Captain JP's log

One evening the skies miraculously cleared, so I took the camera with the biggest lens I've got and star tracker down to the local park....

I've just checked outside to see if I can see any flying pigs or the Loch Ness monster swimming up the Thames, for the long rumoured, ne...

Following on from the blog post " Do you need full frame? " here is a short video of a bike ride in Richmond Park on New Year...

The Bursledon Blog had a post about cameras and how much the tech is required which interested me as it's a topic I've been thin...

In Svalbard my drone went a bit wonky. The gimbal, which controls the camera, started leaning to one side, as if it was a bit hung-over an...

Nikon new full frame mirrorless! Canon new full frame mirrorless! Fujifilm new APSC mirrorless! Expected Panasonic new full frame mirrorl...

Time for another of the occasionally blog posts on photography and after recent mention of a dead cat I thought I show you what mine looks...

Regular readers will know I have a side interest in photography and one of the sites I keep track of is dpreview . To test the video fea...

The BBC posted some pictures taken using pinhole cameras , and it being a three day weekend in the UK I decided that would be a good proje...

I try where ever possible to use my own photographs for this blog and its no burden but rather a lot of fun trying to take the best possib...

I, like so many, spend far too long in front of a computer screen. No longer do we need screen savers to protect our bulky CRT but virtu...

Duct tape is wonderful and one of the sailor's most versatile tools. Tillerman is so keen on it he is thinking about making a boat w...

So my awards are: BEST CAMERA for PHOTOGRAPHERS: Canon 550D BEST CAMERA for WATER SPORTS: Olympus Tough TG-1 BEST CAMERA for TRAVEL:...

In the last blog I posted three sets of pictures from three cameras, the Canon 550D, the Sony Nex-6 and the Olympus Tough TG-1, and Tiller...

So here are three photos from Putney with each of the Canon 550D, Sony Nex 6 and Olympus Tough TG-1 Canon 550D: Sony NEX 6: ...

This camera is marketed as being both waterproof and shockproof and in Greenland I was to test both of these and it passed with flying c...

I took two cameras to Greenland, and one of the them was the Sony NEX-6. The idea behind the NEX-6 is to have all the power of a DSLR bu...

I love this camera. It feels great in your hand: rock solid with controls just where they should be and the pictures are gems. You wan...

I own three cameras as shown in the photo above (which was taken by my new Nexus 5, so to be accurate I really have four). But which is be...

Over the weekend there was the " super moon ", which is when it is at perigee (i.e. closest to the Earth) and full at the same t...