Random Bits from Boredom

There aren't too many things I hate about the iPhone but there are many around iTunes: the lock-ins, the inability to get data back out...

Adding harddisks to an old Dell E520 should be easy - it's built with easy slide compartments. And it would be easy if you are adding n...

The beauty dish is probably up there as an amateur's holy grail of lighting modifiers after they've exhausted the various umbrellas,...

Oh dear.. Whilst I don't care too much about dust on internal lens elements, I do care about the dreaded 'f' word.

Recent updates of Firefox and Java don't tend to play nice. I've had existing JRE 6 installations that were fine but then Mozilla a...

One thing that is apparent when looking through a recent FX viewfinder for the first time is the larger size when compared to the DX viewf...

It used to be pain to create bootable media (CD and USB) that would contain a standalone OS. Whilst this is somewhat (very) old news here...

I rediscovered an old Wacom Volito 2 (aka CFT-420) recently and managed to get it working with Win7/x64.

The D800 broke many barriers when it was released - at the time of release/ review DxO Mark awarded it the highest score in it's his...

The Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 coupled with a Nikon FM2, was reportedly the combination used to capture one of the most recognised portraits of r...

The Minolta Flash Meter III was released in the early 1980s and feels very much like it's time but how is it for basic metering?

Mama's got a brand new bag twin - a Chinese made 120cm x 120cm umbrella framed softbox.

[ These are notes for my WB hacking with CNX2 - it's not meant to be a WB tutorial ] Still trying to get to grips with CNX2 white bala...

Lighting shiny products and options: bounce-style softbox (Westcott Apollo) vs straight through softbox (Ezybox) Vanilla modifier vs e...

Manfrotto's ballheads are reasonably priced items that will last a lifetime. I had a 486rc2 compact ballhead that served me well but w...

fill only | key only | key and fill Maths seems to rule the world and normally in a complex way. These are notes to allow us to approxim...

As with most things commercial, there are a million different products claiming to be the ultimate solution. However it is difficult to ...

The 50mm 'standard' lens was the 'kit' lens of yesteryear but that didn't mean that they were poor quality. In recent t...

Who said all design in the 1980s was bad?

image (c) Jonathan Mak As the web weeps with it's tributes to Steve Jobs' passing this month, there have been some interesting ite...