Dec 1, 2017 | Field Reports
Nikon has done a major update to their SnapBridge app. Once connected to your camera, you’ll find it a solid tool you’ll want to have. One of the major issues before was simply getting your smartphone to connect to the camera (only works with certain bodies). That has been vastly improved, once you make everything happy. What I had to do was make sure on the iPhone in the Bluetooth, the D850 was no longer in the menu (Forget this device). Then I had to delete the SnapBridge app (even though I had just updated it) from my device. Turn off the iPhone, turn it back on and then download the app again. With that accomplished, the D850 & iPhone couldn’t have connected faster! Reconnecting once both devices were turned off and back on was quick and simple as well. I hope more folks will check this out and put this tool to use, could be a real problem solver for you!
Nov 30, 2017 | Field Reports
You can tell it’s winter in the office, I’m printing like a madman (thanks for all the gallery print orders!). So much so, a complete Epson 700ml ink set just arrived last week for the P7000! I seem to do a lot of printing experimenting in the winter, perhaps it’s the long, dark nights and I’m so excited about the latest paper I’m testing. Epson’s Metallic Glossy paper for aviation is freakin off the charts! It has, out of the printer the look of a metal print but a roll of 24″x100′ Epson Metallic paper is less than a single metal print. Then you have your Epson Metallic mounted by the folks at TruLife Acrylic and light it and it simply JUMPS off the wall! No, this is not a new paper, just new to my printing paper locker. And no, I won’t use this paper on my wildlife or landscape images, it’s very specific to just the aviation. While Legacy Platine is still my favorite paper, for aviation Metallic is now it!
Nov 28, 2017 | Field Reports
It’s no secret I’m a huge Epson fan, we’ve had their printers in our office for over twenty years. At a recent business dinner, an interesting phrase was used that really struck me, “business in a box.” The Epson P600 is a marvelous printer in every way. It’s at a great price, uses so little ink and can work with roll paper. And for all the right reasons, it’s incredibly popular. It’s so popular in fact, many photographers buy one and think that once they have P600 printer they are now a business, instantly! The printer is that good and its prints that brilliant, but the quality of the photograph is only as good as what goes into it. The P600 or any other printer can’t make a bad photograph, great. What a printer like the P600 can do is give you a great platform to learn how to be a better photographer and printer at a very affordable price. Then, once you have the images to support a business, moving up to the P800 (a favorite) or a P7000 / P10000 (ultimate favorites) not only makes good business sense, makes gorgeous prints of your gorgeous images! That’s probably one of the best reasons to print and print alot, it’s one of the best photographic teachers around!
Nov 16, 2017 | Field Reports
I acquired my QuickBox a couple of weeks ago when they went on sale for the silly price of $29.95. I’ve now acquired a couple of these marvelous little light modifiers.
They fold to such a small size, they easily fit in the flap of any Think Tank. And with their double baffle and light surface size, they greatly enlarge the light surface of the SB-5000. The sale is still going on so I wanted to get the word out about them while you can still buy them so cheaply. I hope to get a field review posted shortly.
Nov 14, 2017 | Field Reports
Besides yourself and your family, the next important thing to take care of is your camera gear! I’m always amazed at how 1: photographers have no supplies to take care of their gear or 2: they have the supplies but never taken them out of their wrapper. The fear, downright paranoia paralyzes most and I just hate when that happens. I feel even worse for that camera gear, it deserves all the love we can give it.
My new class on Camera Gear Care has posted over at KelbyOne. It goes EVERYTHING I do to give my gear all the love it needs to continually perform perfectly over and over again. And if you want just sensor cleaning info/refresher, you can find an abbreviated course on my YouTube channel.
Cleaning Kit Supplies
“Pink Juice” = LensClens (for everything BUT the sensor)
Eclispe Sensor Cleaner
Visible Dust Sensor Loupe
Visible Dust 1.x (FX Sensor) Swabs
Visible Dust 1.5 (DX Sensor) Swabs
Power House Case (to hold it all)
Nov 10, 2017 | Field Reports
Thanks to my father, brothers, all in the last 250 years who have made the ultimate sacrifice so we can live under our flag of freedom. There aren’t enough days in a year to say Thank You!
