Fantastic lightning photo by one of our regular customers, Gareth Pinckard from the Isle of Man.

The winner of last summers win a "Dream Car for a Day Competition" finally takes delivery of his prize. Looks like he enjoyed the experience, read on to hear what he had to say about driving a supercar for the day.

SDXC Memory Cards are the latest SD memory card standard. SDXC stands for "Secure Digital eXtended Capacity"

The 1GB Olympus XD picture card has been discontinued and stock is no longer available from our suppliers.

How to format a memory card is an important task for any photographer and it must be done correctly. There are some important Do's and Don'ts

Lots of us own a pair of binoculars, but how many of us actually know how to correctly set the focusing ? Here is a simple guide on how to correctly set up focusing.

Gareth Pinckard, of Ramsey, Isle of Man took this rare and breathtaking image of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Photography is a creative, satisfying pastime. You can enhance your DSLR camera experience with a few added camera accessories that are neither difficult to use - nor expensive to buy.

PicStop win What Digital Camera's "best online retailer" award for the 4th year running.

Speed is an important factor for SDHC memory cards when being used to record HD Video. High speed cards are more suited to handle the vast amounts of data being processed and recorded. Slower speed, lower specified cards can struggle and stop recording if the data being saved is supplied too quickly from the HD camcorder.

What do the speed ratings mean on a memory card?  What Is Memory Card Speed?
Not only are there different shapes (the format) and sizes such as Secure Digital (SD) Compact Flash, Memory Stick etc, but also different speed ratings.

Using the simple formula below you can calculate how long it will take to charge as set of x4 AA Batteries.

Micro SDXC memory cards are a derivative of SDXC Cards - eXtended Capacity micro SD cards sport the same features as the SDXC card.

Have you got a digital camera or a printer, most people have, do you know exactly which memory card or which ink cartridge is compatible with your device ?

Graduated Grey filters or ND grad filters as they are known are a must have for the landscape photographer.

Camcorder manufacturers are now suggesting use of a minimum class rating for use with their models, make sure you check your handbook to ensure you purchase the correct class memory card.

Memory cards are small and durable but, like all technology, they are still vulnerable to failure. Here are twelve ways that you can protect and extend the life of your memory card.

Picstop win the What Digital Camera Good Service Awards for “Best Online Retailer 2009” for the third year running.

Why do people say “Scan-disk” when they are talking about “SanDisk?” The two meanings are completely different and only vaguely related.

Fuji have recently announced that their xd memory cards will be discontinued.

If you would like to be a featured Photographer on the PicStop blog, please contact us. We have begun this new blog feature to showcase individual Photographers in order to provide an insight into their photography and provide us happy snappers some tips and inspiration. Colin Russell - www.isleofmanlandscapes.com

A card reader for the mobile phone user, reads Sim cards & mobiel phone memory cards such as Micro SDHC

 A battery grip is not only for adding extra comfort when shooting vertically, it also gives you a battery life of over 1000 shots.

There has been a great deal of press lately surrounding photographers rights to take a picture and those who believe they have had their rights infringed by having their picture taken.

Kingston Micro SD produced in Japan is higher speed than regular Kingston Micro sd.

A new SD format has been announced! The new format will be called SDXC (an abbreviation of Secure Digital eXtended Capacity) which will allow up to 2TB of storage on one card. The New SDXC Cards will execute read and write speeds to 104MB/s this year, with the possibility to achieve up to 300MB/s in the future.

SDHC card - 30MB/s Edition has just been announced. The new cards are available worldwide. The 4gb, 8gb and 16gb will be available first, with 32gb to follow.

SDHC Memory - Secure Digital High Capacity memory cards are flash memory cards with a minimum capacity of 4GB (gigabytes). SDHC cards are the same size as an oridnary SD Card - about the size of a postage stamp.