Uncle Dick's Workshop - Friday 8

Every Friday at 10:00AM - we will be bringing you the sort of cutting-edge expertise that leaves ragged bits and sore fingers - Uncle Dick's Workshop. The advice is free - free from good sense in most instances....It really cranks up around the first of April.

Q:      This camera is only a week old and the lens won’t come out!

A:      It is probably afraid that you will drop it into the sand at the beach yet again. You don’t want a camera – you want a hermit crab.

Q:      I don’t think much of your advice!

A:      A wise attitude. I think very little as I proffer it. Don’t be discouraged – thinking and photography are very much like oil and water. Which reminds me – make sure you check the oil and water in your camera before you take it on holiday.

Q:      What is the ugliest digital camera available?

A:      The iSore.

Q:      How do they define a classic camera?

A:      A classic camera is anything with leather wrapped around it. If the leather has dried out and peeled off it is a classic collector’s opportunity. If it still opens it is a treasure. If it smells like a bag of Balkan socks it is an artistic instrument. Don’t get me started on the glass.

Q:      I want a digital camera that I can slip into my purse.

A:      And that, Madam, is precisely why we lock them away in a display cabinet.