P.S. I’m so glad to have you back that you even got me, an introvert, to leave a comment.

Rex, an interesting take, but just because something is on a negative doesn’t make it “real”. Copy stands allow one negative to be copied – but what if the “original” was a digital fabrication being transposed onto film?

Sadly, it’s incredibly easy to fake a negative. It would be as authentic as printing off a copy of an AI image and calling it real, simply because it was tangible.

Can you fake a negative? You probably can, but it would be way harder than throwing AI at a photo, so leas likely to happen, I would argue.

Ah 🙂

Just looked up the Nikon 1 J2 Pink Kit, that is pink!

I enjoyed time with my son when he did photography at school. Didn’t quite start at six and a half years old though!

Great times ahead. 🙂

Not a bad idea with a skin! Still, I’m sure I’ll get some feedback that the camera itself isn’t pink! Current front-runner is a Nikon 1 J2 with it’s equally pink kit lens.

I wish a Nikon Z fc would be in the cards, but she’s six and a half years old. 🙂

Thanks for continuing to listen to the podcast!

I liked to hear the discussion on left eye dominance. That is me all over. I am also left handed by birth. (yes not hatched) LOL I handle my camera as a right handed person. My only inconvenience is I can see what is coming towards me like a right eye shooter. Since I shoot a lot of dirt bike racing I have to be well aware of what is coming towards me. I have a grand kids that are left handed but are right eye dominate. They hold the camera completely different than me.

The biggest thing about having to produce creating while running on empty is just a disaster. In the long run it makes all your work empty too. Having to create one of a kind jewellery for years and years it just get harder as you decline in ideas. Add to that the lack of quality gem stones the problems become even worse.

I now shoot what I want and sell it. I am much better selling in person as people get to know me and why my work is collectable. I know you do art shows and I am willing to bet you get high off the shows and the people. On a high that you don’t get from an internet sale.

I liked this podcast as it spoke to me with the camera talk. Keep it up and have fun in your new home.
Denis

Thanks for listening! Kits like this should do the trick: https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Applications-Syringes-Blunt-Needles/dp/B079QLDTJM/

Love the podcast and good luck on the move.

I have always backed up my images on more than two hard drives. My third backup is placed in a safe place and weather sealed. As for storing into the cloud I am not a fan of this at all. We have already seen the loss of images with cloud storage. I also feel that not having your images on the same brand of hard drives as well. I am now culling some of my RAW images to keep less crap. Great podcast.

I was wondering if you could invite some female geek photographers to be guest hosts on your show. I have noticed that you have a large range of male photographers geeking out with you but haven’t come across a female cohost yet.

Keep it up, I sure will listen to you next show.

Oliver

Once set it’s totally automatic

I did order your new Macro Photography book back on May 10 – How are you doing on shipping?

All the best – Rich Ball

Absolutely great point, Rex! I’ll see what Downtown Camera or Henry’s has to offer for an online purchase. Thanks!

Flying Foto Mat

Aerial reconnaissance pioneer Brigadier General George W. Goddard was involved in the design of the mission equipment for the Rainbow. The XR-12 was equipped with a three six-inch Fairchild K-17 aerial cameras oriented for vertical, split vertical, and trimetrogon (simultaneous vertical and side-looking) photography located in compartments aft of the wing. The Republic engineers designed in heaters for the camera lenses and aerodynamically efficient inward-retracting doors for the cameras. Also carried aboard the aircraft were high-intensity photo-flash “bombs” dropped to provide target lighting at night. The aircraft even had a fully-equipped darkroom for film development and printing of the “take” from the cameras while in flight. There was additional capacity for additional photo or other reconnaissance equipment as well. The combination of performance and capability was unprecedented.

The XC10 & 15 have the same bump and a similar overall design. Maybe a review of those cameras will bring some enlightenment as to the purpose of the bump.

I’m not questioning whether it will work well, I am questioning the design process. So many things about that camera feel rushed, which doesn’t bode well for long term complications on usability. I can very easily be wrong! But a viewfinder bump with no viewfinder just feels… wrong.

How did you think the conversation about the 3200MP sensor would go? 🙂

Steve commented on the Sony Alpha camera and how the lens flares out. Not that I’m in the market for a new camera, that knuckle-pinch area really bothered me when I held a friend’s Sony a7. Everything else may be 100%, but I agree with Steve that I would have trouble getting over the “knuckle-pinch” for any period of time.

