Greg's New Camera Bag! The Random Photography Show (EP189)

[00:00:00] Speaker A: It. Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome back to the Camera Live podcast. This is the random photography show. It is Monday, the 8th of June, and we're coming to you live from. We're both in country today. I'm glad to say that we're both in Australia, of course. Joining me tonight is, is the boss, Justin Castles. How are you, Justin? [00:00:48] Speaker B: I'm good. How are you, Greg? [00:00:50] Speaker A: I'm all right. [00:00:51] Speaker B: I'm all right. [00:00:51] Speaker A: You know, I really wish that when we went live, people could see the little dances that you do while the video plays music. [00:00:58] Speaker B: I really like the music and I like when it goes anyway. I can't help myself. [00:01:04] Speaker A: I kind of got a brief glimpse of what you used to be like on stage, clowning around out there on stage. [00:01:11] Speaker B: I had a guitar to like do something with my hands so I didn't have to, you know, dance. It was better. [00:01:18] Speaker A: All right, well, as I said at the top of the show, this is the random photography show, so stick around because tonight we're going to cover off some industry news. We've got a few bits and pieces to talk about. I got a new camera bag, so we're going to talk about that because who doesn't love new camera bags? And you had a question about camera bags. Did, did you want to share that question with the chat, what you were [00:01:38] Speaker B: going to ask them? Yeah, I want to know what everyone's favorite camera bag is or so. So, okay, there's a couple of things I want to know. Are you a backpack person or a messenger bag person or something else? You know, some people are pelican case people, but that's rare. I'm one of those people sometimes. I'm in everything. I've got all of them. I've got messenger bags, I've got backpacks. I've got pelican cases, I've got non pelican cases. I've got not camera bags that I use as camera bags. So I want to know, like, do you have a favorite or are you looking for something that isn't made yet? Let's use the show as a bit of a camera bag chit chat. So let us know in the chat or if you're listening later, if you're listening later on YouTube, just throw it in the comments and let us know. Yeah, and we'll, we'll pull them up [00:02:22] Speaker A: and let us know. Are you like a one and done person? Like you get one bag? That's it, that's for everything. Or do you have different bags for different genres or different occasions? [00:02:32] Speaker B: Are you a hoarder that never gets around to selling them? You're like, oh I will, I will, I'll sell them. But you just don't. But you, yeah, you should, but you don't. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we've got crates and crates of bags, but yeah, so that's, that's on the cards for tonight and of course we're going to look at your images. We, we'd love to look at everyone's images. Got a few that have come in so far. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, there's a few. If, hey, it's not too late, I could probably squeeze one or two more in. So if you're listening right now, email me justinuckystraps.com an image. Just one, just send me something and tell us about it. A sentence or two, why you took it, what you like, what you don't like, anything, your settings. And we'll, we'll show it towards the end of tonight's show and if you're too late for tonight's show, we'll show it on next week's show. So that's fine. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Yeah. We do this Every Monday night, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. We bring you the random photography show where we talk about industry news, we do live unboxings, we talk about particular topics in the industry and of course we get to look at your photos. It's the highlight of our week. And then of course every Thursday morning we have the Camera Live podcast once again live on YouTube where we interview an amazing photographer, either local or international, and we learn a bit about their craft and we share that with you. And because it's live, you can jump in the chat, you can ask questions, you can say g'. Day. Yeah, it's there for the taking. [00:03:56] Speaker B: There's actually, if you, if you're new to the show, there's like, gosh, there'd have to be almost 100 interviews with photographers that you could go back through and listen to. Wedding photographers, landscape photographers, street photographers, sports photographers, you know, eight time Olympic Games photographer, Jeff Cable. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Indeed. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Tons of just all from every genre because we don't, we don't like to specialize here when it comes to the photographer interviews. [00:04:23] Speaker A: We're not special at all. [00:04:25] Speaker B: No, we're not special but, well, I [00:04:28] Speaker A: mean, you know, just last week we had Marcus Bell join us. Marcus, how good was that? A multi genre, weddings, portraits, landscape, street documentary, photojournalism, you name it. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Fine art, kind of like just, yeah, it's, it's hard to put him in a box really. He's his own box. [00:04:47] Speaker A: He is his own box. He's been doing weddings for, did he say? 25 years. [00:04:51] Speaker B: He's been running his business studio impressions for 25 years. Successful business. That's, that's crazy and amazing. So pretty cool. That's one of my favorites. That was a great interview. [00:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it was cool. So it's well worth going back and having a look. Coming up this week on Thursday, we've got Corey Rich, who's based in the US he's an extreme sports photographer. Does a lot of commercial work as well, with a whole bunch of brands [00:05:21] Speaker B: and a director too. So not only stills but also like visual directing for, for short films and things like that and productions for. Yeah, brands, that sort of stuff. Athletes, sports. Yeah, Very, very cool. Has worked with like Apple and Nike and all that sort of stuff, but also lots of, lots of climbing and in the earlier days, his early days and the earlier days of climbing in like, some of America's amazing national parks and all that sort of stuff. So I'm excited. I, I, I put him on the list because I watched his creative live sports photography course back in the day where he talked about how he uses lighting and all that sort of stuff. And yeah, I was like, craig, try and get him. And you did? [00:06:07] Speaker A: I did, I did. I like a challenge. But look, the best way to know if, if we've got an upcoming episode of the Camera Life podcast, of course, is to subscribe. It costs you nothing and it means a hell of a lot to us. So please subscribe. And if you hit the bell icon to always notify you, you'll get a live update of every time we're about to go live in your time zone. So it doesn't matter where you are, it'll work it out for you and say, here it is. Why would you not want to watch Greg and Justin? Here it is. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Here it is. Speaking of people that are subscribed, look at all the people that are subscribed in the chat. They're all here. They're here right now. They must have got the notifications, like, Philip Johnson's here. John Pickett is here. Hi, everybody. Tintype man is here. He says, evening. All right. I had a truly terrifying meeting with my accountant this week in front of my wife. He asked me how much I'd spent on my cameras. I had to cover her ears before I answered. Smart. Put the noise canceling headphones on. Yeah, yeah. Listen to this song while I talk [00:07:09] Speaker A: about [00:07:13] Speaker B: get off my digital loan lawn. Tony's here. Good evening. Lucinda Goodwin. Hey, Greg Carrick. What happened to border patrol? Yeah, no, I got through, Greg. It's. It's all good. I'm back. Lisa Leach says, good evening. I'm a Shimoda female friendly backpack person. Yeah, that's right. They do, they do. Do they do different models or are they all female friendly? I can't remember. But yeah, there's. There's a few brands that do. There's. There's different straps that have different shapes and contours, and that's a very clever idea. Shimoda make good stuff. Lucinda says messenger and pelican case, but also got a handbag camera bag that's great for corporate. Well, that's fancy. [00:07:56] Speaker A: What brand is that? Let us know. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Handbag camera bag. John Latimer's here. Yeah, Tony actually dropped off for me today a case for my little Starlink mini that I used to do the podcast when I'm roaming around in the van. He. He bought me this little customized. It's not a pelican case, but it's like a hard. A rigid zip case that fits the Starlink mini and its little accessories. And I think it has some mounts in there that suction cup it to my van as well, so. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Wow. Tony. He's Tony. Yeah. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah. I appreciate it. Rodney Nicholson's here. Great characters. My favorite bag is tiny. Just holds my XE4 wallet and phone. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Nice. [00:08:38] Speaker B: What. What sword is it? John Pickett. Another vote for the Shimoda. Shimoda backpack for my sports stuff. Owner messenger bag for other stuff. So I had. I had an owner. Jim's got a owner as well. I didn't like it at all. I had a full leather one and I also had a leather and canvas one. Not a fan. Tried them both. They are on the expensive side and I didn't like the. The design. Just didn't. It never felt comfortable. One of them, the straps always turned a funny way. I don't know. I never got along with them, but I know a lot of other people have had good luck. So maybe I just. I didn't pick the right model for me or something. But yeah, yeah, I, I got rid of both of them, I think. Jim. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I got rid of mine. [00:09:23] Speaker B: Did you. You didn't like it? [00:09:25] Speaker A: No, it was a bit too cumbersome and it was just unyielding, like because of the leather was quite rich and. And it held its shape really well. But yeah, it just. Yeah, it just felt like I was carrying a box on me. All the. [00:09:36] Speaker B: It just. It. Yeah, it definitely had that vibe to it. But also the non leather one did that as well. The non leather one was better, but it did that and. But it did some funny stuff with the straps and just the. The general like layout of the pockets and the flap and stuff. It just didn't. Didn't do what I was hoping. I was hoping it would be a, you know, take your stuff everywhere bag and I didn't really like taking it. But Jim, Jim seems he's been using it for years, so. [00:10:01] Speaker A: Cool. [00:10:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he loves it. Tweak productions here. Greg Carrick says a camera bag edition. Yeah, camera bag edition of the show. That's right. That's what we're gonna do. Tintype man. I've just bought a sack backpack for international trips. It's huge. I can put a body, a 600 mil, a 7203 other lenses, a drone, a 4x5 large format body. I just need a crane to lift it. Yeah, I was gonna say for international trips. What are you putting it on a cargo ship? You can't get carry on or are you going to check it in? I. So for. I think I mentioned this on a previous show but for Bali I bought a July is the brand. They're like a direct to consumer online suitcase brand and they do a trunk because I hate suitcases that fold like this, like flat. They're so dumb because they take up the entire floor of a hotel room. I don't understand why. Anyway, so I don't like those. This is a trunk. So it's kind of more like a pelican case where it's got like a lid that's about this deep that you can put some stuff in and then the rest of it's just like a trunk. And it's hard, but it's not as tough as a pelican case. But at least it's hard and it has locks. So then I put a camera cube in that to put my extra gear in. [00:11:26] Speaker A: That's good idea. [00:11:27] Speaker B: So that I could keep the carry on and. And all the podcast gear, my extra espresso display that I got to do the podcast over in Bali. So. And that worked. That worked really well. I'm very happy with that. [00:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Bucks. And then obviously it had my clothes and all that stuff in there as well. So anyway, Philip Johnson says wandered 9 liter sling like to travel light favorite. Might have to be careful at bfop. Lots of bag temptations. Yeah, that's a problem. [00:12:02] Speaker A: I think Philip got that at up last year. Am I am I. Right, Philip? [00:12:07] Speaker B: Well, they had a good display there last year. Heaps of stuff they did go, so. [00:12:13] Speaker A: Yeah. And those things were fairly new, I think when we were there last year, but. Yeah. [00:12:20] Speaker B: Grant. Hey, Grant, what's up? Hey, you should send a photo in, Grant. It's not too late. He's been busy. Patrick J. Photography says evening. I have more camera bags than a woman has handbags. Yeah. [00:12:36] Speaker A: Yep. [00:12:37] Speaker B: I feel you. He uses backpacks and slings. Nice, nice. [00:12:42] Speaker A: What's your go to? What's your favorite? [00:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah, do you have a favorite of each of those? Do you have a favorite brand that you kind of stick with? I'm kind of like a mind shift when it comes to backpacks. Although I do have. What's that other one that I've got a tenber actually that I use for travel now. Oh yeah. Mind shift for like more professional work. Tenba for travel. Yeah. Anyway, we'll get. We'll. This whole show. This could just talk about bags for an hour and a half. The gas nine. Hello, guys. Catching you live twice in a row. Woohoo. By the way, still raining in the uk. Oh, damn. Well, it's been. It's been a little bit average here. I think it's going to rain more this week. Yeah, it's chilly. [00:13:21] Speaker A: It's been cold and wet. