Nikon has just brought online their new Cinema Blog. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have even brought it to your attention, this times have changed. While still a primarily a still photographer, I shoot a lot of video and for me, it’s a brave new world. I eat up all the resources I can trying to perfect my video capture and I think you’ll find this a great resource, I do.
There just never seems to be enough space, ever notice that? On the lookout for small (footprint) and portable, large, fast storage, I found the new Buffalo DriveStation DDR. While it requires 120, this new drive perfectly fit the bill for on the road hard drive space for my ever increasing need for portable video storage, especially shooting Protune mode with the Silver Hero3. What makes this drive different? It’s freakin speed! Buffalo wants you to compare it’s speed with SSD, seriously! That’s right, the speed of the DDR is comparable to SSD but the 3TB DDR isn’t even $200! This is all very impressive, especially when in use. Plugged into my Mac Retina which has SSD, I can’t tell I’m working with an external. Now it’s designed to be a desktop unit but it’s working great as a portable. So, looking for more space, blistering speed for only pennies on the MB, this is the way to go!
For the last week after my post about gear I brought to Oshkosh, I’ve been flooded with two questions. Lemme answer them for everyone. The first question is obvious…why the 200-400VR2 and the 80-200VR3 lenses? There are actually many reason. The first being the 200-400 has been my go to aviation lens from the start, I’m real comfortable with it. Next, being a bigger lens, it has a presence which I saw first hand the days I didn’t carry it but Jake did. Lastly, it just feels good in my hands, really well balance and when throwing it around panning, it works with me perfectly. The 80-400 on the other hand, is physically lighter and when carrying this stuff around from 0500 to 2000, it beats you up. The 80-400 was simply easier to carry all day than the 200-400. In the end, I shot the 200-400 two days and the 80-400 six days. The reason for that was I was photographing a lot of folks, I mean a lot, as in over 1k portraits one day! The other was I was doing air to air shoots and in that dept, there is NO other lens like the 80-400!
The other question that came flooding in is, what’s a dust pump? This is a very old term from back when I started photography over 30yrs ago, was attached in my crowd to the Vivitar Series 1 zooms. It’s a term for external (as a posed to internal) zoom lenses. The 200-400 is an internal zoom lens, it does not expand or contract when you zoom. The 80-400 is an external zoom, the lens expands and contracts when you zoom. It does not infer that the 80-400 pumps dust onto the sensor any more than any other lens because it doesn’t. Hope this answers your questions.
For Immediate Release
Kelby Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Offer Photoshop World Attendees Access to the Next Generation of
Creative Tools and Services
Thousands of attendees at 2013 Las Vegas conference will receive a free membership to Adobe Creative
Cloud
Tampa, FL (July 25, 2013) – Kelby Media Group and the National Association of Photoshop
Professionals (NAPP) today announced that Adobe will provide a free one-year Adobe®
Creative Cloud™ membership to all 2013 Photoshop World Las Vegas registered conference
attendees. The Photoshop World Conference and Expo, produced by NAPP, is the world’s
largest Photoshop, Photography and Lighting conference. This year, the event will be held in Las
Vegas, September 4-6.
The one-year Creative Cloud membership (a $600 value) offered to registered attendees of
Photoshop World Las Vegas is an effort led by the President of NAPP, Scott Kelby. In keeping
with his vision to provide attendees training and access to the next generation of creative tools
and services from Adobe, Mr. Kelby is pleased to offer this unique opportunity along with the
world-leading Photoshop education, training, and support provided by NAPP.
Complete Press Release is here!
Paul Bowen is great guy, a gentleman in the industry and one helluva a shooter! He has a gorgeous spread and great story on his work in the current issue of f11. Paul’s aviation photography, especially his air to air work is spectacular and gives us all a mark of excellence to shoot for. You want to read this piece and enjoy the images. And it’s easy to do, the magazine is online and can be downloaded as a PDF.