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Roberts Offering IR Conversion, excellent pricing.

Want to take photos like this? We offer IR Conversion services...

Roberts is proud to offer IR conversion for point and shoot, APS-C, and full frame digital cameras. Why-fore would you want to convert your camera to the IR spectrum? Here’s a list (because I like lists):

  • You want more dramatic black and white photos
  • You want the Wood Effect
  • You want to capture dreamy, fantastical colored landscapes
  • You work in Law Enforcement / Forensics
  • You’re involved in certain types of scientific research
  • You have a specific assignment requiring the use of IR

Obviously the desire for ethereal coloring is the best reason for dropping a few bills on the conversion, now there are two types of conversion -

1.) 715nm: Suitable for B&W and low saturation color images. Camera will be sensitive to wavelengths higher than 715nm.

2.) 665nm: Suitable for both B&W and Color. Primarily used for color due to higher color saturation (vs. 715nm). B&W images can be produced in post processing. See a chart with the differences after the jump.

You get to pick one because, well, the fine folks at Precision Camera are going to remove with surgical precision your camera’s IR filter and feed it to the crows. Ok, I don’t know about the birds, but they’re taking that thing off and replacing it with one of the correct sensitivity.

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Canon changes website, beats Roberts by a nose.

Ever wake up in the morning, stagger through your ritual and realize something is completely different? Like, your spouse has changed hair color or the dogs aren’t arguing with the neighbor’s alarm clock and there’s a doorway at the end of your hall where there was only a wall before?

Ok, Canon’s new website isn’t quite that distressing, but dang it is different. Instead of the seamless white aesthetic they featured in times past, they’ve moved to a black-to-gray top-to-bottom gradient behind a blog-type layout.

Our enormous team of web designers is hard at work chopping up a perfect new site for yours truly, a glimpse of which you may see below, compared to the current.

The current design (L) compared to the developing design (R)



New Carmel Store: Grand Opening August 6 – 7

Hey everyone! Roberts wants to welcome you all to the grand opening of our gorgeous new store in Carmel. What’ll be going on, you may ask? Well, we’ll have more details about all the festivities in the weeks to come (just keep your eyes peeled for posts adorned with that good-looking logo up there), but for now, why not just go ahead and pencil that into your calendar. And, if you haven’t been out to it yet, take a look at our new building in the gallery below.



Gorillapod Focus and Ballhead X at Engadget

Among Joby’s more recent offerings in the Gorillapod spehere are the big, metal Gorillapod Focus (designed to take the weight of pro bodies and big, chunky, fast-aperture pro zooms), and it’s matched ball head, the extremely named Ballhead-X.

Combined, they can support up to 11.1 pounds of weight in almost any situation: hanging of a street sign, hanging from a tree branch, ceiling fan… one time with the Gorillapod-Zoom I managed to hang it off a wall using just the door jamb.

So, if you’re interested in this quirky, sometimes-a-life-saver sometimes-just-gimmicky system, why not give the recent review by the fine folks at Engadget a read-over? Hit the external link below.



Engadget gets a hands-on with the NEX-VG10 interchangeable lens camcorder

In pretty much no time after the information came out, Engadget had the chance to fondle up Sony’s next NEX entry -the NEX-VG10 camcorder. While I think they whine a bit about having to rack the lens manually to zoom -it’s an 18-200mm objective lens, boys. I suppose it’d be nice to have a motor do it, but keeping it quiet for AF during video recording seems like it’d be a lot harder. Anyway, check ‘em out on the source link and clear your inter-tubes so you can watch their HD footage on youtube.