EP100!!! MASSIVE GIVEAWAY - The Random Photography Show

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to the Camera Life Podcast. This is episode 100. And to celebrate, we're giving away two massive prize packs. Plus, we're diving into all the latest news, camera rumors, what it was like at Frame Fest on the weekend, and much, much more. So let's roll the music, foreign. [00:00:38] Speaker B: And welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Camera Life Podcast. This is the random photography show, but more than that, this is our 100th episode of the Camera Life Podcast. And to celebrate, we've got a lot of stuff to get through tonight. Justin's going to announce a big giveaway in a minute. The chat's already going off, but it is 21 July 2025 from the camera Life Podcast, proudly brought to you by Lucky Straps. Head to Lucky Straps.com now. More on that later. Good morning. Sorry. Good morning. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Jesus. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Good evening. Good evening, Grant. Good to have you back. Grant is one of our OG Camera Life members. How are you, mate? [00:01:14] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm good. I'm kind of like that nifty 50 you have in your bag and you're like, oh, I might need it. [00:01:19] Speaker A: I might not need it. We needed you today. We whipped you out. Do you still work or is it. Got a bit dust? Yeah, a little bit dusty. Focus is a bit slow. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Focus, not slow. [00:01:31] Speaker C: I'm Cannon. [00:01:33] Speaker B: And congratulations are in order because Grant's. Grant's recently introduced another baby into the family. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Yes. Can make a baby. [00:01:43] Speaker B: You can make humans. That's phenomenal. I could barely take photos these days. I mean, you had some part of it and. And Jim. [00:01:56] Speaker A: Yeah, just a small part. Grant, how you doing? Jim, how are you? [00:02:03] Speaker C: I'm well, thank you. [00:02:04] Speaker B: Welcome to 100, guys. [00:02:06] Speaker A: You got a bit of a sunrise. Tequila sunrise going on in the back. A bit of a fade. It's nice. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks. Does anyone remember that movie To Kill the Sunrise? That was quite tragic. [00:02:19] Speaker A: No. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Not worth going back to it. Not the pornhub version, by the way, just the normal. Anyway, let's move on. Justin, there's a fair bit going off in the chat. Do you want to say hello to some people? [00:02:34] Speaker A: Yeah, let's say hi to the chat before I let him know how to win these prizes that we're going to give away tonight. And then we'll. Then we'll get into the show. Oh, my God. I can't even scroll back to the poll was. Yeah. Is there a prize for the first comment? There is not. Or for the second comment? No. Maybe. Maybe the hundredth comment. Rick Nelson says maybe. I'll let you know in a second. Philip Johnson says happy hundredth. All and many more. Thanks, Philip. You're a legend. Tony says if there's no prize, we can just raid the warehouse. Well, you can. You know how to get into Jim's. Jim's Warehouse. Hear the code. Greg gets you the best deal. It does not code, Justin. We should make a code grand code. [00:03:17] Speaker C: Jim's the shortest and easiest to type. [00:03:20] Speaker A: That's true. Lisa Leach says happy hundredth. Hey, Lisa. Nathan. Nathan, ccp. Good to see you. Long time no see. Surely there are party hats and party poppers. I'm a bit disorganized and there are not. I wanted to. [00:03:36] Speaker B: I went looking for a hat but headphones. [00:03:39] Speaker A: The closest we could do was put in the little hats on in Canva for the thumbnail. So, yeah, so many more chat comments. Dennis Smith is here. Says let's go. Bruce Moyle, right on time. Yeah, we were. Yeah, we were late. [00:03:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Elaine is here as always, saying good evening to everybody, keeping the show running. Jim's Weddings. That's a new one. [00:04:06] Speaker B: Is that Jim in a dress? [00:04:08] Speaker A: Oh, that's very pretty. Is that a flanny wedding dress? [00:04:12] Speaker B: Someone put a whole day into this. [00:04:14] Speaker A: That's nice. Yeah. I don't know who's doing this. Got a bit of competition. [00:04:20] Speaker C: Thank you for the. The YouTube algorithm. Gonna pump us up more comments from. More from more people's burner accounts. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Oh, no. That's how we get there. Bruce says we all know Yelena is the brains of the operation. She is. She is. Yep. 4:00am at the airport this morning. Staying up for this? Where were you, Dennis? [00:04:39] Speaker B: Hey, Dan. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Where are you going? Or where you been? Coming or going? Tim C Armis. Good to see you. Eilish says hey, hubby. Looking good, guys. [00:04:50] Speaker C: Who's that? [00:04:55] Speaker A: Jim's photography is also in the house. The OG Jim's photography. Nice. Rodney Nicholson. Good to see you. Nev Clark. Good to see you. Oh, man, this is crazy. NP Happy centenary. [00:05:08] Speaker C: Just gonna be. This is just gonna be a whole episode of us ranking in the comments. [00:05:15] Speaker A: I know. It's not. It's not going to be. I promise. I promise. We'll get. We'll get to the actual show in a second. This is just fun. That is a great profile pick. It's a funny. It's a funny bra. That's very nice. But with the bucket hat, it really sets it off. My Cork photo says Happy 100. Thank you. XE. What's up? LTK photo. What's up? Yeah, I think. Oh, man, this is great. Digi Frog I was going to be the first comment you missed. You missed it six minutes too late. Yeah. Epic sledge, the nifty 50 of podcasts. Muhammad. Damn. Where do I send my photos? If you want us to check out your photos, which we will do later this episode, email them to justin Luckystraps.com even if you email them right now, you can make it onto this show. Justin straps.com I'll dig him out of my email before we get to it. Jim's selling franchises for Jim's Photography if anyone's interested. I wouldn't, I wouldn't send you credit. [00:06:23] Speaker C: Card details just so you know. It's not me. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Selling anything. Jim's weddings interested? That's amazing. Okay, I don't know. I can't even keep up with everything that's going on. So let's. Let me just tell you guys how you can win. So what we're giving away tonight, going to give away two things. We're going to give away two prize packs. The prize packs are a lucky straps, top of the line Deluxe 45 padded camera strap, a matching wrist strap personalized by Jim himself, one of our adventure leather belts and a hoodie just like this one. And oh, oh, even the show, Justin, it's a return a T shirt like this one or whatever color you want. [00:07:25] Speaker C: If you, if you're showing nudity before. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I almost saw nipple. [00:07:29] Speaker A: A total value of 650 Australian dollars. That's over US$9 worth of prizes. No, that's not true. It's about US$420 worth of prizes. So we're going to give away two of those. One tonight live on the show will be drawn at random and all you have to do is comment in the live chat to be entered. Now, no stupid comments. If you just type like the letter A or something, we'll just. No, you won't win. It's going to be a good comment. [00:07:56] Speaker B: Do burner accounts count? [00:08:01] Speaker A: Depends on which account it is. We'll see. We'll see. [00:08:04] Speaker C: Only like Rick Nelson's. [00:08:06] Speaker A: And if, if they're really funny burner accounts, then yeah, they count. So jump in the live chat now if you're listening back later or if you just want a second chance to win. If you don't win tonight, you can win still for the next week after this show airs. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify or on YouTube back, jump in on YouTube on this episode and leave it in the regular comments down below. Comment anything you want. You know who you are, where you're from, what sort of camera you use, why you want to win this camera strap. Tell us something interesting. And on next Monday's show, we'll announce the winner of that prize pack. So you've got two. [00:08:43] Speaker B: So just to reiterate, two packs to give away. Each pack has a has the premium deluxe 45 lucky straps, leather camera strap with a quick release system, a matching wrist strap with quick release system. The personalization on both a belt, a hoodie and a T shirt you're giving away. And that's just one pack. And then you've got a second pack that we're giving away. And we'll do that Next Monday night, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time here on the Camera Life podcast. So you've heard it, folks. [00:09:13] Speaker C: Probably not, Greg. Well, sometime after 7:30 we'll be late. We'll be late too. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. 7:30, 6, 37, something like that. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Bruce Moyle says no stupid comments. Well, I'm out. No, your comments are perfect. Just know like, just don't just type one letter or one word or something. It's got to be, it's got to be a good comment. It's got to add some value, get amongst it. And then also you have to be subscribed and liked. There's no way of us checking that. There's no way we can verify that you're subscribed, but you have to be. So go and do that too. It's an honor system. To win the prize. Please subscribe. And like speaking of subscribers, where what are we at? We're at 1249 subscribers, which is amazing. Hey, you're all amazing. [00:10:07] Speaker B: That's awesome. Thanks everybody. And look, thanks for being here, guys. To help us celebrate our 100th episode, we're going to get, we're going to dive into a few topics tonight as we would. It's a normal random photography show just with a bit of pizzazz. And we're going to cover off what Camera Life podcast means to us and what it means to you. So jump in the comments, let us know what this podcast means to you, what you love love about it, if you want what you hate about it, you know who, who's obviously your favorite host. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Anything you'd like to see us do in the future, any guests, different show ideas? [00:10:44] Speaker B: Because don't forget, guys, part of what we do and the reason why we go live with the Camera Life podcast twice a week is that we want it to be as interactive as possible. We don't want to sit here and Talk at you and tell you what we think about the photography world and, and. And what's. What's going down. We want to hear from you guys. We want you to interact, we want you to comment, ask questions, make silly, you know, statements, whatever it may be, get involved. Because we want this to be all about community and you guys and your creative pursuits. [00:11:16] Speaker A: Couldn't have said it better myself. [00:11:18] Speaker B: Oh, thanks. [00:11:20] Speaker A: With that, we'll go into the first segment, which is just talking about how this is our 100th episode. How interesting. Hang on, can I do this? [00:11:31] Speaker B: We'll get it right one day, maybe by 200. [00:11:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:36] Speaker A: There it is. There it is. Well, let's start this segment off with a comment from Paul. Well, guys, I'll start by congratulating you on not just 100 episodes, but for developing a unique live format that combines outstanding guests, random stuff in real time, interactions with the crowd. Thanks. That basically summarizes exactly what we're trying to do. So it's perfect. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Nail on the head. Well done, Paul. Thank you. [00:12:04] Speaker A: And thanks for getting so involved. It's been awesome. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Always good to see you. All right, let's talk about what reaching 100 episodes on the camera life means. Let's start with you, Justin, because you're the founder of Lucky Straps, you're the brains behind. Well, say brains, but you're behind all of this. What is the camera like? [00:12:23] Speaker A: I'm behind it. I don't know. Yeah. I'm not the brains. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Leave the brains bit aside. That's matter for someone else. [00:12:30] Speaker A: But I'm just going to Google how many podcasts make it to 100 episodes. [00:12:38] Speaker C: I think most stop at like 11 or 7 or something. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Statistics indicate that maybe about 5% achieve this milestone. I don't know if that's true because some other things are saying that 90% of podcasts don't make it past three episodes. That sounds. That sounds pretty right. Anyway, not many, so it's pretty cool. I'm really stoked. And I couldn't do it without the crew. Even just without Greg in the early days was very, very tough because I don't know if you guys know, here's the wizard of podcast, and he does. He does all of the booking stuff. Anything that's. That needs to have the track kept track. Kept of it. Is that even a thing? You know what I mean? He does it. [00:13:26] Speaker C: Keeping track of. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that Yelena does it and Greg do it. I don't do it. So without them, nothing would be kept track of. And then without Jim And Grant, will there be no extra characters on the show? So. [00:13:41] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:42] Speaker A: And Jim and Grant were actually critical of getting through the first 20 episodes because that was. That was just an idea. It was just a crazy idea. I didn't even. I couldn't even get any guests or anything. It was just like, all right, you guys, we're on the. We're on the show. If you want to guess, you are the guests. [00:13:57] Speaker B: I think that was the hardest part. [00:13:59] Speaker C: Of it all, just getting started, having guests. [00:14:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And if you guys want to see how. How tricky it is to get going, go back and listen to the first 10 minutes of some of those early shows. It wasn't easy, but we had to push through, and I'm glad that we did. And it's been onwards and upwards and steady growth since then. [00:14:21] Speaker C: It was interesting. [00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Pretty amazing how we started. Yeah, we did have a year. We had a year off, but a year off from episode 20 to episode 21. Pretty much exactly a year, I think. [00:14:35] Speaker B: And then we started the Fujifilm podcast. So. [00:14:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:38] Speaker B: At episode 21. Pretty much. [00:14:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:41] Speaker A: Greg hijacked it. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Well, you want to guess? I only knew Fuji people. Now I know all of you know all of the brands people, but please. [00:14:49] Speaker C: Just get Fuji people still. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I still don't just get fidget people. Yeah, I. I get the. I get the Canon and the Nikon and the Sony people. If there's no Fuji people left. [00:14:57] Speaker C: Yeah. The back of their backup one in every day. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Gareth. Gareth says the first episode I listened to was about the Xav. Four episodes later, I realized that you aren't a Fujifilm only channel. I hang around because it's a very different chilled out format. That's. Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's what we're going. Thanks, Gareth. [00:15:18] Speaker B: That's what. That's what we love. We want it to be very relaxed and chilled. Very Australian. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Very. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Let's just have a chat. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Exactly. Dennis Smith from School of Light, one of our favorite guests. I can't say. I could probably say that about every guest, but I'll say it anyway. One of our favorite guests says the podcast is an oasis in the desert of clickbait filth that infests my screens daily. I find the variation in facial hair consistently intriguing, though. [00:15:50] Speaker B: We're here for that, Dennis. Absolutely. And did we. I think there was a message from Nev Clark as well. The one above Dennis's comment. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Did you see that one? See, Hang on. Nev Clark, also been on the show multiple times. Great episode. Still amongst the Highest viewed episode. Is he? [00:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:09] Speaker A: Still. [00:16:10] Speaker B: He was up there. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Let me just have a look. I think I can rank it by views. [00:16:15] Speaker C: Let's just see. You would be able to. [00:16:17] Speaker A: Not, not that it's competition, but we've. [00:16:20] Speaker C: We'Ve lost Grant. [00:16:23] Speaker A: He'S just behind. If you go up a little bit higher, Grant, he is. Is still number one in terms of views. Second behind that is the. The GFX100RF hands on review that Craig did. And then right behind that is the X half. Wow. Really? [00:16:50] Speaker B: That's the. [00:16:51] Speaker A: It's third. It was the thumbnail. The XR thumbnail was. Was great. [00:16:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker A: If anyone hasn't seen it, it's the, the scene in Zoolander where he's looking at the house model and he's like, what is this a house for ants or whatever. He's like a camera for ants. Anyway, I thought it was funny. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Yeah, well, as long as someone did Justin, that's fine. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Anyway, what was I doing reading out Nev's comment. Nev says, I would love to thank the show. My self belief and belonging in the photography space in Australia has grown. My world has exploded in the last six months since being on the show. Forever indebted. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Wow, that's huge. Nev, thank you. [00:17:30] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Thank you for being one of our first kind of reboot guests and getting the ball rolling on the camera live podcast. We got to hear because you showed us that guests can be great contributors to, to our format. So yeah, thank you in return. We'll call it evens. [00:17:47] Speaker A: We'll call it even. My cock photo. What's Zoolander? Is that a joke? [00:17:55] Speaker B: Give it a Google. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Give it a goog. [00:17:58] Speaker B: And welcome to the channel. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah, welcome. Where are you from? LTK Photos says that your Fuji Summit stream is how I found you guys. One of the bed best podcasts I enjoy listening to and being a part of. And that's it. This is, that's why we do the podcast, because you guys are part of the podcast and it makes it a lot easier to. To have the show when it's constantly getting comments and questions. We don't have to come up with it all ourselves. It's much better. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot to love about that. You know we have regulars we have running jokes now amongst the community, amongst the chat and you know, we keep seeing people and bumping into people that, that have heard of the podcast or are you those guys? I had someone on my private blog who I haven't looked after very well lately because I Just haven't say, oh, I just realized you're that hairy guy from the podcast I watch. Completely. They were just reading one of my blogs on. On something and made the connection. So, you know, these are really nice signs that our desire to, you know, to support and build a community of photographers here, and we create a space for you to come and talk and comment and, you know, get involved. That it's actually working and that feels. Makes me feel like we've won the day. You know, that's. That's what we set out to do. We set out to build a community, a live podcast that's different from others. And. And I think we're. I think we're winning early days, but we're definitely getting there. [00:19:24] Speaker A: We are getting there. You just wait. Wait till you see what we've got in store for the next few months of guests. Greg, he's been working hard. Nathan, another former guest. Great show, Great episode. If you want to go back and give it a listen. He says, this show gave me a bunch of confidence in talking about my work in general. I listen back and think, bloody hell, I sound so nervous. Which I was. But thank you for giving me the opportunity. You did great. You did great. It was a good episode. Andrew Island. I found you guys via the Luke Sharkey episode when he was a recent guest. Awesome. So is this your first live show? Did you listen to Luke live? I don't know if we've seen you in the chat before. Where are you definitely seen that name? Yeah, I don't remember. [00:20:13] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure on the Sharky episode, maybe. [00:20:15] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, remind me, where are you from? And my Cox says Luke's photos were amazing. Yes. Yeah, very good. We've had some bangers on lately. Speaking of which, I think I saw here Lisa said, love the Brett woods episode. Yeah. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Yep. Anyone that hasn't seen that one yet, go back and watch it and then go to Brett's website and have a look at the quality of his landscapes. You know, and obviously being in this industry and running a podcast and working with lucky straps and just my involvement in other communities. I've seen a broad range of landscape photography work, but Brett's just. It just stands out. It is so incredibly compelling. You know, he's got an incredible life of composition and, you know, like, what he was showing us where he would be in a scene in New Zealand, and he would, with about a 5 or 400 or 500 mil lens and just find a tiny little patch of that huge mountainous range, and yet still Capture something that was really majestic without the need to go wide or, you know, like just incredible. Incredible photographic skills. But we've got some good guests coming up too. