canon | Monday, March 28, 2016

9:09 AM

Two Compact Flash bays are quite something. They have multiple configurations, such as RAW to one and JPEG to the other, which makes for an ultra-flexible workflow, not to mention unstoppable shooting given two massive cards and switching to JPEG all-round. At 14 frames a second, it’s easy to use vast amounts of storage. #canon #eos1dx #dslr #photography #compactflash

canon | Monday, March 28, 2016

9:04 AM

This is a series of posts on the Canon EOS-1DX. The EOS-1 has always been a highly impressive flagship, from back in the 1980s to the present day. The camera has become larger and incredibly sophisticated, diverging into full-frame and APS-sized before merging back with this camera. It’s packed with features above and beyond the rest of their lineup, starting with this, an Ethernet port. #canon #eos1dx #dslr #photography #ethernet

Fuji | Saturday, December 19, 2015

4:56 PM

#Fuji are having a fire sale right before the launch of the X-Pro 2, so get in there. #photography #mirrorless

tri | Saturday, September 19, 2015

10:15 PM

Wow. JP gave me a stash of Tri-X. The old TX400 formula, not the modern 400TX formula. Five rolls worth! #tri-x #kodak #film #photography #filmwasters #filmphotography #35mm

street | Saturday, August 15, 2015

10:47 PM

Anyhoooo, the reason all this gear is out, is because I’m going #street shooting tomorrow for the first time in about three or four years. Anyone who wants to join in, you know where I am. Film or digital welcome. And if you want to use any of the kit in these pics, that is cool too. See some of you tomorrow. #London #photography #street #filmwasters

Observing rather than Hunting

These days, I spend too much time behind a camera hunting for pretty pictures, and too little simply documenting what I see around me. The latter is very satisfying, very amateur (in a good way) and largely what I did for ten years before getting slightly more serious about it all. The upcoming project documentary is going to take more observation than perhaps I’m used to these days, but the more observational work I do meets a positive response - The Council Estate and just yesterday, The House - and it’s all good practice for the big project. I’ve spent a lot of time in Pondicherry since I was a baby, and there’s a familiarity which prevents me wandering around as I might in a new town or city. So much of this place is tied to my family and its history, that I’m looking at my own family more closely, even as I’m stared at in the street… Christina found a splendid internet cafe last time she was here, and where I sit right now, and of course the people here know my family, don’t they? Pretty much everyone and anyone in the ashram knows Atma, my eldest cousin, and ashramites all know each other anyway. So I’m being observed too, as it happens, and noting that, I’m off to photograph the derelict patch of land that my father and his two brothers have owned since the 1960s.