We are recorded live in front of an audience at The Dog Theatre in Footscray this week in a mess of wires and computers.
All seemed to be going fine but we did hit a few glitches and some portions of the podcast were not recorded. All three systems failed mysteriously at the same time…. Did I just hear someone say UPS?

Video may well be uploaded soon of the event if it looks OK.

Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephen, and James Bellew.

Applications for the iPhone have been taking our attention the first being Tiltshift generator
Also available but not in Australia for some reason Photoshop for iPhone.
EyeTV for iPhone streams free to air TV from an EyeTV equipped Mac to an iPhone via WIFI.
Digital truth shows film development data and timing.
Zacuto grip for iPhone looks a bit exteme but for a 3Gs would be great.

New Macs and we reckon the i7 27 inch iMac is the best deal of the lot.

Windows 7 and the problems so far mentioned online at Microsoft Answers.

Leo finds a design fault with the MacBook Pro in that the stereo seems to not work as stereo on the inbuilt speakers. Online discussion mentions the problem and shows the hardware issue.

Michael Griffin gets online via Skype to discuss his foray into the world of fine art photography.

USB 3.0 looks to be delayed and Intel may well be more focused on Light Peak.

Northwest 188 Pilots Were Probably Dicking Around On Their Laptops.

Carl Zeiss Lenses for SLR Cameras and an 18mm for the Canon goes missing.

Zacuto DSLR Gunstock Shooter. Would this make you look like you have a part of the Terminator over your shoulder?

HTML 5 video and a great reference document regarding codecs and the next mess.

A new video format from Apple 960X540 H.264.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• Vacuum plump lips
• Vivitar night vision waterproof video camera.
• iPhone prop dummy.
• DSLR Holster.

Photogeek of the week

Adventures in High Altitude Ballooning.

Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”

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This is a promo for the upcoming live show, podcast 100.

The Dog Theatre

42a Albert Street
Footscray VIC 3011

Get there Wednesday 28th Oct at 6.30 PM if you can.
More information to follow.
Drop us a line to let us know you are coming.

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As we look forward to a live broadcast of Photogeek for it’s 100th episode, those in the bunker get restless.

After a 3 week gap we finally get to the 99th show and catch up on all the news.

Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephen, and James Bellew.

Getting large images to clients can be solved by Yousendit,  Mobile Me or Sync your files online and across computers with Dropbox.

SSD drive at 3.5 inch for computers like the MacPro made by Pliant Technology can read at 500 megabytes per second.

CS2, CS3 whatever, they seem to work fine for us under Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.

Applications we have found that need Rosetta installation under OS X 10.6 include Office 2008 and Digidesign Core drivers.

As Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio get an update we wait for an update to Aperture.

Snow Leopard advantages include fast boot and shutdown, screen sharing seems a lot better, Stacks and Spaces get more useful.

Hassle @Telstra on Twitter to mention iPhone and Tethering.

Telstra shares climb following a Government enforced split of wholesale and retail businesses.

AppleTV price drop and perhaps a new model is due.

Carl Ziess release an 18mm f3.5 Distagon for the Canon EF mount that may be a key to landscape and architectural photography. Calculated to be $1700 odd dollars AU.

Canon release the 7D a few weeks ago and we wonder who may prefer this body. 24p 25p Slow Mo and a bunch of improvements but we prefer the full frame sensor for video. WIFI and GPS however looks a great advantage and should be made available to the 5D Mk11.

Is 30fps the new 24fps. Hitler is upset.

Boinx TV and a two camera problem addressed by my multiple firewire cards

Logmein for the iPhone lets you operate a Mac from your iPhone.

Telstra launch AFL finals app with no live video..

The Flickr app goes online and we haven’t used it.

iPhone app and credit Card reader.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• Steel Velcro.
• Video sunglasses.
• iMac Hamster cage.
• Lego iPhone stand.
• New mini Pico Projector
• Cardboard iPhone case.
• Headrest iPod dock.
• Open source camera.

Photograph of empty container ships off the coast of Singapore showing the signs of recession.

Camper bike.

Ben and James sail on a kite surf across Bass Strait.

HDR Darkroom worth keeping an eye on, give a beta test a go here.

Get a look at Woo Themes new theme “Object” for photographers.

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This show was recorded in front of a live audience online.

Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephens, Alan Jones, and James Bellew.

After much dicking around we got the broadcast system operational. If you are interested it sort of goes like this.