Don, you brought back memories of watching my dad punch out stereo slides from vacations. I have acquired his View Master equipment when we cleared out the house a few years ago. I still have the camera and special die cutting tool that (after aligning the film & with the press of a lever) would perfectly punch out the pair of frames. He would then use a special pair of tweezers to insert them into a View Master reel. The items are in storage; waiting for me to have the time to evaluate the functionality of it all.

Dad would always shoot Kodachrome (probably 25). I remember that half way through the roll he would have to set a lever and shoot the second half winding the film back into the cartridge. Most of his pictures were underexposed.

He also had the 3-D projector that required us to put on the polarized glasses. The kids hated having to sit around for this.

Yes. I don’t know how many times have I heard on this show that Canon cameras don’t have interval timer built in. If that is not a lie, it as a falsehood. And I think it’s a shame that it has been repeated so many times on this show.

Also STM has nothing to do with fulltime manual focus override. I have 2 lenses with STM and the cameras can be configured that you can override the autofocus any time with the focus ring even when the AF is turned ON.

But the focus ring is not directly connected to focus mechanism. So when turned off, you can not focus manually.

And I don´t think that single photon can hold enough energy to generate multiple electrons. I think the energy must come from somewhere else.

Hey Terry! Working on a fix. I updated some backend software but the problem still persists, so I’ve put in a support ticket with Castos (the hosting / bandwidth provider for the podcast files). In the meantime, however, here’s a quick fix. The last ten episodes can be found as MP3 files in this folder for your downloading enjoyment: http://photogeekweekly.com/episodes/

…. help

Change of subject – What’s the status of your new book on macro photography? Can I still order a copy?

Rich

Thanks so much for your contributions, David!

And I don’t mean to minimize what Kodak is doing by sharing their alcohol for this project… kudos to them.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joel_r/

I had a publishing company that did very well. It was also based on ad driven existence. When I see the photography magazines of today there is almost no content. Most articles are all advertising driven. As long as I can remember every talk show is how you flog everything. It then makes any articles in print a non event. We see how every kind of fill in is now on You Tube. For me there is only one magazine I will buy as it is made to inspire me and not blast the hell out of me with the same content over and over again. There is also a sad thing about the printing industry. The cost of bricks and mortar has sky rocketed. I have seen a huge printer miss a job by one or two cents per job. When our dollar goes up all the places in the States move the work to China. Now China has invested money we can’t compete with to be the largest printers in the world. Our pod cast is so right on point. Business is business is a whole different world than pushing a shutter button. Cheers

*Update* I have removed the “RAW” part of the 8K @ 30p video specifications, I thought I had done that yesterday. The source that confirmed some of this stuff is unsure of what sort of 8K the camera has.

Hey Eric! You’ve discovered a glitch in the podcasting software! Thankfully it was an easy fix on my end and the proper episode should now be playing. Thanks for your help, and enjoy the episode!

Hey Robby, I wish I knew the exact camera models but I don’t keep track of this when doing a workshop with a dozen people or more. My focus quickly shifts back to the problems and solutions related to the subject rather than being caught up in the specifics of any one camera, but the inconsistency is noticed by myself and many others that offer photographic instruction.

In my experience the newer cameras behave differently – maybe this is via some custom functions being set. At the very least it’s incredibly unintuitive to put a feature like “exposure simulation” (Canon’s term) into the center of the back jog wheel button with no other reference to the feature outside of the camera manual.

Still, if you were to compare any Nikon camera to the original Olympus OM-D EM1, there’s no contest. Nikon (and every other camera) wins hands down. 🙂

1st, great show and I never miss an episode but ….

You’ve mentioned for 2 weeks running that you don’t like Nikon because of changes in certain ergonomic functions such as picture playback information.

I agree that there are some ergonomics changes w.r.t. button placement (there are 2 main placement options – 1 for consumer cams and 1 for pro bodies) however I can’t recall there being any changes in the playback options for a very long time. In fact, I decided to check this and went through all models in the following ranges (which covers 10+ years of cams and all current ranges):

3xxx
5xxx
7xxx
7xx
8xx
Dx
Z6/7/50

All of these use the standard d-pad up/down presses to cycle through the various option display modes (eg. histogram, exif data, etc.). Just a reminder that you need to initially setup which option display modes you want to make available, in the setup menu before using them. In fact, I believe that Nikon have been very consistent in terms of their menus excluding of course model-specific features.

