17 Jul Red is The Colour Of My True Love’s Heart – Panasonic
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July 2015
17 Jul Panasonic G Series Welcomes A New Camera
Every day people present to our counter looking for smaller and lighter camera alternatives for their travel photos - we duly recommend the various options and try to talk them through their plans and needs.Panasonic have realised that this is a burgeoning market - their G series mirror-less cameras have always combined sophisticated electronics with small size. Now there is a new model that looks to be a good choice for he raveller or home photographer."Home Photographer " sounds patronising but really isn't - we all need something that can take pictures in our home, of our home life. Mobile phones don't do justice to our families when we use them as the primary image-capturing device. Somewhere down the line we and our subjects are going to be sorry we opted for the phone shot when we try to get a good large print of irreplaceable people.Well - think mirror-less, and specifically think Panasonic Lumix G7. Pop on a Lumix G Vario 14-140 lens on it and a good fast card into the slot and go for it.The good fast...
17 Jul A Night At The Opera – Lighting Lessons From Mozart
Did goe to the opera house last night and was greatley entertained. The subversive opera " Marriage Of Figaro " by some Austrian individual was sung and played by a number of local artists - to the entire satisfaction of the audience.A note about the audience - as with many music things that you go to, I noticed that they were all on drugs. Of course, given that this was a Mozart opera sung in Italian, the drugs were chiefly Mogadon, Lasix, and Metamucil...
17 Jul Pack In A Cube – Or How To Shoot Catalog Fast
Do you have a letter box at your house? You do? Have you noticed the people who stalk the streets and fill it with advertising flyers? They are unstoppable - no matter how many signs you put up they will still stuff your letter box with paper.Apart from the ecological question of all that paper and ink, and the moral question of being able to defend your letter box...
16 Jul Fast Report – New Go Pro Here
Pardon the poor pack shots - didn't want to open one up for the illustrations.The new Go Pro Hero 4 Session cameras are here in stock.Action-cam people will know more about this than I - I'm a non-action cam person - but it looks from the outside that the shape of the device has been somewhat changed.It is smaller, sleeker, with rounded angles to the external housing . It is more of a cube shape.The mounts and items included in the package seem to be the same size and type as for previous models - if you already have a special rig set up on your helmet, bike, or car, then this should just bolt straight in.1080p 60fps and 720p 100fps are stated on the box. 8 megapixel at 10fps burst rate. wireless and bluetooth operation.This may be a useful variation for those people who are going to be subject to intrusive water pressures or flailing foliage or other mechanical influences. If you are going to ride your Honda off the top of a cliff you are still going to...
16 Jul Print Big – Save Big – Epson Cash Back
Winter is upon us but the Epson company does not intend to sit around and be cold. Neither should you...
16 Jul Prices For Fujifilm – Right Now
I have no head for figures, as the stock controller and accountant here well know...
15 Jul Staff Training Day – With Cullmann
Yesterday's staff training concentrated upon Cullman products and one of the bits really caught my eye. I'll be careful in future about bending over near the shelves. The doctor says it is just a bruise and I should be fine in a week.Moving on from there - here is the device: the Cullmann answer to panoramic pictures.The bottom turntable fastens to the head of your tripod - it could be a Cullmann, which is an easy bolt-on, or another maker's head - equally easy after a little wrangling. You can use a ball head, a three-way head, or a leveler.This turntable has a precise Arca-Swiss sized jaws on the top and into this the L-shaped bracket just glides.You position your camera anywhere on the horizontal or vertical arms of the bracket for landscape or portrait orientation depending on the coverage you want and the nodal point of your lens.Note - there may be a table somewhere on the internet that gives nodal point measurements for camera and lens combinations. I haven't found it yet but would be grateful to any...
14 Jul Next Size Up. Epson And Fujifilm.
I am going to revise what I say to people here in the shop - particularly in respect of the size of sensor and the size of picture one can make with it.I base my opinions on what I have done...
13 Jul When Power Is Never Enough Or Far Too Much…
A client called today with an interesting studio problem. She has been thinking about it, experimenting, and doing the science correctly, so I learned something.She shoots in a small space. She wants to do work at a wide aperture - wider than f:4. Even with one single light from her 400 w/s set and her camera set to a very low ISO, she still has too much light for the subjects.She's tried the temporary dodge of covering the front of a softbox with a grey chiffon, but this contributes an unwanted colour cast. Basically she just has too much light.Tempting to trade it in and get lower power, but she may have larger premises one day or be taking photos of big groups out in big halls...