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One of my favourite local walks is the climb to the top of My Ngungun which is one the Glasshouse Mountains in South East Queensland, Australia. These mountains are the plugs that remain from long dead volcanoes. The climb up Mt Ngungun is pretty easy with a well maintained trail that ascends...

I think that it was some time ago now that Luke posted an illustrated guide to making a salsa, so when I tried making some semi-dried tomatoes at home recently I kept a camera at the ready. The term cooking is used pretty loosely here because these are dead easy to make but the results are still...

Back in October I travelled down to the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia to spend a few days wandering the city. This is the second time that I have been there but the first time was to attend the 2007 Australian Formula One GP and didn't see much outside of the racetrack. This time...

Last weekend I had a chance to attend the V8 Supercar event at the Gold Caost, Australia courtesy of my sister and her working relationship with an event sponsor. The V8 Supercars are an Australian form of Touring Cars that evolved from the international Group A category that was diminishing in...

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The Olympus 45mm f1.8 has developed a great reputation as an affordable, tiny, and optically high quality package as a short tele (~90mm) portrait lens for Micro 4/3, and I've been a satisfied owner of one for almost two years. Less well known is that Samsung has a 45mm f1.8 lens of their own...

As part of my travels last year I spent about four days in the Bolivian capital of La Paz which lies in the Andes at an (average) altitude of 3600m ASL. It was a chance to stop for a bit, relax and explore. Well, as relaxing as walking up and down steep streets at that altitude can be. The last...

Olympus just threw a bone to E-M5 owners with a firmware update that finally allows selection of the smallest focus point box whilst still retaining the direct function button access on the four way controller and still allows use of the level, histogram, or highlight blinkies. This has been...

A little while back I was asked by a coupleof forum members to give a bit of a description of my processing workflow and how I achieved a certain "look". I've finally gotten around to doing a workflow description which follows below. Everything described here is based on a Lightroom workflow...

In the last two weeks I've been making the transition from the Samsung NX200 to the NX300 and have been a little surprised that it has not been entirely smooth so far. Today I found an interesting anomaly to do with processing the native SRW raw file compared to a conversion of the same file to...

As I sit here trying to learn the ins and outs of the Samsung NX300 I come across a programmable Auto ISO logic item in the menu that is so comprehensive and yet so simple at the same time, which makes me wonder why I can't have something similar on every camera. Going into the first page of...

Looks like a nice, evolutionary update Fujifilm X-E2 Review

Thought that I'd start a thread with some images of travels through Bolivia in August and September, 2013. A large portion of the Altiplano in the south west of Bolivia is quite dry and rugged, but as the winter snows melt the fresh water trickles down between the valleys in small streams. In...

Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling Ricoh GXR Body + 50 APS-C Lens Modules Prices $AU400 shipped Location Australia Ships to Australia Description I'm trying to be practical about how cameras I can actually use and have reached the decision that my GXR is just one too many. This...

High up in the Altiplano (High Plain) of Bolivia, the Salvador Dali Desert lies over 4500m above sea level. This desert is named after the painter whose works featured background landscape elements that are similar to the moonscapes found here. Despite the bright conditions, at this time in the...

It looks like Fuji has officially announced the X-A1: News | Fujifilm [Japan] You can find many more links by googling as well. It does look like all the important bits from the X-M1 are all there including the tilting screen and crucially the twin multi-function thumbdials. The key...

So what does the new "LP" button stand for, Amin? Leica Peeps? :smile: Or is it my very own forum?

Sensor tests may make for fairly dull reading, but "The Bible" of sensor testing has finally scored the 20MP Samsung sensor for the first time. In fact, they even scored it twice! DxOMark - Samsung NX200 DxOMark - Samsung NX 20 - A great performance among stiff competition It's...

There are a few members of the forum here who have used and in some cases still do use a Ricoh GXR camera. The GXR concept is a little odd, logical from a certain point of view, but perhaps also flawed. Odd because it was (and remains) a unique idea, logical because it allowed you to use the one...