Video over firewire to Mac Pro into BoinxTV to control video streams and graphics. Audio via Mic in studio and via Skype on MacBookPro into Logic as mixer. Then to get all that to push out to StreamAPI feed, video output captured by Grabber Raster and presented as a feed and audio re routed via Digidesign firewire audio device into analogue input of Mac Pro. The simple Stickam type Flash player uploader needs to see these inputs in order to broadcast but you can use a device more than once in the process. Getting seperate audio and video feeds into the Mac Pro was the challenge, but we found a way. A broadcast will be available in a month or two via Digital Pill from The Dog Theatre in Footscray.

On to what was a show of very dubious content, the highlight being our first North American live guest, Alan Jones from Virginia who runs ajayswebcam.com and presents as a true geek.

Will the video phone catch on as a piece of hardware like the ACN product? Perhaps a more open platform like the Android powered desktop phone from Cloud Telecomputers.

Alan fires up at 7.30 in the morning to join us online. Alan talks about his site that list Axis webcams from around the world. ajaywebcams.com

Tethering via an iPhone seems to present issues to carriers the world over. When it is enabled it is brilliant. See the discussion at Whirlpool.

Google Latitude looks a bit lame and could use some work.

Macro lens for the iPhone from a DVD player.

ShakeItPhoto produces what look like a real Polaroid from the iPhone.

OnOne’s DSLR App gets Nikon support for iPhone remote control.

Shutter actuations calculated via Simple EXIF Viewer.

Getting 30 fps HD to go 24 fps is a rather convoluted process using Cinematools Final Cut Pro and Compressor

How to convert Canon 5dmk2 footage from 30p to 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Tiltshift plugin for FCP, ShrinkRay, free via Crumple Pop.

Best WordPress themes for video at Canon 5D tips.

SteadiCam for DSLR from India looks like it might be the go.

Underwater Canon 5D Mk11 rig footage at Divefilm HD.

The Mac Mini as a media centre and we discuss the process.

Vuse software trancodes HD for connected devices like the Sony Playstation3

Alan sends over a link to video from Keywest.

3D feature film from James Cameron, Avatar.

Picture showing the physical difference between the 5D and Red Scarlett.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• The Cookie Tin steel guitar
• Steampunk USB Flash how to.
• Dog Poo Trap
• BlueTooth Stethoscope.

Apple Genius finds childporn on customers Mac.

Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”

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Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephen, and James Bellew.

Is the Bose® Companion® series 11 the best computer speakers made?

Cameron talks about the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Starts September 4 through to October 4 have a look at the website to see what it is you might want to look at.

I sell one of the 5D’s and find a shutter actuation counter.

James picks up a handbuilt Thorax valve preamp by Sebatron.

Cameron is part of an exhibition by Melbourne Silvermine, Unsensored09 in Collingwood Gallery 292 Smith Street.

A split screen Kombi deal with cash for clunkers could go well.

Go TV goes live and we all rescan.

YouTube now allow paid links to your video for a keyword search.

Flickr image search improves.

Digital radio… WOO HOO

QLD police search for WI FI freeloaders.

Toshiba release a 64 GB SD card.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• Worlds best cardboard chair.
• Star Trek Phaser kit
• Ink carts lamp.
• 20 iPhones charged at once.
• Coconut headphones.
• Dissolving Bikini.
• D.I.Y. tilt shift
• The Nikon S1000pj projector camera.

The Leica S2 37.5 Megapixel medium format camera.

On Mac OSX 10.5 hit Command/Shift/4/space to see the NeXT era.

Porn robot hand work in astounding video.

MadMen app for the iPhone not available in Australia, yet. But the avatar maker is available.

Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”
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Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephen, and James Bellew.

The Tour de France and Ashes cricket make us a little blurry.

Advertising on Facebook may not pay off but it is a worthwhile test.

Video drum tutorials from Jack Bennett at icanplaydrums.com and video of local musicians at digitalpill.tv

Perhaps a Facebook advert for philipgreenwood.com.au to celebrate the new Woo Theme build.

Newspaper may like to charge for viewing their content. Good Luck…

Many steadycams for video with a DSLR one from Manfrotto and some DIY and one that looks like a Merlin Steadycam

RedrockMicro make a range of gear for tripod mounts.

iPhone 3GS mounted to a RC Plane.

The first US TV commercial shot on the Canon 5D MK11.

We get a look at the Olympus EP1 and a more detailed report may follow.

Canon release a new Tilt Shift lens, the TS-E 24mm F3.5 L 11 review at DP Review.

Fujifilm release a “Real 3D System” for shooting 3D stills and video.

Zoom pocket camcorder with high quality microphones shoots SD ( Fail ) Samsung HMX-U10 1080p ultra Compact.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• Novelty Goldfish rubbish bags
• Night vision for Canon DSLR
• Phone box cell phone.
• Lunar Landing Computer
• Auction of Apollo items. Mercury spacecraft looks the best.
• Original Thunderbird 2

Photographer arrested for being too tall.

