A special interview with Bogen’s David Fisher regarding the Gitzo tripod line.
0:00 – Introductions
0:36 – About the Series
6:06 – About the Collections
9:19 – Ocean Traveler
› archive for August 28th, 2009
Nikon D300s, Nikon D3000 In Stock. Get’Em Quick.
So, of course— our new server is still down and we can’t actually update our homepage (how about that classy ad that expired most of a month ago? lemme tell ya…) and we get a truckoad of Nikon’s new boys: the D300s (body only) and the D3000 kits.
The D300s is of course the highlight here, being the very well-reviewed and stalwart D300 but with HD video plopped in and support for SD and CF at the same time.
The D3000 is the newest in the entry level line, presumably taking the D60′s spot in the line-up. It comes as a kit with the 18-55mm VR lens.
If you’ve been saving your nickels and dimes for either of these, your time is now. We have them here, available, and ready to ship. Get those orders in before we run out.
Photowalk = Success
Once again we photo-walked this week, and once again if you weren’t there you really missed out. DJ Jared was great to work with (and we thank him for giving us his time, if you were out there and had shots get them to me so we can share them with him in thanks). We had an Elinchrom Ranger pack and an A head with a softbox and some bounce reflectors, so we were able to shoot mixed strobe and ambient on location. We also had some of the new Lensbaby products out with us, showing off the Composer and the swappable optics system (which I hereby propose we call “swaptics”).
And, it was a good mash-up out there. Nick and I were shooting our trademark Olympus cams, Dawn brought her Nikon D40, one gent used Panasonic’s LX3 point-and-shoot, another the original 5D, and Tony showed up with a medium-format view camera. Film, people! Film! Craziness.
It was a lot of fun. There was shooting, strobing, and later, a motorcycle. Check out the pictures in the gallery below, and make sure to find your way out to next week’s walk so that you to can start padding your portfolio with awesome shots.
We run a Flickr group dedicated to showing off pics from the various photowalks, and you can find that over at http://www.flickr.com/groups/nick-and-dereks-walkabout/. You have to join, just so we can keep it strictly to photowalks and not get a lot of the vaguely tangentially-related chaffe that you get with Flickr groups, but don’t let that turn you off. We want to see what you got out there.
It’s like fishing stories, but for photographers.
“One time, I had this awesome shot. Stellar. Change your life. There was this chick–and she was hot–and there was this explosion and a cow tap dancing.”
“Wow, that’s amazing. Can I see it?”
“Ah, no. It got away. I forgot I had my camera set to ‘FAIL’ priority…”
Sony rends shroud, reveals a500 and a550 -live view, HDR, SDHC, alphabet soup!
Sony Alpha A550
Sony’s offerings, the a550 and a500 have a big, beautiful (and looks affordable) bowl of alphabet soup. Hur hur. The dish looks like this:
APS-C CMOS Exmor – 14.2 megapixels in the a550 and 12.3 in the a500 -both with an ISO up to 12800.
HDR – two images combined in less than ten seconds to produce HDR (and even counteract your coffee shaking hands)
CCD-Shift SteadyShot Inside – Keeping image stabilization corporeal (you know, in the body) for 2.5-3.5 stops
TFT Xtra Fine LCD – 921,600 dots that you can angle up, down, all 3 inches of it, on the back of your a550
TFT Clear Photo LCD – 230,400 dots with the same range of motion with as above, but this is on the a500
RAW+JPEG – YEAH!
NP-FM500H – 1650mAh for neigh on 1000 shots using the viewfinder.
Ok, it’s not Campbell’s, but there’s enough to play magnetic poetry. (Exmor Steady, Xtra Shot Fine).
In any case, Sony’s continued effort to layer features across price-points is promising. They’ve both got two sensors for live view through the viewfinder using phase detect AF and the usual, slower, method for what they dub Manual Focus Check Live View – as a Lensbaby user and being a fan of a fast manual focus prime (Derek’s OM 50mm 1.4), that’s a nice feature.
Call us up to get on the wait list early – 800-726-5544.
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