Arts
It's taken until episode 8, but Dave and Mark have finally made it to the pub for a chat about photography! This week we're actually coming to you from inside a bank vault in a former post office-turned pub. There's no particular theme this week, but we meander around a range of issues, from working in colour vs black and white, to upcoming photography exhibitions in London. We also spend a while discussing photographers' G.A.S. - gear acquisition syndrome, i.e. the constant need to upgrade equipment. When do you really need to buy new gear? What new feature will genuinely improve your work or earning potential? Mark is tempted by the technology of the Light L16 camera. Is this £1850 multi-lens compact camera the future of photography? Dave discusses his recent attack of GAS, and the Fujifilm X-T3 that resulted from it, and also admits to a slight camera bag addiction. (Mark's everyday camera backpack the Lowepro Hatchback, and David's latest acquisition in the endless quest for the perfect camera bag: the Crumpler Pearler plus the Peak Design Slide strap.) The V&A museum's new Photography Centre has just opened, and we'll be visiting it very soon. The opening exhibition is Collecting Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital, which explores photography as a way of ‘collecting the world’, from the medium’s invention in the 19th century to the present day. The Fashion & Textile Museum was founded by designer Zandra Rhodes. Two photography exhibitions have just opened there that we'll be reviewing shortly: Night and Day - 1930s Fashion and Photographs and Cecil Beaton: Thirty from the 30s. Podcast music credit: Extraordinaire by DJ Quads.