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Elena says I've got some emails. [00:21:27] Speaker B: Oh. When we said send in photos, we didn't. We went photos that you've taken, not photos of you. [00:21:37] Speaker A: Oh, wow. This is nuts. Okay, I'm gonna have to do some. [00:21:41] Speaker C: Justin, Timus wants to know if you bought the 100 to 500 yet. [00:21:48] Speaker A: No, although I think Brett sent me a second hand one that was listed and I was like, ah, what are you doing to me? [00:21:58] Speaker B: They keep their resale value. You could just resell it. [00:22:00] Speaker A: No, I'm tempted. But Grant also said I could borrow his 7200F4, which is so light. That would be only great. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And you got a camper van. What do you need light for? [00:22:13] Speaker A: Go. We go walking. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:15] Speaker A: You know, you both fit. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Jesus, you're at the gym every second day. [00:22:20] Speaker A: Doesn't mean I want to carry all the stuff. Yeah. So, yeah. Exy sense of photos in. Thanks. Xy. Andrew's from Tassie from Hobart. Another. There's a big Tassie crew, the Tassie contingent. [00:22:36] Speaker B: Yeah, we're making. We're making some early plans. Andrew, We've been inspired by some of our recent Tassie based guests and we're thinking about maybe a little road trip potentially. Potentially. We might cross the water. [00:22:50] Speaker C: We might double the weight for those two lenses too. Let's look it up. [00:22:55] Speaker A: What's double the weight? [00:22:56] Speaker C: The 100 to 500 compared to the 70 to 200 F4. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:00] Speaker B: What does it weigh? [00:23:02] Speaker C: 100. 500 is 1.3 kilos. [00:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah. That's a lot, isn't it? [00:23:08] Speaker A: It is, but also for that lens, it's not like for what it is. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's what it is. [00:23:15] Speaker A: But it is. Yeah. It is still a chunky lens compared to the other stuff. [00:23:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Interesting. Stay tuned, folks. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Was hard to choose a thumbnail for Brett's podcast. Yeah. We had like, Elena puts the thumbnails together and she was like, which one? I'm like, I don't know. They all look awesome. Just pick one. Like, they look. It was. It was the easiest because. Because he had a great photo of himself. That's. Some of our guests don't. You know, like, not everyone gets a good photo of themselves as a photographer. It's just one of those things you kind of forget about. He had a great photo of himself and then he just had like five, you know, just Unlimited options of good landscape shots to put behind it. It was just. It was too easy. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker A: So. Oh, yeah. Exy's in xy, says he was in Hobart yesterday. XYZ down here. How's it going? Any of the photos you sent in from your. From your current trip? Exe. [00:24:07] Speaker B: He sent me a Sookie one on the weekend saying it's raining. It was just great. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Like, he sent me a photo. [00:24:14] Speaker B: It was just gray. The whole world was gray. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Muhammad sent his photos in. Yippee. [00:24:20] Speaker B: I think Muhammad. We'll get to those soon. [00:24:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I think you'll notice it. [00:24:25] Speaker C: Open your discount code. [00:24:27] Speaker A: A new discount code for Grant. [00:24:30] Speaker C: For grand. [00:24:31] Speaker A: Can't have his 16. Does that really work or is it a gag? [00:24:41] Speaker C: I think it is because someone in. [00:24:43] Speaker B: The chat put through an order and we'll let you know if it works. [00:24:47] Speaker A: Bruce says, man up, Justin, and get it. That's the 100 to 500. And Paul. So Paul's taking the 100 to 500 over to New Zealand on South island next week. So, yeah, you. You're. You have to tell me, Paul, if it. Is it essential or not? [00:25:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Gareth says 7200F4 was so nice. Some of my best images were taken with it and it's. I can borrow it for free. Yeah. [00:25:09] Speaker B: Well, I guess if you go with that, with. If you take Grant's lens, a. You save a shitload of money, you're going with a lighter kit, and you'll learn how to make the most of that lens. You know, you'll. You'll push it to its limits, do what you can with it, and you'll know for next time you go to a place like that, whether it's New Zealand or the US or wherever it is that you let you head next, you'll know whether you know that 200 mils is enough. [00:25:34] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:25:35] Speaker C: I guess the only thing is you'll be horribly disappointed that you only have 200 mil. [00:25:41] Speaker A: And that's the thing. It's. It's okay. But it is okay to be. To miss out on some photos sometimes and go, all right, I know I need that. As opposed to spending money and going, well, hopefully, I need that. You know? Yeah, it's. It's okay. Especially, like, I'm going there for fun. I'm not going there to. To come back with any specific work. So, yeah, I think. [00:26:06] Speaker B: I don't know if you're going there, you know, if. With that in mind, if you're going for fun, you don't want to be lugging something that you. You feel pressured to use because you've spent so much money on it or you've, you know, bought a second hand or loaned one or whatever. Yeah, maybe just stick with the 70 to 250 and have fun with it. [00:26:25] Speaker A: I'll think about it over the episode. We'll see. Yeah. [00:26:28] Speaker B: All right. [00:26:29] Speaker A: Get off. My Digital Lawn has just generously donated 7.99 for Greg's left hand light or maybe. Maybe a charger or something. [00:26:46] Speaker C: To Greg's lights. [00:26:48] Speaker A: Yeah, well, they are getting better. He's got great. [00:26:52] Speaker B: I've got like a panel here, I've got green back there. I do. [00:26:55] Speaker C: Second one. [00:26:55] Speaker B: But this, it's not connecting to the app properly. I don't know what's going on. [00:26:58] Speaker A: I hate apps. I don't like them. See that. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Well, now we've just had smart lighting put in the house and f purifiers and everything. Needs an app. [00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't like it. You know, the. The light I've got in front of me uses this. This remote. It's. It's just like. It takes two AAA's and you just press the buttons. It's nice. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Is that the same as the one you got me? [00:27:18] Speaker A: It's the cheaper one. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Mine doesn't have a remote. [00:27:22] Speaker A: Yours definitely has a remote. Yeah. Jim's got the same remote. Yours had an option to control it through a computer because it's more apps. All right. We should probably get through this show or something at some stage. Use code Grant. [00:27:38] Speaker B: It's actually live. [00:27:41] Speaker A: LTK photo says. Where do I send an image? Send it to [email protected] and Yolanda's put. [00:27:49] Speaker B: The email in the chat too. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, but yeah, just email through. So email through a picture. Ideally send through if it doesn't have metadata or if you're not sure if it's got metadata. Tell us what the settings were. If you want, if you remember or if you've got them handy and I don't know, a sentence or whatever about what you were trying to do with it or whether you just like the photo or whether you don't like the photo. Yeah. Elaine has donated 2.99 for my facial hair, so hopefully that works. [00:28:16] Speaker B: To remove it or to keep it. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Remove what? [00:28:21] Speaker B: And then peach fuzz. [00:28:23] Speaker A: What about your peach fuzz, Lisa? Oh, sorry. Well, Lisa says, is there a theme to send photos in or does anything go within reason? Of course. Yeah, anything goes that I can show on YouTube. [00:28:40] Speaker B: Send them to Justin anyway. He might just keep them for himself, but he'll decide what goes up. [00:28:45] Speaker A: No, it's just. So we y. We basically just try to get rolling a bit of a. Your images section. The tail end of the. Of the random shows on Monday night where we just check out what you've been shooting. It can be anything. We didn't want to put themes on it. That might be something we explore down the track, if you guys are interested, where it gets you out to shoot something in a certain theme or dig through your archive for a certain theme. But we'd probably keep it pretty broad unless we maybe do just like monochrome or something like that. I don't think we want to go too deep because I'd rather just see what everyone's been up to. Ideally, I'd like to see either like some favorite photos of all time from. From you or just something that you've shot recently. That's. That's what I was thinking. [00:29:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker A: But I'm open to options. [00:29:27] Speaker B: And, you know, you. You guys sending in images helps us to kind of work out where we want to go next with this. With this channel and with the whole platform. We might look at, you know, maybe down the track having a dedicated website for the camera life where you put blogs and videos. We could have a community notice board where you can advertise the work that you do. We can share your images on there. But that's down the track. But that's what kind of what we're working towards at some stage. Something a bit grander than to add on to this. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Exactly. Were you going to pull something up, Jim? Sorry? [00:30:00] Speaker C: Oh, it was just a reply to Yolanda's comment saying that it'll take more than that. [00:30:05] Speaker A: Okay. I'm just trying to. [00:30:09] Speaker C: You might need a refund. [00:30:15] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I'll refund that later. [00:30:20] Speaker B: All right. [00:30:22] Speaker A: You might be onto something here, Jim. My cock. Mike Hawk. Mike Hawk. Photo Mike Hawk. Are we being. [00:30:37] Speaker B: Before you, you talked about Mike Hawk and I felt uncomfortable for a moment. [00:30:43] Speaker A: That's that dog from St. Kilda that has the massive balls. You know the statue in St. Kilda? No, I don't live near here. On the esplanada, there's these statues of these dogs and they've got. Yeah. Giant nuts. The bronze statues. Okay. Burner account. No prize for you. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Anymore. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Got us. Well spotted, Jim. I didn't see that you guys are going on. [00:31:21] Speaker C: I was like, I don't know. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Oh, that's funny. [00:31:25] Speaker B: We're wrong. And it's actually Mike's real name. [00:31:27] Speaker A: Yeah, look, if so, I think Michael see the funny side of it. Not with that. Not with that profile picture. I know that dog. Lucinda's in the house. Lucinda, another epic guest from our first 100 episodes and our first panel show, the analog photography show where we did a panel on film photography. So, yeah, Lucinda, thanks for joining us. She says, hey, team, late to the game tonight. Congrats on 100 episodes. Thank you. [00:31:58] Speaker B: Thanks, kiddo. Good to see you. Yeah. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Let me just double check that our giveaway tool's still working. Yep, still going. Entries are still being counted. So if you are here with us live right now, you can win. We'll draw the. When will we draw the prize? What do you think? [00:32:14] Speaker B: Like, halfway through? Like in a. Yeah, in half an hour? [00:32:19] Speaker A: Yeah, you've got. Well, halfway through the time. I don't know. We'll start burning through the segments soon. So, yeah, you've still got time to enter if you want to win 650 worth of lucky strap stuff, which includes strap, wrist strap, hoodie, T, shirt, belt, everything. Just jump in the chat, comment, talk with us and if you're listening later, don't forget, leave a comment on this episode on YouTube and we'll draw the winner one week from now. So if you're listening within a week of when this episode come out, still got a chance to win. Go and jump in the comments and answer. [00:32:55] Speaker B: Yeah. So we'll be giving away one prize pack tonight and a second prize pack next Monday night. So make sure you, like, subscribe and hit the bell button so you get notified of next week's episode. [00:33:06] Speaker A: You can't enter next week live. You have to enter in this before then. This show's comment section underneath the show. [00:33:13] Speaker B: Yep. Clear. [00:33:15] Speaker A: All right. Clear as mud. Yeah, we got it. Just trying to catch up with the chat. David Leporati, one of the biggest contributors via email and chat to the show, especially regarding infrared cameras. He's leading me down the path to spend some more money. Says I found you while searching for Richard Taddy and have really enjoyed watching most episodes, some live and some later. I've enjoyed sharing some of my knowledge on infrared photography. Well, we've loved it. I've loved it. I've been. Yeah, I'm definitely going down the rabbit hole of infrared photography and I'll be doing a full spectrum conversion sometime later this year when my bank account lets me. Richard Taddy, Richard Tatty was one of our original pre Greg guests and then we had him back on. Both of those shows have been amongst their highest viewed. If you are into Nightscape photography at all, Astrophotography they are both a treasure trove of information. So go back and listen to those if you're looking for that kind of content. [00:34:22] Speaker B: I think it's fair to say, guys, that, you know, over the last hundred episodes we've had some pretty stellar guests on and we've covered such a broad range of genres and approaches to photography and looking at, you know, people that are new to the craft but are killing it and people that have been doing it for 50, 60 years. And it's, it's amazing to see just that diversity of people out there in our community that are, that are doing this sort of work. And you know, there's been lots of really memorable episodes from, from since I've joined, which was episode 21. That was my first. And you know, we talked earlier about how the GFX and the Fuji X half videos kind of blew up because, you know, controversy. Someone did something different and didn't include Ibis. And that just, you know, that rocked a lot of people's worlds. [00:35:14] Speaker A: Well, they probably should have just put Ibis in it. [00:35:17] Speaker B: Yeah, they should have just put. And made it cheaper. You know, we've talked a lot about cosplay cameras. That's been a really recent hot topic because we're seeing a lot of that. And actually in the news section, we'll cover off yet another effort at a cosplay camera. Yeah, the, the Leica thing that covers the thing at the back. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know why I was talking in code, but, you know, and we've met some amazing people. Like, we've, we've met such a huge crowd. And obviously getting involved with BFOP last year was, it was a great idea for us because it opened us up to a broader community. We've since gotten involved with the team at bfop. We're now doing beef some of the beef up media stuff for BFOP 2025. And it's just been this nice slow snowball effect. Sorry, I cut someone off then. [00:36:09] Speaker C: I just want a ticket to beef up. [00:36:11] Speaker A: You want to come? [00:36:14] Speaker B: We can sneak him in under the official lucky straps, you know. [00:36:20] Speaker A: Well, if you can. If you, if you're coming over to work, you'll be able to get in. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:24] Speaker C: All right. Just harvest vest ladder. Get into anything ever. [00:36:30] Speaker B: Sticky note. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Get into anything. [00:36:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I used to work, my favorite technique for getting people to stop harassing you for, you know, questions or time was to walk around really fast with a sticky note. It's that kind of thing. You just, you Just act confident. Act like you're busy and no one will question you. [00:36:52] Speaker A: What did you have on the sticky note? [00:36:53] Speaker B: I just wrote a random name and just walk really fast looking down at it. Sorry, I've just got to do this thing. For more hot tips on how to avoid work, please like and subscribe. [00:37:08] Speaker A: Rick Nelson's emailed some photos in. That's awesome. We'll bring them up later. Thank you. I'm going to have to. I'm going to need like a 10 minute sort of pause on this show while you guys handle everything so I can try and get through all these. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Oh, so just another show, you mean? [00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyway, maybe when you do what's in the box, I'll. I'll sort the images out. All right. Wow, this is crazy. Put a date in the YouTube description for the cutoff. Don't know what that means. What does that mean, Bruce? Oh, here's the question I was looking for. Mohammed wants to know what cameras do all of you use? Ready, set, go. Jim? [00:37:47] Speaker C: I use Nikon Z8s, two of them. [00:37:52] Speaker A: Great. What for? [00:37:54] Speaker C: I shoot mainly weddings, commercial work and boudoir photography. [00:37:59] Speaker A: No, no, I mean, why do you use Nikons? No, I'm kidding. I did, actually. Okay, so you shoot Nikon? Yep. And you have since you started your career? Basically, yeah. [00:38:12] Speaker C: My first camera was like a Panasonic, but then, yeah, nikon since. Yeah, D700 grant canon R5 for my landscapes. But I've been using this lately. Conica acon1. It's just a film camera. I've been doing some stuff at home. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Just. How are you finding that? [00:38:35] Speaker C: It's interesting. I've got some black and white film in there at the moment. Yeah, it's cool. The manual focus is a bit tricky when you're trying to do kids running around, but it's fun. [00:38:47] Speaker B: But for sleeping babies and quiet. [00:38:49] Speaker C: Yeah, that's easy. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Just quickly while we pause. Lucinda, email to justinuckystraps.com we'd love to see a couple images. Yeah. Greg, what do you shoot with? [00:39:05] Speaker B: So no surprises. I'm a Fuji shooter and I shoot with at the moment. My Fujifilm XC4 is kind of my workhorse, that one. I've got an XE5 coming at the end of August. I've already ordered it, paid for it, it's done, it's on its way from Japan. And then this is my little street camera. I also use the XC4 for street, but this is kind of like my just little pocketable street camera. It's the Fujifilm X70. It's like a decade old now. It's, you know, 16 megapixel. But it's just. It's just a really solid again. It's one of those ones you could knock in nails into a wall with. It's that robust. [00:39:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:47] Speaker B: And I just love it. It's just such a cool little camera. Little point and shoot. Beautiful. So that's me. [00:39:54] Speaker C: Do we have a half an hour for Justin to talk about it or. [00:39:58] Speaker A: Can we just turn the camera at. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Your shelf and just leave it at that? [00:40:01] Speaker A: There's not that much stuff I shoot. Canon main cameras are the R5 and R5. The R5 mark II. Sorry. And R3 for sports, hybrid, photo, video and also just whatever. Whatever comes along. And shooting film recently on the Canon EOS1N. But I am looking for an EOS1V if anyone's got one at a price that isn't insane or wants to do a test. [00:40:29] Speaker B: What's the difference between the M and the V? Justin the. [00:40:34] Speaker A: Not a ton. The V is the last film camera they made. And it's why you want it? [00:40:40] Speaker B: Because of that reason. [00:40:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:41] Speaker B: Okay. [00:40:42] Speaker A: And it is. It's upgraded in a few ways. Nothing obviously it's not going to make any difference to the image quality or anything like that. Slightly faster autofocus and little upgrades here and there. It was probably, I think a six year newer camera. I can't remember the. Like it was quite a gap between those bodies and. Yeah. And also this one's got a data back on it and so it doesn't have the traditional aperture dial and I want the traditional aperture dial on the back. So. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Fair enough. [00:41:10] Speaker C: You didn't know that until you got it. Is that right? [00:41:12] Speaker A: No, I didn't. But the price, I think this thing was like what was this 3, 4, $500 somewhere there. I can't remember. And the one. These are selling for like a thousand to fifteen hundred. So it's quite a different. Yeah, it's quite a different jump. It's the same with the Nikon. F6 is the last Nikon film camera and they sell for a crazy amount. Whereas the F5 that I've got was. I don't know what it was. 500 bucks. