Photography
The best point-and-shoot just got better: Canon S100
We’ve been waiting for the fabled follow-up to the incredible S95 point and shoot camera for months now. It’s finally here and it’s pretty much everything we could have wanted.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 15 September 2011
Last man standing: The Nokia N8
As Nokia jumps into bed with Microsoft and kisses its Symbian operating system goodbye, The Prodigal Fool examines the last of a dying breed: the N8, a Symbian-powered multimedia powerhouse that leaves him impressed and disappointed in almost equal measure.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 28 February 2011
Just because: Leica M9 Titanium
Hey, we’ve already owned up: we know very little about photography. But we think we do know something about design and desirability. And so when it comes to cameras, we say you can’t do better than a Leica. And just because we were perusing the pages of the ever-excellent JoshSpear.com and came across the German [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 5 November 2010
Leica ready to take your money for the promise of an M9
By our own admission we know very little about how good photography gets made. Aperture? Depth of field? Shutter speed? Yes, we’re sure these things play crucial roles, but hey – fire us – we can’t tell you what they are. On the other hand, we do know beautiful photography when we see it and [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 25 January 2010
A Prodigal November
Here’s our monthly roundup of what we’ve been writing and you’ve been reading. The top ten most popular posts in November were:
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 1 December 2009
Why the N86 is the best phone Nokia currently makes
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the N86, Nokia’s newly released flagship camera-phone with a hugely impressive 8 megapixel, Carl Zeiss lens. It’s also, in our humble opinion, the best phone Nokia currently makes. Now, with behemoths of the phone world like the N97, E71 and E75 currently roaming around the Nokia product portfolio, that’s a [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 20 July 2009
The Samsung OmniaHD gets fondled by the good folk at All About Symbian
The Samsung first caught our eye about a month ago when it was announced at Mobile World Congress. Now one of the best site for Symbian news, All About Symbian, has had a chance to get its hands on one for a more detailed first look. The news is mixed – great looking photos, problems [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 15 March 2009
Nikon D80: stunning photos despite us
For all our love of gadgets, The Guide is embarrassed to admit that it has never found time to properly understand the intricacies of quality photography. Oh sure, we like the end results, but we have no understanding of how it is achieved. We are self-confessed photography ignoramuses. What we do know, however, is that [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 12 January 2008
