Inevitable really…

I suppose I can resist anything except temptation – so I bought a Canon Powershot G9 which was delivered a week ago. Initial thoughts: very quick after the Olympus SP350 – even formatting a 4GB SDHC card. I am less troubled by the barrel distortion on wide angle than I thought I would be. Superb 3-inch screen – very pokey viewfinder, less use than I’d hoped – almost less useful than the Olympus as it show only 80%+. Picture quality is superb – well the JPEGs are. I haven’t yet installed Canon’s software but both Camera Raw 4.2 and Lightroom 1.2 produce ghastly magenta casts over RAW images from the camera – the corresponding JPEGs are perfectly colour balanced. Anyone out there know why? technically the G9 is not listed as a supported camera for Adobe RAW products. 

So many books

Stephen Coll – who  contributed a great set of images to my book on Composition – has a self published book out on Lulu. Called Foreshore this is the collection of Stephen’s images which he describes as a ‘photographic abstract of the shoreline’. Luscious photography with classic cameras from a sensitive observer.  Recommended.

Another new book

 It really has been years in production - I first started work on it in 1986!  - but print-on-demand and private publishing finally made this possible. The Mouse at the Albion Press is the history of the Doncaster Grammar school printing press which ran from the 50s to the 70s written by my Art Teacher. It was where I was first exposed to typography, design and photography.