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  • Tamron AF 70-300 Di LD telephoto lens for Canon EF-M?

    UPDATE: Since first writing this I discovered I can get the EF-EOS M adapter from Canon for $199. Although having to add this to the camera won’t really help to make adding lenses to the EOS-M affordable, it would give me the option to use the telephoto lens from my existing EOS 600D with the…

  • Canon EOS M100 / Computer Upgrade

    Well I have been using a Canon EOS M100 for some weeks as a replacement for my SX260 compact which while it still works, has problems with the shutter on the front of the lens jamming. And while the SX260 was sort of a high end travel zoom and I miss its 20x lens, I…

  • Canon EOS M100 evaluation of low light performance

    One area of particular technical superiority of large sensor cameras (DSLRs and MILCs) is that they have a large lens which lets more light in, the result is much better low light performance than compact cameras. With this in mind I set about evaluating the low-light performance of the EOS M100 using trains as subjects.…

  • Photography notes 03/2018

    I used to write on this blog a lot about my digital cameras and photography. Back then I took a lot more photos and even had many thousands of them published online. However in recent years my focus for photography as a hobby has waned and I took down virtually all of my online photos,…

  • Canon MILC Cameras: EOS M Series

    Canon has been slow to produce viable MILC cameras but their latest range has done a lot for their credibility in leveraging the benefits of this relatively new technology for interchangeable lens cameras. Briefly put, MILC is an abbreviation for Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera and essentially it is a DSLR without the optical viewfinder and…

  • SX 170 arrives

    So this came down from Smiths City in Nelson, they must have about the last remaining stock in the whole country. Here it is side by side with the SX150 on its right. There are a few differences which don’t really bother me that much. The lens zoom ratio is a little higher as is…

  • SX170 last of its kind

    Six weeks ago I wrote about my plan to get a Powershot SX170 as a replacement for the little Ixus camera I had. I am now following through with that plan as the model has been officially withdrawn in NZ. Fortunately LV Martins / Smiths City still have a few as just about everyone else…

  • Canon SX150, Lowepro Dashpoint 20 & Lowepro Apex 60

    Once upon a time… Lowepro made the D-RES series of camera pouches. I had one of the smaller ones. It held every one of my AA battery pocket cameras and had plenty of internal pockets for extra batteries. With the AA cameras I had a spare set of rechargeables and a spare set of lithiums…

  • SX150 again

    So back to using the SX150 for the first time in 20 months and it’s great to be using such a good camera again. One of the reasons I stopped using it is because I couldn’t get a pouch that would hold two additional NiMH AAs as well as two lithium AAs for “emergency” backup.…

  • How to set the image number you want on a Canon camera

    As we all know the Canon cameras number images sequentially and this counter can be useful to know how many images you have taken on a camera. However when you take a memory card that has been used in a different camera and put it into your camera, the counter gets reset according to the…