Can you advise which models you’ve had an issue with?

Regards, Robby

You’ll be happy you asked this! Don is great at finding old lenses and making them work on modern cameras. He’s caused me to spend a few bucks on a Mitakon super macro lens, a Mir 1B lens that I reversed the front element to get some cool Bokeh, etc.

Good podcast you have here, always an interesting listen. Unfortunately being a student all the stuff you talk about is way out of the price range for me 🙂

Recently I got some nice vintage lenses of ebay auctions for under £20 ($26) each. (My trophy find was a SMC Pentax-M 100mm F4 Macro for £18. I spent an evening cleaning it but was totally worth it ) While they do not compare to latest and greatest, after good clean and some testing I found them more that adequate for my hobby needs. Any chance you, or someone else around here can point me to some good resources on vintage lenses. Looking around I found some conflicting info and I’m not sure who to trust.

Maybe, from time to time you can even mention something affordable for students in your picks of the week.

Thanks for quality content,
Dom

I also think that moving up just for the sake of having the latest and greatest is a waste of money unless you can make use of this new asset and it will pay for itself. With some older cameras you just lye to the camera to get what you want out of it. I have been doing that for years.

I watched Karl Taylor and he had an answer to the question of giving images to clients. I like his answer and have done exactly what his answer was. There are more people out there that has answers to questions that help you work out what clients want.

Keep the podcasts coming.

Sorry Carl!

Hi Marc, Thanks for listening, and the feedback. Agreed 100% on notifications, and I always set them up for both attended and unattended deployments. That said, email notifications should not be the only option. Even in whitelisted configurations notification emails can trigger false positives. They can get flagged as spam, and even auto-deleted by some systems. Let’s take a scenario where a home user configures the outgoing SMTP using their own Yahoo or Hotmail credentials, or even through their domain which is hosted on a shared server. In those cases, an IP address for the MX server can end up on a blacklist which can cause issues upstream from your control. For example, the hosting company could block the email entirely before it ever hits your inbox or anti-spam systems that you have control over. So yes, email notifications should be configured for any event triggers you want / need, but there is no substitution for visual confirmation.

Hey Matthew,

Thanks for listening! I agree, as always there is flexibility in having extra pixels for creative crop.

1) E-mail notifications. I always configure my devices to send these out. That way regardless if you are in front of the device or away from your home/office you will be alerted when an event is logged on your device. This can include RAID array issues, HDD failures, HDD errors, available firmware updates, etc.

2) UPS – I recommend any NAS has its own dedicated UPS. Most come with a USB compatible cable that you can use to connect your NAS to the UPS and configure e-mail alerts so that if you lose power an e-mail will be sent out. In addition, at least with Synology, you can control unit shutdowns so that if your UPS battery level becomes critical the NAS will perform a soft shutdown. Always advisable.

Again, thanks for producing these podcasts! Always great discussion and information.

Another great show with Don and Steve. Looking forward to the second Critique show to watch tomorrow.

Yes, we talked about this on the show and I’ve discussed it personally with Jordan Drake. I wish all cameras had this as an option for shooting video AND stills! 🙂

Hey David, thanks so much for your commentary here! I have seen some great tiny flashlights that push well beyond 1000 lumens, The NiteCore Concept 1 is one that I own that packs 1800 lumens in a super small package. B&H has it as well for $60 without the battery. Gotta love modern technology!

“Truth” is a difficult concept to convey by either the police or the public, as it is subject to many variables including bias as well as a defensive posture from the perspective of self-preservation. Human nature is difficult to overcome in such instances, but us as a general public would benefit from footage and narratives from all sides to come to our own conclusions. This used to be the realm of investigative journalists, now replaced by citizen journalism on social media. This could be an entire topic of discussion for an hour long podcast on its own!

In the end? Yes. This is our society. Journalistic integrity has never been iron-clad, but now we have to piece together the stories – bias included – from much less reliable sources and infer what we hope to be valuable information. Since the classic forms of journalism will never return to their grandeur, we need to make the best of what we’ve got.

