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Spring Expo Starts Tomorrow

Derek — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:36:30 +0000

So, tomorrow is day 1 (or, for you Carmel shoppers, the only day) for this year’s Spring Expo. For those who’ve never been to one, twice a year we have a whole gaggle of our reps come in to our local brick-and-mortar Indianapolis stores and show off all their stuff, answer your questions, etc… Generally it’s a good time to get to try out some rare equipment you might not get to see on shelves normally (like Leica’s line-up, Olympus’ Top Pro Lenses, Nikon and Canon’s tilt shifts, etc).

And of course there’ll be specials, deals, sales, limited offers, you name it bouncing around, too, and I’ll be posting some of those on our homepage tomorrow. There’ll be buyers on hand to relieve you of old equipment and liberate some funds for shiny new toys, if you’re so inclined. It is spring, after all, out with the old, in with the new.

This time around you’ll be able to chat with reps for Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Manfrotto, Gitzo, Elinchrom, Sandisk, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Hoya, Tenba, Lowepro, ThinkTank Photo, Lastolite, Avenger, Mamiya, Leica, Skooba, Induro, Kingston, Westcott, and more.

Expo is at our downtown store Friday and Saturday April 23 and 24 from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. It’ll be at our Carmel store Friday only 5:00 until 7:30 pm.

Photowalk = Success

Derek — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:20:51 +0000

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…”

The Voice of Raw Episode 2

Derek — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:30:57 +0000

Podcast for the week of July 30th, 2009.

Contents:

0:00 – Intro
1:13 – Mark Astmann on the Elinchrom Quadra
4:17 – New Nikon Products (D300s, D3000, 70-200 VR II, 18-200 VR II)
6:42 – Leica S System

Raw Footage Ep 3: Elinchrom Quadra Demo

Derek — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:27:29 +0000

Mark Astmann, all-around nice guy and knowledgable rep, stopped by and agreed to show us Elinchrom’s new Quadra pack. Also, we’re working on video editing, forgive our dust, and make sure to go ‘ooh’ and ‘aah.’

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnF-whVhb0k