Photography and the Law as it applies in relation to privacy and public places.

iPhone 3G tethering with Telstra, Fail.

Wrestling midgets are killed by fake hookers

Don’t do this to a press photographer

Photogeek of the Week

Anthony Wesley photographs the result of a collision with Jupiter.

Read all about it on his site now here.

Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”

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Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephen, and James Bellew.

We try a paid for HD video hosting service from Automattic called VideoPress

Getting video to podcast as H.264 and in browser Flash with the one file is an interesting challenge.

Firefox 3.5 and the html 5 video codec debate.

YouTube allow Call-To-Action overlays, allow linking off-site.

Rumors of the new Canon 3D.

Olympus E-P1 micro 4 thirds camera that has been blended into legend and takes older Zuiko lenses.

Hasselblad release the CFV-39 digital back for all older V series cameras.

AgfaPhoto has the rugged, waterproof DV-600uw.

iPhone 3GS now available direct from Apple online.

Choose the Red Rock Micro rig like Alex Lindsay or one of two new contraptions available.

We find some Time Lapse from the iPhone using some for of intervalometer

Factron iPhone case packs interchangeable camera lenses and looks very cool.

Google release Chrome OS for NetBooks next year.

What the Font app for the iPhone seems not to work.

New iPhone remote app for iTunes and AppleTV is a big improvement.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• Laptop steering wheel table.
• USB powered display look like a MacMini display prospect.
• Steampunk lightsabre
• USB Chainsaw
• Cigar USB flash memory
• Dog translator
• Dick Tracy video watch phone
• BlueTooth Retro phone handset.

Cameras app for Macintosh sets up parameters for camera management on the Mac

AudioBoo hook up with Spinvox to provide auto transcribe.

Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”
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Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Stephen, and James Bellew.

Cameron sets the cat amongst the pigeons with a discussion about the photographic equipment requirements. Here is the photosteam of the offending boofhead.

Kodak stop making Kodachrome after 74 years.

iPhone 3.0 software and find my iPhone service via Mobile Me. A story explains what might happen.

Liver transplant confirmed.

Tethering may be made to work with these instructions.

Phillips release a 21:9 format 56 inch TV

Vizio release a TV that connects to the web for Twitter, Flickr and Netflix.

Microsoft, Outlook Is Broken, Says 6,000 Tweets (And Growing). Fix It.

Turn by Turn Navigation for the iPhone in Australia.

Digital radio and Sirius Satellite radio, what a mess.

Waste of time wireless charger for the iPhone.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• F-4 ejection sheet office chair.
• Food and beer plate.
• Alarm clock bed shaker.
• Blue Tooth webcam.
• Gigabit over electrical circuit.
• Bacteria growth kit.
• WI FI Tent.
• Limp then erect Gel remote.

Photograph of the week

Half-man / half-Pooh Bear takes a break next to decapitated patriotic Mickey Mouse.

Computer train kills.

Is old Polaroid quicker than the new digital variety.

HP printer that connects online? WTF

Tadpoles fall from the sky.

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After a weekend being broken in to we fire up the reserve iMac at Photogeek headquarters to get the podcast recorded.

Hosts include Phil Greenwood, Cameron Tandy, and James Bellew.

Security software from MacGadget, MacTrack™ will send pictures to your Flickr account via the inbuilt webcam if your Mac is stolen

Orbicule make similar software, Undercover, and have a family pack license.

WWDC announcements include the new iPhone 3Gs, MacBook Pro’s, and more details on Snow Leopard.

Safari4 was released and amongst other things html5 and support for inline video with out a plugin.

iPhone 3.0 software that promises a find my phone feature using mobile me services.

Star Trek communicator app, fantastic waste of a dollar.

Apple partners with TomTom to bring “real” navigation to iPhone

Is my Nikon reliable.

Cameron has a suggestion on how to update to iPhone 3.0.

Cameron is impressed with Nutty News Wire and the Weekly World News style headline.

He make mention of the front cover pic of the Ascot Vale “Underbelly” job.

PhotoGeek Gadgets

• Nikon Zoomatar.
• Beer in a Pouch.
• DIY iPhone dock.
• Circular Pizza cutter.
• Metal detecting Sandals.
• iPhone docking keyboard.

Photograph of the Week

Commons Picture of the Year.

Goose photographed flying upside down

Fake photo of a girl assembled in Photoshop.

Blurb Photo competition-promotion.

Air France crash theory.

Costco open their first store in Docklands under the big wheel.

GPS coordinates lead to incorrect demolition.

Warp drive could destroy us all

Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”
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