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  • Small sensors don’t do bokeh

    Apparently, small sensors can’t do bokeh. It’s funny how often the “rules” of photography turn out to be old wives’ tales. Of course there are cameras that don’t do bokeh. In the early 2000s, I grew inexplicably fond of Kodak Advantix cameras. Bizarre, I know, but they were lightweight, easily loaded with 35mm film, and…

  • A matter of focus

    Have you ever experienced that moment when you look through the viewfinder to see a beautiful impressionistic image of colours and shapes – only for it all to snap into focus and lose the magic? When I found it happening to me once too often, I started thinking about what had actually happened. Usually the…

  • Megapixels are overrated

    It was my very first camera that persuaded me that megapixels aren’t important. The Fujifilm Finepix E550 offered an option to shoot at 800 ISO – at the cost of its image output dropping from 6.3 to 3 megapixels. Not ideal, but in 2004, 800 ISO was a rarity in consumer cameras, so I felt…