I was in a furniture store in Shipston upon Stour (near Stratford upon Avon) at the weekend. The Leather storage box was a thing of absolute beauty and one I felt I should share with you. Is a box a gadget? Probably not, except by the widest interpretation but this thing is just to georgous [...]
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The kitchen has always been a place to find gadgets of one sort or another. But what separates a gadget from a tool? I think time is the issue. If a new invention finds its way into your (and everyone else’s) kitchen then we call it a gadget. If it is still there and being [...]
A simple lens that screws to the front of a slr camera can provide up to 10x magnification on the cheap. However, there is a problem with distortion with these cheap ‘enlarging filters’, so use them with care. Having said that, by screwing a 4x filter to the front of a long lens (200mm) I [...]
Polarising filters produce the one camera effect that you really cannot fake using software after a photo is taken. Therefore a polarising filter is the first accessory purchased by most photographers. What a polariser does is to block or only let light of a certain orientation through to the camera. This means in practice that [...]
I have two sets of binoculars with different numbers on the front. However, until I decided to investigate I really had little idea of what those numbers meant. My big binoculars are a pair of Nikon 10×50 and this means the magnification is 10 times what we can see with the naked eye and the [...]
Iphones have the ‘name’ but in terms of functionality, performance and apps, the HTC Evo (which runs the Android operating system) is a serious contender. In fact, after having looked at both I am choosing the latter. Apart from the HD recording, wifi hotspot functionality and all the brilliant stuff that comes in the phone [...]
Fewer people are wearing wristwatches these days because we all carry mobile phones that have the time on the main display. However for many people, and particularly for men, a watch is still the most expensive item of jewellery we wear regularly. Blinged up, jewel-encrusted gold nonsense aside the expensive watches are the ones with [...]
Circular Polarising Filter
Posted: 25th November 2010 by admin in GearTags: camera, filter, lens, polarising
If you like outdoor photos, then the great news is that the best bit of kit to add to your camera is actually not that expensive. A Circular Polarising Filter screws in to the front of your camera lens. A Polarising Filter does two things. Firstly it acts as a lens protector, guaranteeing the lens [...]
Not all lenses are equal. The ‘kit’ lenses that come with most cameras out of the box are generally a bit pants. An honorable exception from this is the Olympus 18-42 which is rather good, although its companion the 50-150 is not a good lens. The problem is these lenses are built to attempt to [...]
You have already brought a mega cool 10megapixel, slim as an anorexic supermodel camera but if you want to take photos underwater you have to leave it on the beach and get a cacky underwater disposable that takes really shabby photos. Well not any more. The Aquapac 420 Hard Lens Camera Case was specifically designed [...]