Thursday 30 May 2013

The 5D Mk3 has arrived

5DMk3 - first impressions are that it's stupid good, the best camera I've ever used and I've tackled about 5% of its stills features.

The auto-focus is ridiculously fast and accurate and the only thing slowing it down is me hesitating that it has not yet locked on. I'm really liking the various in camera HDR stuff and multiple exposure shooting as well.

Other good bits so far include the battery has held up for around 1500 shots on a single charge (two bars left) and another 500 or so shots left on the 16gb SD card, have an old 2gb card in the CF slot for spill over which should be good for another 300 or so JPEGS.

Not looked at any of the shots on the PC yet but I imagine they are going to be pretty impressive. IS on the 24-105L is fantastic and I'm getting pretty usable sharp stuff at 1/5th of a sec.

The camera body itself could easily be used by any self respecting murder to bludgeon a victim and then happily snap away at the results of his handy work and if you turn on all the focus points or use the A+ setting it changes the display on the screen to look like a sanitary towel(with wings) and that's just brilliant

I can see that this camera and I are going to be good friends for a long time.

Below are two uninspiring shots taken today while messing around with various settings and focus points etc - enjoy


F11, 160th, iso320, window light RAW conversion (James Bond & The Man from Uncle)


F10, 120th, iso125, window light JPEG large (Fuji X100)


F5.6, 160th, iso320 window light late afternoon (my desk)


F4, 125sec, 800iso, Tyre Stickers at a local garage


I only got the email promo for this today

bugger - Elvis Costello is playing St David's Hall on Saturday, totally missed me that one, would love to have gone to get some snaps....perhaps I can arrange it short notice tomorrow??? chances are lowwwwww

Monday 27 May 2013

Cameratastic 5D Mk3

Well the choice is made the 5DmK3 is on the way with a 24-105L, it's 6 FPS and amazing AF was the deciding factor over the D800 plus that would mean a all new lens set as well, no new cameras for a long time (apart from cards, L Glass and the odd flash). Really looking forward to La Vie en Bleu on the weekend now, as I know the kit will be as fast as the cars.

La Vie En Bleu

Of to La Vie En Bleu hill climb this weekend and will taking along my new camera, I'm buying it this week and have mostly decided on the 5D Mk3 with the 24-104L.

Keep checking back for photos from the event on this site

Monday 20 May 2013

Watched this last night about Erwin Blumenfeld, will definitely be going along to the show when it gets to Somerset House - amazing photographs and great DaDa work, a true inspiration:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01skv6r/The_Man_Who_Shot_Beautiful_Women/

Friday 17 May 2013

Lots more photos

Lots more from the archive today from Blondie & Oasis to protests and launderettes

Thursday 16 May 2013

Comedy pics

Some more shots of comedy acts up now

All current Formula 1 cars up

All the current crop of edits are up of the Formula 1 cars that I have photographed so far, I'm sure after a while I'll probably update an edit or swap some stuff around.

Thanks to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu for granting me access to the cars, and I can't recommend enough going there for a visit as the location is beautiful, the collection of cars is amazing from Bluebird to Bond. The Museum also has a wonderful house to visit, Top Gear collection and an exhibit on the training camp that was there during world war 2 for the S.O.E

Here is the link:

http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/


Wednesday 15 May 2013

Photos

A lot of the galleries on the site are new so give me a few weeks to get some decent content up after lots of scanning, nitpicking, archive trawling etc - a lot of the comedy and music shots are on the way.

New Formula 1

New Formula 1 pictures uploaded including:

1988 Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost McLaren Honda MP4
1977 John Player Special
1970 Tyrrell Ford, Jackie Stewart
1967 Lotus 49 'R3' Graham Hill
1996 Williams Renault, Damon Hill

Moving...

a little bit of fiddling with the page layout and post updates that was starting to drive me mad, but now all is well and the news gets posted to the news page and not the home page, hurrah

More F1

More F1 photos to come today, just doing the edits