This weekend, my pal Duane packed all his belongings into a UHaul and trucked them all to Chilliwack. I brought my P6000 along to capture everyone help him lug stuff out of his apartment down to the truck: All the best in your new place, Duane! When the boxes were all out of the way,…
As a follow up to yesterday’s post (which I updated with a better version), here’s a time lapse video of the drive home, recorded a little differently than the drive to work: Drive Home from John Biehler on Vimeo. Unlike the drive to work, this video was recorded with the still photo time lapse mode…
Last month I pre-ordered the Nikon GP-1 GPS Unit for my DSLR. It’s an addon that automatically geo-tags photos you take with the gps coordinates of your current location. I’ve always liked to geo-tag my photos (particularly when travelling) but only did when I remembered to do it manually after the fact. Now I don’t…
Now that the Christmas dust has settled, the turkey has been eaten and, at least in Canada, the Boxing Day/Week sales are winding down, what did you get? Any cool gadgets? My wife and I don’t exchange gifts during the holidays, we simply spoil our nieces and nephew and then get what we wanted after…
Ebay can be a wonderful place. I recently received this backpack from a seller in France. Crumpler and Nikon got together a few years ago and made a branded backpack. Unfortunately it was only available in Europe. So after a lot of trolling and tracking down, I found one. Like all Crumplers, it is incredibly…
A new iPhone app [iTunes link] just popped up on my radar that is pretty cool. It lets you pretend your iPhone camera has a tilt/shift lens. Kinda. While heading to grab a coffee this morning, I took this shot: then loaded it into the Tilt/Shift app: which resulted in this image: Not quite a…
After a month long wait, my Lensbaby Composer has finally arrived: Mounted on my D90: With the wide angle lens attached: I’ve only had it for a couple of days but have had a few chances to play with it: and even shot some video with it: So far it’s been a lot of fun…
I shot this video awhile ago and never posted it here for some reason. Shot at night with my 10.5mm fisheye lens on the Nikon D90 from the backseat of a Mini Cooper S while driving from downtown Vancouver to the north shore.
This past weekend, I dragged myself out of bed early to go to a camera swap meet with Peter. Didn’t expect to find anything (we did bump into Reilly) but ended up finding this camera in near mint condition, complete with box, manual and even the warranty card for $15: Why is this a good…
Years ago, I built this do-it-yourself poor man’s steadicam (which you can buy preassembled here) for about $20. It was for use with my mini-dv camcorder at the time. It worked pretty well and like that camcorder, has unfortunately been collecting dust in my garage for a few years now. I thought it might be…