It felt very strange taking a soapy sponge to my new 24-105mm F4 and 70-200mm F4 lenses this morning! These turned up yesterday from canonmugs.com, after a short wait for stock to arrive. After washing them, I tried the 24-105mm for a cup of coffee with lunch....
I'm sometimes asked what custom function settings I select on my Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera, so I figured I'd share this information so that you can compare my settings with your own. I have also made my custom settings file available below for you to apply to your...
After a false start with problems in firmware 2.0.3 that caused the camera to fail to record any audio at all, today, Canon followed up with firmware 2.0.4 that adds manual audio controls to the 5D Mark II. Here's my 5D2 with the controls displayed. I still don't see...
This year marked the start of a new event, the Camera and Photo Imaging Show, at the Pacifico Yokohama exhibition hall. I can see from the updated Web site, which is at cpplus.jp, that they had around 41,000 visitors over the four days of the event, which I guess...
Extension tubes are really handy. Because they have no glass elements, they aren't very heavy, and you can couple two or three together and put them into one pouch, and they are no bigger than a small lens, so they fit in the photographer's vest without taking up much...
I'm not sure if Canon is using this marketing worldwide, but in Japan, they are calling the 7D the Image Monster! On the same day as the 7D release, Canon also released their new EF 100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM and having tested it both in the field and under more...
Last week I took two camera bodies to Canon's Service Center in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to have the sensors cleaned. Of all the times I've had the sensors cleaned by Canon, never once have they changed settings on the camera, so I don't pay much attention to checking that my...
From today, possibly for the next three weeks, I’m going to do a bit of a review of three lenses that I have picked up in the last few months, and not had a chance to talk about yet. Today we’ll take a look at some shots from the Canon EF 135mm F2L USM lens. In the...
Last Friday, on October 17th, 2008, the Canon PowerShot G10 high end compact digital camera went on sale here in Japan, and I went straight to the shop at which I’d placed a pre-order to pick mine up. I’ve had a lot of fun over the last few days just having a small...
It’s here!! I have taken ownership of my Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III. Today I’m going to do another First Impressions style review while looking at the fruits of my first day out with this amazing piece of kit. Having spent a good few hours poring over the instructions...
On Sunday the 26th or March, 2006, I visited the Photo Imaging Expo or PIE 2006 at the Tokyo Big Sight international exhibition center. In this episode I’m going to relay some thoughts on the visit, based mainly on what I wanted to get from it. I am thinking of...