The Canal Shop Company

A Midlands UK site for buying by mail
order useful gifts for inland waterways enthusiasts of all ages. Click the heading and browse the catalogue

Olympus lens tests (Gary Reese, USA).            To join the Olympus email List
The Olympus Photo Gallery
(Garth Wood, Canada)
       
The OM List's Repair Man (Camtech, USA, but he has customers all over the world)
The Unofficial Yoshihisa Maitani Homepage
Acer Victoria (Siddiq) for just about every OM link known to manxxx

Right is the current Olympus OM-4Ti, which is way out of my price range. (Even more expensive is the manual OM-3Ti)

(As I don't have one of these to photograph, this picture is borrowed from Olympus Japan's website)

For more info on the Olympus OM System:-

Some UK Photographic firms with whom I have good experiences of buying used cameras or other photographic equipment:-

MXV Photographic of Uckfield, East Sussex (Good for used Olympus)

City Photographic, Southampton                  Vintage Cameras, London
Three sources of films, batteries, etc. at good prices from Guernsey:
7dayshop, MX2, and Color2U

For Filters and Various Camera Adapters (SRB, Luton)
The Well Furlong site, Berkshire, Gaynor & Michael Duffy's site for Jazz, Painting, Sculpture, Art book reviews, and Shakespeare appreciation

Above: Duke Ellington (part) by Gaynor L Duffy

Pixaround for a free download of a remarkable picture stitching utility, panorama maker and viewer, around 6 megabytes in all. Stand in one place and rotate, taking overlapping pictures of your complete surroundings and PixMaker will join the scanned results into a seamless 360 degree view. An outstanding sample is included in the download. My picture above is of Westwood Road/Electric Ave junction, Witton. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxRicoh RDC 2E digital

You can also use it to improve the performance of your low res. digital camera by getting in close and taking a matrix of 4, 6 or more overlapping pictures and letting PixMaker join them into one high-resolution picture

SITE MAP / HOMEPAGE / WITTON / GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHY / NEWHALL MILL / FOR EXCHANGE
OLYMPUS OM SYSTEM / COMPUTER GRAPHICS / PICTURE GALLERY
SiteAdd - You can register your web site with a host of search engines in one go by completing just one on-line form - and it's FREE!

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Links to other pages:

SITE MAP

HOMEPAGE

WITTON

GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Espio 928

Kiev-4

Ricoh GR1

Lomo 135BC

Olympus 35RC

NEWHALL MILL

FOR EXCHANGE

OLYMPUS
OM SYSTEM

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

PICTURE GALLERY

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DigiGuide - Plan your UK TV viewing and radio listening the easy way. New listings can be downloaded fortnightly with automatic updates and it's all for just a fiver a year. I'd been looking for something like this ever since I first had Internet access.

A USA version is planned to be available from late 2002.
US TV Viewers go here to register for info upon its launch

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UK Photographic Dealers
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their names and addresses - listed by location or name. A page of dealers' websites and their email addresses where available. Notify the webmaster of any he's missed

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Kodak Retina Guide - An on-line version of the Focal Press Guide to the folding Retinas
Antique and Classic Camera info and newsletters with excellent links to other interesting sites
Nathan Dayton's Russian cameras with full details of the Kiev 35mm c.r.f. model changes

Birmingham Assist, Birmingham City Council's site.
For information on anything about Birmingham, try here first.

For historical information on Aston in Birmingham look here

Vikenti Trofimov, Ukrain, a well-regarded dealer in cameras of the former USSR

Anya's Camera On-line Store. Based in Odessa, Ukraine, Anya sells new and used Russian medium
format cameras and the full range of used 35mm cameras, as well as a variety of curios.
She also has the great distinction of being a Kiev 4 user.

Yuri Boguslavsky, New York, a very knowledgeable supplier
of top quality, if expensive, Russian photographic equipment


My other site
- under construction - will eventually be an improved version
of this one, hopefully, after learning from my mistakes here!



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