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:39] Speaker A: So. And finally like a Q3. [00:41:42] Speaker B: Yep, finally. I doubt that's all. [00:41:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:49] Speaker A: It'S. I mean they're the main ones. That's all you can reach. That's all I can reach. [00:41:53] Speaker B: One's in the room at the moment. [00:41:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:56] Speaker B: Nice. Very nice. There you Go Mohammed. I hope that answers your question. [00:42:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it says. What's that? Five. Oh, fire cameras. I thought he said five cameras. Yeah, I use an old ass Nikon D5300. Doesn't matter. It's about the images. [00:42:11] Speaker C: Takes photos. [00:42:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's right. Patrick knows what's up. 1V had better weather, sealant, weatherproofing, shooting speed and 45 point focus points like it had. Yeah, it had more focus points. Yeah. Yeah, definitely better. [00:42:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And so that was Canon's last film camera that they made, was it 35 mil? [00:42:32] Speaker A: Yeah, the. And yeah, spot. So used to shoot with 1V and an EOS 3. The threes are a nice camera too. I'd possibly swap this for a 3 if I find a nice used one. See what else. [00:42:51] Speaker B: Well, why don't we jump to viewer comments since we've. [00:42:55] Speaker A: Since we've been reading out the live chat, we'll jump to something different than non comments previous week's comments. I know, I know, but it's just, it's the hundredth episode, you know, what do people expect? Yeah, let me pull it up, see what we got. We won't go through them all because there was a ton from this week. I was replying to a few today. Let's see. [00:43:24] Speaker B: Just while Justin's bringing that up, I just want to remind everyone that this is the Camera Life podcast, proudly brought to you by Lucky Straps. If you're looking for a new leather camera strap for your special camera, you've spent all that money on a camera and a lens or a kit. The last thing you need to do or the first thing you need to do is buy yourself a good, a good camera strap. Throw away the one that came in the box. They're garbage. It's not going to support you. It's not going to be comfortable. Get yourself a premium out of the box. Yeah, no, don't even bother. Just leave it in there. Don't add it to something, but get yourself a decent camera strap. It will make all the difference to when you're traveling or just your everyday carry system because it takes the pressure off your body when you have it slung over your shoulder, around your neck. Or like me, I use a wrist strap because I avoid using straps around my neck. So yeah, head to Luckystraps.com they're Australian made. Made in Bendigo in Jim's warehouse. Apparently he's got a warehouse now. I don't know when that happened. With a new fence too, I hear. Newly fortified warehouse. And yeah, head to Luckystraps.com and use code GRANT for 16 off. We'll give Grant some love today. [00:44:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Given that he's here with us. 16 off. Any lucky strap order and don't forget to check out the merch, the belts and the valorant gloves for winter. [00:44:45] Speaker A: The code probably won't work on the gloves though. [00:44:47] Speaker B: But that's working on the gloves. It's for lucky straps product only. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Nick Fletcher says the straps are freaking awesome. Good to see you, Nick. He also said. Did someone say win stuff? Here I am. You can't win, Nick. You've already got a strap. [00:45:05] Speaker C: Man. [00:45:06] Speaker A: There's a lot. I'm loving all this. So yeah. Patrick's currently shooting with a nick on F3 and just picked up a ZF. Oh, how do you like the ZF? Also, Tony's trying to sell Jim's fence. That was pretty funny. Jim sent us a photo of it finished and Tony put it up on Gumtree. It was so good. It's funny every time. [00:45:34] Speaker C: Who uses Gumtree now though? [00:45:36] Speaker A: Yeah, Tony. Stuff that he doesn't want sold. Andrew island says showing my age. First camera was a Nikon FA mid-80s. Nice. [00:45:49] Speaker C: Very cool. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Nice. No Ibis in that. All right, so just a few comments we'll just whip through because there was a ton. Nick Fletcher loved Bruce's comments on our photos. Last week Jim. Jim and I had our photos have fairly average photos critiqued by a wonderful photography judge and one of the greatest people in the chat of all time and a great guest, Bruce Moyle. Go back and watch his episode one recent and then one. What was it, three months ago, four months ago? [00:46:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [00:46:31] Speaker A: But yeah, didn't agree. He thinks wide angle distortion is the bomb, so. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Oh, that was Nick. You said that. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Nick said that. Yeah. Bruce didn't like the distortion. I didn't like it either. Really. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:46] Speaker A: But you know, Bruce, Nick, we must fight. [00:46:53] Speaker B: We're gonna build an arena. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:55] Speaker B: Maybe build a coliseum. [00:46:59] Speaker A: All right, a couple of comments from. There was a few, quite a few comments on our RX1R3 surprise release episode because Sony did release the RX1R3 last week to the surprise of the whole Internet world. So we thought we'd go live and everyone was surprised and talk about it. I'm going to talk about it in more detail when we go to our Frame Fest review because I got my hands on it on the weekend. I'm going to tell you what I think but for now I'm just going to tell you what our commenters think@tonyw3250 says ridiculously expensive for what it is. Fixed lens, no ibis, poor video, no flip stream, flip screen. Sony are trying to pull people's pants down. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Good pantsing from Sony. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:49] Speaker B: Tell us what you're really interesting because you could have put that comment on the GFX100RF show. You could have put that comment on the x. Half. [00:47:58] Speaker A: The GFX100 has a flip screen though. [00:48:01] Speaker B: Well, you know what I mean, like no, I. Too expensive. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:04] Speaker B: For what it is that that was the crux of what we heard a lot was it's too expensive for what it is. And we're seeing that more and more. [00:48:14] Speaker A: At andrew connor-w4m glad to have found your videos. My Sony Journey. I've had the RX100 mark 4 and 6, both very good for what they are. Had the A7R but it's old now and past its time and moved to their bridge camera RX10 Mark 4 a few years ago which is light, easy to use, 1 inch, 1 inch sensor, all I needed. But these are the out of the market too. And it brings up a good point that Sony are kind of ditching. Like the RX100 series hasn't been updated. That RX10 which I forgot about hasn't been updated. They've kind of ditched all their compacts, their premium compacts just as Fujifilm and other people have lent into the premium compact market. So yeah. Will they bring those back? [00:49:05] Speaker B: Well it is interesting because I think the gap in that market that we see because you know, compact point and shoots used to be bread and butter, you know, like a backup kind of income stream for a lot of brands and unfortunately a lot of that's gone to the TEMU replicas. You know you can buy a 50 camera like I bought that 60 point and shoot digital camera but you could buy the same camera with four different brands on it. You know it was just basically it's a factory made camera and they sell it to whoever wants to put their badge on it. And so we've lost that. The, the big brands like the Sony's and the Canons are used to really, you know, dominate point and shoot markets. I feel like they haven't necessarily given up but they've chosen that it's not a viable revenue stream anymore because the competition is underwriting them. So. And it's expensive to make these cameras. Yes, you know, it's really expensive to make them and I don't think people are prepared to pay what they're actually worth or what they cost to make. You know what I mean? Like that. Which is why we're seeing comments like it's too expensive for what it is because it's all just getting so expensive to make. Yeah, shipping tariffs, all of it. [00:50:19] Speaker A: I'll read out a few more comments on that same episode all in a row. Just so we get a feel for what everyone's thinking while we're doing that, Dennis from the School of Light says, sony is sponsoring my Sala show. So no comment. Dennis, make a burner account and tell us what you think. Because you're like a Q3 owner, what do you genuinely think about that new camera? We won't tell Sony. Yeah, tell us, tell us. I won't read this full one out, but at Goodwolf152 says, I agree with John Pickett that the biggest argument again against this camera comes from Sony themselves. The A7CR literally matches it or beats it in nearly every meaningful way with the exception of size. And the difference isn't really that stark. The RX1 R3 has a terrible name. He didn't say that. I did. It's very hard to say over and over again. It's quite annoying. Anyway, it's quite small, but not in a way that really changes the way you carry it. It's not pocketable, so it has to be on a strap, lucky strap. Or in a bag. Anyway, so sort of in summary, there's great lenses to put on that a 7cr. And you know, you're getting a lot of camera for your money. And that seems to be a very general theme across the whole photography world. [00:51:43] Speaker B: Yeah, there is that. That argument that, well, you might as well just buy this and then you can have whatever lens you want. And I agree with that wholeheartedly, if that's what you're looking for. The thing that, that Fuji nailed with the X100 series is that sometimes people just want something simple. They want to fix lens, they want to point and shoot, but they want a quality point and shoot that's, you know, reasonable, affordable, has good image quality, user experience, all that sort of stuff. And I think, I think Sony, because it almost felt like this was rushed out because none of our usual influences that we see, especially people like Petapixel, had any knowledge of this camera coming out. In fact, you know, they, they had to throw it into their. Their podcast, they do once a week to talk about, whereas normally they're the first one to. First one online to get a review out every time, you know, but that didn't happen. So it almost felt like a bit of a desperate rush from Sony. I'm not saying that is what happened, that they really are seeing that, you know, brands like Fujifilm are absolutely killing this market with premium point and shoot compacts. [00:52:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it definitely seemed like a rush. I mean there was speculation from what's his name, the fro fro nose photo. Jared Frownows photo.com He speculated that Sony didn't want to send it out to reviewers first because it, it launched and then it went on pre sale like straight away. Yeah, so he said it seems like they were trying to get orders for it before anyone had a chance to review it. And that kind of makes sense because well that's what he's speculating. He's like they will, they were worried that people were gonna bag it a bit so they wanted to get pre orders in from anyone who was a die hard Sony RX1 fan. And so and I sort of thought oh, is he just saying that just to kind of stir the pot a bit and he's a bit upset that they didn't send him a camera to review. But then I thought about, and I thought yeah, a lot of cameras get, not only do they get released to reviewers first but often pre orders and stuff aren't available straight away or they're not going to ship for a while and stuff. And I was like okay, so if they rushed this to market, how is it ready to sell right now? Yeah, you know what I mean? You would, if you rushed it to market they would have done like what When Canon have done development announcements, you know, they're like hey the R1's coming. [00:54:13] Speaker B: Yeah, but you don't even. [00:54:15] Speaker A: They do a teaser and it's like they rush it to market but it's not ready for market yet. Whereas this was ready for market but no reviewers got it. And I was like maybe he's onto something there. Maybe he knows that everyone was going to say doesn't have a flippy screen, doesn't have IBIS. It's too expensive 10 year old lens. [00:54:32] Speaker B: It's too expensive 10 year Old lens. That's the biggest for me, that's the biggest IBIs, take it or leave it, whatever. I know it's, it's important and it offers flexibility in shooting modes and all that sort of stuff but you know, putting on a 10 plus year old lens, I just, I just feel like that's just doing the dirty on customers, you know, at least give it a bit of a fresh, you know, focus speed, performance boost. Something and just put a Mark II on it, you know, like just. It just feels like they really missed an opportunity to go, hey. And we've updated the lens, even if it's something minor. But they didn't, they didn't bother to do that. And I think for people looking for a fixed lens camera, you know, we saw similar arguments with the GFX. It was only an F4. You know, the, the little piece of rubbish plastic they've put on. The X half doesn't even focus properly. You know, the lens. If you're going to have a fixed lens camera, then the fixed lens has to work properly. Yeah, well, it's not going to sell. [00:55:36] Speaker A: Says. Felt like the RX1 was made by accountants. Yes, that's a good comment. The. The. I sent it to you, Greg. You probably didn't get a chance to watch it. The Camera Conspiracies video about the RX1 R3. If anyone hasn't seen it, don't go and watch it now. But Camera Conspiracies is like a. A take piss take channel that does like camera news, but in a comedic way. And he basically role played what the Sony development discussion, the internal discussion would have been like about what camera to bring out next and how they arrived at the RX1 R3 and what the specs would be. It was. It was pretty good. Gareth Davies says, I've met Jared, which is Froknow's photo. He's totally different in person. I bet he was because he does. He plays a bit of a. Plays a bit of a character on his YouTube channel. [00:56:29] Speaker C: I bet he was gonna be that full on all the time. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Nah, I bet it was pretty chill and genuine and nice in person. Or was he an absolute. You tell us. But I'm. I'm guessing he was lovely. [00:56:42] Speaker B: And we're all eagerly waiting to find out if someone was a. Yeah, let us know. [00:56:45] Speaker A: Was he a cock? [00:56:46] Speaker B: Let us know, please, quickly. [00:56:49] Speaker A: Hang on. Neil says, late arrival. Thanks, but thanks to work. But Congratulations on your 100th episode, guys. Thank you. And don't forget because you're late, you won't know yet. You can enter. You've already entered. You've entered by chatting. You might win a prize pack. [00:57:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:06] Speaker A: Very soon because we'll draw it. [00:57:07] Speaker B: Straps. Prize pack. [00:57:08] Speaker A: Maybe we'll draw it in about three or four minutes, I think. [00:57:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I think we get. We're at the hour, Mark. Let's finish off some comments and then maybe we'll. We'll talk giveaways. [00:57:18] Speaker A: Yep. Did someone say My cock. Good one, Jim Spudois. Where is my cock? All right, for those of you just listening, it's actually Mike Hawk photography. To be clear. Allegedly. Allegedly. [00:57:38] Speaker C: Well, he said his parents something. He did respond. He did respond to your question, mark. [00:57:53] Speaker A: What? Anyway, let me get through the rest of these comments. [00:57:58] Speaker B: Are we talking about my cock again? I'm so sick of talking about my cock. [00:58:03] Speaker C: Oh, now they're gone. Have easy changed his name? I don't know. [00:58:08] Speaker A: Mike says you don't get to pick your own name and that's a, that's a fact. Parents name you this. Do you get what you get? [00:58:15] Speaker B: Yeah. We're sorry, Mike. We're sorry. [00:58:17] Speaker A: Sorry Mike. It's good to have you. Robert Varner's comments are the best. [00:58:22] Speaker B: It's so good to have my live on the show. [00:58:27] Speaker A: Good to see you, Robert. Oh, you guys are funny tonight. Lisa says I would stick with Michael. Yes, Michael Hawk would be much nicer. Tim Ciaras wants to know who's making the gym burner accounts absolute gold. Yeah, jump on board. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:53] Speaker A: Okay, let's get through these. Some more comments on the RX1 R3. Greg Carrick, another legend of the show. Hope to have him back on soon because he is very, very funny. [00:59:04] Speaker B: He's got a guest post in a couple of weeks while you're in New Zealand. [00:59:09] Speaker A: He's in the chat, he's a legend and he says Leica Q series camera royalty Fujifilm x100 series. Every photographer's everyday carry Sony RX1R who Sony does not have the rep to make a cult camera mic drop my cocktail, you know what I mean? [00:59:36] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Okay, let's. There's a ton of Bret Wood comments which we'll scan through in a second. I'll just get through the rest of the RX1 R3 ones at Lim 2001 Burger. The best name ever price at George's, hasn't it? Yeah, Patrick, but I like the Atlim 2001 burger better. The price of George's has it at 8899. GFX100RF is 8799 but you can get a deal on it. And the Q3 is 11,000 and then yeah, a 7 RC5.2 but currently 38.99 and then you can throw a nice lens on it for another grand and then says I like this one because this is pretty true of everyone commenting on these cameras. To me it's all academic since I tap out at anything above $2,000 for an everyday camera. Camera that isn't my actual camera. I'm a hobbyist. Can't justify or write it off somehow. And that's true. I think for most people, it's like, it's. You can sort of. We all like to weigh in, but the reality is we're not. Not a lot of people are running out to spend that much on a camera that's just been released anyway. [01:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And most people wait for, you know, like if a Mach 1 comes out, some people are going to wait, see if they do a better version because there's something missing. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Well, they might do a Mark 3 in 2035 based on their release schedule. If you want to wait for that flippy screen that everyone wants. Oh, I shouldn't say anything. All right, last one on this one was at POV with rc. I'm usually toxically positive about every release. I just can't fit the pieces together. On this one, though, I'm afraid about the best thing I can say is that this will absolutely. I'll probably sell a ton of a 7 CRS and 24 mil lens combos for less and. Yeah, that's pretty true. [01:01:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:27] Speaker A: All right. [01:01:28] Speaker B: Brett, can I just say something just before. Sorry, just quickly. Just on. We'll talk just with the RX1R Mark III and the whole, you know, instantly available for sale thing, I wonder if. Because of the prohibitive cost of manufacturing new cameras, especially something like this with a whole new body, I wonder if they. They're, you know, maybe manufacturing hasn't started yet or maybe they're. They're not yet ready to ramp up. They want to see what the, what the temperature of the room is, you know, like how many people are going to put in pre orders. Like it just feels. You know what I mean? [01:02:05] Speaker A: Oh, we're laughing at the comments, Greg. Dak, there's. It's gone nuts. Sorry. [01:02:13] Speaker C: We're all. [01:02:14] Speaker A: I think we all cracked up at the same time. And I was like, they must have read what I just read. [01:02:22] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Sorry. Finish what you. Hang on. [01:02:25] Speaker C: You say what? They must have read what I just wrote. Did you read? [01:02:30] Speaker A: No, no. What I just read. [01:02:32] Speaker C: Are you one of these burner accounts? [01:02:34] Speaker A: No, I wouldn't be laughing so hard at one. It's going crazy. Anyway, sorry, what were you saying, Greg, before we. [01:02:44] Speaker B: Why. Why is. Jim's group. Join the chat. [01:02:49] Speaker A: All right, I'll read the first one. Jim's group says. Hang on. This is the general counsel from Jim's group. We note the use of defama. Defamatory content under our branding and that you appear to have an employee, Jim, who is masquerading as Jim Penman, the founder of Jim's group. We require you to immediately cease and desist from the use of Jim's Group branding. In addition, we require that Jim no longer represents himself as Jim Penman, including the wearing of flannel shirts, floppy hats, and no longer sport a shit beard. We all also reserve the right to launch Jim's portraits and Jim's boudoir photography. And we require you to acknowledge that you have no claim to this branding or to the provision of these services under the gyms brand. And I should say, if you turn out to be the team behind Jim's gender transitions, Jim's Brazilian waxing or Jim's Bikram yoga, we are coming for you. [01:04:02] Speaker B: Wow. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Wow. Jim's group in the chat. Yeah. Yeah, look, send us that in writing and we'll get back to you next week. Yeah. If you're interested in a camera strap. [01:04:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:23] Speaker A: Wow, that's. Yeah, that was very impressive. [01:04:28] Speaker C: We were trying to listen, but now. [01:04:30] Speaker B: No, no. Okay. No, it's hard to. [01:04:32] Speaker A: I mean, when the general counsel from Jim's Group is in the live chat of a photography podcast, you know, you've made the big time for speaking. All right, let's get to Brett Wood. Yeah. Okay. Brett woods episode was absolutely awesome. Highly recommend you guys give it a listen if you haven't yet. And the. The comments, they've just been flying in on that episode. I'm just going to scan through a heap of them at. I think Donna, I'm not even going to try that one. Really enjoyed this episode very much. Highly recommend Brett's workshops. You won't regret it, David. [01:05:11] Speaker C: That should be a segment, Justin, you trying to read people's names. [01:05:15] Speaker A: It's fun. It actually, it's good. It's good for my learnings. David Mascaro, legend from San Francisco, says hold for Wholeheartedly agree about people overthinking photography, which is probably why I shoot film mostly. I don't worry about being perfect. Becomes much more becomes too much about the upgrades, firmware, updates, pixels, et cetera. Just take the picture. Agree. I won't read out this entire comment from Andrew Connor, but gave me some awesome New Zealand tips and he's. Because I asked about whether I should go above Christchurch when I go around the south island of New Zealand on a road trip and there were sort of mixed feelings about whether it's worth it or not. He said definitely do it and I'll Be putting all of these points into our map and checking them out. So thank you very much for that. Andrew Connor. Who else? Alan Williams, 2361, says you can't go wrong with one of Brett's workshops. You will certainly learn more about photography and have so much fun. Now, waiting for my next one, which is going back to New Zealand. Fifth New Zealand workshop. That's crazy. There's not much better testimonials than this. Like, people have jumped in the comments of this episode and all the comments are. Most of them are from people that have been on Brett's workshops and are just raving about them and booking more. So it sounds like if you want to go on a landscape workshop, don't look further than Brett Woodavid Maltby, 2065. Brett is an amazing photographer and a really good teacher. I've done two workshops with Brett. This was a really good podcast. Thank you. Thank you, Gareth Davies. The photo with where Brett is standing in the water is beautiful. The discussion about filters is useful. My landscape photography is boring and I really need to work on it. But before spending £360 on a Nissi kit, I need to get a RAID system. My backup system system is starting to get too full. Oh, it sucks when this stuff gets filled up, doesn't it? [01:07:19] Speaker B: Never ending. [01:07:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:22] Speaker A: We might even do a segment in a future episode about storage. I think. [01:07:26] Speaker B: I think we should. [01:07:27] Speaker A: It's always been a bit of a problem when you run a wedding business. It's a major problem and I don't think we ever solved it. But you just keep doing your best. [01:07:36] Speaker C: No, it's not. [01:07:38] Speaker A: Just keeps filling up. [01:07:38] Speaker C: Still not stop. [01:07:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Tons more. Gareth Davies, $99. Thank you. Enjoyed listening to the podcast today. Watching now to see the photos. Paul Said. Thanks, guys. Great episode at Exist. Photography by Jerry Said. Love the podcast with Brett Wood. I purchased a secondhand lens from him many, many years ago and it's still a ripper. And also says, go see Vietnam, which I've done and I would recommend to anyone as well. And otherwise. Yeah, there was more. It was great. That'll do for that. Thanks for all the comments, everybody. [01:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks, guys. [01:08:21] Speaker A: Should we. [01:08:23] Speaker C: We probably draw this to an actual segment? [01:08:26] Speaker A: That was a segment. That was for your comments. We're getting through it. Wow. All right. We are. Oh, who's this? Eurobus. That's a new person. Where are you from? Or is that. Is this another spoof account? I can't tell anymore. Are you real? Where are you from? Eurobus? I'm Going to New Zealand in three weeks. I'll be there at the same time. That's cool. Yeah. [01:08:52] Speaker B: Are you going over for the photography award thing as well? Because we've got a bunch of our friends are going too. Like Bruce Dennis is going to New Zealand all around the same time. [01:09:05] Speaker A: All right, Jim's group says, I expect to be included in the draw. Despite being in the process of serving a writ on you, you will be included in the draw, which we're about to do right now. This is your very, very last chance. If you're listening and you haven't commented in the live chat comment now to go into the draw to win a 650 straps prospect. [01:09:26] Speaker B: Anyway, guys, anywhere in the world, I've. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Got a streamyard giveaway prize picker thing that's been doing the entries and it'll just pick them at random. And then if it. If it picks one. If it picks one of the gyms photography accounts, I'll. And. [01:09:44] Speaker C: And also probably any of the previous, like, guests because they would already have a lucky strap. [01:09:51] Speaker A: Is that right? But no, because Dennis just said, I'll come and light paint the prize in your factory. And that would be cool. So now if Dennis wins, he gets it. Who knows? Maybe we'll do it. We'll do a backup draw if a previous guest wins it. All right. Are we doing it? Does anyone want to get in? If you haven't entered already, get in. [01:10:10] Speaker C: So she wants you to do it. [01:10:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw that. Please, I'd like to go to bed. All right. [01:10:15] Speaker B: Sorry, kiddo. [01:10:16] Speaker A: I'm doing it. I need like a. I don't have a drum roll. [01:10:21] Speaker B: What have you got? What is the point of it? [01:10:26] Speaker A: That'll do the goat scream. All right. All right, I'm doing it. We're hitting the draw. Here we go. I could have. I could have put this. What? It's too late. Hang on. It's. It's good. We. [01:10:43] Speaker C: We really. [01:10:43] Speaker A: The winner is John Pickett. Hang on. I'm going to bring it up on the screen because I can actually do it, but it still says, John Pickett, you have won. Look at this. Waiting does it. Yeah. [01:10:59] Speaker B: Congratulations, John. [01:11:01] Speaker A: Congratulations. [01:11:03] Speaker C: Did you make that in Canva? [01:11:05] Speaker A: No. It went through everybody. I didn't realize I could stream it. I thought it would just. I thought it would just say the name, but it actually, like went. And then slowed down and then went John Pickett. And then it had some explicit. Some fake fireworks and stuff, but actually not really cool. [01:11:20] Speaker B: Next time, about 200. [01:11:22] Speaker A: You guys all have a Second chance. And if you're listening back later, you still have a chance comment on the actual comments. But you have to do it after this episode, the ones down below the episode later on. So there's your second chance. [01:11:34] Speaker C: John, email Justin. [01:11:38] Speaker A: Yeah, email [email protected] and then we'll somehow. Oh no, Yelena's got it here. John, please email [email protected] she knows that then it'll actually get sorted because she'll take care of that and Jim will. [01:11:52] Speaker C: Take care of that because David Clutterbuck is back. It's been seen him so far tonight, but he said is a Nick Fletcher Burner account. [01:12:03] Speaker A: I don't think anymore. I don't know. I can't tell anymore. [01:12:07] Speaker C: Well, David Clutterbuck is definitely a Nick Fletcher Burner account. [01:12:11] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't listen to whatever he said. I wouldn't trust him. [01:12:16] Speaker B: But let's just take a moment to congratulate John. So John, just a reminder. You've won a Deluxe 45, a Lucky Straps leather camera strap. And you've also won a matching wrist. [01:12:27] Speaker A: Strap like this one. This is. This is unreleased. Look at this. Like customized though. Ninja basket weaves. [01:12:35] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do customize that personalization. [01:12:38] Speaker A: Well, not this one, but if they want this one, they can't have customization. But it's fine. We'll work it out. [01:12:42] Speaker C: Okay. [01:12:43] Speaker A: I just wanted to show a strap that we haven't released yet because it looks cool. [01:12:47] Speaker B: Yeah. So the two straps, you'll also get a lucky strap leather belt and you'll get a lucky strap hoodie. Lucky strap T shirt. Yolanda and Jim will take care of sizing and orders and the personalization of your straps because they are the Lucky Straps customer service team. They, they do everything hands on. [01:13:08] Speaker A: Yep. They're pros. [01:13:10] Speaker B: They are pros. So yeah. Congratulations. And just a reminder that there is a second prize pack that's up for grabs. And as Justin said, make sure you leave a comment under the video after our live show and to go in the draw. And we will, we will draw that next Monday night, 7:30pm from 7:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time when the random photography show starts. [01:13:35] Speaker A: Good question from Gareth. Do you sell the shirts? I can't find them on the site. We do, but I actually don't know if we sell this one. I got this as a one off but we are so. We do sell T shirts. Just go to shop and then you'll see under there apparel sell the one Jim's wearing. Hang on. He's found it. Oh, no. He's found it, he says. But yeah, I don't know if this color's on there, but there are some more colors coming soon if you don't like the ones that you can see. Yeah. So good to know. We're working on some new ones and we're gonna do a camera Life one too, but I just haven't figured out what to put on it yet. Need some suggestions. What do you guys think? What should be on the camera? Life Merch. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Mega Mega Pickles everywhere. [01:14:12] Speaker A: I know. [01:14:13] Speaker B: Proudly brought to you by My Cock. [01:14:17] Speaker A: My Cock Photography. [01:14:20] Speaker C: Greg will put a Fuji logo on it if you could. [01:14:23] Speaker A: Elena says we'll take suggestions for colors. That's a good point. If you got a suggestion for colors of the Lucky Straps merch, let us know. [01:14:30] Speaker B: Yep. Cobalt blue. [01:14:32] Speaker A: Oh, we should get the gyms. Should we do a T shirt of some of the gyms? [01:14:37] Speaker B: We should. We should. [01:14:41] Speaker C: That'd be good. [01:14:44] Speaker A: Well, which one? [01:14:46] Speaker C: Which one? I like all of them. Boudoir. [01:14:50] Speaker A: Boudoir is pretty cool. I don't think anyone would get the joke though, except us. [01:14:54] Speaker C: No one would get the joke. [01:14:55] Speaker B: Doesn't matter. [01:14:56] Speaker A: Would you wear it though, Jim? Maybe for befop. [01:14:59] Speaker C: I don't know. Since I'm going there. [01:15:02] Speaker A: Yeah. You gotta come across for a night. Maybe just one night. So at bfop, we're all staying in the same house, but Jim's got to go home for the Saturday. So you come up for the Saturday and just pretend your gym. [01:15:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:18] Speaker A: No one will know. [01:15:20] Speaker C: Come up with me. Drive back with me, then Drive back with me. They come home for a day. [01:15:27] Speaker A: It's terrible. I wouldn't do that. [01:15:29] Speaker C: Terrible idea. [01:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:32] Speaker A: All right. Gareth says the color I'm wearing is really nice. Yeah. I actually took a chance on it and I do like this. I think we'll get color. Yeah. It's not like white gets dirty too easy. This isn't too bad, but. [01:15:47] Speaker B: Nice. [01:15:48] Speaker A: All right, shall we move on to news and rumors? [01:15:51] Speaker B: Let's do it. [01:15:53] Speaker A: Let's do it. [01:15:56] Speaker B: Hey, smooth transition. [01:15:59] Speaker A: Getting better. All right, do you want to lead us off? I'll bring it up and tell me what you want to talk about. [01:16:04] Speaker B: Let's kick off with Canon's epic failure. And what was the other one? Was it the R3 or the R1? [01:16:13] Speaker A: One. Just the two best cameras that they. They make. [01:16:15] Speaker B: The two flagship cameras. You think they would have tested this stuff a little more thoroughly, but apparently an oversized memory card threw them for a spin. So Canon released a firmware update for the R5 Mark II and the R. You said R1, Justin, the flagship. [01:16:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was R1 as well. [01:16:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And they've since had to roll it back because they've found that it's. I think if you use a memory card over a certain size, it craps itself. You know, there's more to it, but in a nutshell, kind of embarrassing, I think, for a big brand, any brand, when they release firmware that kind of fails like this or that has to be reverted or it doesn't actually deliver on what it promises or it generates new bugs, you know, it makes you question you're spending. These are flagship bodies that you're spending big dollars on and professionals are using them. You know, professionals who's. Whose career and, you know, income depends on it, like you guys. And, you know, for firmware to go out and then have to be clawed back pretty quickly because a user found a problem, not the brand. That's pretty embarrassing. It is, but it has tough. [01:17:33] Speaker A: It's tough, though. It does happen. Oh, hang on, Yolanda just. I was like, what is that? Yelena's like, someone pull that comment down so we can see Grant. I didn't realize he was behind the comment that whole time. Be funny if he was just gone. It does happen. Lucinda says she won't stand for this Canon slander. Yeah, I agree. No, look, it happens. It does suck, and it would be much better if it never happens. But there is this kind of thing where some of the very smallest, hardest to test issues can not come out until it goes across everywhere. Usually those things get flagged as a bug for the next release, but this one must have been so bad that they pulled it straight away. So, yeah, it does suck. It does happen. Be way better if it never happened. But, yeah, here we are. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Indeed. So one of the firmware updates was to include security on the camera, and I wonder if they identified that this new version opened up a floor in cameras in that kind of security side of things. That often is a. Is a. A reason to call something back really quickly because it could be something that could get them, them or a user into a lot of trouble, because often brands will just let it ride and say, don't worry, we'll have a fix out within 24 hours or 48 hours, and they just leave the firmware as it is. But to actually claw it back is pretty significant. [01:19:03] Speaker A: Yeah, Lucinda's got a good point. Also, who's using Two terabyte cards. Yeah. No, the problem is these are. These are now minor 512s so it's four. They're really big cards. But these are pro. These are pro cameras though. If you're shooting. Yeah. Like RAW video professionally. You know, I could definitely see people using a 2 terabyte card. And they're exactly the sort of people that you don't want to piss off with firmware that malfunctions. So, you know, and I can see. [01:19:39] Speaker B: Videographers who are using an external monitor for their primary recording and then a backup to camera. You know, that could be a big deal. [01:19:46] Speaker A: Yeah. So anyway, let's move on because Canon's great. Do you want to go to the other. The other Canon. Let's just stay on the Canon theme for a minute. [01:19:56] Speaker B: Yeah, let's just ride the Canon train for a bit. Another interesting thing that came up. Anyone that watched one of our earlier random photography shows where we talked about the news, we talked about how was it in Flag. Not flagship, sorry, in sort of entry level enthusiast models. They introduced frame lines. [01:20:13] Speaker A: It wasn't enthusiast, but it was cropped. It was the R. Yeah. The APS C like the better APS C cameras, which are still not really pro, but they're actually the cameras that they're using. I believe they're using some of them at Mark Bluetooth's organization. [01:20:34] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [01:20:35] Speaker A: For school photos and stuff like that. Because that's what the cropping guide was for, this paid feature that they've introduced. [01:20:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And I remember at the time we had a bit of a debate over the fact that, you know, for a bit of software on not a pro body that they were charging to add cropping frames. When you look through the EVF or the screen, which. Which I think is pretty. I don't know, it's a bit dirty as far as I'm concerned. I think, you know, the. When someone releases a product like this, updates to continue the. You know, to enhance the life of the product and its usability should come at the brand's expense, not the customers. The customer's already made an agreement with you to spend this much on this camera because it does this. And I think something simple like cropping guides to charge for that just feels a bit dirty to me. But, you know, it. [01:21:28] Speaker A: It seems odd, but it also is, it is weird that it requires a firmware update that. That has to be shipped back to Canon to do. [01:21:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:37] Speaker A: And I'd love to talk to someone from Canon about it because they'll probably say oh, no, we actually have to do something that you, you know, if a user did it. [01:21:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:44] Speaker A: I don't know, one in three cameras would get bricked. Because there's a really specific way that we have to do it because of the way that. I don't know, it does seem odd though. You would think it would just be a normal firmware update or is it. [01:21:55] Speaker C: So that they can control it? Because if they. You put it out, like Grant could then just give it to you. But what he gives it to you. [01:22:04] Speaker A: Why not just make it free? They. They can't be making enough money out of this. You know, like let, let's say, you know. So as Nathan's saying here, he, he works with. I forget the name of the place. What's it called? Arthur Reed Photography. And the. So I don't know how many cameras they have that, you know, like, maybe they've got 10 cameras that needed this done. So maybe it's 1500 Australian dollars, 2000 Australian dollars, whatever it is. Like, yeah, that's some money. But to Canon that's nothing. And there's not, there's not a thousand or two thousand Arthur Reid photos in Australia. There's, you know, a handful of organizations that big. Oh, maybe there's more than that. But, you know, it's not, they're not. This isn't a business unit for them to get 120 bucks from firmware for a limited use case thing. So it's like they would just make it free, I think, if they could. I think that is just to pay for it to go to. [01:23:01] Speaker B: Yeah, for a person to physically do something. [01:23:04] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:23:04] Speaker B: Every individual camera. Like get a Sharpie and draw the frame lines on the sensor. [01:23:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's, it's, it's odd. [01:23:13] Speaker B: It's really odd. [01:23:14] Speaker A: It's really odd. [01:23:16] Speaker B: And you know, granted, you know, in the. The first ones that they did was. Were the APS C. So not. Not flagship bodies. So, you know, people may be able to do without the camera for a week or two while it gets sent off to be fixed or updated. Which in itself just feels kind of weird, doesn't it? You've got to send it back into them. So it's clearly something that they can't put in a packet of data to actually tell the camera to change what its behavior is. They've got to physically change something. So it's. Yeah. Interesting state, Interesting approach to, to updating a camera. You know, it. Does it create more bad blood than it actually serves them? Well, you know, like, is it. [01:23:56] Speaker A: Well, I would say I think there's got, there's got to be a reason that they do it and I think. And so maybe, you know, versus what. [01:24:04] Speaker B: They get out of it. [01:24:06] Speaker A: Well, maybe. But also if it's mainly only for these specialist use cases and like Lucinda saying here, for the sake of consistency, it's, it's game changing for that application. They probably just happy to have it that it's available and it's not like every other brand has it and they're charging for it. It's, it's like, you know, some other brands don't even have the option. So. Good night, Tim. Tim says good night. Thank you, Tim. Thanks for the love. Appreciate it. [01:24:32] Speaker B: 100Th episode. [01:24:34] Speaker A: Appreciate it. [01:24:36] Speaker B: All right, that's enough Canon. [01:24:38] Speaker A: That's enough Canon. [01:24:39] Speaker B: I'll. [01:24:39] Speaker A: I'll get to this in a sec. Dave, Digifrog says I sent you an email last week. I did see it. I haven't had a chance to reply to you or to test it on my camera, but I'm always whinging about the fact that there's not enough crop ratios on my cannons. And he said he's found a sub menu, hidden menu that's allowed him to do a 5, 4 crop. Did it allow you to do a panoramic crop of any type, Dave? I will get onto that. Maybe I'll even look at it on the show. I've got another. Just to stay with Canon. Greg, I've got one that you didn't have on your list. [01:25:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:13] Speaker A: Canon's introduced a new speed light, the EL1 V2, which offers costs more and offers less weaker power for 1349. Look, I don't know what happened here. The speculation is that they had some issues with getting components for the original EL1 and so they've done like a bit of a refurb and called it a V2, but it hasn't changed really anything other than it having slightly less power. And it's, it's a new model but they. Yeah. So anyway, it's kind of, kind of odd. I don't know who's still using speed lights from the original first party manufacturers. Especially like this because this 1349, I didn't even know this was a thing. [01:26:01] Speaker B: That's us too, isn't it? [01:26:02] Speaker A: That's right, that's us. So what's that? Almost two grand Australian. Like who's buying this? What does it do? It's crazy. [01:26:10] Speaker B: It is fanboys and fan girls who just want to stick to brand, you know, Canon lens, cannon, body Canon flash. [01:26:20] Speaker A: Well, John Pickett says here Canon and flash have always been a bit wonky. No. So when they brought out the 600 RT, I don't know if anyone remembers Canon had this RT series. It was the first time Jim will possibly remember because Jim used to use these optical Nikon speed light transmitters that only worked if you could see them. So you were always infrared. Yeah, but whatever. But you basically had to have them in line of sight of each other. [01:26:48] Speaker C: If they were optical, that would be great. [01:26:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And that was. That was the other way to do it. Yeah, it was infrared so that it could do TTL and everything. But. Yeah. So Dennis is right. The 600 RT was a game changer for flash. It was an expensive system at the time, but I think they were about 600 bucks for the flash at the time. You could get a. That flash head itself. The unit could control slave flashes, or you could get a transmitter unit. It was great. And then basically it got copied by Yongnuo and then. And then that opened the floodgates and then Godox come along and. Yeah, exactly. This one. John Pickett. I use the Yongnuo copy of the 600RT. A lot cheaper. Exactly. And so Canon really brought the wireless flash system into the world. And then it got copied by some of the Chinese brands, iterated on and made better while Canon stuff just disappeared. And I don't know what happened. I don't know why. This is $2,000. I don't know what it works with. I've never seen one. And I saw a comment somewhere. I don't know if it was under this or something, but someone just said, this will only ever get used by rich dentists that don't know how to use their camera and are taking photos at a family birthday. And I was like, that is a rough comment, but potentially, I don't want to pick on dentists because I