Brian Chichester

Interesting question. Are you feeling 'buyer's remorse'? I grew up with prime lenses on film SLRs and I found zoom lenses a real advantage when I was able to afford them. Zooming with your feet is ...

The rot started with the venerable Panny LX-7, a wonderful camera with the exception of the absent remote facility. I have fashioned a bracket that fits in the hot shoe and enables a mechanical ...

It's annoying that Panasonic have stopped fitting this feature on many recent cameras. The GX85 has a hot shoe so you may be able to rig a mechanical one using an old-style cable release, like the ...

The article referenced by the OP is a fun read but I couldn't see the date when it went online. As of now, it's out of date and out of touch. (The guy is lugging round a full frame DSLR so we can ...

I've been into m4/3 since more or less the start (Panny GF1) and have had four camera bodies and very many lenses. I've tried a lot of combinations thereof for travel, and now in my senior years I ...

To be a little more serious, I think that when I don't get the result I wanted it's generally due to a failure of visualisation. I imagined the shot, believed I could do it, but reckoned without ...

The Samyang is stereographic as opposed to rectilinear (or rectangular as you have it). It's not a fisheye though it can generate fisheye-type distortion if not aimed carefully. The Laowa is ...

The OP is asking for wide-angle solutions for travel whilst expressing concerns over cost (very sensibly). I would suggest a one-lens solution would be the Olympus 9-18mm - small, light, comparable ...

I voted for "as cheap as possible" in the poll but I suppose I would qualify that by saying the lens has to be different, interesting, offering something that I won't find in native lenses (in my ...

Funny you should mention the Samsung EX. I had the EX1 and loved the output, but was continually frustrated by the limited zoom range. I sold it and moved up to M4/3 bodies and have never ...

This must really be aimed at smartphone users. If you have a camera, there are 'real' tripods with a ball head weighing only about 600g and looking rather less like a picnic table (e.g. Cullmann...

It probably depends on what kind of pictures you normally take. I do a lot of HDR stuff so I'm always using a tripod. When I'm away on travel I expect to make the same kinds of images so I need a ...