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16th July 2020
My wife walking on the beach, shot with my old Olympus E-510 in 2011

Why my blog post for Olympus got lost

Do you accumulate cameras? I do. I have just passed some on to others for their enjoyment, this included a couple of 1930s Twin Lens Reflex […]
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3rd July 2019

Manual controls and when to use them.

I can’t be doing with snobbery in photography. I watched a video on YouTube by a well-known photography commentator insisting you must use full frame. Balderdash! […]
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