bet you there's a lot of great dentists, photographers. But. Yeah, you just don't see these anymore. [01:28:21] Speaker C: Anyway, you don't think about buying the first. [01:28:25] Speaker A: The same Flash. [01:28:26] Speaker C: Yeah. The same Flash brand as your camera you think about buying. [01:28:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Have you used. What. What did you buy recently? The. [01:28:34] Speaker C: The Godox V1 Pro. [01:28:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Have you used that on camera? [01:28:39] Speaker C: Yeah, Works. [01:28:41] Speaker A: Works fine. [01:28:43] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. I'm still like. I had a really good run with the SB910 and the D850, but it's. Yeah, it's good. [01:28:54] Speaker A: I'm happy. Yeah. First. First party. Always work. Seemed to work better on camera than third Party flashes. It seemed to do that TTL bounce flash stuff. It just seemed to expose more accurately. But yeah, it sort of got to the point now where you just wouldn't. I just wouldn't look at one of these unless I was, unless I was doing like everyday event photography with an on camera flash. Maybe. But yeah, but even $2,000. [01:29:25] Speaker B: Yeah, but imagine the Godot you could get for $2,000. Like you could get a, you know a trigger and a couple of off camera strobes. You could, you could have light stands. Well soft boxes. Everything in that price NP just says. [01:29:37] Speaker A: Geez, just get a Profoto A10. Yeah, exactly. You can play in pro photo world. [01:29:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:29:43] Speaker A: The coolest stuff the locker of, of lighting. [01:29:48] Speaker C: You could buy some Alanchrome gear. [01:29:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, crazy crazy price. But we're seeing this more and more where the price of new camera gear is shocking. There's another example. Doesn't make sense. [01:30:08] Speaker A: Yep. No, but I won't. [01:30:11] Speaker B: Okay. Some Leica news. Well like a accessory related news. [01:30:18] Speaker C: Is it a new charter button? [01:30:21] Speaker B: No, it's not a four thousand dollar shutter button. But we've been talking a lot in, in recent episodes of the Camera Life podcast about cosplay cameras. About these cameras like the Fuji X half that's trying to replicate film analog kind of experiences and processes. The Pentax 17 with the half frame film camera which was really brave entry. No one else in the camera world at the moment is releasing new other than obviously the Leicas and people like that are releasing new film cameras. And pretty bold of Pentax. Was it Pentax or Rico? Same thing, isn't it? [01:30:58] Speaker A: Is it the same thing? I don't know. [01:31:00] Speaker B: Anyway, and like this, this company has released this, this, this kind of screen covering back for your Leica digital camera specific models. The slots into the hot shoe and it basically covers the screen so it gives you a film like approach like you're shooting with a, an older like a film body. It removes the screen. So Leica did release a camera last year where there was no screen. It was just the evf. And that again was a cosplay camera because it was trying to replicate analog photo processes where you can't chimp on a screen when you don't have one. You just have to go with what you shoot. [01:31:41] Speaker A: I still disagree. [01:31:43] Speaker B: With what? [01:31:44] Speaker A: That it's a cosplay camera. [01:31:47] Speaker B: This or. [01:31:48] Speaker A: No, no, the, the M11. Which one is it? The D. The. [01:31:53] Speaker B: Yeah, with the no screen. [01:31:55] Speaker A: The no screen. I forget which model. I always forget which model number it Is the no screen the original. I disagreed that that was a cosplay camera because they didn't add a screen as opposed to adding a feature that makes it feel like a film camera. They just omitted. They omit. And I know that's. I just. It's like it's a. Depends on how you see it. [01:32:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:19] Speaker A: But I sort of personally see it as like. Is it dressing up to be like a film camera or did they just. Because you can emit lots of features, you could remove certain features from a camera. You can not add video. You can like. There's lots of things that cameras do to simplify the way that they shoot and they just emitted the screen. So I don't know. Depends on. [01:32:39] Speaker B: I guess when I say cosmic, I guess we're talking about that bracket of changing the way that we look at photo. How we approach photography in a digital age to have more of an analog mindset and remove some of those distractions that digital photography brings into over complicating the process. Maybe that's better. Maybe cosplay. Yeah, you're right. But yeah, it's an interesting accessory. It's got a little battery indicator, but that's. It plugs into the tissue. How much is it? [01:33:10] Speaker A: £40. [01:33:12] Speaker B: I see. [01:33:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:33:12] Speaker B: If you go and spend $10,000 on a like. [01:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Because it's. So it's not. Yeah. Bruce says someone will measure it and just print a cover for it for like $2 and save $2,000. It's not like it's not a Leica accessory. It's made by this PPP cameras. So it's. So it's 40 bucks. It's like you wouldn't bother, but it is. I guess it is just a piece of plastic, but yeah, it's got the texture on it. [01:33:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:33:41] Speaker A: I mean it's a clever idea. You can do it with. We've done it before with tape. Tape works. Cardboard works. If you've got the flippy screen on a can and you just flip the screen around, that works. So it depends. [01:33:59] Speaker C: Hey, you get image review through your like. [01:34:03] Speaker A: Yeah, you can turn that off. [01:34:05] Speaker B: You can. But it's just interesting that this, that clearly there's a market for it. Granted, it's a TEMU market, but there is a market for it where people don't want that distraction. So, you know. Yeah. [01:34:20] Speaker C: Well, anyway, someone's just seen that like people will waste money on things. So. Yeah, that too, you know, make something cheap. [01:34:29] Speaker B: But they should have priced it like 400 bucks. And then like if people would have. [01:34:32] Speaker A: Really bought it or Sony people with those new RX1R. I didn't have any of those accessories at Frame Fest. David says duct tape over the screen works well. And Dennis says I'll go one step better. I just close my eyes. Hardcore. Exactly. Real analog. Just. Yeah, don't look. Yeah, great. Greg Stubbings. Hey, Greg says get a Nikon zf. You can turn the screen to face the camera. Exactly. Yeah. Same with Canons. Although I don't like those flippies. But anyway. [01:35:05] Speaker B: Yeah, the flippies. Well, Fuji did it with the. The X Pro 3 but it was just a flip down screen so that was cool. Yeah. And on the back of it had that little. That little E reader panel for the film Sim. [01:35:17] Speaker A: I enjoyed that implementation of a flippy screen for a stills focus camera. The way that it. Its native position was not flipped out. I thought that was pretty clever. That was a good way to be a hybrid between this style of thing and a standard camera. [01:35:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:37] Speaker A: All right. What else we got? [01:35:39] Speaker B: The only other bit of news is CP plus is happening again in 2020 at the start of 2026 between the February 26th and March 1st. I think it's in Yokohama again. Pretty sure it is the same. Just. I should have read that, shouldn't I? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. From what I looked at it is in Yokohama still. So yeah, a lot of big announcements came out of this one this year. [01:36:03] Speaker C: Are we going. [01:36:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good question. Are we going to. Hey look, you can tell the Internet I've been looking for a new office chair. So the Internet is coming at me. [01:36:15] Speaker B: That one in the middle, the green one. Sasha just bought that one. [01:36:18] Speaker A: Is it any good? [01:36:19] Speaker B: It's really nice velvet. [01:36:22] Speaker C: That looks like our other ones. [01:36:24] Speaker A: It's the same but it's not leather. Yes. [01:36:28] Speaker B: What do you call it? Velvet. Yeah. [01:36:30] Speaker C: You want leather. [01:36:31] Speaker A: I know but the ones that we've got, they're leather on the top and it's not leather on the side. [01:36:37] Speaker C: It's been 10 years, Justin. [01:36:39] Speaker B: First of all, problem. Justin. [01:36:40] Speaker A: Just get another chair. Mine's all skanky on the edge anyway. Maybe we'll go so February 26th to March 1st. [01:36:51] Speaker B: Yep. [01:36:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:36:53] Speaker B: Stay tuned folks. [01:36:54] Speaker C: I can make it. [01:36:55] Speaker B: Oh really? You can't snowboard though. But you can come shopping with Sasha. [01:37:00] Speaker A: Prime time. We might be there. [01:37:07] Speaker B: We might. [01:37:09] Speaker A: Let me. Oh, Dennis. Dennis's photokina was rad. Miss that show. These huge, huge trade shows are so much fun. You're going to go to CP plus. Dennis. It'd be fun. We could have a party. [01:37:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:37:25] Speaker A: All right. I'm going to whip through some other news really really fast. That's not on our list. One of them actually. I can't find it. There was a new film released. I don't know enough about it. Exe mentioned it back. New Harmon film? Yeah, the new Harmon film. I don't know much about it, so I can't really say much about it. I'll see if I can find it. So first of all, we've got DJI Osmo possibly releasing a 360 camera to compete against the Insta360.360x5 and the upcoming GoPro Max 2 which they haven't updated their Max 1 for years. But there's incoming so there's. There might end up being 3360. Like there's other ones in the market. But the, the Insta360X range has dominated the market for the last few years. But this one is apparently going to have a big 1 inch sensor which seems crazy. I don't know if that'll be true with 120 megapixel image capture for like a full 360 image, which is also very cool. And yes, Dennis is under it. That DJI will be so sick. Low light beast. Exactly. If it is actually a 1 inch sensor, it's going to do really well in low light. It's also going to pair with the DJI mics. Although apparently they're releasing a DJI mic 3 to make my DJI mic 2s no longer up to date. So if it doesn't backward, if it's not backwards compatible with my DJI MK2s, I'll be pissed. [01:39:03] Speaker B: Surely it will be. [01:39:05] Speaker A: DJI has really good mic pairing and so I use the Osmo Pocket 3. I just open it up, turned on and it just pairs with the mic instantly. You can just start using it straight away. That works with the DJI OSMO action as well. So if they do that, Dennis says the new mic is tiny, Bruce says Insta is good but low light would be really welcome. Yeah, the X5 is good but I think they could, they could update the low light. If insta360 take it to that next level, this could be the camera to get. Greg Carrick says this segment goes really well with the techno I'm playing on the radio. Greg characters a local radio show at this time of night. So yeah, he's cranking the tunes. So anyway, so that's apparently coming July 29th we'll stay tuned and see. I'm pretty excited. DJI, they make good stuff. They really do. They just keep pushing hard. I know they are just competing against other people. You know insta360 have been doing it for a while but GoPro and GoPro. [01:40:13] Speaker B: In the action camera. [01:40:14] Speaker A: Yeah, even in 360 if, if they can, if they can level it up and push the other guys, that's even better. Better for us. [01:40:24] Speaker B: Although I did briefly when I was looking at the news I kind of skimmed over it but I did briefly see something about the American. The Americans are going hard on DGI again that Congress wants to bring forward the investigation to where the DJI is actually just using all of their, all of these accessories and cameras and, and drones. [01:40:47] Speaker A: I mean that would be, it'd be pretty crazy if that's. What if they've pulled that off or if one, if one day that just all the drones just fly out of people's camera bags and just take off and swarm. [01:40:59] Speaker B: If they've done that, then good on them. They deserve to take over the country. Like you know, you've reached the peak of technology if you can do that. But seriously. [01:41:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:41:08] Speaker B: American lawmakers tend to hook into things like this like they did with Tick Tock. They just, they were so obsessed with Tick Tock being a Chinese communist platform that they would hear nothing else from no matter what the professionals and the experts said. So yeah, we'll wait and see what, what happens with DJI in the US but you know these, these products it again they're, they're pushing boundaries which is wonderful. It's what we want. [01:41:29] Speaker A: Yeah, they're pretty good. And Rick Nelson says the replaceable lens on the Insta360X5 is the best. So hopefully the competition will follow some that'll be interesting to see if they're up with that or if it'll take them a, you know, a few iterations to catch up because yeah, that was a big deal. Scratch a lens on a360 camera and it's basically a throwaway. So yeah. Okay, what else? I've got this one I know nothing about. I just saw it roll is cheap. An odd new compact camera has two built in lenses. [01:42:07] Speaker B: I can see the picture. It's just one. I can see the picture. [01:42:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the deal is. It was released the same week as the RX1R Mark III. So no one, no one cares. Yeah, I didn't hear anything about it. Yeah. Where are we the camera. The Power Flex X8 dual lens 64 megapixel digital camera with 5K 64. That's what it says. 8x optical zoom on the front like a traditional camera lens and a small little selfie lens on the back where the EVF might otherwise go. Ensuring users can easily capture selfies with the aid of the rear screen. [01:42:48] Speaker C: You can see it there. [01:42:49] Speaker B: Yeah. You know I can see my parents buying a camera like this and then every, every photo that they. They will be my dad doing this. [01:43:01] Speaker A: Camera. [01:43:01] Speaker B: Sorry, didn't work out. [01:43:03] Speaker C: Just put a flip out screen on it. [01:43:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a flip out screen. Seems like it would make better sense to use the actual main camera. All right, I'm not going to drag you guys through this too much. I don't know much about it. We'll keep an eye out. It looks like a pretty cheap. They're saying it's going to be around 350us. I can't imagine it'll be a great camera but hey if it, if it provides decent image quality and great selfies then more power to them. [01:43:31] Speaker B: And how are they pulling off 64 megapixels? It must be like one of those sort of, you know, where it stacks them. [01:43:40] Speaker A: No, it might just be a very small lens, a very small sensor. [01:43:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. [01:43:48] Speaker A: I can't see it. Anyway, moving on. [01:43:50] Speaker B: Stay tuned on it. Yep. [01:43:52] Speaker A: Harmon Phoenix two Film Review Crunchy Pastels. Is this the new one? Harmon Phoenix Is that the new one that actually was talking about? [01:44:03] Speaker B: I think it is. [01:44:03] Speaker A: I got the right one. Apparently it's a wild experimental film. While it's possible to get some relatively normal looking photos out of. Could start to run away from you pretty quickly. I don't know. I haven't seen much about this either. I'm really just reading news that I haven't actually looked into because XC asked me to look. A cat and a man and a petrol pump. [01:44:31] Speaker C: What's he? [01:44:32] Speaker A: Beautiful. What sort of camera? [01:44:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:44:36] Speaker A: And no idea. Anyway, I'll look more into that. Maybe we'll talk about next week. Exe. That'll probably do. Oh, one quick one. Just a public service announcement because I saw this in the bike world. Beware of fake Leica stores promising massive discounts. If you see a branded camera store that looks like one that you would normally trust but everything is 50%, 80% off or whatever on a brand that you normally wouldn't see that from. Be very careful. It's probably a ripoff site. I saw multiple ones advertising on Facebook. For canyon bikes. That's a bike brand. You could tell if, you know websites, you could tell it wasn't the official website, but it was all the official product photos, but everything was like discounted by 70% off. And it just said like, clearance sale or whatever. Mid year clearance, grab a deal. And I reported it on Facebook and then I still saw the ads for the next two or three days. So Facebook isn't quick enough to bring these things down. So do not buy a Leica for $2,000. It's not real. Yeah, yeah, you'll get nothing. You'll get nothing. [01:45:54] Speaker B: Empty bank account. [01:45:57] Speaker A: Okay. [01:45:59] Speaker B: All right. Yeah, there's the news, folks. Let's jump into frame fest. Let's get a bit of a rundown. Justin. [01:46:06] Speaker A: Yeah, hang on. Bring up the thing. I gotta find my photos. I'll do a bit of a presentation, although I don't want to cover Grant for too much of it. You doing all right down there, Grant? [01:46:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm just not up to date with news and rumors, so it was interesting. [01:46:24] Speaker B: Oh, you've come to the right place, mate. We're here for you. [01:46:26] Speaker A: You're just listening. David Mascara says my friend fell for that last week. 800 bucks gone. Really, David? Was it the last? Was it like a one? [01:46:34] Speaker B: What? What? [01:46:35] Speaker A: Did they tell you what brand it was? Damn, that sucks. If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Don't do it. [01:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I noticed some of the big banks here in Australia just announced some new measures for broad security. Doesn't relate to this particularly, but it is a growing problem. And, you know, my parents have been stung a few times with these sorts of offers and stuff. And apparently, yeah, the banks are sort of trying to get ahead of all that fraud. [01:47:09] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure in. In the uk, I might be wrong here, but in the uk, apparently this is. This is kind of different to an online scam slightly. But in the uk, if it's bank fraud, the bank actually has to refund you the money. In Australia, the banks are pushing back on that because they're like, it's not our problem. But the theory is if the banks have to foot the bill, the banks are going to push way harder to stop the scams, whereas the general population doesn't have the resources to try and stop this stuff. But large banks might be able to implement more protections and things. I don't know. It's an interesting thought, but yeah, in the uk, apparently if you get ripped off, off, and it's. It can be proven that it was Like a genuine scam. Someone took the money, it gets refunded. So yeah, interesting. [01:48:03] Speaker B: I've had money refunded by the bank. Like when my card, like, you know, you get a message saying, oh, your card. There's transactions that are weird and they've taken out, you know, I had one that took out two grand out of my credit card, but the bank put it back. [01:48:19] Speaker A: Yep. [01:48:20] Speaker B: It was a stressful 72 hours, but they eventually, yeah, they paid it back, which is nice. [01:48:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it. Yeah, it depends on how it was taken, I guess. Yeah. And credit. Credit cards are often a measure of security more than. Than a direct transfer. If you get tricked into transferring to someone, you're basically screwed. [01:48:38] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Because it's your money, not the bank's money. And you transferred it. [01:48:43] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Control of it. [01:48:47] Speaker A: David Mascara says, I believe it was through ebay and he's fighting that now. Hopefully he gets it back. [01:48:52] Speaker C: Yep. [01:48:53] Speaker A: Greg said, Greg Carrick says banks don't like others ripping people off more than they do. [01:48:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a fair point. [01:49:00] Speaker A: Good point. That could be our money. [01:49:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:49:06] Speaker A: Okay, let me tell you guys about Frame Fest. So I went to Frame Fest on the weekend in Sydney. It was the first ever Frame Fest. And what is Frame Fest, you old people like me may ask? It was a creator festival for it was, it was labeled as a creative festival of all image type photography, videography, you know, influences, all that kind of stuff. And I have to admit I was a bit skeptical of what it was going to be like. That all the branding was very much like it was going to be a bunch of tiktokers and stuff. I don't know, I don't know what I was expecting, but I have to say for a first year of running it, because it was their first time, I was pretty impressed. It was at Carriage Works in Sydney, which is this big old building in the train yards. It's huge. Walked in, there was a bunch of people there straight up on the Saturday. Usually these things can take a little bit of time to get going, but I think because they advertised the schedule, it was basically a main stage with a heap of talks and then a bunch of like smaller. What would you call them, like workshops and brand activations around the whole place. So obviously all the big brands. [01:50:29] Speaker B: Yep. [01:50:30] Speaker A: Yeah, all of them. Like it wasn't. But most big brands there, Most of the big brands were there. Canon was the main partner, but then, yeah, Nikon, Fujifilm, both had massive presences. Sony was there. So most of them had a sort of like a formal stall and then also a secondary pop up like photo workshop or active space. I'll talk you through it. Let's have a look at some photos. And it was pretty cool. So this is the main stage. A lot of the guys from the, like the guys and girls that were worked with, you know, this guy, I think his name, general manager of Fujifilm in Australia or whatever. [01:51:19] Speaker B: Oh, I've spoken to