The Olympus SP-600UZ is a 12-megapixel superzoom camera that covers a 15x zoom range. It’s the little brother to the 30x zoom SP-800UZ and offers a number of similar features.
To see how the SP-600UZ stacks up as an affordable superzoom, read on. [click to continue…]
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B&H is back with another round of markdowns on Drobo units and kits. The 4-bay Drobo has a $100 discount and rings in at $299, while other Drobo units have serious markdowns as well. This time around B&H beats Amazon’s $332 price by a good margin. The full list is below. [click to continue…]
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If you happened to catch the Zack Arias session on creativeLIVE last weekend, you saw that one of the things he did was shoot a live comparison of a number of light modifiers, ranging from a 7′ Octabank down to 10-degree grid.
Zack has posted all of those images over on his blog at zarias.com for everyone to check out. He’s even put them all together in a .zip file for you to download if you want to look at them on your own screen and compare different modifiers side-by-side.
If you want to learn off-camera lighting, Zack’s creativeLIVE session is a great way to jump in to it. It’s three days packed full of lighting knowledge with Zack’s practical approach. While it was free to watch the 3-day session live, you can download all three days for $129 and put them on your PC, iPhone, iPad, or whatever. I didn’t have the ability to sit through all three days of the sessions non-stop, so I stole it for $79 before the session ended (Lord knows I could use some help with my off-camera lighting). At $129, this is still an absurd bargain.
You can order Zack’s creativeLIVE session here.
And, again, the light modifier images are on Zack’s blog here.
And just so you know, I’m not pimping this class because I get anything out of it. I get nothing, and neither Zack, nor anyone else from creativeLIVE asked me to say anything about it. I just want to make sure that anyone who reads Photography Bay and struggles with off-camera lighting is aware of this.
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Think Tank Photo has put together a free buyers guide addressing all the gear decisions that go into putting together a DSLR video kit. Check out the press release below for more details. [click to continue…]
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In perhaps some of the most exciting news of the week, the Pentax Optio W90 is now available in orange (in addition to green and black). While Pentax’s press statement failed to reveal the reasons for the delay of an orange camera, rumors continue to circulate that the long wait for an orange W90 was due to an actual shortage of the color orange, which was in turn caused by a less than stellar year on the color wheel, along with the fact that it is no longer receiving compliments from blue.
Additional sources cited fears that UT Vol fans would lose such a camera in or around the checkerboard end zone at Neyland Stadium. Local Best Buy stores in Knoxville, Tennessee report that consumers are already forming lines outside for the anticipated July release of the orange W90 at $329.95. You can also check availability on Amazon.com.
In other news, your refrigerator is running.
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In a forum posting discussing bugs associated with the, yet-to-be-released, RED EPIC and Scarlet cameras, RED’s Jim Jannard says that cinematographers should be embarrassed for shooting 1080p on DSLRs. [click to continue…]
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