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Kings Mill, smock windmill, Shipley, in infrared
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Affordable CCT spotlights for the studio
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Day trip to Hayling Island
ByGarfI took a day trip to Hayling Island today, armed with a little Fuju HS20 EXR bridge camera.
Lisbon, Portugal, day 14
ByGarfToday we caught the train down to Lisbon Beach, Portugal. Very pleasant it was too.
120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens, in action, on Portsdown Hill
ByGarfRegular readers may know that my 2023 Christmas project was to make this 120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on my µ4/3 cameras and actually capture some pictures with it. Unfortunately, at the time, the weather was too wet to take the thing outdoors. Fortunately by early January the weather became…
My new old 500mm Tamron catadioptric lens
ByGarfI always rather fancied a decent 500mm catadioptric lens. I bought a cheap Korean one off eBay a few years back and frankly it was not very good. But the old Tamron 500mm mirror lens has quite a good reputation. And as luck would have it, one turned up cheap on eBay a few weeks…