You can find it right here, Michael! 🙂 Link: https://www.flickr.com/groups/14648991@N21/

Hey David, your approach is the same as mine – just a simple in-camera format. This does not write zeros to the card, so you’re not wearing out the flash memory quickly in the process. Doing this just wipes the file allocation table so that you write new data to the card.

It doesn’t, however, tell the flash controller at a low level that all of the space is free. This is what these fancy ProGrade cards allow for, as well as the re-organizing of data on the cards to free up more pages which (theoretically) improves sequential write performance.

You’re doing nothing wrong. 🙂

Hah, thanks so much Rich! I suppose it would look simpler from a programmer’s perspective if written with variables – easier to spot the same variable used in multiple locations quickly.

Yes, I understood the design to be for a singlet at least. Imagine the complexities of what used to be a simple triplet design with this methodology applied, or… would that even be necessary?

There are a lot of novel ways to improve lens manufacturing techniques as we push towards higher resolution sensors and a shift towards mobile. Large manufacturers have a hard time adapting to radical changes though, due to their immense investment in more traditional manufacturing facilities. As soon as one major player decides to step outside the box however, we’ll see many companies follow. Wouldn’t that be fun. 🙂

The formula in the PetaPixel article looks intimidating but there appears to be lot’s of repeating terms. In addition it has lots of repeating elements. Without seeing the the whole article I wouldn’t feel all that intimidated. It is mostly low level arithmetic. Admittedly lots of it. If I saw triple integrals or partial differential equations I’d get nervous – more likely my stage in life panicked if I had to actually solve it. Please note the solution is for a singlet. I also suspect that the figure is exaggerated for illustrative purposes.

With respect to manufacturing the youtube video link below if from 2005 but it does illustrate how lenses are made. I’m sure that the lens manufacturers could find a way to adapt to this type of shape if needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovxtgj4SsiI

Although I suspect Canon has automated more of the process for the fabrication of the big white lenses it’s not surprising that they cost as much as they do.

All the best – Rich Ball

Thanks Anders, and link fixed! 🙂

And on its own note Congrats Don to the extreamly good work with the kickstarter campain

Thanks so much for the compliments Don! Photography from 40 years ago to today is an entirely different thing – embrace the change and always stay creative! 🙂

Thanks for all the commentary, Rich!

You know, one of my favourite lenses is a Meyer Optik Trioplan 100 – using an optical formula that dates back to 1916. Wide open it has a sought-after soap bubble bokeh effect, stopped down to F/11 it’s just a fun sharp mechanical lens that I’ve used for a number of my macro images (with copious amount of extension tubes). There are so many facets to the discussion, and photographers will always be able to make great images. The real question is when you have the latest-and-greatest tech marketed towards an audience that includes people of all skill level, skill and creativity are not what people start comparing. 🙂

I have a good number of film cameras, from a Pentax 110 system to a Century Studio 11×14 that I’m hopeful to fully restore at some point. Film is a different experience, and one that photographers should embrace on occasion. At the very least I use those old film lenses on digital cameras – those Pentax 110 lenses fit nicely on MFT bodies with an inexpensive adapter!

So in that vane – I loaded the 645 with film. Then I saw a review ( I think on F stoppers) of the original Pen F half frame and decided I HAD to have one – you can see where this is leading. Then on the “analog insights” you tube channel I watched a review of the Leica IIIg. Couldn’t quite afford that camera but did find a Canon IV range finder with a Leica Summar lens. The camera is about the same size as my Pen F (digital and film).

In closing shooting with film can teach a person a lot. But, with a caveat. If you are using a newer camera that is highly automated, let’s say a Canon EOS 3, it is not much different than a digital camera with a small memory card. If you have a more elemental camera that you have to focus and set a shutter speed and f stop you now are starting to learn things. (Speaking of the EOS 3 and it’s analog siblings I wonder why Canon didn’t continue with the eye auto focus.)

Ted Forbes had an interesting commentary on this over at his youtube channel on gear an limitations that is worth watching.

I have rattled on enough – Keep up the good work.

Rich Bahl

I should give Liz the idea for the perfect Christmas gift then, Carl! 🙂

(I mean the underwear, not the Lensbaby OMNI)

Hah, thanks John! You’re actually the only person to point it out, so thanks for that! Glad you’re enjoying the podcast, it’s a passion project for me and always the highlight of my week. 🙂