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Yep. What? Sorry. Live, not cut. What else? Oh yeah, Patrick also bought a Shimoda. Man. Shimoda. Shimoda. Urban explorer. Interesting. Shimoda must be doing a really good job. David Skinner is here. Evening all. Just made it back from Bdale. What's a band sale? Geez. Didn't know that was a shortener thing. Nev, Clark's here. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Nev, Greg Carrick's lock. Rocking the low pro. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Okay. Nev Clark Compagnon. German. My German. German. German. Germans. [00:14:12] Speaker A: It German. [00:14:13] Speaker B: It's German Made for backpack. GFX gear. Op shop leather thing for Leica cues. Oh yeah. Nice. I've got. I've still got an op shop bag that I bought and just stuffed a cheap. You know, I think back in the day I bought it off Aliexpress or something, just a camera cube of some sort and just stuffed it in this leather thing that I found at op shop and it actually it worked better than the owner bags that I had. It was softer. [00:14:41] Speaker A: Those German bags. Sorry, Those German bags that Nev's talking about. I reviewed one years ago for shot kit. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Oh, did you? [00:14:48] Speaker A: And it was like an 800 backpack. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Like it was. It's crazy premium. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:14:56] Speaker A: I mean, unless they've come. That was years ago, so I don't know, but still. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Well, they're probably 1200 now. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:03] Speaker B: Good evening, Phil Thompson's. Lucinda says the brand of her handbag one is Camrette. It's called the Ivana camera handbag. It has a laptop sleeve that fits my massive MacBook. Yeah, MacBooks are massive, but Lowepro is ride or die. Yeah, Lowepro is pretty solid. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Who else? Gosh, there's too many. [00:15:27] Speaker A: I didn't like Low, probably. I never got into Low Pro. And I think it was because I didn't like the fact that back when I was looking in the early days when I was looking for cheap camera bags, they just splashed their branding all over it. And it just made me feel like, well, everyone knows I'm carrying a camera, you know, it felt. [00:15:43] Speaker B: Well, because they were at one point, they were certainly the number one camera bag brand. Everyone knew what LowePro was. But now, gosh, I feel like unless you're a photographer now, you have no idea what, like what Low Pro is if you saw it on the street. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:03] Speaker B: Oh, Bruce is here. Hey, Bruce. [00:16:05] Speaker A: Hey, Bruce. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Tintype man says the sack is carry on suitcase size, but the weight is a problem. You need to talk nicely to the airline stuff. I'm carrying lots of lithium batteries. Yeah, yeah, they love that. Yeah. Apparently it's your fault, Greg, that. That Philip Johnson bought that bag and pointed him towards the ref. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it wasn't. I do know Adam. He was the rep at bfop. He does the Wandered and a bunch of other products. But, yeah, I thought. I thought it was beef up. Philip. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Lucinda says, are we getting Lucky bags now? It's funny, originally when Lucky started, I wanted to make camera bags. That was the reason I started. And there's been a few attempts at it over the years. I had. We had to change to camera straps because bags were too hard to get made in Australia and they still are too hard to make in Australia. They're too complex for what we're able to do with our long story, but our labor rates. Basically, they'd be. They'd be fifteen hundred dollars bags. Unfortunately, to do anything that's. That's intricate. So. But it's definitely. It's still on the list. Still on the list. But we've got some. [00:17:23] Speaker A: We've chatted about it a few times, haven't we? Yeah, I've got just you and. I mean, we've talked about. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Different products and bags and yeah, I've got Pouches Yeah, a cool idea. I've got some ideas. I've got some ideas. [00:17:39] Speaker A: He's an ideas man. People. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Nev Clark doesn't like bags that look like camera bags now. No one does. Well, actually I think some people do, but most people don't. Greg Carrick's an op shopper. That's smart. All right, we should, we'll. I'll revisit some of these bag comments later. But it's good to see you all in the chat. Yeah, keep hitting us with some, some more bag chat. Tell us, tell us where you're at. What else? Oh, you know, I took photos today of four dog. Four dogs. [00:18:13] Speaker A: Wow. In the, in the makeshift studio. [00:18:16] Speaker B: In the makeshift studio. It was, it was supposed to be two dogs and it. And it grew to four dogs. Not full shoots, not like what I was doing. But yeah, all. All in the studio and it was, it was quite crazy. I bet there was three here at once at one point. So the studio got trashed. [00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:37] Speaker B: But yeah, that's. [00:18:40] Speaker A: It's a pity you hate dogs so much. [00:18:43] Speaker B: It was, it was a lot of fun. The last one, a friend of ours bought their, their new puppy and it was just, yeah, the cutest dog and it was actually the best behaved dog of all of them. And it's just a puppy would sit and stay and do all the things and yeah, you got some good shots of that. So I'll have one to show next week. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Very cool, Very cool. Well, should we, should we jump into a bit of news and stuff? [00:19:11] Speaker B: Yeah, just before we do that, Nev says, hey, Justin, my viewer pick was emailed about two hours ago. Sorry for the tardiness. That's fine. That's totally fine. It's already done and sorted. As I said, there's time. If you're listening right now and you want to send a photo in, if. As long as you send it in the next 10 minutes, we'll slip it in into tonight's show. So thank you. Justinuckystraps.com Email it to me. Anyway. Okay. Should we talk about the news? [00:19:39] Speaker A: Let's cover a bit of news. Another quiet week in general. A few little bits and pieces going on. Some of the rumored products. More like third party lens manufacturers. Those products have now been officially announced. But one thing I found that was really cool is the social media post link that I've put on the running sheet. Lucky film packaging. And no, it's not us. [00:20:02] Speaker B: No, not us. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Not us. [00:20:05] Speaker B: Maybe we can merge with them or something. You want me to bring that One up. [00:20:09] Speaker A: Yeah, bring that one up. It's just a bit of fun. All right. I thought it was a really cool design. So this is lucky. This is a new film brand from China and they've got some very, very cool, fun [00:20:33] Speaker B: design. Limited edition graphics on the box and the roll itself. [00:20:38] Speaker A: I don't know if they're limited, but I just thought they were really cool. I thought why not jazz it up [00:20:43] Speaker B: a bit, you know? Yeah. It says for. It's for Year of the Horse. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Oh, there you go. So it is limited. [00:20:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess so. [00:20:52] Speaker A: I reckon they're just really cool packaging, like. They're just cool little designs anyway. Yeah. [00:21:00] Speaker B: Interesting. Are they, I want. Are they all for the same film or are they different types of film? [00:21:04] Speaker A: The different three Couldn't work that out. [00:21:06] Speaker B: Could work it out. I couldn't work it out. [00:21:08] Speaker A: I think they do different types of. But I'm not sure in this case. [00:21:14] Speaker B: C200. I think they're all the same but [00:21:16] Speaker A: they probably are just limited box like, you know, mix up the boxes a bit. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it's cool. [00:21:23] Speaker A: It's interesting. Some of this sort of stuff is starting to become kind of collector worthy. You know, we saw the Kodak Chimera cameras that came out. Was that end of last year, start of this year. [00:21:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:34] Speaker A: And I think we've got six of them now. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Yeah. But now there's more. Is there any of those in the news? There's like. There is, there is. Where are they? [00:21:44] Speaker A: Yes, let's camera. Let's go to 711 and New Balance. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Right. Because I've been seeing stuff pop up for like keychain cameras just left, right and center. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So another collab this time is 7:11 in Japan and New Balance, which is a footwear company or sporting clothing company and they've got all these groovy new designs that are sort of a mix of. Of options. But I did notice that this is exactly the same camera as the Chimera. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Is it? [00:22:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think what actually probably happened was some company somewhere made the. Made the camera design for the Chimera. Kodak got in first, maybe got exclusivity of it, had a run for what's it been, like probably six months. [00:22:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:37] Speaker A: And now other, other companies are coming out with these. I've seen another one recently but I didn't save the link. But yeah, more sort of. It's that collectible, that kind of surprise box gash upon kind of idea of, you know, not knowing which one you're going to get. Yeah. [00:22:55] Speaker B: I think it's going to happen a lot and then it'll. And then we'll never see this again. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it'll die off. [00:23:03] Speaker B: I have a feeling they're going to end up just on shelves. I've barely used mine. I really want to do that challenge with you at some stage and maybe we still will. Yeah, but I'd love to know who's using theirs regularly and posting photos from it or whatever it is they're doing. Printing photos from it. [00:23:21] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:23:23] Speaker B: Or is it just a matter of more collectible, like the way you've done it where you're like, I just want to have these certain colors and put them on my shelf and maybe every now and then. Yeah, you know. Yeah. [00:23:33] Speaker A: I mean I took it out, you know, had a play with it, took some photos. [00:23:37] Speaker B: But you don't take it out regularly now. You don't put it in the camera bag. [00:23:41] Speaker A: No, no. I'm already carrying two cameras. I don't need a third or three if you include my phone. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Well, that's true. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Let me just. I'll just read out a couple of little bits and pieces very quickly. Viltrox have just officially announced, it was rumored last week for APS C body. So Fujifilm, Sony, maybe, maybe Nikon, a new AF Autofocus 90F 2.2 and a 75Mil 1.8. These are coming out sometime next week, I believe. So just some more third party lens options. Light lens lab who've been making gorgeous lenses particularly for Leica. [00:24:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it? Like recreating vintage Leica lenses that have been sought after and are now out of reach of the average person because they're, you know, collectors. They're $25,000 or something on the used market. So these guys. [00:24:45] Speaker A: But if you still want to shoot with something like that now you've got options and they're often like all metal builds and then you know, the optics are really good. I reviewed a couple a couple of years ago when they first came about, but They've just announced a 75 1.5 for Leica M mount. So that's coming. And finally the people at Zeiss unveil a cine lenses so unveiled a range of Cine lenses that will fit GFX Eterna 55. So the Fuji Cine camera medium format, the Ursa Cinema 17K and the Alexa 265. All right, so for any of you filmmakers out there saving. Yeah, Bruce. [00:25:29] Speaker B: When Bruce gets a Turner 55. [00:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. He took one for a test run. Yeah, A few weeks ago. [00:25:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sure these Zeiss lenses are cheap too. Not. [00:25:40] Speaker A: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, especially a kid of them. Let's talk about this new Sony image sensor. So Sony have created, it's the top one under Camera Justin. They've just developed and showcased a brand new 65 millimeter medium format image sensor. So before we lose our minds and say oh they're coming after Fujifilm and Hasselblad. They're not, not at the moment. This is for their cine range of one of their