him. [01:51:21] Speaker A: Of course you have. Yeah. [01:51:23] Speaker B: He sends me a check every week. [01:51:29] Speaker A: So. Hang on. John Pickett. Says here, did anyone hit a camera with a sledgehammer though? No. It is very different to the bright festival of photography. Very different. Let me just get back over here. Hang on. So there's a good crowd. So this was the crowd at the main stage for a lot of the talks. For some of the bigger people that talked on the main stage, it was, was. There was standing people standing all the way around. So yeah, massive space. It's a big space. Huge. The downside of the space was the sound kind of sucked. They had multiple stages going at once. There was actually a stage right next door to this. Oh, see you Dennis. Dennis has got to go, guys. Waking up at 3:30. Crazy. See you soon. Congratulations on 100. You deserve every single bit of love coming your way. Enjoy the photo I sent. Peace. Thanks, Dennis. I've still got to get to the photos. If you have to go to bed, Grant or Jim, just let us just. Just let us know. Head off, anything. Okay, good on your mate. [01:52:33] Speaker C: We'll get to it. We'll get there in the next hour. [01:52:35] Speaker A: Maybe, maybe two. It's gonna be a late one. So, yeah, main stage talks. They had panels of creators and stuff. Most. So most of the people talking generally were photographers and videographers or other creators that had pretty big followings. That was generally the feel it was, you know, there was. There was a guy that gave a Talk. He had 3 million YouTube subscribers. And then there was lots of people with, you know, a million Instagram followers or whatever and that kind of stuff. And they all had. They all were great at what they did. But it definitely seemed like that was kind of the crowd that they were going after for their presenters. So mostly younger people, mostly on the main stage. Yeah, I think mostly trying to remember, like photography influences. Yes. Yeah. But also like legit cinematographers. Like it wasn't just, you know, influence can get thrown around a little bit as like a. Yeah. Or they're just influences now. [01:53:39] Speaker B: The. [01:53:39] Speaker A: All these people were great at what they did, but they were great at what they did. And they had a big following as well, if that makes sense. [01:53:47] Speaker B: Show offs. [01:53:50] Speaker A: Show offs, yeah. So this was the other side. So on the, on the left hand side of this, this wall is the, the other main room. And out here was like some food trucks. And then like way down the back you can see even more like stuff going on. There's like an editing station down here. There was quite a bit of action. They had things set up like this where they're filming live music and showing people how they would set up lighting and set up cameras and stuff like that. I think that one was ran by Lumix. Maybe. I've lost track. This was a Lumix stand. Lumix had a coffee thing on their stand that had one of the biggest lines just for the coffee. There was the back of the Lumix stand. This was the cannon stand, which was clever. They did a box and inside the box you didn't know what was in there. And it had a line about that big most of the weekend to get in there. [01:54:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:54:55] Speaker A: And you know, I'm a Canon fan. I was stubborn. I did not go in there until there was no line. There is no, no way I was lining up to find out what was in the box. Turns out I wasn't really paying attention. So in the box was their, like their cameras were all laid out on this cool digital wall display thing. They had the people in there, like the people that we had at bfop Greg, that will loan out gear. So all the brands were loaning gear out. Yep. That you could walk around the venue with. So you could just go in there and say, I want to try this lens. They had like colored zip ties on them so they knew, you know, who, who had what lenses and all that kind of stuff. And they could see him walking around the venue. But yeah, you could just borrow lenses and go and shoot with them, test them, which was very cool. So it had that. I think all the brands did it. I know Fujifilm definitely had a ton, Canon had a ton, Nikon had a ton of know who else. But those ones definitely had a heap of loan gear. Anyway, the line was massive, turns out. So these were the guys giving out the loans. But what most of the people were lining up for were actually these camera wrist strap things that you can personalize with your own patches. I don't want to pick on Canon too much because they have been wonderful to us. But this was a bit creatory. This, this was really leaning into, I think what they thought the vibe of the the festival was going to be. So there were colors pink and. And stuff and then plastic rings or metal rings? Metal, I'm pretty sure. [01:56:43] Speaker C: Okay. [01:56:43] Speaker A: I don't know that. [01:56:47] Speaker C: Very secure. [01:56:49] Speaker B: I don't look very canon. Canony. Do they like at least. [01:56:52] Speaker A: No, they were very. Yeah, they were very. It was interesting to see. I. Yeah, it made sense for some of the very small cameras that like. And it was a bit sort of fun. But anyway, definitely not my novelty. Bit of a novelty, exactly. No, I didn't get one. But I think that was. They were kind of leaning into that side of things. And honestly, the demographic. Yeah, there was tons of young people there, which was really good to see. It was good to see the industry is alive and there are a lot of people getting into the industry. But there was people right through to older demographics that were there, which just showed me that even. Even though they marketed this as a creator festival, people want photography in person festivals and videography. They want to go and see the brands, they want trade shows, they want workshops. Because there were people there right into their 60s and 70s cruising around with cameras. So it wasn't just like a. This is for young influences for them. But I think the marketing was that to begin with and I think that maybe they'll even recalibrate next year. I don't know. I'll be interested. [01:58:06] Speaker B: This is the first one. [01:58:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, this is the very first one. And I think if I. I think my theory is the. The young people went there because it was marketed as a creative festival and the older demographic went there anyway because they knew it was a photography and videography festival that lots of brands were coming to. There was lots of good workshops and stuff. There's. Yeah, I don't think the kids would have gone if it was just a photography and videography festival. Yeah, they went because it was a creative festival. [01:58:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And we've seen recently all the brands are trying to hit up the creator market. They're trying to get into different demographics, including younger people, younger photographers. So it's great to see that they're actually catering to that crowd. But also, you know, equally great to see that, you know, people like us just went anyway. Or people, you know, our age group and older still are going to these things. And I think it, when you step back from it, it also shows that there's actually a demand for this sort of thing again. You know, we used to have this. These festivals every year before COVID Yeah. [01:59:17] Speaker A: I think people want them back. [01:59:18] Speaker B: Huge. Yeah. [01:59:21] Speaker A: Bruce Mole says. How much was it to go. It was. It was 300 for the two days, which I've thought about this a lot. There was some specials. They ran an early bird special and then they also ran a 50 off special closer to it. And I think. I don't know. I think it's priced. If you paid 300 for it, I don't know how you would have felt about what you got out of it. Don't get me wrong, there are some great talks and some cool workshops, but when I go through more of the pictures, I'll tell you more of my thoughts about that. So I'm just not sure if that's where it sits or if it's more of a $150 thing. Like when you compare it to what you get at befop for 500 bucks, it's definitely not in that level of engagement and learning. It's definitely more of a trade show with some extra stuff rather than something that you're really going to come away with a heap of learnings from. I don't know. Anyway, Jim Strap Storage says I might have some of those in the garage shed. In the storage shed. Let me check. Storage. That's a good one. [02:00:33] Speaker B: That's a great one. [02:00:34] Speaker A: That's a good one. Whoever came up with that one. [02:00:37] Speaker C: Did you see any lucky straps in the. [02:00:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I did. I think. Not a ton. We definitely. I looked at that too. I was like, oh, we definitely. You know, we've got some work to do to get in front of all these people. But yeah, I saw a handful or more of people just rocking around with their lucky straps, which is pretty cool to talk to any of them. I don't think I talked to any of them. There was a lot going on. Let me. I'll go through some more pictures. So this is the Canon Wall. As cool as this is though, you could go and like press a button for each camera and it would highlight that camera and then play footage that was taken on that camera. Very cool, but not very hands on because you couldn't pick the cameras up and stuff. It was kind of like more impressive than it was functional for really learning about the product. Don't tell Canon that I criticize their stuff. So they had these editing workshops with editing stations, but I didn't actually see any of the stations get used, but there was a lot of people watching. So this guy's presenting because I was. [02:01:38] Speaker B: Going to say they're all turned off. [02:01:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think they were supposed to be there so that you could edit like alongside and do stuff. But I didn't actually see that happening. I don't know if I missed it or what. Fujifilm. Fujifilm did a great job. So Canon had the box and then they had another stage Fujifilm had. They were everywhere. They had this big green space they had which our friend Andrew hall was in there giving out cameras to everybody. They had like lizards and stuff in here that people could take photos of. Some other cool stuff. So, yeah. [02:02:15] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [02:02:18] Speaker A: There'S all sorts of sort of little things that people could. Could shoot. Yeah. There he is with the GFX100RF Badoom. Oh, fun fact. So I was chatting to him about our camera straps, which he loves. And interestingly, because Andrew hall has dexterity problems, you can see the braces, special gloves that he's wearing on his hands there. He said that our quick release system is one of the only ones that he's been able to use because he can't use the peak design system because it takes too much pressure to push down to release it. And I thought that was. Anyway, it was super interesting. I should have recorded that conversation I had with him because I. I worried that ours were maybe more fiddly. He said, no, way less fiddly. [02:03:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:03:06] Speaker A: So it was very interesting. He said there. I need to get him to. Need to film him while he explains that story again. Because I was. I was pretty stoked. Come away feeling very proud of myself and us as a team. Yeah. So Fujifilm had a great presence. They were everywhere. Their stand was busy. Sony had a stand there. It was good. It was busy too, but it was smaller, so they didn't have as much space. Oh, no. [02:03:36] Speaker C: Adrian. [02:03:37] Speaker A: Andrea. And you missed that. You missed the first giveaway, but you can still get in for the second giveaway. Says at the camera life. What's the giveaway? So we gave away 650 worth of lucky strap stuff. Leather, camera strap, wrist strap. But you can still enter after this show is over. Jump in the comments down below. Not the live chat, but the actual normal YouTube comments. Comment, anything you want. Tell us why you deserve a $650 prize pack of lucky strap stuff and we'll draw it next week and let you know if you want. Okay. So, yeah, Sony booth. Oh, the Sony had the RX1R mark 3 on the booth. [02:04:16] Speaker B: Gosh, it's tiny. [02:04:17] Speaker A: It's small. Smaller than I thought. Impressively small. It is smaller than the Q3 by quite a margin. [02:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:04:32] Speaker A: Not a margin that matters. It's hard to explain. It's like. It is smaller and lighter. Definitely. Would it make me carry it more places than the Q3? Probably not, but. But it is smaller and that would be hard to do. Like it is tiny. [02:04:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:04:51] Speaker A: And light. And. And they've obviously had to. Like they were explaining that the lens goes almost all the way to the back of the camera. Like the. This isn't a good photo to show you but I should have done top down. But like that is the marking there. What do you call it? The sensor plane. And then there's. Apparently there's only like a mil or two between the rear element and the sensor. So they've really maximized. Yeah, yeah, but. And it felt great in the hand as well. Like it was comfortable to hold. I was surprised it doesn't need the ripoff thumb grip for 450 or whatever it is. You don't actually need it. Yeah, but it still is. Has no flippy screen. The EVF is really low res. It doesn't have IBIS 10 year old lens. 10 year old lens. I don't know if that matters. The autofocus seems snappy but I couldn't test it properly. [02:05:48] Speaker B: It matters for the price. You can't charge a premium and expect people to take a 10 year old piece of glass. Given how far camera lens technology has come since then, that price tag warrants a little effort, I think. And I, you know, as an I review, I'm not just being a. I'm shouting at clouds like, you know, I review cameras. That's my job. And I think for that price tag it's unfair to ask people to pay premium for something that could be faster and sharper potentially. But we won't know because they didn't bother trying. [02:06:23] Speaker A: So, you know, Craig Carrick says, is it weather resistant? No one knows. We're assuming it is not because they did not say it was weather resistant. So everyone's had to assume that it is not because we think they would have said it otherwise. Yeah, they still. [02:06:36] Speaker B: This is a prototype. They still haven't even finished designing it. [02:06:39] Speaker A: They're taking orders. Yeah, they're taking orders. I also heard the price was 7,999 in Australia, not 88 as originally reported. So I'm not sure there's a bit of confusion around. It was cool to see it in hand in hand made me more impressed with it than I was when we were on the show the other day. I still don't think it's an amazing camera to release. I think they could have done something more impressive after waiting 10 years. [02:07:05] Speaker B: But that ICUP sticks out, doesn't it? [02:07:08] Speaker A: It does, but it makes it very comfortable. And apparently you can take that off. Yeah, it's probably the best photo. I've got it. You can take that off if you want to shoot with it without the eye cup. So you have the option. But the eye cup does make it way nicer to shoot with. It just sticks out. Out the back. [02:07:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:07:26] Speaker A: This is a good example of what was negative about the festival. So if this is a workshop that's being ran, they were often like this, where you've got people all leaning over each other to try to get a shot or to try something. It wasn't always the case. I'll go through a few. So this is the Sony booth. That was just some stuff they were doing on the other side with Cinema. This is our friend of the show and guest Samantha Olson, checking out Fujifilm cameras, even though she shoots with Nikon. This is one of the other Fujifilm setups. This was in the other room. They were everywhere. And this was the YouTuber that had 3 billion followers giving a talk about how to. How to be a better public speaker. And a heap of the Fuji people are in the front row taking notes, including the. The big. The big dog there on the end that, you know, Greg, that gives you money. [02:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:08:29] Speaker A: So they had these booths everywhere. They had a lot of presence. And all the Fujifilm people were wearing green shirts and it really. [02:08:35] Speaker B: Green blooded. Green blooded is a new kind of slogan. [02:08:39] Speaker A: Yeah, the green shirts really made them present. You knew who you could ask for something about Fujifilm. And it also made them look like they were everywhere because all the other brands were wearing black. [02:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah. That's clever, isn't it? Simple. [02:08:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Exe says just get the GFX100RF. I had that in my hand for a little while. It feels great in the hand that. That's a lot bigger than the Q3, but it feels very comfortable to hold the. The buttons and dials are all in the right place. Yeah. Why don't you get that and the. [02:09:14] Speaker C: The 100 to 500 so you can unbox them next week. [02:09:19] Speaker A: F you, Jim. What else? So, yeah, another. More Fujifilm stuff everywhere. Bruce Moore says they're lizard people. [02:09:28] Speaker C: Yes, people. [02:09:29] Speaker A: Yeah, they run the world. Nikon had this cool setup. They had a full boxing ring in there. It was very cool. So. So they were doing these workshops where you could get in there with the two fighters and sort of of get shots from different POVs and stuff like that and direct them if you wanted. To. It looked really cool. It was. Yeah. I really liked that setup. They did a good job. [02:09:52] Speaker C: Were they actually punching each other? [02:09:54] Speaker A: No, they were, like, sparring. They were sweating, though, like they were putting in some work. Those guys that. This was. These down the front. These were all the people that were, like, cycling through and. Yeah, they were. They were doing work. [02:10:07] Speaker C: Did you see Julian? [02:10:09] Speaker A: No, she wasn't there. I don't think she's in Australia at the moment. I saw the other guy that we met at bfop, Ross, I think. Yeah. So they had these cool cars there. Tons of people taking photos of the cars. I think they were doing fake rolling shots and stuff and teaching people how to do that. So they were running. This is a workshop. Oh, sorry. That's back to Nikon. So she's in there getting shots and, like, directing the fighter so she could piece together a little reel or something. So you shoot one, shoot the other, shoot both, that kind of thing. I think they were helping teach that sort of stuff. That was Nikon's loan gear. Nikon's booth with their Nikon grabs, like, ball thing. I don't know what you got out of that, but lots of people lined up to play with that. So, yeah, you can see that's what some of the workshops were like as well. Just like that was kind of the setup. There'd be some seats, some standing room. Hard to hear because there's a workshop running here. There might be running over there. There's a main stage talk happening. There's another one, and it's an echoey room. It was often quite hard to hear what was going on. So it was definitely not something of the best environment to learn stuff in. [02:11:29] Speaker B: But hopefully they learned from that. And they look. It's a great space too. Like, it's a gorgeous, huge space. That's what you kind of need for that sort of festival. But, you know, maybe something like a better, better insulated conference center is what. [02:11:44] Speaker A: I need to do next time. No, it does look really cool. I just think that maybe better planning of who goes when or something. I'm not sure. They did run late on something, so then there was crossover that wasn't planned. Yeah. [02:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. [02:12:01] Speaker A: So, yeah, Lumix had a portrait set up with Julia Trotty that was really popular. Fujifilm's Wall of Joy, Just another Fujifilm. They were just all over the place. Camera House had a big marketplace there, I think, supported by multiple Camera House stores from Sydney. And it was. It was busy the whole time. People were buying Stuff and ordering. Ordering non branded. You know, Godox flashes as far as the eye can see. No, no Canon speed lights in there. [02:12:33] Speaker B: So I remember the days when, when no one sold Godox in stores and there was only one little shop in Melbourne, this guy that imported them and. And it was just this little Richmond kind of dodgy looking shop. And I said, this can't be where you buy Godox. And it was. This guy ordered all the Godox stuff. [02:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it was pretty under the radar for quite a while. [02:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:12:52] Speaker A: When we got it, it was fairly new and hard to get. We used to order. Yeah. Weird stores and like that. [02:13:01] Speaker C: Hope for the best. [02:13:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Even like blackmagic were there. Oh, you know, our future podcast set up at the Canon booth. They had the pod lab running which was pretty cool. So Canon had this whole setup set as like ran by a couple of podcast studios and they were just constantly doing talks about the different levels of gear you could use to get into podcasting. Yeah. In person podcasts and stuff. It was. Yeah, it was good. [02:13:30] Speaker C: Some green. Green plants in the background. [02:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [02:13:35] Speaker A: You know, it's funny because this one had this. The same. They both had like the ferns. Yeah. Between two ferns. I was like, has anyone else seen that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So, yeah, there was a lot in it. This was Kate Cornish running a Canon cinema workshop. This was one of the last things that I watched and basically they, they simulated what it was like to do a full scene in a basic way, but for cinema. So where they blocked it out and they, they had these two actors, they, they set them up, they lit them, they had most of the scene lit but they just like changed the lighting to suit each shot. But they did, did, you know, the, the establishing shot, the two shot and then the over the shoulder from each side shot. They got them to repeat the scene each time and they showed us how focus pulling