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NIKON Z50/SONY LENS CONVERSION

Friday, May 9, 2025 by Richard | 0 Comments

I’ve long been a big fan of Nikon’s Z50 camera. I like a small light camera that I can just pop in a pouch and sling over my shoulder when I go for a walk and I use the Z50 as a “walkabout” camera for the times when I don’t wish to carry a big bag with my full frame Nikon kit in it. I […]

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Where To See Us In 2024

Saturday, October 5, 2024 by Richard | 0 Comments

Following a quiet start to the year, the art fair season for us has now got into overdrive. August saw us return to Art In The Pen at Skipton once again and that was a huge success with over 3800 visitors attending. artinthepen.org.uk We are now taking part in the “Autumn Craft Fair” at the Bath House at RHS Harlow Carr , which runs until […]

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Leofoto LY-254C Tripod Review.

Friday, July 12, 2024 by Richard | 0 Comments

  I’ve written several blogs about my quest to lighten my camera kit and back in February 2023 I invested in the Leofoto LY-224C ultra-light tripod. I owned a “Three Legged Thing Billy” tripod which at 1.5kg and 1.4m high, had proved to be very light and a very practical “every day” tripod, but the engineer in me wasn’t happy with the lack of compactness […]

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Howling At The Wind by Richard & Janet Burdon

Friday, June 14, 2024 by Janet Burdon | 0 Comments

Howling At The Wind by Richard & Janet Burdon   We recently took advantage of an offer by Saal Digital UK to print and review one of their Photobooks. The offer was for a £100 voucher towards the cost of a SAAL book from their “Pro Line” range. It is an offer SAAL occasionally propose to photographers they feel would enjoy seeing the quality of […]

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The Importance Of Printing

Monday, January 8, 2024 by Janet Burdon | 0 Comments

Figures show that about 5 billion photos are taken every day! But how many of this mind boggling number ever exist beyond a smartphone or a tablet! They tend to get shown briefly on social media, then disappear forever. A few years ago, I noticed that camera club prints were generally a lot better than the equivalent digital images. People were obviously taking their time […]

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Is Nikon Missing A Trick Or Two?

Saturday, August 5, 2023 by Janet Burdon | 0 Comments

  Way back in the mid noughties when camera sales peaked around the 100 million per year mark, Nikon had approximately 35% of the market share. Fast forward to 2023 and Nikon now have in the region of 12% of the market, almost neck and neck with OM systems and Fuji and way behind Canon and Sony. Whilst I’m sure that the Z9 & Z8 […]

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A Lesson Learned (Lenses for Wildlife)

Monday, June 19, 2023 by Richard | 0 Comments

It’s fair to say that Janet & I love to see wildlife where it belongs, out in the wild, but we rarely even attempt to photograph it. We lack the patience and the skills, so I was quite surprised when Janet suggested that we go to Finland to see bears and wolves, but I still jumped at the chance.   Our experience of shooting wildlife […]

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FOOT WARMERS

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 by Richard | 0 Comments

I’m very envious of hikers, they can regulate their temperature quite easily using layers, provided they keep going at a steady pace, but it’s harder for us photographers. A typical day for us might entail a stiff hike to a location, then hanging around waiting for that perfect light for an hour or two and getting thoroughly cold. This gets even harder in extremely cold […]

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A New Kid On The Block

Monday, February 6, 2023 by Richard | 0 Comments

  Back in late 2019, I traded my big, heavy full frame DSLR (2kg) for a mirrorless camara. My main driver for the change was to lose some weight and size and changing to mirrorless meant I shed over 1/2 kilo on the camera  and lens alone. Going for a smaller camera also meant that I was able to switch to a smaller, lighter camera […]

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