• I am a non-commercial photographer living in Melbourne, Australia and have a love for everything photography
• I do not do weddings nor commercial work
• I do not sell anything
• I am not sponsored by any photographic companies
• I have created this website to share what I have learned, and also to keep a ready resource available.
• I mainly use Canon, Olympus and Panasonic digital cameras - see my photography toys
• I am gradually converting my old website pages to this wikipedia format
• I am also a keen computer programmer - see my free photography calculator tool I made a few years ago, you can download from here
• my photos on Flickr
• my photos hosted in a JAlbum gallery
• my photos by lens used
• my photography blog
• my old website
• a selection of my photographs
• some of my brief lens tests
• some handy photography links to other websites

Other sections of this wiki:

• my brief history of the world
• helpful travel links and information - Australia
• Melbourne
• Melbourne weather
• my genealogy main index
• Gary's wiki test area

• choosing a digital camera
• camera systems compared
• compact fixed lens cameras:
  • tough, waterproof, shockproof compact fixed lens cameras
  • compact fixed lens digital cameras with larger sensors
• digital SLR cameras
• professional sports / journalistic dSLRs
• mirrorless camera systems
• lens mount cross-compatibility table
• lens adapters
• camera lenses
  • fisheye lenses
  • super wide angle lenses
  • fast 50mm lenses
  • standard lenses
  • portrait lens
  • super tele
  • perspective control lenses
  • image stabilised lenses
  • legacy lenses for mirrorless cameras
• buying a telescope

• dummies guide to using a digital camera
• photography cheat sheet
• basics of creating a good photograph
• exposure
• ISO
• photographic colour temperature (white balance)
• photographic filters
• depth of field (DOF)
• bokeh
• digital cameras and focus
• lens focal length
• vignetting
• digital camera sensors
• sensor size
• image stabiliser
• light
• optics
• electromagnetic radiation and optics - a brief historical timeline

• light values and zone metering
• digital camera RAW files
• digital image noise
• dynamic range
• photographic creativity and inspiration
• photographing people
• portraiture
• outdoor portraits
• the group portrait
• low light and action photography
• urban night photography
• panorama
• timelapse photography
• macrophotography
• photographing droplets
• fisheye lens photography
• indoor photography ideas for a rainy day
• travel photography
• photographing sunrises and sunsets
• photographing Australian forests
• remote control of cameras
• digital camera live preview
• geotagging your photos with GPS data
• backpacks and bags for photographic gear
• tripods
• photographic film in a digital age
• infrared photography
• astrophotography
• photographing the moon
• photographing astronomical occultations
• photographing comets
• observing and photographing meteors
• observing and photographing aurora borrealis and aurora australis

• flash technology
• remote flash for cameras
• flash modifiers
• flash sync
• flash units for macrophotography including ring flashes and twin flashes
• Metz flash systems
• Quantum flash systems
• flash for Four Thirds and Micro Four Thirds cameras
• more details on flash options for Four Thirds and Micro Four Thirds cameras
• studio flash
• photographic lighting basics

• Adobe Photoshop® techniques 1
• digital photographic printing
• color calibration

• creating photo albums on the web
• online image galleries

• copyright law in Australia
• photography as collectible fine art
• history of photography
• miscellaneous info
• glossary
• some handy photography links to other websites

• camera lenses
  • super wide angle lenses
  • fast 50mm lenses
  • standard camera zoom lenses
  • portrait lenses
  • lenses for macrophotography
  • super telephoto lenses
  • perspective control, shift and/or tilt lenses
  • travel photography
  • weatherproof lenses
• lenses by mount type:
  • lens mount cross-compatibility table
  • lens adapters
  • Four Thirds lenses
  • Micro Four Thirds lenses
  • Canon EF lenses
  • Canon EF-S lenses
  • legacy lenses for mirrorless cameras
    • Olympus OM lenses
    • Leica and Voigtlander rangefinder lenses
    • Pentax M42 lenses
    • Nikon F camera system lenses
    • Leica R mount lenses
    • Canon FD lenses
    • Konica Hexanon AR legacy manual focus lenses

• history of photography

• compact fixed lens cameras:
  • tough, waterproof, shockproof compact fixed lens cameras
  • compact fixed lens digital cameras with larger sensors
• mirrorless camera systems
  • Micro Four Thirds system
  • Sony NEX camera system
  • Samsung NX mirrorless camera system
  • Fujifilm X mirrorless system
  • Nikon 1 mirrorless camera system
  • Canon EOS-M EF-M compact mirrorless system
• digital SLRs:
  • digital SLR cameras
  • timeline of development of dSLR cameras
  • Olympus Four Thirds dSLR system
  • Canon EOS camera system
  • Nikon F dSLR system
  • Sony Alpha dSLR system
  • Pentax K mount camera system
  • 35mm full frame digital cameras
  • medium format digital camera systems
    • Hasselblad H series medium format cameras
    • Mamiya / Phase One 645 medium format camera system
    • Leica S medium format digital camera system

• 35mm film systems:
  • Olympus OM system
  • Pentax K mount camera system
  • Minolta
  • Canon FD lenses
  • Canon EOS camera system
  • Nikon F
  • Contax Yashica 35mm film SLR camera system
  • Leica camera systems
• medium format film camera systems
  • twin lens reflex film cameras
  • Mamiya twin lens reflex film cameras
  • Bronica SQ 6x6 medium format film system
  • Hasselblad
  • Mamiya / Phase One 645 medium format camera system
  • Mamiya 6x7 medium format SLR camera system

• Vincent Laforet's blog - his video gear - well worth a read
• Philip Bloom's blog - another very worthwhile videography blog
• pro video cameras:
  • professional level digital video cameras