Episodes
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Fotobug - Episode 113 - Balloons a poppin'!
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Welcome to the Fotobug Podcast number 113! Photokina is now underway and we expect lots of announcement of new products over the coming weeks. Canon has released the upgrade to the 7D, the 7D Mark II and Nikon has just released the new D750 full frame DSLR. Jim and Fred discuss these as well as the new Western Digital My Passport portable drive with an SD card reader built in. Canon is also celebrating their 70th anniversary and Tamron has announced a 15-30mm f/2.8 zoom for full frame cameras.
Fred and Jim continue testing the NeroTrigger, this time testing the sound trigger. The setup included firing a pellet gun at various objects after dialing in the proper delay (actually it was discovered no delay was the setting that worked best). Several balloons and crackers sacrificed themselves for this test! The Nerotrigger is connected directly to the flash and you must have a darkened space in order to capture high speed flash images. If you try this yourself, please keep safety in mind and be careful with the pellet gun - you could put your eye out :) !
Last minute call for the following workshops:
Black Hills Shootout - Sept 25-27 - in Rapid City - www.thephotoshootout.com
Maine Fall Colors, Moose & Black Bears - Oct. 2-5 - www.outdoorphotoworkshops.com
Slovenia Fall colors in the Julian Alps - Oct. 17-24 - www.outdoorphotoworkshops.com
The next podcast will feature highlights from the Black Hills Shootout!
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Fotobug - Episode 112 - Clyde Butcher's Venice Gallery
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Welcome to The Fotobug Podcast number 112. In the news, the US Copyright office takes Wikimedia's side in the debate over the macaque "selfie", also Microsoft shows off a new timelapse technology (check www.thefotobug.net for video!) and Instagram has beat them to the market place with a Hyperlapse app for IOS devices. Also, The new Triggertrap project Ada has experienced more delays, but is expected to be shipping by December. If you have been holding off buying that next piece of Canon glass, Canon just announced a big discount on most of their lenses, from $40 to $1000 off retail, to celebrate the production of the 100 millionth EF lens.
Time is quickly growing short, so we recommend you sign up now for The Black Hills Shootout at the end of September. There is also the Moose, fall colors workshop in Maine from Oct 2 - 5 and finally, Slovenia, fall colors in the Julian Alps from October 17 - 24. www.outdoorphotoworkshops.com.
Stay tuned for next time - coming up, interview with Jim Clark and more!