Month: July 2015

  • Canon SX150, Lowepro Dashpoint 20 & Lowepro Apex 60

    Once upon a time… Lowepro made the D-RES series of camera pouches. I had one of the smaller ones. It held every one of my AA battery pocket cameras and had plenty of internal pockets for extra batteries. With the AA cameras I had a spare set of rechargeables and a spare set of lithiums…

  • SX150 again

    So back to using the SX150 for the first time in 20 months and it’s great to be using such a good camera again. One of the reasons I stopped using it is because I couldn’t get a pouch that would hold two additional NiMH AAs as well as two lithium AAs for “emergency” backup.…

  • How to set the image number you want on a Canon camera

    As we all know the Canon cameras number images sequentially and this counter can be useful to know how many images you have taken on a camera. However when you take a memory card that has been used in a different camera and put it into your camera, the counter gets reset according to the…

  • Replacement for Ixus 135 Camera – SX170IS

    Around 20 months ago, beginning of October 2013, I bought my very first Ixus, the 135 in a very fetching blue colour. The Digital Ixus series of cameras were first produced by Canon in 2000 and like some other Canon models the name was previously used on a series of film cameras. The Ixus has…