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Black Friday Hits Roberts, Is Better Online

November 27th, 2009 by Derek
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It’s that time of the year again. Can you hear the gnashing of teeth, the snapping of bones, the cries of anguish, terror, and pain? You got it, it’s Black Friday once more. So, while everyone else is out fighting for their lives in crowds of increasingly miserable shoppers, why don’t you, the internet-savvy consumer with enough time to be reading this post, take a skip over to our homepage and check out some of our same hot Black Friday deals without leaving your home. It’s easier to enjoy a cup of coffee this way, I promise.

What’s on highlight? Well, among other things:

black-friday-shippingFirst off, from now until December 18th we’re happy to say we’ve dropped the minimum order to qualify for FREE UPS ground shipping. Now, any order over $200 will get it shipped UPS Ground to the contiguous 48 states for no charge. And, if that wasn’t hot enough, any camera bag $49 or over will ship free as well.

Now, these free shipping offers still only apply to order placed on our online cart system. If you place it with a sales representative, either in store or over the phone, we can’t offer you the free shipping. It’s just one of those things, weird, we know. But, yeah.

Need more? How about a Coolpix S210 for $69.97? That’s 8.1 megapixels and 3x optical zoom in a stylish, slim brushed metal body. If you’ve been sold on the megapixel wars by the marketing people, don’t hesitate because of the lower megapixel number. On small-sensor cameras, 7-10 megapixels will lead to better noise and dynamic range, and if you only ever show your pictures online or don’t ever print larger than 5×7 or even 8×10, you don’t need more than 6 megapixels to make sharp, excellent pictures anyway. This’ll be a good choice for anyone who wants a no-fuss camera for taking snapshots of their life, wherever that might be.

More? How about the very popular, high-performance Sandisk Extreme III series cards (CompactFlash or SD), in a very convenient 4GB size for only $19.97, your choice? These high speed cards will make your camera sing when put to the test at your kids sporting events, or when you need to machine-gun that DSLR catching birds-in-flight.

And that’s just a couple. Check out our homepage for even more, and remember that our everyday lowest prices of the season are already in place on all the most popular DSLRs, lenses, high-end point-and-shoots, and even more! So, why fight for your life in the surging masses, when you could do all your imaging shopping online with us?



Lensbaby Seeking Entries to Be Published in Upcoming Book

November 26th, 2009 by Derek
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Get-Published-Hilz_coverAre you like Nick and myself? Do you luffles your Lensbaby optics? If you do, and you think some of your pics have got the chops it takes to be published? Well, Lensbaby wants to hear from you. Got this in my mailbox:

LENSBABY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submit your best Lensbaby photos for a chance to be published in a new Lensbaby book by Lensbaby Guru Corey Hilz, due out from Focal Press in the Summer of 2010. The book will feature ‘how to’ and inspirational content, along with galleries of Lensbaby photos by some of the foremost Lensbaby photographers in the world.
Go to this link to submit your photos for consideration to be published. http://lensbaby.com/getpublished/

So, there we go. If you want to be in that sharp-looking book pictured in this post, get crackin’.



Canon Days Kicks Off At Roberts

November 16th, 2009 by Derek
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Canon Days has started here at Roberts, and the first specials up on the site are for the Rebel XSi with an 18-55 IS and 55-250mm IS lens, the 7D finds itself shipping with a free Canon 200DG Gadget Bag, PowerShot G10s make a brief reappearance, and the PowerShot A480 is at a very friendly new low price. I think next up we have some more camcorders…

Oh, and tomorrow we’ll have a nice little bonus for Canon week: A hands-on review of the new PowerShot S90 by none other than Carel Struycken. So, keep your eyes tuned here, and to our home page. This’ll be a nice week for stocking up on Canon gear…



Oranje Goes Down Tomorrow

September 18th, 2009 by Derek
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Click Image to Visit Oranje

Click Image to Visit Oranje

OK, tomorrow night is this year’s Oranje. Oranje, for those who (like me until last month) don’t know, is apparently a big art gala, with local artist of all types (painters, chefs, photographers, DJs, bands, etc) come and sell their stuff and do their thing and play on six stages in a 2 story warehouse all night.

So of course we encourage you to be a part of the art community and go to it. Former Roberts’ desk girl and all-around-fabulous photographer Jennifer Parker will be manning (er, womanning?) a booth there, among all the other festivities.

Tickets are 20 bucks, you can nab them at the door. Click the image for full details. Go there, find Nick and I (we’ll be there with our girlfriends and our good buddy Max), check out the local photogs, be inspired, come back to us and get some gear to go out there and unleash your artistic vision.

Like, for example, a Lensbaby Composer, maybe?



Nick and Derek’s Walkabout Walks Tonight!

September 3rd, 2009 by Derek
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walkaboutDo you like adventure? Danger? Sexy broads in slit-thigh red dresses and rough-and-tumble men with swank hair and a tendency to accessorize with gun holsters? Boy we do too, so it’s sad that none of that is what we’re talking about.

