Harry's Blog

I reckon I'm getting quite a handle on this photography lark. Over the last week I've been learning how to make judgements on manual exposures depending on the subject I'm trying to capture.

But something has defeated me. But to be honest it's also defeating the brain in my Canon 40D too. Even its advanced electronics can't cope with the subject I wish to photograph.

It's my new guitar. A Yamaha RGX A2. But unlike the one you can see by following that link - the model I bought is black.

Not just black. But the kind of black that sucks in light around it. There seems like some sort of gravitational lens effect around it that prevents photography. Certainly with an advanced DSLR.

I've only managed to take the following picture by sneaking up on it with my phone, if it saw my camera I reckon it would have switched on the gravitation effect again.

So what's so great about this particular guitar? Well for your eco-hippies it's made of sustainable wood. But that's not he most important thing. What's important is it is made to a new design that sandwiches very light wood between two harder pieces.

Normally light wood is a terrible idea for an electric guitar because you lose sustain. However the clever design features sound holes that transmit resonance from the two hard woods through the whole guitar body. The practical upshot is you have a guitar that weighs just five pounds but has the sort of sustain you'd expect from something like a Gibson Les Paul.

It sounds gorgeous and I've really got the bit between my teeth now about getting back into music. J and I are planning a music project and it's all rather exciting.