Late last year I happened upon a deal for a second-hand Samsung NX200 + the wonderful little 30/2 pancake lens for only $300, and I came away much more impressed than I thought I would be. The camera still lacks some polish in its autofocus and write times of the enormous raw files, but the...

Recently I spent a week and a half in Tasmania which is Australia's southernmost and only island state. With me I took my E-M5, GH1, and Canon G1X. Oh, and my wife came along as well! When I broke down the usage of each camera I figured that the E-M5 was about 70%, the GH1 about 20%, and the G1X...

A few weeks ago I took a short break to Tasmania, which is Australia's smallest, southernmost, and only island state. I'm in the process of sorting through the images that I took while I was there, and so far I've worked through a series of images that were taken at the Museum of Old and New Art...

After the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't v1.2 firmware for the E-M5, there is a version 1.5 available. If you have firmware v1.0 or v1.1 you need to update to v1.3 first before updating to v1.5. I think that for anyone who successfully updated to v1.2 previously they need to go to v1.4 then v1.5...

Early last week I had the good fortune to be able to spend a day out on the water. The company I work for runs a charter boat and when it is in town and not booked out there is a chance to take a trip on board. Just out of Brisbane is Moreton Bay which is protected from the Pacific Ocean by...

A thread had been started (by iconindustries for those who remember) at mu-43.com for some of the original members from the early days in 2009 and 2010 to "check in", say what you're doing now, what you're shooting with now, etc, etc. If you're interested (and still remember your password!)...

For the second year in a row I attended the local annual Medieval Festival. This is quite a cool event where the re-enactors really get into character and it's a great place to take a camera or two. This year I was armed with the Olympus E-M5 and Leica 25/1.4 and occasionally the Panasonic...

DPReview has a preview of the new entry-level NEX-F3. Sony NEX-F3 Hands-on Preview: Digital Photography Review

Well, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 has been out for a little while now and has already received the full bells-and-whistles review from DPReview, so there's not too much point giving any technical background on the camera or listing all the headline features. My general take on the E-M5 is that this...

I caught this with the Canon G1X today. No special effects involved other than the b&w conversion. I had to stand in the middle of the (thankfully quiet) road to get the sun position right :)

We don't really seem to have an appropriate forum for this camera, so the Small Sensor Canon Forum will have to do, lol. I've had my G1X for about a week now, and so far the relationship is progressing well. This camera is quite significant for me since it is only the third time in my life...

The weekend before last I took the opportunity to visit an exhibition of some of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art, titled Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World. This was the first time that I'd had the chance to see a large collection of...

I just returned from a week's honeymoon in the Cook Islands. For those unfamiliar with the Cook Islands, they are an island group in the South Pacific, just on the "wrong" side of the International Date Line so they are one of the last nations on earth to see the sun set on any given day. We...

After having been a member here for a while now, it's fair to say that I have seen more gearlust talked about and acted upon than any sane person may want to witness in their lifetime ;). I spent a lot of time in 2009 and 2010 trying all manner of different cameras myself, and I'm now surprised...

So the impression I get around the internet is that Nik's Silver Efex gets a lot of airplay as THE b&w software to have, yet I don't see as much mentioned about Color Efex. I'm just wondering how many here use or have at least trialed it and what your thoughts are. I don't really mean to compare...

See link below. Waddya reckon, real or staged? (I hope it's real!) Cheeky monkey borrows photographers camera to provide wonderful self-portraits | Mail Online

A lot of images taken at street level in the urban environment don't always qualify as what you might call street. They might be described as urban scenes, visions, impressions, fragments, designs, environments, juxtapositions, landscapes, streetscapes, cityscapes...but for simplicity's sake...

I had posted this initially "across the hall" but would like my SC buddies to see it too, particularly given that there are a few Aussies here. The 25th of April is commemorated in Australia and New Zealand as a day to remember lives lost in wars during the short history of the two nations. The...