Photo Review was privileged to be able to interview Mr Masaya Maeda during our visit to Canon's headquarters in the Shimomaruko area of Tokyo on 8 February. At the time of the interview, Canon had just announced total consolidated net sales for 2010 reached almost 3707 billion Yen and represented growth of 15.5% over the previous year.
... [more]Photo Review was one of two Australian magazines whose technical journalists were invited to join a party of representatives from leading Australian and New Zealand retail chains on a visit to the Oita Canon factory on 7 February, 2011 ... [more]From the Archive: Don's Editorial, Photo Review Issue 11 Jun/July 2003.
Fountain pens have long appealed to me. In fact, this editorial started out as a series of disconnected thoughts and notes jotted down on the back of an envelope with a cheap, but functional, midnight blue plastic model.
There's something peculiarly satisfyinga bout using a nib to put ink on paper. The act of writing is smooth and flowing. The best result comes from caressing the paper lightly, instead of pressing into it. Even if your pencraft isn't remarkable, writing with a fountain pen still makes you feel like a calligrapher.
... [more]From the Archive: Don's Editorial, Photo Review Issue 8 Dec/Jan 2003
Change rarely arrives with a bang. Instead it sidles quietly up to you and whispers softly in your ear until eventually you realise it's there. ... [more]From the Archive: Don's Editorial Photo Review Issue 6: One of the questions I get asked most frequently is ‘should I buy a digital camera now, or wait until the prices drop some more?'. There is no short or easy answer to such a question. Instead, one has first to find out in some detail what sort of photography the potential digital camera buyer thinks they want to do. Then you need to know the state of their computer hardware and finally, what sort of budget they have to work with. At every stage you have to be asking yourself if analogue photography could deliver a better cost benefit ratio. Taking someone through this process gives one a real appreciation for the challenges facing the sales staff in Australia's camera stores. ... [more]Unlike its hard edged, high contrast counterpart in Australia, the Golden State's sunshine often has a kind of warm, enveloping quality that seems ever so subtly to open up the shadows and soften the highlights. Perhaps it's something to do with the cold Pacific Ocean which every summer creates dense fogs along the coast for weeks at a time. Or maybe it's the ever present photochemical haze created by car exhaust and, in some cases, the vegetation on California's chapparal clad hills. Whatever the particulars of its origins, it is an ideal light for landscape photography.
... [more]Photography news highlights from 2008. ... [more]Writing to the Australian photographic historian and writer Jack Cato in 1952, just a year before he died, Harold Cazneaux, recalled how the 1898 international exhibition of pictorialist photography forever changed him. 'I stood spellbound and inspired,' he told Cato, 'here was a new beauty beyond anything I had dreamed of in terms of the camera.'
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