works and you know, all that kind of stuff that they do on like a cine or television. Because Kate's directed multiple television shows and films and stuff like that. Sorry, not directed. She's a director of photography, a dope. So it was. Yeah, it was really cool. And they were, you know, using these cool cameras and doing cool stuff with big cine lenses and it was fun to watch. And that was a shot of someone standing next to a big Canon camera and I thought it was funny and that's it. So yeah, it was, it was worth going to. I'm interested to see what they do next year. I would. I assume they're going to consider it a success. I would consider it a success for the first year, but there's questions in my mind as to what would the tickets be worth and what did people come away from the weekend with other than that kind of trade show vibe, with a little bit of extra learning? I don't know. I'd be interested to see what other people thought. [02:15:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Very cool. Do you think there's space there for lucky straps in some way? [02:15:35] Speaker A: Based on who was there? We couldn't afford it. [02:15:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [02:15:39] Speaker A: I mean, there was. Yeah, like the smallest booths. There were like. Oh, there's a group that do, like the Shimota bags, the Tenba bags. Tripods. Yeah, that. That group were there. They had one of the smaller booths and. Yeah, you know, I doubt it, but anyway. Yep, we'll see. [02:16:04] Speaker B: We'll see. Okay, cool. [02:16:09] Speaker A: Dennis says he's in bed, sneaky watching with his undies on. I'm glad they're on, Dennis. That's good. [02:16:14] Speaker B: Oh, it's just got a visual. I don't know why. [02:16:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Nathan says, did any of you go to the digi show that they used to have at Jeff Shed in Melbourne? Pre covered? [02:16:27] Speaker B: Yep, that. I went to one. I think it was 2013 or maybe 2012. Bought my first Canon DSLR and that was when I got back into digital photography. I went to that. My sister took me to this show. It's a longer story and we don't have time for it tonight. But in essence, I needed. I had a big loss in my life. I need focus. My sister took me to the show. I walked out with a camera in my hand and I've been doing photography ever since. So, yeah, I miss those big shows. [02:16:59] Speaker A: Okay. So the big shows, they're important. I think it's good that that one's making a comeback. And, yeah, maybe we'll see something in Melbourne, maybe a different style. But based on this, I think we're going to see more of this stuff before we see less. Like, more of this. They'll push it. As a creator. [02:17:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:17:17] Speaker A: Conference. I think all the brands are really cognizant that they need to get young people into photography. And so there isn't just this missing gap generation of people that don't want to buy any cameras. So. [02:17:31] Speaker B: Yeah, because you get them young, you've got them for life. [02:17:34] Speaker A: Yeah. But hopefully they're gonna still cater to everybody and not. And not push too hard into that world and. And, you know, leave us old people. [02:17:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:17:43] Speaker A: Because we're all old now. [02:17:44] Speaker B: No, it would be good to see more trade shows. Fujifilm used to do one before COVID It was called people with cameras. Leader pros who used to work in Charlie's role. I think he ran it for like two or three years. It was great. Huge, big success. And then covert hit. It all disappeared. [02:18:01] Speaker C: Yeah, you know, so anyway, we better get to the people's photos. [02:18:07] Speaker B: Yes. [02:18:08] Speaker C: You got a lot of emails and. [02:18:10] Speaker A: I know, I'm so. Greg, quickly do what's in the box so I can try and let me press the button. [02:18:23] Speaker B: I've got a box. Me finally. Not Justin. Someone else got some things. So we're going to do an unboxing and I haven't got my little. No, it's my brand new Japanese craft. It's a brand new Japanese. [02:18:40] Speaker C: It looks like a shift. [02:18:41] Speaker B: Damascus steel blade and it is a shift. [02:18:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Handcrafted in prison. [02:18:47] Speaker B: South Yarra is a dark neighborhood. [02:18:50] Speaker A: All right. [02:18:52] Speaker B: I just got it this week, so I'm very excited by that. So what do we got? We got a little box unbox. [02:18:57] Speaker A: That box. [02:19:01] Speaker B: Chewed it got a little. Fujifilm House of Photography. So House of photography is the Fujifilm store in Sydney. For years Fujifilm was lacking an online presence and a store. They finally got one and now you can walk in and buy cameras or you can buy their cameras directly from them and avoid retail. Oh, can I have the big screen please, boss? [02:19:24] Speaker A: Yes, sorry. [02:19:26] Speaker C: Why would you need such a big screen for such a small camera? What's up? [02:19:41] Speaker B: I'm gonna shiver. Thank you Fujifilm for packing it in so perfectly. We've got, we've got a brand new Fujifilm XF 30 millimeter f 2.8 with a aperture ring, linear motor focusing system, weather resistant macro lens. So yeah, and it will be tiny. Now the reason why I bought this lens is because as part of my role, doing product reviews like camera reviews and lens reviews and gear reviews, I often take do all my own product shots. I don't use the shots that are sent by the brand. So the brand will send a media kit and it will have like a Dropbox link and that goes out to all the reviewers. And. And most people will just dump the. Basically what the. What the brand has written into their review and the images. I don't do that. I do all my own text and all my own images. So the box has the user manual which is slightly being phased out. It's got a little cloth bag. And here's my lens. Look at it. It's tiny. [02:20:50] Speaker C: It's not very small. 3B. [02:20:56] Speaker B: It's not maybe we should get my cock on to do a comparison. So, yeah, there it is. My little macro lens got a tiny little element at the front. [02:21:06] Speaker C: Oh, wow. Yeah. [02:21:10] Speaker B: But yeah, so this is so I can get. I want crisper, sharper product shots. I went for a 30 mil because I'm not doing jewelry and insects to fill the frame. I think it's only a one to two ratio for memory. Sorry, mate. Boring you with my Fuji news. [02:21:29] Speaker C: No, we're running over. [02:21:31] Speaker B: We're running very late anyway. [02:21:34] Speaker A: So many photos. [02:21:35] Speaker B: That's what was in my box. A brand new lens. I'm very excited. So I decided to get this when I ordered my XC5. The XE5 is not coming until the end of August, but obviously it is. They were out of stock. It arrived. I got it. It's here. I love Fujifilm. That's all I've got. Let's jump to some photos. Justin. [02:21:57] Speaker A: I'm trying. I'm still. I got so much. There's tons of them. I don't know how to do this. [02:22:04] Speaker B: Maybe we should sort of do five tonight and then jump to some others in the coming weeks. [02:22:12] Speaker A: Tell us in the chat if you sent photos in. Do you want. Tell us whether we should do yours this week or next week? Help. Help us. Because I am. [02:22:25] Speaker C: Unorganized. [02:22:27] Speaker A: No, these are all new for tonight. I had the other ones ready to go. I think we've got. Bring those up and then. [02:22:35] Speaker B: Come on, just start showing us photos. [02:22:38] Speaker A: We're going to do something in the 13, 14, 15 people have sent them in while we've been on the podcast. Okay. [02:22:48] Speaker C: They're sending a photo. Are they sending multiples? [02:22:51] Speaker A: Most of them have sent multiples, so it's. I can't do both at once. Bruce says, I don't care if you do mine, we'll do yours at some stage. Lisa says, I've waited up to see my images. Exactly. All right, all right. Okay. [02:23:09] Speaker C: That would. [02:23:10] Speaker A: That would. [02:23:10] Speaker C: That would be pretty rough. You're just like. And on next week's episode. [02:23:14] Speaker A: I know I'm not gonna do that to you, but I'm gonna have trouble to both be talking, be bringing these up and sharing them whilst also going through the other 10 downloads that I've got to try and do and organize them and import them into Lightroom. So I'm doing my best. I'm doing this. This is. It's all happening. Let's bring one up maybe for some. What are we going to do? Just bring up a photo. Let's start with Grant because It's right there and Grant can quickly talk about it and then when he wants, we can talk about the next one. And I'll keep doing what I'm doing. [02:23:52] Speaker C: Be nice. That's my shot from Horsehead Rock in Bermagui. We got to Bermagui for two nights and this is like one of the main shots I wanted to get. The light wasn't as good as I wanted, but just with the leading rock, leading lines in those rocks. So it just hit perfect. It's pretty happy with it, but it can always be better. [02:24:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's really good. [02:24:21] Speaker C: I actually met a. Another photographer there and this was like he. His tenth time there, trying to get like the perfect sunrise and he's just like, no, not today. [02:24:31] Speaker B: What time was it, Grant? [02:24:33] Speaker C: What time? [02:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:24:35] Speaker C: Oh, it was. Wouldn't even know. [02:24:38] Speaker B: It was early, like 6, 7. [02:24:40] Speaker C: Justin could probably tell you with the. Oh, that's the. Yeah, yeah, it was early. It was like probably seven. But I didn't know the way to the actual, like, this spot. So I took another walking track, which took me like half an hour, and I was like, up on a cliff looking at it, being like, how do I get down from here? And then I was like, this is not right, so I have to run back. And I was running through all these trees and there was like all these kangaroos, like, jumping out and I ran there. Then I saw a guy at the car park and he was walking down and I'm like, he's got a camera bag on, he's going there. So I sort of started following him and we're climbing over all these rocks. And then, yeah, it led me here, but, like, I nearly missed the sunrise. But, yeah, bit of a story. Yeah, Cool story behind it because, yeah, I would be spewing if I missed it. [02:25:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [02:25:28] Speaker C: Much better story than if you walked in, got the shot, walked out. Yeah, yeah. And you have to go low tide as well, because if it's high tide, you can't get over the rocks. [02:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's very cool. I love the commas. [02:25:46] Speaker A: No, I'm trying to find it, Grant. There it is. [02:25:51] Speaker C: Yeah. So that's in Woolgo. It's a spot in New South Wales. I think from memory, we come across Walgulga. I think we went into a caravan park somewhere close and it was. Wasn't very good. And Eilish, my wife found, is the best beach in Australia or just been voted. It's like, I'll go check it out. And went to. Went there and like, oh, this is a cool little town. So this is just on the headland. I was just out walking, like, sunrise. Most of my photos were pretty much sunrise photos from that trip, just because I was on the east coast. Yeah. And just with the. The path and the light hitting everywhere. Yeah. [02:26:32] Speaker A: I thought it looked pretty cool. [02:26:34] Speaker B: And I love the way that the path is lighting up. Up the gaps in the. In the. In the pavers. [02:26:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:26:42] Speaker B: That it's sort of adding, like, a bit of a golden glow. It's really cool. [02:26:47] Speaker C: Yeah. I found it pretty hard taking travel photos because we're only there for a day or two, so it's hard to get to a location in the dark and find what you're gonna shoot. So. [02:26:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:26:58] Speaker C: Yeah. For this one, I didn't have a plan or anything, so I just went for a walk at sunrise and. [02:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:27:04] Speaker C: Ended up with this, which I was pretty happy with. Yeah, I appreciate that. It's not. You haven't shot it sort of three or four stops under and then tried to bring everything up and keep the kind of sun sort of super golden. Like, I actually like how it's slightly. Yeah. And just like it's sort of that goldeny glow. It looks sort of. Yeah, it's nice. [02:27:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Agreed. [02:27:29] Speaker A: Cool. [02:27:29] Speaker C: That's my photo. [02:27:30] Speaker B: Very cool. [02:27:31] Speaker A: All right. One moment. I'm doing my best. [02:27:35] Speaker C: I didn't send you any, Justin. [02:27:37] Speaker A: Good, good. Because I'm. I'm organizing rapidly. All right, let. Let me go to. All right. These are. These are Greg Carrick's photos. He sent in an email. I have to bring his up because he said his were. Yarra Rangers Photography Society are having an exhibition later in the year at the Warburton Art Gallery. Each member can show two photos. So I've chosen one nicer, pretty picture. Murray River, Twilight, and one arty fardi photo in black and white called City Shades to show we also do arty stuff. So this is his pretty picture, which was shot on the GFX50R, which is very nice. Beautiful colors. [02:28:34] Speaker B: Yep. [02:28:35] Speaker A: And then his arty farty photo, which is shot on the Fujifilm XE4 in Acros. [02:28:44] Speaker B: I wonder what lens he used. [02:28:47] Speaker A: He didn't tell me because knowing Greg. [02:28:49] Speaker B: He used some sort of weird lens. [02:28:51] Speaker A: I reckon he does that. [02:28:54] Speaker B: He does that a lot. Very cool. [02:28:58] Speaker A: Very cool. All right, a couple of quick ones. I might. Gareth sent some more in. Just quickly. I'll fly through Gareth's photos. He caught a couple of these. I caught this one at a concert. He loved the, like, the moment between this singer and this lady that was watching him sing, but he said if he could go back, he would probably re edit it and remove the spire in the background. I'm like, you could, but also for this kind of moment. Is this the sort of image that you do edit or do you just leave it as it was? It's more of a documentary. [02:29:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:29:39] Speaker A: Kind of a thing. It is what it is, you know. [02:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah. That's what you got on the day. You know, if you didn't think, oh, maybe I should squat a bit lower to try. And, you know, so that drops behind the blue thing. But then you'll lose part of the. The face and the expressions and. Yeah, it's hard sometimes when you do. It's like street shots, you know, you've just got to go with what you've got and look for the stronger frame, the stronger elements in your composition to carry it. [02:30:04] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I might hold off Gareth's other one for maybe another episode. I'll quickly bring these up. These were sent in by Paul. [02:30:17] Speaker B: Really cool. [02:30:18] Speaker A: It is very cool. But does anyone know anyone? Anyone that shoots Canon? No. Paul's having trouble. This image and this image were shot with the 70 to 200 and the 2 times teleconverter. These three images following were shot with the 100 to 500, the new RF lens and aren't as sharp. And he's struggling to get sharp images with motion blur at shutter speeds below, like at 125th and at 1 over 125 and below. Whereas he was getting sharper results. Although that one the props frozen but sharper results from the other. So that he wanted to throw that out to the crew. Maybe we can dig into it in another episode a bit deeper. But if anyone in the chat knows why is he having trouble with the RF100 to 500 tracking planes and getting sharper results racked out to 500 mil on the Canon R5. It's a good question. [02:31:26] Speaker C: Sounds like you shouldn't buy that lens. [02:31:28] Speaker A: Just. Wow, that's it. [02:31:30] Speaker B: Or don't photograph planes. [02:31:32] Speaker A: It's a good point. All right, I'm going to do a quick import. You guys just see if this works. [02:31:41] Speaker C: Okay? [02:31:42] Speaker A: That doesn't work. Hang on. [02:31:51] Speaker C: The anticipation. [02:31:53] Speaker A: It's troubleshooting at its best. I'm trying to do things on the Fly import. [02:32:05] Speaker B: Is it working? Well, just. Just while Justin's around with Lightroom, let's just remind everyone watching and listening along that this is the Camera Life podcast. You're listening and watching the random photography show. This is Our hundredth episode, if you can believe that. We're up to 100, we're going strong and we have no end in sight, which is wonderful. But this, this podcast is. I'm very tired. I can't even think properly. This podcast is one of two shows that we air every single week. This is our random photography show. Every Monday evening, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. You can do the conversion for wherever you are. And then every Thursday morning we have a guest on and we interview that guest to talk about their future photography journey and where and how they got to where they are today. Speaking of which, can I just say this coming Thursday at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time, we have. Is it. Scott Portelli is joining us. Let me just have a quick squeeze. Make sure. I don't want to get the name wrong. Yeah. Scott Portelli is joining us to talk about his photographic journey. Scott has just been awarded Australian Photographer of the Year for one of his images literally yesterday. And he's joining us on Thursday. But we knew him before he was famous. He was coming. Stay tuned for that one. So like and subscribe. It helps us out a lot. It lets other people know that we're here and lets other people see our content and then hit the bell notification so that you can get notified of every upcoming episode. [02:33:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:33:46] Speaker C: There was, there was some good comments. [02:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Can you. I spotted those about the shutter speeds and stuff on those lenses. Can you go through those? Just while I'm doing more images. [02:33:59] Speaker C: So someone said XE and Bruce said probably aperture. Rick Nelson said the 7200 shot seem to be a faster shutter. John Pickett possibly heat haze. I struggle with it at 500 when shooting motorbikes. Bruce Moore said stop down. David Laferati shutter speed too low for 500 at 1 25th. Needs a good paying technique. That's definitely true. It's a rule, isn't it? You shouldn't have obviously if you're panning it obviously changes. But a shutter speed lower than your. The length of your lens. [02:34:40] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's an image stabilized lens and you're panning so you're trying to get that. [02:34:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:34:45] Speaker A: Prop rotation blur. But I think the one, the, the comment that I saw that hit it on the head was I think maybe hit it on the head. Yeah. Rick Nelson, exactly. Go tell that one. [02:34:57] Speaker C: Yeah. So Rick's also said also slow shutter while it's coming at you isn't as, as good. As good as when they pass you by. So. Yeah. Because you're not going to get Them panning. We're not going to. The motion blur will be coming towards you rather than you panning along with it, so. [02:35:12] Speaker A: So you might actually be. Yeah, and also. Yeah, exactly that. That's hard to explain. [02:35:19] Speaker C: When they're going past straight, they're in the same focal plane. When they're coming towards you, that focal point is moving. Therefore, that slow shadow will get like. The subject will move through. [02:35:33] Speaker A: And you might have a better chance because planes also do this as they're flying through the air as well. So you might. If it's coming at you, it's just kind of doing that. Whereas if it's going alongside, it is still doing that. But you might have a better chance of panning with it. Yeah, I don't know. [02:35:48] Speaker B: And they're coming at you at considerable speed, so. [02:35:51] Speaker A: That's right. [02:35:51] Speaker B: The window of opportunity for ultra tack shots up. Everything is really slim. [02:35:56] Speaker C: Yes. Bruce also said, no end in sight. It's the day of this episode. Yeah. [02:36:08] Speaker A: I mean, I'm. I'm. I hope. Are you. Were you gonna go to the gym tomorrow, Jim, or are you just calling it you. You're just like, nah. [02:36:15] Speaker C: Well, Haley's here, so I won't be up. [02:36:20] Speaker A: Okay, so you're fine. Perfect. We'll do another hour. [02:36:23] Speaker C: No, no, I've got to get up. Justin. No. [02:36:25] Speaker B: Yes. [02:36:26] Speaker C: Highly ready for school. Not. Not just sleep in and lounge around in my. [02:36:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm. I'm losing. I don't know whose images I just did. Oh, no. I need to focus. I need to focus. [02:36:41] Speaker B: Let's do a couple more, and then let's. Let's repack for. For a future episode. [02:36:45] Speaker A: Hey. Oh, maybe. I don't know. Everyone's so. So excited. I'm. I'm close. These are Exes. These are Exy's photos. If you guys want to go through them and just tell me when to move on while I download some more photos from my. My. [02:37:03] Speaker B: So these look like Exy's recent shots. [02:37:07] Speaker A: Oh, excuse me. [02:37:08] Speaker C: Sorry. [02:37:08] Speaker B: He went to Tasmania, Went to Hobart to do some photos, and it rained a lot. [02:37:18] Speaker C: Can tell. [02:37:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So he also went to. What's the name of the gallery? Is it Mona Exe Museum of New Art? If anyone's ever. Never been down there and you're in that sort of Hobart area, definitely go to Mona. It's a phenomenal experience. Really obscure art pieces and works, and the space itself is magnificent. Next. [02:37:45] Speaker C: Actually said. Yeah, it's Mono Museum. [02:37:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:37:51] Speaker C: That'S cool shot. [02:37:52] Speaker B: That's a really cool shot. [02:37:55] Speaker C: Nice. [02:37:55] Speaker B: Lawrence it's got really good energy. That's really beautiful. I love the way that she fade. I mean, I know it's through it through the Internet and we're looking at a screen of a screen, but the way that her dress fades, it's just enough light to identify the body shape, but then it just disappears. Yeah, beautiful. [02:38:16] Speaker C: Yeah, that right hand, right arm disappears. [02:38:21] Speaker B: Yeah. It's got nice balance, too. It's got really lovely balance. [02:38:26] Speaker C: Jerry would not be happy. [02:38:28] Speaker A: Jerry. Jonas, because. Oh, X. You said shot on film. Shot on film. Very nice. [02:38:36] Speaker C: Yeah, that's cool. [02:38:39] Speaker A: All right, I think I've got everything in. Let me just do one more quick check of my import. I think I've got everything in. I'm going to hold off some of our legends like Lucinda Goodwin and Bruce Moyle and even Nathan. I'm going to hold yours off for a future episode. But everyone else will just whip through. Let's go. John Pickett with the indoor sport. [02:39:12] Speaker C: Yeah, indoor sports. Hard basketball. Trying to get enough light. [02:39:19] Speaker A: What do we got? This is the. Oh, it's the R3. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. ISO 5080 mil at a thousandth of a second. F 2.8. Yeah, that camera is. Is the goods. Look at that. [02:39:38] Speaker C: You gotta know. Know the sports as well when you're shooting them because to be able to pick up on plays and like, for moments like this, you've got to be right on it because it's just like that. It's so quick. [02:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:39:53] Speaker A: I think he had. I'm just going to try and see if he said anything. Yeah. R3 with the F7200 mark 2. Impressed with the low light. Yeah, me too. [02:40:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:40:04] Speaker A: Liam Kilroy. [02:40:06] Speaker B: The colors. [02:40:08] Speaker A: All right, here we go. [02:40:09] Speaker B: It says. [02:40:12] Speaker A: Vertical shot. Vertical shots with the Pentax lens. Horizontal with Fujifilm lens, which was. First two shot. The Pentax set. Takuma 1000 F8 on an XT2 at 2 50th at F32. So I don't like what. So it was with a 1000mil F8 on the XT2 at 2-50th at F32. I don't even know if that's. Yeah. [02:40:51] Speaker C: Can you check the metadata? [02:40:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it just says like 21 mil at F1. So it's. [02:40:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it won't show the lens. [02:41:00] Speaker A: It won't show the right data. And then. But those are. Yeah, they. They're great shots. And then this one was shot with the X Pro 2 and the Fujifilm 100 to 400. At 400 mil. Yeah. This one and it. That. That was it. F13 at three thousandth of a second. Looks old. [02:41:20] Speaker C: It does look old. [02:41:21] Speaker B: Back in the day. [02:41:23] Speaker A: Great shots, Lisa. [02:41:26] Speaker C: Like when. [02:41:29] Speaker A: Lisa, are you still with us? Your images are up. We are here. And Lisa, really nice. Hang on. So I've only been doing photography a year, so slightly nervous about sharing. I. I shoot on the nikon. Zed said Z72. Very nice. Beautiful water blur. So that was 24 mil F14. Six second exposure. Yeah. Very nice. Not too overhyped, like. Yeah. Nice clean greens. Not. Not pumped. Like I would. I would pump the crap out of those greens so they look like they're on fire. They're trying to be like hdr. [02:42:11] Speaker C: Are the images stacked? Like, is there motion blur in the ferns or is this. Well from here maybe a little bit. Not sure. Lisa. [02:42:22] Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, it's great. [02:42:26] Speaker C: It looks cool. [02:42:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Really good. Well played. Oh, look at that. [02:42:32] Speaker A: Yeah. F13 ISO 100. Sixteen hundredth of a second. I mean, your settings are spot on. Like. [02:42:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:42:41] Speaker A: You do a nice framing. [02:42:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:42:45] Speaker A: Lisa says that waterfall was a. Or the water one was a single image. [02:42:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:42:49] Speaker A: Nice. [02:42:49] Speaker B: Yeah, that's great. She's got great compositional eyesight. Like she can. She knows how to crop and frame really well to suit the style of image too. That's great. [02:43:05] Speaker A: High ISO on this one. I don't know whether that was intentional or not. [02:43:09] Speaker B: Might have been dark. [02:43:11] Speaker A: Well, it's. Well, it's at F14 though, I guess to get the depth. But no, and at a fourth of a second, I think if with non moving subjects, because that's at ISO25600. So unless you were going for intentionally high ISO, I would potentially look if you had a tripod, maybe you were handheld, I don't know. Or I would just sacrifice some of your depth of field for the sake of bringing the ISO down. But that depends. It's. Yeah, but Bruce has gone on really simple. [02:43:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:43:43] Speaker C: What focal length? [02:43:46] Speaker A: 30 mil. [02:43:47] Speaker C: Yeah. So at that focal length, you could. Could get away with shooting like a. [02:43:54] Speaker A: Yeah, like F8 or something. Yeah, you'd still. You. I mean, you wouldn't get as. As much depth, but you would still get some depth. And I think it would still look nice. But. Yeah, it depends what you were going away. It still looks good on my screen in front of me. [02:44:07] Speaker C: Yeah. She said storm and wanted a grainy look like a pencil drawing. [02:44:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got that for sure. [02:44:16] Speaker A: It does. I mean. Yep. And it. Yeah. It actually, like, big. It looks nice. [02:44:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:44:22] Speaker A: So well played. [02:44:23] Speaker B: Awesome. Like, enlarged and framed. That would be a stunning shot to have. [02:44:27] Speaker A: I like this one. [02:44:29] Speaker C: Cool. [02:44:32] Speaker A: What. What filter did you use on this? Yeah, you've used a filter. Not like an Instagram filter, a photographic filter. Yeah, yeah. What great photos. One year. Watch out. [02:44:48] Speaker B: Hey, doing well, kid? [02:44:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:44:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:44:54] Speaker A: Very nice. All right. Oh, Australia through my lens says, trees look great viewing on an iPad. Yeah. [02:45:03] Speaker C: I called it 10 stop. [02:45:05] Speaker A: And, yeah, Nisi nd 10 for this image because. Yeah, this. This one says it's 39 mil F56, ISO 100 at 240 is that right? 240 seconds. Maybe that doesn't work. I don't know. [02:45:20] Speaker C: I would. Yeah. So you got a 10 stop on. [02:45:23] Speaker B: Yeah. It's pretty dark. [02:45:25] Speaker A: Neil says, nice work, Lisa. I agree. Great work. [02:45:29] Speaker B: Great shot. [02:45:30] Speaker C: What's that? [02:45:31] Speaker A: All right. What's that? [02:45:34] Speaker C: Four minutes. [02:45:34] Speaker A: Four minutes of exposure. It's a long time to keep a stick. [02:45:40] Speaker C: Kills the batteries when you're doing long exposures. [02:45:43] Speaker A: Oh, really? [02:45:44] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [02:45:47] Speaker A: No. [02:45:50] Speaker C: I'll get you back there, Grant. [02:45:53] Speaker B: Next time. [02:45:55] Speaker A: Hang on. Try and bring it up. [02:45:57] Speaker C: Big stuff. [02:45:58] Speaker A: I don't know if he's still in the chat. This is Muhammad Anas Ali. I don't know. What's your. What's your preferred. We got it like a. Because it's come through as an ass on your email. What shall I call you? But we've got five great photos. Oh, that's cool. That's very cool. Can I see what you're shooting on? D 5320 mil F8.400 of a second. Yeah. That's a very cool photo. Oh, icm. Yeah. [02:46:35] Speaker C: Lisa has said, neil is my husband. He's biased. Neil said, nice work, Lisa. [02:46:42] Speaker A: Don't tell us that. Yeah, he's just woken him up. [02:46:45] Speaker B: Come on, kids in the chat. [02:46:50] Speaker A: Great. I've never really done the ICM thing. Have you guys ever experimented with it? Is it like. [02:46:54] Speaker B: What's icm? [02:46:55] Speaker A: Intentional camera movement. [02:46:57] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [02:46:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's. It's following. Yeah. Have you. Have you tried it, Grant? [02:47:03] Speaker C: No, no. Jim would have. [02:47:06] Speaker A: Oh. With. We do it when we shoot dance laws at weddings, but I don't think that's the same. It's not the same thing. I mean, we've never called it that. [02:47:15] Speaker C: No, I did it in, like, uni. [02:47:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:47:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I think I did it in uni, too. Or maybe when I first got into camera. Again, the photography again. That's ominous. [02:47:30] Speaker A: It is ominous. I'm like, I'm not sure what's going on here. [02:47:33] Speaker C: You're, like, waiting for something to jump out. [02:47:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a scene from Stranger Things. [02:47:39] Speaker A: Bruce says, come to my workshops at bfop. Okay, so we'll get the intentional camera movement. Greg Carrick says, I call it shake and bake. That's pretty good. Rodney Nicholson says, it's cool. Fun. [02:47:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:48:00] Speaker A: Wow. This is going to be our longest Monday night show ever. And it will be our longest ever. We'll never go this long again, so enjoy it while it lasts, people. [02:48:09] Speaker C: We can only 100 ones. [02:48:12] Speaker A: You're loving. You're loving this, Jim. All right, we're almost done. Great shots. Absolutely great shots. And yeah, don't. Don't be worried about the. The camera that you're shooting with. That's for sure. [02:48:28] Speaker C: Is. Is this episode longer than the Matt Crummond's podcast? [02:48:34] Speaker A: No, and it won't be. That was three and a half hours, I think. [02:48:40] Speaker C: We're definitely not longer than Nick Fletcher. [02:48:42] Speaker B: Then. [02:48:43] Speaker A: This will do. No, these are Nev shots. Oh, he's. It looks like he's scrubbed them from. Scrubbed the metadata from. So we're just gonna have to guess. [02:48:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna say shot with a Fujifilm. [02:48:56] Speaker A: No, I'm gonna guess shot with a Fujifilm. [02:48:58] Speaker B: And on Heart. I think that's what it was. [02:49:02] Speaker A: Oh, beautiful. [02:49:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look at that. Look at that sky. I've been. Yeah, obviously we've been following Nev for a while now since. Well, I followed him before we had him on the show. But the. The. The. The. The sky. The amount of open sky he gets in. In the. Is it Albany? Is that how you pronounce it? Or Albany. Albany area, just. And there's another photographer, a friend of his, who I follow, and it's just phenomenal. The skies, they get sunrise and sunset. [02:49:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Crazy. Oh, I didn't know Nev went underwater. [02:49:41] Speaker B: Didn't either. [02:49:44] Speaker A: Is. Is he cheating? Is this like an aquarium or something? [02:49:49] Speaker C: Is that turtle head, like, super sharp? Like it looks. [02:49:53] Speaker A: These aren't big. These aren't big files, unfortunately. Yeah, he's just sent through J. Like small jpeg, so I can't zoom in on. On anything. Oh, the drone shot. I like that one. [02:50:08] Speaker B: Yeah. He's been getting into his drone. [02:50:10] Speaker A: Yeah. That's very nice. I think that's my favorite out of those. Nice, Nev. [02:50:16] Speaker B: It's very artistic. Well done, Nev. [02:50:21] Speaker A: Lisa said, is that the Perth boat shed? Yeah, I would guess so. I don't know. It is Grant's Already scoped it out for a future trip. [02:50:32] Speaker C: No, I've seen it before when I lived in Perth. [02:50:36] Speaker A: Rick Nelson. Oh, no. Are these small files? What's happened here? Oh, either I've downloaded it wrong or the. Or it's very small. Sorry. Sorry, Rick. Yeah, they're tiny. [02:50:52] Speaker C: You need a Dropbox so we can drop full resolution, Rick said. [02:50:58] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. [02:51:00] Speaker A: Okay, I'll figure that out. I'll figure that out next time. I mean, you can send larger ones through to me, but not. Yeah, not full. Full might be tricky. These are shot with the R5 Mark II and the 24 to 70 or 7200, which means they're obviously epic shots. They're just. They're very small. But, yeah, we can say what you do. Yeah, we can. We can see what you were doing. Apparently this was with. When you went with Cannon to the Gold coast race last year. Well, aren't you lucky. Bruce says male client probably resized it. Well, mine didn't because the other ones have been coming through well, like this one. Bigger and even. Even full. I think a couple of them come through full. This. We've got some images from the one and only Rodney Nicholson. Did Rodney say anything? I can't tell where he says, congratulations, boys. He's one from yesterday, apparently, which is epic. The Australian Outback. He's a master of it. Dennis says I'm still here. [02:52:20] Speaker C: What are we doing? [02:52:21] Speaker A: What is happening? Nice work, Rodney. I don't know where that is. That's an old. That's an old wall. [02:52:32] Speaker C: Probably the same place from the first photo. [02:52:36] Speaker A: Yeah, but where? [02:52:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, maybe. [02:52:38] Speaker A: Yeah, the horseback. [02:52:40] Speaker B: Very cool. [02:52:42] Speaker A: Nice. All right. And I think this is lucky last because we'll save Bruce, Lucinda and Nathan for next week. [02:52:50] Speaker B: Yep. [02:52:51] Speaker A: This is Tim Ciamas. Oh, hang on. He's. Rodney says he nearly got bitten to buy a tiger snake. Well, don't. Tiger snack. Don't do that. Oh, where is Dennis's. [02:53:03] Speaker C: He's a stack. [02:53:04] Speaker A: I downloaded yours, Dennis. Yeah, I won't forget you, Dennis. I have got yours. Yours is queued up and you are still here, but I can't find it. [02:53:16] Speaker B: So this one by. By Tim, what were the settings you used? I'm really. This is a. [02:53:20] Speaker A: They're scrubbed. They're gone. [02:53:22] Speaker B: Okay. [02:53:23] Speaker A: No metadata. But Tim said. [02:53:31] Speaker C: Second. [02:53:31] Speaker A: Where is it? [02:53:32] Speaker C: Exposure. [02:53:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:53:36] Speaker A: Clifton Hill. Maccas from most recent. Around the corner from my house. I'm not sure. Maccas should be the tenants of this beautiful building. It deserves better. [02:53:46] Speaker B: I think it pops up in social media a lot. This building it's got, like. I don't know if it's art deco or what period it is, but it's. It's like one of the most photographed McDonald's restaurants in the world because it's just. Look at it. It's phenomenal. Such an unusual structure. [02:54:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [02:54:04] Speaker C: Did they build that or did they just find it? [02:54:06] Speaker B: And I think it's. I think it was there for. Since the 30s, I think. [02:54:10] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [02:54:12] Speaker A: Great shots, Tim. [02:54:13] Speaker C: Yeah, Cool building. [02:54:17] Speaker A: All right. Where are. Where is Dennis? Dennis. Dennis. Dennis. Dennis. What is happening? [02:54:29] Speaker C: Oh, no. [02:54:30] Speaker A: Justin. Sorry, Dennis. [02:54:40] Speaker C: Riveting stuff, this look. [02:54:43] Speaker A: Hey, fill the gap, people. Fill the gap. Yeah, we're gonna. [02:54:46] Speaker C: We're gonna lose people now. Just. [02:54:48] Speaker A: Justin. [02:54:48] Speaker B: Three hours. I'm out of words, dude. [02:54:52] Speaker A: I found it. Got it. [02:54:57] Speaker B: Oh, there we go. Jesus, Dennis. [02:55:00] Speaker A: Is this AI? It looks like AI. [02:55:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I reckon it's AI. I reckon you just use the text prompt. Make me an image that's gonna blow people's minds. Here it is. [02:55:14] Speaker A: Dennis said save it. Too late. We're here and we're doing it. I want to find his. Where is the caption? This pic was me testing a location. Testing at a location for a workshop. 100% lit by hand, single exposure, of course. Hand lit the car. Beautiful. [02:55:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:55:30] Speaker C: He's called someone a wanker. I'm not sure who we all are. [02:55:35] Speaker A: Well, so. Yeah, not sure. Yeah, I love the sunset colors. So did you have one, like, one or two shots at this before the colors disappeared? Because if you know the images take a while. It's not like you get. [02:55:53] Speaker B: A blur. [02:55:53] Speaker A: So as the sky changes. Lucinda, you're still here. Do you mind if we bring yours up on next week's episode? Pretty please. [02:56:07] Speaker B: On his room back? [02:56:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [02:56:09] Speaker C: He'll be. [02:56:09] Speaker A: He'll be furious. He's got a few attempts, but the color was nearly gone. [02:56:16] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [02:56:18] Speaker B: Magical work, Dennis. Magical. [02:56:19] Speaker A: I gotta try that one day. [02:56:21] Speaker B: Yeah. For anyone that wants to know how Dennis has done this, fortunately, Dennis is one of the most generous photographers and content creators on YouTube. You go to his channel. Channel Ball of Light. Or is it Dennis? Is it Smith? Makes stuff. Anyway, Google Dennis Smith all of Light or Smith School of Life. [02:56:39] Speaker A: It's the school of light. [02:56:40] Speaker B: Sorry, sorry, Dennis. Sorry, mate. It's very late. Yeah. And you can watch Dennis's tutorials on how he creates these images. Dennis travels the world doing commercial and a whole bunch of artistic, fine art stuff. And a lot of it involves cars and autosp, Automotive and sport. But, yeah, everything is there for you to Learn from and definitely check it out School of light on YouTube. Thanks, Dennis. Sorry I got it wrong. [02:57:10] Speaker A: All right. We should probably, we should probably wrap this thing up soon. [02:57:16] Speaker C: Yeah, surely we could. We could pad it out for another minute, minute 40, couldn't we? And hit three hours. [02:57:21] Speaker A: Well, we could. I mean, I don't have time to download anyone else's photos, but by the time I talk about the competition and stuff, we'll be done. But Nathan, you're a legend. I'll bring yours up next week. Lucinda, you're a legend also. Lucinda says. Yeah, so fine, we'll bring yours up next week too. That's right. Same with yours too, Bruce. That'll give us something to talk about on next week's your images episode. If you're listening to this, just email your images to justinuckystraps.com if you want us to bring your photos up on the show and if you send them to me before the show tonight was a bit crazy, but if you've sent to me before the show, I'll have them ready to go and send them. [02:57:59] Speaker C: In a reasonable size so we can see the detail. [02:58:03] Speaker A: Yeah, as big as possible metadata. I'll see if I can set a Dropbox up or something. 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[02:59:10] Speaker A: And please like the show as well. Just for fun. It was pretty cool to have Grant back on. Who? Hey, you should leave that comment if you want to win a strap. Should Grant be on more shows? [02:59:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I could. And if you wanna, if you want the best discount code, you could use Greg, Jim or Justin for 15 off. But if you want to save a little bit more, Coach has been set up for 16 off. Yep. [02:59:37] Speaker A: I don't know how that happens. [02:59:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:59:44] Speaker B: She'S playing favorites. [02:59:45] Speaker A: That's all it is. We just did the whole your images section and we're on what's in the box. [02:59:52] Speaker C: Yeah, because we couldn't see. [02:59:53] Speaker B: Well, that's your job, boss. Don't do it now. It's just embarrassing. [02:59:57] Speaker C: All right, we're gonna do the Yorick. We're doing it again. [03:00:04] Speaker A: All right, let's wrap it up. [03:00:06] Speaker B: I think. [03:00:06] Speaker A: Should we have a final round of applause for the hundredth episode? Yeah, let's hear it. [03:00:20] Speaker B: All right, look, I'm gonna call it because no one else is. I just want to thank everyone on behalf of the team. Thank everyone for sticking with us for 100 episodes. Words. It's been such an amazing. Or three hours tonight. That's even longer. [03:00:35] Speaker A: It's 100 episodes. Very impressive. [03:00:39] Speaker B: We haven't done the math on exactly how many hours we've lost to this, but every one of them has been definitely worth it. We've learned a lot, a lot from hosting 100 episodes of the Camera Live podcast. And we hope that you have too. What we do here is we offer a live podcast so that you can become involved, you can interact with, with us. We can talk about your images, we can talk about your gear. We can talk about anything to do with photography, videography and the visual creative world. But on that note, I think it is well and truly time to wrap. This has been the Camera Life podcast, proudly brought to you by Lucky straps. Head to Luckystraps.com as we talked about makers of handmade Aussie made leather camera straps. Or you can get a jumper or a shirt. It suit yourself. But yeah, this has been the. The camera. I'm so tired. Episode 100, 21st July. Thanks for watching. Let's play some music. [03:01:33] Speaker A: Let's play some music before. Before I do that, David Leporati says thanks. And David, I just saw your photos. The last ones to come in. Yours are on my list for next week as well. So we've got you. I've got you. Thank you for sending me because there's some awesome infrared stuff in there. [03:01:49] Speaker B: And so, yeah, just a reminder, we've got. We've got an Australian photographer of the year joining us on Thursday morning. We're going to hear all about that. And so like. [03:01:58] Speaker A: And subscribe. [03:01:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty big. [03:02:00] Speaker C: Cool. Thanks. [03:02:03] Speaker A: Greg Stubbings. Thanks, Rick Nelson. Thanks, Nathan. Thanks, Dennis. Thanks, Paul. Thanks, Rodney. Thanks. Thanks, Paul. Thanks, Paul. Gareth. David, thank you. Thanks Greg Carrick, Philip Johnson, Bruce, Rick. If I already said it, I don't know. John Pickett. There's too many of you. You're all amazing. Lisa, thank you. Thanks for everything, everybody. Good night. [03:02:28] Speaker B: Good.