Astbury's Adventures in Photography

What was once the Loch Long torpedo range can be found near Arrochar. The building has long since been abandoned and has suffered from a fire but some of it still remains. Sets of parallel rails that intersect with a simple turntable arrangement can still be seen, these were used for moving torpedoes around the test facility. These photographs have been shot with a Fuji X-T4, the raw files processed with COP and SilverEfex.   Parallel rails run across the floor Only a small part of the roof structure remains, what was the main building now completely open to the elements. All the window glass has been broken. View out to Loch Long The site is located at the southern end of Loch Long, a sea loch chosen for the very straight run it offers. Rail turntable Once the torpedoes were moved to the firing area they would be lowered on chains into the water and fired up the loch. An observation post was immediately above the firing area. Firing area Fired torpedoes would be recovered (althoug...

I've recently had a new Fujifilm X-T4 camera, acquired as the silver body-only option. Having previously had the X-T1 this post is to evaluate what I liked about the original X-T1, the reasons for buying again with the newer X-T4 and to outline some of the steps involved in making the transition. The X-T1 design is about 6 years old, I've had mine for about 5 years, quite a long time in the life of a digital camera. In this time it has been fault free, had several firmware updates and continues to deliver good photographs. The retro styling may not be to everyone's taste but I like it and more importantly it gives simple quick access to the main controls (ISO/shutter/aperture/exp comp) without resort to menus. The camera is relatively small and light, ideal when I don't want the size and weight of a full frame DSLR, for example when out walking. At 16mp the resolution has been enough to produce a large print if the image is not cropped too much. Jpegs are usually very g...