Directions for WiFi on My New Camera (Photo credit: Old Shoe Woman)

Today, let’s take a quick look-see at what’s going on right now in the photography marketplace.

WiFi Camera without a WiFi Camera

Don’t have one of those new WiFi cameras and just achin’ to buy one?  Guess what – you’ve got one if you can spend $70 on a new type of SD Card! – say ‘thank you’ to Transcend.  Using on

e of their SD cards will allow you to establish a wireless P2P connection between your camera and mobile device and also hop on any reachable hotspot.  You’ve got WiFi!

Filters are a ‘Snap!’

Cokin has brought out a new Snap! Kit of filters for mirrorless cameras.  The kit contains an adaptor ring (five diameters available), filter holder, an ND4, a Graduated Sunset filter, and . . . that’s all!  Cokin, that ain’t much of a ‘kit’.  If you want to treat mirrorless users right, you could have thrown in a Polarizer and Star 6, and perhaps a Diffuser (with a suitable increase in price).  How about a Snap! Kit Deluxe?

Filters can also be Retro

If you want to use filters but want to exhibit some retro style (and I mean really retro), look no further than Kenko’s Filter Stick.  PetaPixel says that it “is like a Lorgnette for Your Camera Lens” and that’s not a bad analogy.  While you hold your camera in one hand, you hold this thingumabob, filter screwed in, with the other hand in front of the lens.  Lorgnettes may have been High Society style but thanks – I’ll take the Cokin solution!

Printing Medium: Wood!

To close, let’s step back several days and take in an unusual exhibition.  Myles McGuinness has tried to print photographs on wood for years and recently he perfected the technique (it’s a secret). 

McGuinness is a surf and waterside photographer.  For his wood prints, he chooses both, a specific image as well as a particular block of wood for that image.  Check out this example and this one.

The fruits of his skill and labour were exhibited from 3rd November at a venue in Oceanside, California.