As well as ensuring that I do all the assignments set by the Viewfinder digital Camera Club, I am in the process of sorting all my images from last year into a photo book cataloguing my best pictures of 2010. I have spent a few evenings trying to decide which company to use for … Continue reading 2010 photo book →

  On Wednesday (it is now Friday) I ordered two black and white prints from Loxley Colour. They actually arrived today and I must say the quality is superb. I ordered them via their online order entry system which was very easy to use. They arrived at my workplace in a stout tube well packaged … Continue reading Prints ordered and received. →

So the new year has started and with it a new set of challenges to attempt as a member of the Viewfinder Digital Camera Club. My problem is that at the moment I have arrived at an arid stretch of uncompromising desert known as 'photographer's block'.I just can't visualize any images for the projects. At … Continue reading Inspiration block →

So I ventured forth with elder brother, carrying my photographic backpack containing two cameras: the E-30 and the E-620, the former laden down with the new 14-54mm lens . We decided we would try the Malvern Hills and the weather people had assured us that the sun would come out to bless the Worcestershire countryside.Well … Continue reading Finally got out with the new lens →

So Christmas has been and gone, and Santa delivered my new lens.But the British weather has decided to act up.The snow of the last week or so has started to melt leaving brown, slimy sludge on the roads. on the grass and fields patches of green showing through a once white covering, like a tatty … Continue reading Got the lens – need the weather! →

After some time deliberating, it was the ever present restrictions of cost and availability which made me choose the Zuiko 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 II zoom lens as my Christmas present this year.I had originally wanted the Zuiko ED 12-60 2.8-4.0 SWD zoom. It has been getting rave reviews and seemed to be the perfect standard zoom. … Continue reading New Zoom for Christmas →

It's been a couple of weeks or so since my last blog, so I thought I would fill you in on the E-1 saga.Well, surprise, surprise, I was not contacted about a replacement E-1 camera and so at the end of the week I contacted Mastercard and registered the transaction complaint. Over the next couple … Continue reading Where’s my money? →

So SRS get the E-1 that won't read memory cards back.I rang them to ensure my refund was going through and was told that someone would ring me back. he/she didn't.So the next day I was duly on the phone again and reached somebody who knew about the E-1. When I asked if my refund … Continue reading What consumer protection →

After getting my excellent second-hand Olympus E-1 body  from SRSMicrosystems, my brother asked me to keep an eye out on their site for another one to become available as he would like one.Another one did appear and it was duly ordered.This too was in excellent condition except for a couple of light scratches on the … Continue reading E(rror)-1 →