910) to be used on a Canon EOS body.

Paul Sturgess
October 20, 2010

The Best Camera Is The One That's With You

I’m not sure who said it first but I definitely agree. My problem is that I’ve never really got on with point and shoot cameras and have been known to regularly inconvenience myself by lugging around my digital SLR camera and a couple of lenses when out and about.

Paul Sturgess
April 07, 2009

The Flip Mino

Time for another random gadget review, the flip mino, it’s a tiny video camera and that’s it and that’s the beauty of it.

Image of the flip mino

It fires up in seconds, you press the big red button to start recording and press it again to stop. So simple, so good. It’s light and will easily fit in your pocket.

You can’t replace the storage, it’s built in. You can’t adjust any recording settings like white-balance, contrast etc. You can only connect & charge via usb – but that means no external cables are required.

There are plenty of reviews out there from people who point to their digital cameras and mobile phones that already have video recording functionality. But they’re missing the point, try giving your phone or point & shoot to your tech illiterate friend and see if they can record video with it…

Kyan has recently invested in the brand new HD version so expect a Vimeo (or another video site) channel to spark into life in the near future featuring our shenanigans.

This is the epitome of a feature-less product that does one thing and it does it really well.