Posts published in “Opinion”

Kodak Alaris and Fujifilm continue to blatantly rip off their film photography customers, with both companies pushing up already extortionate prices on a regular basis.… Read more

Last month we published an article, ‘Huge variations in local camera pricing’, noting first that Australian pricing for cameras was pretty darn sharp compared to the US market, and second that some brands seemed to be offering real bargains locally (compared to the US) while Canon, and especially Nikon, were at a bit of a premium compared to like models from their other competitors. Read more

The best photography print judges I know have decades of experience in the art of photography. They may not be a great photographer, or even a photographer at all! Good judges have studied the past and current masters and understand the value of a photographic print. They comprehend and subscribe to the notion that with judging competitions comes responsibilities. Read more

Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of… Read more

I was recently in Ballarat for the evening and stayed in a hotel which happened to be a couple of doors up from the old… Read more

The recent publicity around Canon apparently ‘banning’ a couple of low-cost third party lens-makers from making RF-mount lenses, along with what it has been saying… Read more

In a much-publicised but unsurprising story from Nikkei News in Japan, Nikon is reported to be stopping development of DSLR cameras. ‘Well tell us something we don’t know,’ is probably the collective reaction to the story from photography insiders, given we haven’t seen a new Nikon DSLR release for several years. Read more

How does an image become an icon? It is estimated that we now produce more images in two minutes than we did in the entire… Read more

As we struggle to recover from the pandemic, ‘Being Human‘ – the theme of this year’s PHOTO 2022 international biennale in Melbourne – could not… Read more

When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that… Read more