Instead, I’m just here to remind you all that tonight at 9:00PM (and we mean “at” this time, please be early), at the intersection of West St and New York St here in Indianapolis, a loose collective of photographers will be meeting to go take some sexy swingin’ shots down at the Canal with our photographic imaging devices. And we want you to be there, too. It’s free, it’s social, it’s fun, it’s night. We can all pretend we’re twinkly sparkly vampires with hearts of gold and a keen eye for composition.

or not. Whatever makes you happiest. Just, hey, make it out there, yeah?



Photo Walkabout Goes Down By The Water’s Edge

September 1st, 2009 by Derek
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We’re going walkabout yet again this week, this time Thursday night. Yup, night. Put on your capes and practice your Bela Lugosi impersonations, we’re shunning the light for the dark and shooting the Canal. As always, this is a wonderful opportunity for students, hobbyists, and pros alike to get out and just shoot because it’s there to do. There’s no charge, but you might wanna bring a tripod along for this one.

If you’re down, meet us at the intersection of West and New York, downtown Indy, Thursday by 9:00PM. We’ll be the goobers standing by the Canal Square apartments with diaper bags of camera gear. We hope to see you there, but by a bit after 9:00 we’ll be wandering over to the canal, so be sure to get there early.



Photowalk = Success

August 28th, 2009 by Derek
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_8267107Once 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…”



Nikon Rocks Indy, Derek Shoots a D3, Pigs Nationwide Take Wing

August 13th, 2009 by Derek
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photo by Dawn Boarman

photo by Dawn Boarman

So, as mentioned by the stalwart Mr Henry, the photo walk was great fun. Thanks go to Jeff and Erin for making it what it was. I spent the first half working with my normal tackle while Nick, at my recommendation, got some one-on-one love with the very sweet D700 and the (old/current) 70-200 VR. Then, near the end and at Jeff’s suggestion, I picked up the D3 that had remained strangely untouched and started running around with it and the 14-24, 24-70, and the 85mm f1.8.

The D3 was as impressive as I remember from the last time I got to handle one briefly, and the CH drive mode was so fast it took me a second to realize it wasn’t just a funny sounding shutter action but in fact three of them every time I pressed the button. Hair trigger on that beast.

Jeff was great to have out, he’s really quite knowledgable not only in specs but in methods, and he was very forthcoming with help and tips. And, afterwards at Rock Bottom, we were all (Dawn, Nick, Jeff and myself) talking it over, and we think maybe we haven’t been pointing out enough that these aren’t just photowalks for the guys and gals who know what they’re doing, that they are in fact learning experiences and that we’re out there to help you understand photography better. So, if you’ve been holding off on coming out because you’re not a ’shooter’, stop it. Come on out and ask Nick and myself any questions you have, we’ll give you all the advice in our noggins in exchange for your company.



Photowalk – Success!

August 12th, 2009 by Nick
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Voice activated lightstands

Voice activated light stands

Things went rather well. The weather cooperated, so I didn’t need to use my rainsleeve. And even though I managed to convince everyone to park something like, nine miles from the shooting sites, everyone seemed pretty pleased with the outcome. Above, you’ll see our volunteer model Erin, framed by two voice activated light stands with Tony’s elbow poking in from the side.

Later on we’ll have footage to put on the Roberts Imaging channel on youtube, and as Derek and I filter through and spruce up our shots we’ll get them added to the Flickr feed for y’all to ogle and mock. Dawn’s got some pretty neat shots (and some hilarity) from the fish-eye she borrowed off Jeff.

We’ll be having another informal walk on Tuesday, August 18th about 5:45pm at the corner of Illinois and Washington (kinda by Champp’s, under the Artsgarden) and if the weather get’s nasty we’ll head inside. We’re working to arrange another model to come out and hang with us as that seems pretty popular. I know I get tired of shooting Derek.



Photowalk Rain or Shine

August 10th, 2009 by Nick
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PF-THIN-88 Alllllllll right you impatient walkers, we’re getting up on this tomorrow evening. Unless there’s a monsoon downtown, we’re still meeting at the circle at 6PM. For those worried by light sprinkles, be not afraid -be equipped. Aquatech, Optech, and Hefty all have options to protect your gear.

To reiterate, we’ve got Jeff Penn of Nikon coming out carrying a bag of flash for us to pass around and highlight Nikon’s Creative Lighting system. The ineffable (not to be mistaken with infallible) Dawn is cajoling a model friend out, so we’ll not only be equipped for street portraiture, we’ll also have a subject -till about 7pm. After that, we might be left shooting (shudder) each other, or strangers.

MM. Strangers.

Quick recap: Memorial Circle, Tuesday August 11th, 6pm, Jeff Penn, CLS, Dawn’s hot friend till 7pm, pictures, rain, raingear, monkey-business.