cine cameras that they've developed like this larger format, medium format sized image sensor. And yeah, they're pretty proud of it. They've been splashing it around on social media a bit and on new sites and things like that. But it is interesting to see. I mean, you know we know that they make most of our sensors at the moment anyway but it will be interesting to see what they do with this sensor. Whether they are considering a, you know, a move against Fujifilm to take some market share from the GFX side of things. [00:26:49] Speaker B: But yeah, it says here it's 123 larger than full frame and 33 larger than the sensor in use by Fujifilm gfx and Hasselblad x2D medium format. [00:27:02] Speaker A: There you go. [00:27:03] Speaker B: So she's a biggin. [00:27:07] Speaker A: Indeed. [00:27:08] Speaker B: Wow, that's pretty cool. But yeah, I assume they're not, I mean they would be crazy to, to dilute their full frame photography offerings with having to try and build out a medium format system. Yeah, like it would cost so much for them to develop all new lenses and everything from medium format system to basically steal market share from the likes of their flagship current Sony bodies. You know like the A7R6 that just got released. That's what's at 66 megapixel or whatever. Yeah, so yeah, they, it works with Fujifilm because there's such a big gap between that teeny, teeny tiny little sensor that's in the, in the X series and the gfx. It's that they don't steal from each other. It's more likely someone might own both to, to be honest, when it comes to Fujifilm they might own something from the X series and then something from the GFX series. Whereas yeah, with Sony I think people would, would have one or the other. Yeah, there's no way. I don't think. [00:28:22] Speaker A: Anyway, yeah, they're interesting to see. Yeah, got that one. There's a rumor going around about a new Leica SL3P camera coming out, which will excite our last week's guest, Marcus Bell, who's a Leica ambassador. [00:28:41] Speaker B: I know. Well, I. So, okay, let's. [00:28:44] Speaker A: What did you do? [00:28:45] Speaker B: What did you do? I haven't done anything, but I did waste a bit of time Googling like it's. And I even looked at some secondhand ones, but I really shouldn't. Speaking of which, David Skinner says. PS watched the Marcus Bell podcast yesterday. Very interesting and enjoyed it. Yeah, nice. It was a great chat again. [00:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:04] Speaker B: You haven't watched it. Put it on your list for this week. Yeah, but the. Everything Marcus was saying about the SL series and stuff, and the fact that They've got a 28 to 70 lens, which is what I've been shooting with, a 28 to 72.8. That's lens lightweight. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:22] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. I was tempted but then, then reality sets in. I'm like, the Canon system is so much more affordable to have. Like, there's no way I could have a Leica sl. And the Canon stuff, that would be dumb. They're both full frame systems. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:41] Speaker B: It would just be like this. I've got two different things that do the same job basically. And. But then it's the Canon stuff. If I decided I wanted to go on a trip where I might be shooting some wildlife or something like that. They have the, the 100 to 500, which is a re. It's an expensive but reasonably affordable and really high performing do everything wildlife lens. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Whereas, you know, anything like that with Leica would be sort of either non existent or prohibitively expensive. And it just. I don't know. So I talked myself into it and then back out of it again in the space of about an hour and then, and then into it again. And then I saw this Leica SLP or whatever it is that's. That's really come out. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:32] Speaker B: SL3P. So currently there's the SL3, which is based around the 60 megapixel Sony sensor, you know, sort of a little bit slower but. But high resolution. The same sensor that's in the Q3, which is a big sort of. I mean that, that image quality is amazing. [00:30:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:53] Speaker B: But then they've got the SL3s, which is a 24 megapixel sensor, I think faster shooting, better video capabilities. And then it sounds like they're contemplating this kind of somewhere in the middle model, somewhere around. What, what did it say, 45 megapixels or something? Where is it? [00:31:14] Speaker A: Let me just say, I Can't remember what it said. [00:31:17] Speaker B: And this is only a rumor, too. This is on the Leica rumors thing. So it could be completely. But yeah, they're basically saying it might be a 44 megapixel sensor based on the Panasonic S1 R2 that was announced in February 2025 with improved autofocus over the SL3s, which is currently their fastest one. And then. Yeah, not sure about video and stuff like that. So that. That would be a very interesting camera and especially if it came in that really cool reporter edition green. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah, just looking at that. So on the Leica Australia store, in Australian dollars, an SL3S is 9300. An SL3 just a flatline SL3 is 12, 500. And the Leica SL3 reporter, $12,900. [00:32:16] Speaker B: Yeah, but there's a. That guy that sells lots of secondhand Leica stuff in Sydney, Peter Rambo has an SL3 for eight something. An SL3 reporter edition. And I was like. And then I. And then I talked myself back out of it and realized that it was just. It was just dumb and my Canon gear is awesome. And I. Yeah, but I did. Marcus got me. That was a. It was a compelling podcast. [00:32:44] Speaker A: It was, it was. Yeah, it. [00:32:47] Speaker B: I just had to keep reminding myself, an SL3 will not make you shoot like Marcus Bell. And SL3 will not make you shoot like Marcus Bell. Although, you know, workshop would. Would help. Maybe that would. [00:32:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that probably wouldn't help. But I actually started looking at those. The Godox flashes. You know the one that's got the two bits. We talked about those as well. [00:33:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:33:09] Speaker A: The i20, i30 or something. [00:33:12] Speaker B: 30. 32 something 32 Godox flash that we chatted about. Marcus was saying how great it was. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I was looking at those. [00:33:20] Speaker B: It can sit on your camera as an on camera flash or you can quickly pop the flash off the top of the little hot shoe mount that stays on your camera, which becomes a wireless trigger. So it's like a all in one on and off camera flash. It pretty clever. Said i3 it320. He also is trying to give me something Craig did to him. He's saying, do it, Justin, do it. Yeah, I'd have to make some. I'd basically have to stop shooting sports, I think, or stop shooting sports as much as I do now. So I don't know. Don't know if, like, it's for me or not. [00:33:59] Speaker A: Yeah, well, anyway, [00:34:02] Speaker B: Patrick Photography says I chose the Fujifilm GFX100RF over a Leica. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Nice. [00:34:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that is a good choice. [00:34:12] Speaker A: That's a very good choice. [00:34:14] Speaker B: With that resolution and the. I wish the Q3 had those cropping formats natively in camera. [00:34:25] Speaker A: Anyway. Yep. What else? Just very quickly, there's a new Polaroid coming. I thought this would be good for Lucinda. I thought of you, kiddo, when I saw this. The Polaroid Go Generation 3 is the world's smallest instant analog camera. It is tiny, but very cool. And I want to know whether Lucinda has one of these yet. [00:34:51] Speaker B: Interesting. So does it. Is it a smaller type of film as well? Like what? [00:35:02] Speaker A: Remember? [00:35:04] Speaker B: Oh, it uses Polaroid small format go film, which is. Has a 1.9 by 1.8 inch or 47 by 46 millimeter image area on [00:35:14] Speaker A: a slightly bigger piece of paper. Yeah. Yep. [00:35:18] Speaker B: What an interesting marketing image. Like you're not even using the camera, you're just putting. [00:35:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it's lifestyle. [00:35:26] Speaker B: It's lifestyle. [00:35:27] Speaker A: Yeah. It's all about lifestyle. [00:35:29] Speaker B: If you buy this camera, you can put clovers on someone's forehead. [00:35:31] Speaker A: I know, they come with the. They come in the box in a little zipper. They're fresh. Yeah, yeah. [00:35:36] Speaker B: And you can, you can set all of your stuff up with your shoes and your sunglasses. That's. [00:35:41] Speaker A: Yep, yep. [00:35:43] Speaker B: Selfie. Selfie mode. [00:35:44] Speaker A: Yep. Climb a tree with it. Uh huh. [00:35:47] Speaker B: You can miss this action shot with it. Oh, I want to see this shot for us. I want to see the. I want to see what they got from this moment because I don't. I don't know if her finger's on the shutter. Anyway. Anyway, I judge. I love judging market. Oh, look at this one. I know, with the chicken. [00:36:06] Speaker A: I don't understand it. [00:36:10] Speaker B: Why is there a chicken on her shoulder? She's not taking a photo of anything. I don't understand. [00:36:17] Speaker A: I don't get it either. [00:36:18] Speaker B: Anyway, it's all lifestyle, Justin. [00:36:19] Speaker A: It's all about chicken lifestyle. And there's five colors. [00:36:26] Speaker B: They're pretty cool. [00:36:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd go the white dragon. The white looks pretty cool. I know that feels like the most boring color, but it just looks really stylish. [00:36:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Craig Carrick says she's a farm pirate. They didn't have a parrot. They didn't have the budget for it. What is this photo? [00:36:50] Speaker A: I don't understand. [00:36:51] Speaker B: Come on, Polaroid. What is this photo? [00:36:54] Speaker A: It's bizarre, isn't it, what advertisers will do? I mean, they're obviously trying to appeal to a very, very young demographic. [00:37:01] Speaker B: But like, wouldn't you be taking a photo of someone who has the chicken on their shoulder. Not, you know, like. I don't understand. Anyway. I don't understand. [00:37:11] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:37:17] Speaker B: These are brilliant. Some of the best marketing photos I've seen. Anyway. Okay. [00:37:27] Speaker A: Yeah, just one more. Very quick one. Again, a really but bizarre camera collaboration. So under random news on the running sheet, Justin, Wendy's in America is giving away limited edition Canon power shots for the G7X Mark III to their, like, elite. Elite members of the [00:37:49] Speaker B: like. Yeah. This isn't. This isn't a giveaway camera. It's a. [00:37:52] Speaker A: No, it's not. [00:37:53] Speaker B: It's that new G7X3, like limited edition. You know, Canon were bringing one out as an anniversary edition. Able to get their hands on like. This is not a toy giveaway camera. This is a great camera. What the hell? Wendy's. That's. I don't understand. So. [00:38:16] Speaker A: So the G7X3 in Australia is $1350. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Its limited edition camera features a red design inspired by the Wendy's branding and menu items. It includes illustrations of some of the chain's best known dishes, including burgers, fries, nuggets, baked potatoes and chili. It features the famed Wendy's logo, a stylized portrait of the founder, Dave Thomas daughter, Melinda Liu. Wendy Thomas. Wendy Rewards members will have the chance to claim one of the themed cameras for free as. Yeah, it's part of a reward drop promotion. Wow. So they've teamed up with Canon to do this. I wonder how many they had to get. [00:39:00] Speaker A: I don't know. It seems weird. [00:39:02] Speaker B: It is super weird. What? Are there any comments here? Okay. Not limited editions. Yeah. Okay. Definitely worth signing up for the rewards card to get a chance for this. Lame. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Yep. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Canon said these were out of stock for years. Suddenly they open a warehouse, find a bunch and do this. Dumb with Wendy's Instagram. They're so annoying. These comments are great. Yeah, it looks tacky. Would probably cover up the tackiness with a camo cover. Camo. That's tacky. Sorry. [00:39:41] Speaker A: That's really tacky. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Sorry. Enter. Man. I think I'd rather the windy stuff. Wow. Oh, here we go. Unattornal says, luckily it's just an ugly silicone case you can remove and sell. I bet the cat the giveaway is just 10 cameras and then, yeah, 100,000 people try and get it. Yeah. Right. So it's a silicon case. Canon didn't actually, you know, do much of a collab with. I'm sure they did something, but. But they didn't actually. Yeah. Okay. You may just need to remove it. And finally, lens support says I Would display it proudly as an object of bad taste. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:18] Speaker B: Does it. Does it look like a silicon cover? It does. [00:40:21] Speaker A: I didn't think it did, but no, [00:40:24] Speaker B: I think it does because of the. How far recessed the strap lugs are. I think it's hard to tell, but I think they're right. And how recessed the G7X is up here. Yeah, I think they're spot on. Tony says Wendy's do have NASCAR money, right? [00:40:44] Speaker A: Well, [00:40:46] Speaker B: you could. Tony would know with this. Tony would know. He's probably racing as we speak. You on the sim, Tony. What else? [00:40:56] Speaker A: Any more news? That's it for the news. Yeah, No, I think, I think we've covered the news. Like I said, not a lot going on. There's some little bits and pieces. You know, third party lenses are still marching out. Every week something new appears which is amazing for us. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they had that new Camp Snap 2 camera that was smaller and has more accessories, but otherwise it's just another one of those cameras that are like a digital disposable. That's not disposable kind of thing. Yeah, reusable digital disposable without a rear screen like the clickster. That's that we commonly see around. [00:41:37] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:41:39] Speaker B: So there's that. [00:41:42] Speaker A: Tony has replied. Running at Winton. [00:41:44] Speaker B: Oh, good job. Well, stay focused, get some good lap times and thanks for joining us on the podcast. [00:41:52] Speaker A: Should we talk camera bags some more? [00:41:54] Speaker B: Yes, actually, yeah, let's. Let's catch up to what people were saying before. Before you unveil the bag that you have purchased, which you have said is your new dream bag. And we'll see if there was anyone else here that was saying [00:42:09] Speaker A: just bring the lights up a bit. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Phil Thompson says, I've got a NE WA backpack that holds a camera 28 to 105, 7215 to 30, 150 to 450, plus card batteries, etc. And it has a front pocket I can put extra stuff in. Well, that's pretty cool. A neewa niwa is pretty affordable generally or like value for money. I've got. I think this is a NE light that I'm. Yeah, I think it is using right now. I think that we're both. [00:42:41] Speaker A: Greg and I. Yeah, we both got the same one. Yeah. And I got a new one. I got a new light stand. It was really cheap and it's like stainless steel with springs. [00:42:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, so. And they do flashes too. I use Godox, but I think Julie Powell's done a lot of reviews on the Niwa flash system. And they do strobes up to like battery strobes up to 600 watts, which is the same watt seconds or whatever. Same size as my bigger Go Doc. So, yeah, they do some cool stuff. Yeah, very cool stuff and indeed affordable. Bruce Moore says my daily backpack is a peak design I've had for years. Also have a timber and low pro bags and lots of pelicans. Yeah, you would have tons of pelicans. JC Orange is here. Good to see you. Good evening. Capagnan is expensive. [00:43:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:34] Speaker B: Says Grant Fleming says I got a low pro because Peter McKinnon told me to back in the day. That's right. [00:43:41] Speaker A: You still use it. Grant. [00:43:42] Speaker B: Then he got a brand deal with that. What's it called? Nomadic. Yeah, Nomadic. And so now he's got his own Peter McKinnon bags that. I'm sure they sold it. Katrin of [00:43:55] Speaker A: your day will come, Justin. Your day will come. [00:43:58] Speaker B: The Justin Castles bag. Yeah. Bruce Moyle says and Think Tank bags too. Too many bags. Yeah. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:05] Speaker B: Patrick's got Mind shift. I love Mind Shift. Who else Tweak has a PGY tech one Mo. Love the pull out for my drone. Oh, yeah, they do some drone stuff. Drone specific stuff. Rodney Nicholson, my favorite was a Billingham. Got stolen at Falls Festival. Spare film camera. Oh, that's sad. [00:44:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's really bad. Speaking of stealing gear, did you see the. The news article in America? There was a journalist photographer photographing a protest of some sort in the States and she got injured somehow and so they rushed her to a first aid tent and then she came back to get a camera gear which I think had been left somewhere safe and it was missing. But of course she had a like an apple air tag type thing in her camera bag. And so she tracked the bag and it turns out that a police sergeant had stolen her camera gear and taken it to his house and he's since been charged and arrested. [00:45:11] Speaker B: A police sergeant? [00:45:13] Speaker A: Yep. [00:45:14] Speaker B: What? What? [00:45:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it was on the bag, like, you know, on. It was on socials too. Yeah. And so he got. He got busted, as he should have. Yeah. [00:45:26] Speaker B: That's terrible. [00:45:28] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I mean, it's a drop in the ocean compared to terrible in America at the moment. But still, you know. [00:45:34] Speaker B: Yeah, but still. That reminds me of. Did we talk about the. This is a sad one. But, you know, after the. The Bondi shooting, one of the. The poor guys, one of the victims that was killed, he was there photographing that event for the day and someone stole his camera bag and. And the cameras and Everything with the memory cards in it from the scene and horned it and they, they eventually recovered it and obviously the families of many of the victims were just so happy to be able to recover. Obviously the police wanted to recover the images because it might help some stuff together. But then the families also have some, you know, last, potentially some last memories and things because this guy was there photographing but someone just come and took it from the scene and sold it. Yeah, that's terrible. [00:46:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:35] Speaker B: Anyway, I think they got, they got caught in charge, so that's good. [00:46:38] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:46:39] Speaker B: I hope so too. I was like, I couldn't believe that when I read that. I'm like, who would do that? [00:46:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:44] Speaker B: Anyway, now where were we? We're talking bags and I'm also getting some, some final. Actually let me just copy and paste this. Getting some final photos through. [00:46:56] Speaker A: Let me tell you about my little bag journey. So. Oh yeah, like you, I have too many bags. Oh, hang on. My name is Greg and I'm a bagaholic. I love all sorts of bags. I love everyday carry bags. I often use Bellroy or alpaca. I've gotten more into alpaca lately because they're lightweight, nice products and you know, they've sent me a couple for free, that always helps. But in the past year I've had everything from you know, low price straight slings to the Ona bag. I've used backpacks. I've got a wandered provoke 21 which is a great bag but it's too heavy for me when it's full anyway so I've always got to be conscious of my neck and not carrying too much stuff. And, and so more recently probably in the last 18 