Rich Trenholm
Rich Trenholm writes about digital cameras, except when he's writing about films, music and comics. He does not drink tea and never has.
Wednesday 1 October 2008, 11:58am
I'll shoot the camera next time: James Bond and the eBay affair
If the product placement crowbarred into Casino Royale wasn't jarring enough, just wait for Quantum of Solace. While the second trailer has this Bond fan salivating, I'm not enjoying the advertising campaign gearing up to plaster Daniel Craig's meat-pie mug across adverts for watches, cars and washing powders. Apparently James Bond's favourite airline is Virgin Atlantic -- remember Richard Branson's smug cameo in Casino Royale? Click here for more
Wednesday 10 September 2008, 2:25pm
Large Hadron Collider generates weird particles, headlines
It's official: we're all in the grip of Large Hadron Collider fever. As forums buzz with apocalyptic hysteria and rational, reasoned -- ie, boring -- rebuttals, even Google has got in on the act with today's logo design. The LHC was turned on today and we're all still in one piece -- or at least we think we are... Click here for more
Friday 5 September 2008, 5:06pm
Jason Hawkes: Aerial photographer
My debonair colleague Alex Sassoon Coby -- of GameSpot UK fame -- has just introduced me to the work of Jason Hawkes. Hawkes' adventurous name suits his profession: if he wasn't an aerial photographer he'd have to be a deadshot spy or two-fisted jungle guide or something. But instead he takes amazing pictures of the world from on high. Click here for more
Thursday 21 August 2008, 10:51am
I'll sleep when I'm dead... or maybe on the bus
You'd think, with over 25 years -- yeah, yeah, and the rest -- of doing something every day, that I'd have figured out how to do it. Yet I still find myself regularly disturbed, drenched with sweat and unable to fathom this simplest of biological imperatives. I'm talking, of course, about sleeping. Click here for more
Monday 7 July 2008, 5:32pm
Home Secretary cops out on coppers and cameras
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has responded to the growing anecdotal evidence of overzealous police and security officers harassing UK photographers with a letter to the National Union of Journalists. Click here for more
Monday 30 June 2008, 5:39pm
Image Fulgurator: Guerilla art, simulacra and flashing at Checkpoint Charlie
The Image Fulgurator, developed by Berlin art student Julius von Bismarck, has sent ripples across the blogosphere. It's a device that projects patterns when triggered by a camera flash, so that von Bismarck's chosen image appears in the hapless snapper's picture. Critics fear invisible adverts, but Kameraflage does a similar thing in a much more monetisable form and that hasn't brought down civilisation as we know it yet. Click here for more
Thursday 12 June 2008, 12:43pm
Bad product face-off: Squircle vs iPhone 3G!
In the wake of the iPhone 3G announcement, the excitement generated by the much-hyped build-up was tempered by disappointment. In hindsight, it seems strange that in a product launch, one of the big stories is what features the product doesn't have. This set me to thinking: just what constitutes a bad product? Sometimes it's obvious, like the Squircle: products that don't serve a purpose, products that are daft or rubbish, products that just flat-out don't work. Click here for more
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 2:32pm
Falling at the feet of the unfeeling
After we pulled out, the inspectors may have sprung into action like the cast of Casualty after a particularly nasty hang-glider/toaster accident, but if so, they have the response time of a Tyrannosaurus rex realising it's just been shot Click here for more
Articles by Rich Trenholm
Photos: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 does lenses, but no video
Photo We've got our hands on the innovative Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1, the first compact camera with the interchangeable lenses of a dSLR, and we're impressed
Flip Video 'the future of journalism': UK chief blasts Sony, hints at HD
Photo We met Flip Video's European chief to discuss the success of the Ultra, the new Mino and future plans, as the Flip transforms journalism and competitors like Sony take a bashing
Panasonic HDC-HS100
Review The Panasonic HDC-HS100 ticks just about every box for a camcorder. It's compact but still grippable, while boasting a roomy hard drive. It sports a number of high-end features while still being a piece of cake to operate and benefitting from effective automatic modes. And, considering all the features, its price is right
Sanyo HD1010: So good they named it twice
Crave The Sanyo HD1010 is a compact high-definition camcorder, with 10x zoom, assorted still photo options, and a 300fps slow-motion mode. So far so good, but no HDMI cable? Come on, Sanyo
Canon cashback and bargains galore
Photo We've sniffed out some of the best deals, steals and outright bargains in our round-up of the cashback offers on, er, offer if you're looking at buying a new camera
Photos: Hands-on with the 3MOS Panasonic HDC-HS100
Photo The Panasonic HDC-HS100 is a camcorder packing a manual focus ring, viewfinder and three CMOS sensors -- so the boffins have only gone and called it a 3MOS camera. Clever, eh?
Fujifilm FinePix J100
Review The Fujifilm FinePix J100 is very simple. We'd even call it the consummate point-and-shoot, mainly because you can't do anything else with it. Despite a few quirks, this camera has a decent 5x zoom -- but one thing is for sure: the prominence of 'baby mode' suggests this isn't a camera for the party scene
Samsung Pixon 8-megapixel camera phone: Pixon, Pix-off
Crave The Samsung Pixon is the latest 8-megapixel camera phone to challenge cameras for on-the-go snapping, with help from one Nick Turpin
