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This episode of PhotoGeek’s weekly audio podcast was recorded once again in the offices of Big Trousers.
We have the whole crew of five tonight so it was an interesting recording this week.
Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Jay Town, Cameron Tandy, Michael Griffin, and James Bellew from BeeTV.
Jay talks about the Olympus Tough 1030 SW, a waterproof to some 30ft depth digital with in camera stitching.
The underwater Panasonic’s SDR-SW20EB-R is a red camera with a 2.7 inch LCD and waterproff to a depth of 1.5 m.
Panasonic release a number of cameras including DMC TZ50, the FX300 and the FX500.
Manfrotto carbon fiber CX Series tripods.
We shoot some video with the camera stabiliser gadget made by Michael at the hat factory of Griffin Hats.
Sanyo Xacti CG9 is a standard def pistol grip in various colors.
Cameron talks about his new MacBook Pro and the move from a Windows laptop.
We wondered how the Canons worked in the extreme heat of the last week at the Grand Prix.
We talk about the Samsung 50 inch full HD screen and various devices that plug in like the Apple TV and Playstation3. Region encoded Blueray disc listed by country here.
James narrows his camera choice to two, the Olympus 510 or the Nikon D60. Jay suggests the D60.
PhotoGeek Gadgets
The cardboard pinhole DIRKON
The USB coaster.
USB Flash memory Engagement ring.
Stifables?
Jays Apple iPhoto/Aperture books turn up and the results impress.
Adventure Green Ecotourism video blog.
Who can tell me what the David Gilmour BlueRay disc “Remember that night” looks like on a HD screen?
Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”
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Hi guys, enjoyed your show (as always), good to hear Cameron’s voice again.
Just thought I’d mention that (as I’m sure you already know) one reason why Canon L lenses are white is that they used to contain fluorite, which apparently is susceptible to heat expansion, so the barrels were white to minimise heat absorption. Even though they don’t contain much, if any, fluorite now, the white barrels are kept more as a marketing tool than anything else.
Also, have you seen your typo on this page about the SIFTABLES? Or are the STIFABLES some kind of new love-making aid?!
Have a good Easter guys, and keep up the excellent show.
Kind regards,
Maglio Viracca (Derby, UK)
Always a hoot to listen. Some bits of related info for this and last weeks shows. You have been covering driven enclosurs and such; check out http://www.icydock.com/product/mb664us-1sb.html for an external drive that “ejects” the raw drive when you need to swap it out. Great for our current era of cheap drives; fill ‘em up and store ‘em rather than stacks of optical media… There is an Oz distributor you can find through the web site; they were very helpful…
Lots of babble on Aperture; don’t forget there is a Mac/Windows product called Lightroom out there that does pretty much the same thing and has lots more users; you might mention it…
As for photo books; lots of friends, amateur and pro are using Momento and MomementoPro. Not all that cheap but very good quality. Perhaps worth a mention…
Icy Dock distributor in oz is Varia Budharja in Sydney on variab@alfa.com.au. Seemed good prices and prompt delivery… Excellent product for those of of you filling up external HD drives quickly (with video etc)