By Bill Caulfeild-BrowneA couple of weeks ago I paid a very expensive visit to Michael’s studio in Toronto. Ostensibly I was going to admire his pictures (dynamite – his prints show just how inadequate the web is for displaying fine art) and then we were to have lunch together.

But Michael, being Michael, had a few new toys for me to play with. One of them was the Sony Alpha 900, which very quickly struck me as a traditionalcamera, rather than the typical highly sophisticated DSLR with all kinds of bells and whistles – most of which I don’t need or use – from Canon or Nikon.

Twenty-four hours later and a visit to the local Sony dealer, I was the owner of a new Sony with three lenses – with more to come.  I was also considerably poorer. Moral – don’t visit the Luminous Landscape gallery!

I’m not going to repeatMichael’s reviewortoday’s update. I concur with most everything he’s said and I’ll j...