Simon Reeve

Chinese New Year in Tunbridge Wells – With a Flashgun…

On Saturday February the 13th, residents of Tunbridge Wells celebrated the coming of the Chinese New Year – The Year of the Tiger!  My family and I joined in too, with our own lnaterns and me with my camera, eager to use my new flashgun. How hard can it be?  Well not that easy!  Armed with a new Metz Flashgun 48 AF-1, that has so far proved more than powerful for home and garden, I soon...

Olympus e620 Grainy Film Art Filter

Ever since moving to digital photography, I have often thought of taking black and white photos.  Thing is, I use the ‘take it in colour and convert some later with PhotoShop or similar’.  Theflaw in this approach is, at least for me, is I never seem to get round to trauling through the hundreds (thousands) of photos and converting them to black and white ‘just to see’. ...

What’s not so good about my Olympus e620?

So it’s nearly been a few months now, so here’s what’s not so good with my Olympus e620. Well I’m very gald to say, “Not a lot!!”.   Yep, nearly all incredibly minor niggles are down to me as much as the camera.  By that I mean, I’ve still to learn how to drive it properly. Nothing I hear you cry?  Well you’re right to be suspicous of my claim, as...

Bloco Fogo Caught with Olymous e620

During early September, whilst out doing some Christmas shopping in Tunbridge Wells, my son and I heard some drumming!  It’s was a samba band.  We followed our ears to investigate and found Bloco Fogo playing in the centre by the clock tower. Luckily I had my shiny new Olympus e620 with me, in the hope I’d have cause to use it, and I did! After successfully pushing my way through to...

I’ve bought an Olympus e620 D-SLR

Since 2009 saw a landmark Birthday, and Christmas was looking, I thought it about time to move up from a digital compact camera and get myself a new toy, a Digital SLR. Now many moons ago I used to dabble in photography with an Canon AE-1 of my Dad’s and then my own Canon A-1.  Quick to adopt digital I bought a Sanyo VPC-X350 in 1999, as it did video too.  Nothing special by today’s standard,...