I took the plunge this past week and bought a 15″ MacBook Pro. This was mostly due to the increasing amount of video and photography I’ve been doing lately and needed a bit more (okay a lot more) horsepower under the hood. One thing that I’ve always wondered about, is that card slot in the…
What an epic weekend! So much going on surrounding the best little conference ever, Northern Voice. As usual, I’ll try to detail my experiences with photos and video I shot: Things kicked off Thursday at Federico’s Supper Club with the somewhat controversial (due to political sponsorship) opening dinner which was a lot of fun. It…
Want! Today Nikon announced a new 35mm f/1.8G lens. DPReview has all the details. I’ll be picking this up as soon as it’s available.
Stumbled across a fun new camera app for the iPhone called QuadCam [App Store link] after seeing photos taken with it popping on Reilly’s site. It’s from the same guy that created the CameraBag app that I previously mentioned and it’s just as fun. It basically lets you set a timer and it takes a…
This past weekend, I participated in my first group photoshoot with members of the Vancouver Strobist group (on Flickr). After missing out on a studio shoot in January, I was invited to this one at The Dollhouse Studios. The models were members of the Sweet Soul Burlesque troupe and were fantastic to work with despite…
Last week, I got a couple of lens adapters meant for mobile phones in the mail. Today, while playing with my Zi6, I realized that the lens adapters fit perfectly on the Zi6. There is a little metal ring with sticky tape that the lenses attach to via magnets which fits perfectly on the Zi6…
This just arrived in the mail from Hong Kong (via usbfever.com): You can either just hold it up to your cameraphone’s camera or use the included metal rings (with tape) to attach it magnetically to your phone: Here’s a shot taken with the iPhone normally: Here’s the wide angle lens attachment: and the fisheye lens…
This is so cool: New York 2008 from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo. It was shot with a Casio Exilim EX-F1 camera at 300 frames per second then edited to 24 frames per second. Kind of the opposite of what I’ve been doing with my time lapse videos and it yields stunning results. I really don’t…
Finally back home from Whistler after a great weekend up there for WordCamp Whistler where I met a ton of new people and was able to spend time with many friends. It was nice to get out of Vancouver for a change of scenery and yet have so many familiar faces around. I thought I’d…
See what happens when you leave your camera on while you’re at work? Shot out my bedroom window over twelve hours. 842 stills. Yeah, I’m really enjoying my P6000 camera. Only downside is that when doing longer (multi-hour) time lapse shots, it creates separate folders for each time you use the interval setting (this is…