Recent content by Jon Evans

I don't see online storage as any better - or worse - than external hard drives, though the latter is faster and (to me at least) easier to keep organised. They just have different failure mechanisms. If you see the cloud as safe then consider this...

According to Wikipedia (i.e. therefore this is the correct answer :D) a photographer is anyone who takes photos. Personally I tend to use the term to describe someone with a camera who at times deliberately goes out to take photographs - even if the results do turn out like mine :-( When I...

Thanks for the welcome. The main restriction of this bridge camera is the limited f-stop range; you can move further away and zoom in to an object to try and make the background look more blurred but as you zoom the minimum f-stop goes up, somewhat negating the effect. But there's lots of...

In the late 80's/ start of the 90's I enjoyed playing with a Minolta X300 SLR with a goodly selection of lens, filters and seperate flash but other things began to take precidence and the camera fell in to disuse - though I still have it. Fist digital camera was a Minolta - circa 2000 - on...