Episode 433 – The Stan(ley) Harrison episode
This week, Glynn caught up with saxophonist-extraordinaire, Stan Harrison (Bowie, Talking Heads, Springsteen et al) for a chat about photography, and a quick portrait session.
Canon continues to suffer declining unit shipments and operating profits,
A composite image showing the moon and Jupiter. Looks amazing, but a heck of a lot of work required to pull it off.
The anti selfie! Glynn sent this link (as did Steve Peters), and here’s the link to her site.
Thinking of a career as a US-based photographer? Maybe… don’t.
David Marland sent us 4 selfie-related stories:
Tourists could face death penalty for taking selfies as planes land next to Phuket beach.
Why is India the world capital for selfie deaths, and what’s being done to stop it?
Jaguar attacks woman who ‘crossed barrier to take selfie’ at Arizona wildlife park.
and Angry Bambi: Tourists teasing deer for Instagram selfies attacked in record numbers in Japan
Steve Peters sent us the story of Leica being banned from China’s social media platforms because of their mention of that place you’re not allowed to mention.
Plus there is the controversy surrounding photographer Andrew Quilty.
Adam sent us stories about the parent company of photography website 500px gettng their wrists slapped for making a copyright claim against the NASA images of the black hole,
Aliens over Norway? Apparently not.
The LIT off-camera flash for smartphones,
and the timelapse camera with an alledged one-month operating cycle from one set of AA batteries.
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G’Day, Incs,
A quick comment on your conversation this week about DSLR cameras and ‘currency of usefulness’ which I found interesting and somewhat comforting.
I bought my Nikon D7000 in March 2012 (they were released in September 2010). I take mostly landscape, architectural and grandchildren shots with it and I think I could be classified as a moderately skilled amateur enthusiast.
Every now and then I trawl the Internet and contemplate upgrading to something better – a Nikon D850 would be nice. We have a few bob in the bank and I could possibly even convince my wife to let me splash out four grand on a D850.
But would I get my money’s worth? I only ever post my photos on line – to Flickr – other than a 10 x 8 print of the grandies now and then.
The tilting viewscreen would be a definite plus: it would avoid me having to lie down on my stomach to get those very low level shots then struggle back to the vertical with dicky knees complaining and a tramp-like shirt front .
But 153 focus points instead of 39? 45 megapixels instead of 16? Continuous shooting of 7 frames a second instead of 6?
No, I’d probably be better off spending the four grand on a trip somewhere so I could photograph things I haven’t shot before.
So as you more or less said Glynn, my nine-year-old technology is perfectly adequate for this old amateur and Nikon shareholders will just have to grin and bear it.
Regards from The West,
Rob Coates
Bruce love the podcast, I hope you are able to convince your wife to travel to Sri Lanka, I was there last September. It is truly a feast for the photographer, lots of opportunity to shoot people, animals, tea plantatons and workers, beach scenes, the pole fisherman and not to mention the great food and very friendly people.
G’Day Geeks.
I’m a big fan of Mike Browne, the English pro photographer and YouTuber. I found his latest video – ‘Useless Camera Features’ – very interesting and thought you might too. It’s about 20 minutes long. Stick with it to see some of his knock-out photos in the second half and his incisive comments at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTYCmJ3ke4
Regards, Rob Coates.