months I've mostly been using non camera bags and just keeping the camera that I'm using on that day just in the bag. I don't necessarily put it in a cube. I've got some pouches, like some nice little suede type pouches that I can put the camera in that just sits in the, in the normal bag. And then, you know, every now and then I see something that I think might be great as a camera bag and so I'll look into it and probably end up buying one and I'll use it for a few months and then put it away because something else, you know, shiny comes up. But I borrowed a bag off Justin the couple of months ago actually and it was the first generation Wotencraft who make bags. They also make, they make bags, they make some camera straps. [00:48:37] Speaker B: No, they, they're okay they made, they made in Taiwan. They do design some, some cool stuff and they, they do a lot of. They do gear for like, like riding bikes, like messenger style stuff as well. It's not just camera gear. So like think yeah, motorbike satchels commute. Yeah. Commuter bikes around cities, like riding around cities and then yeah, motorbike. Yeah, kind of stuff and things like that. So they, yeah, they put a lot of work into their design. [00:49:05] Speaker A: They do and the design is actually really good. So this was like a gen one and it's just a, it's just a sling. It's got like a nice strap, it's got a quick release thing for adjusting the strap. It's got this fiddly little lock on the front of it though. And I'll show you the new one in a moment and it's. You've got to just sort of unclip it. But when I was using it, testing it, it just kept getting caught and I couldn't get to my camera. But you know it's just a. It's got dividers, it's got lots of. It's got like a big access pocket. It's got a big access pocket underneath it so you can put a tripod through it. And it just, it just appealed to me. So I borrowed it off Justin and I've been carrying my fuji kit. So two cameras, little X70 and then the XC5 with a, with a prime and I've been using that since you lent it to me. And I've. I feel like I kind of found a camera bag that pretty much ticks all of the boxes for me which is very rare. Well, at least for now it does. [00:50:04] Speaker B: Let's just leave it at that. Yeah. [00:50:06] Speaker A: Anyway, so I bit the bullet and I bought my own. Except I got mine in all black. It is here. This is the Wotencraft Pilot 7 liter. It's really hard to do a review on this. I'll do a review for lucky straps and I'll pop a proper review up on the side eventually. Basically the same bag except for now they've replaced that fiddly lock with. It's a maglock. [00:50:35] Speaker B: No, no. It's funny that you keep calling the other one a fiddly lock because technically that is a fidlock latch on the new one. It's the brand is. The brand is called Fidlock. It is really amazing magnetic latches that just feel so satisfying to use and they like guide themselves into the spot so they do before you're like this one's got a real fiddly lock. I was like, well, your new one's got an actual fidlock. So, yeah, [00:51:01] Speaker A: it's a cool little bag. It's, you know, basically it has the same size storage. There's not many other adjustments to this one. It's a bit hard to see. Sorry, guys. Yeah, but really good quality, really nice layout inside. So it comes with like the internal walls of the main compartment are all, you know, the. The fairy side of Velcro. And then it comes with like a big. Comes with like a cloth bag and a big thing. So you can put that in the back and create like a. Like an iPad or a tablet sleeve. Yeah, but I'm not using that. And then. Yeah, you just set it up to suit your cameras and it's. It's absolutely bloody gorgeous. I really like. Feels good. It's got a nice neoprene kind of shoulder pad and yeah, it turns out that it's a really great street photography camera bag. [00:51:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:56] Speaker A: So, yeah, that's where I'm at. [00:51:58] Speaker B: Melbourne Black for the hipsters. [00:52:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But yeah, it's a really nice bag. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Fun fact about the. Some fun facts about my experience with the Wotencraft 7 litre pilot. The pockets on the side suck. They don't really fit much. They're. They're like elastic pockets that you feel like you should be able to put a drink bottle in but you can't, you know, sort of like they're just not quite. They're not quite big enough for anything and they're not quite small enough to be. You can't. I wouldn't want to safely put like a battery or something in there. You could slip a battery in there, but then you could potentially lose it because they're not zip or anything. So the pockets almost never get used. About the only thing I've ever put in those side pockets from memory is a Clif bar. That's about all you could put in it. Like something like a muesli bar. Clif bar. I. I use Cliff bars all the time on shoots because they will actually keep you going if you need to not eat on a shoot. Yeah, highly recommend. Cliff Pass. Anyway. But the cool thing about the bag, despite the pockets that don't work, is inside you can have, yeah, little cameras like the Q3 and some extra stuff or like Greg's Fujifilm kit. But it will also fit my R3 with a lens on it. It's not so rigid that it won't fit because the R3, the Canon R3 is a full progress body. So it's not, it doesn't fit in a lot of bags. [00:53:28] Speaker A: It's more square than rectangle. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Exactly. But that bag seems to just sort of puff out enough that it will sit in there nicely still. And then you know, the lid doesn't close quite as far over but it still does cover the whole camera and you just adjust the locking strap a little bit and it closes up. So it's quite adaptable between you know like a small camera kit and a large camera kit. [00:53:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. And even the, the front, sorry, the front organization pocket's quite good because it's got like two stretchy mesh pockets [00:54:07] Speaker B: and [00:54:07] Speaker A: you can put like batteries and SD cards or you know, you can add, [00:54:10] Speaker B: you would have seen on mine probably. You can actually also add extra pockets but that does cost more. But there's like mole straps on the front and you can buy little kind of coin purse style pockets or I bought one that basically fits a phone. So you can slip a phone into it and zip it up or whatever if you want to know where your phone is but not have it sort [00:54:31] Speaker A: of in your bag. [00:54:33] Speaker B: So yeah, there's good accessories for them but when you start adding a few of those accessories it does the price sort of jumps up pretty quick because each one of those Accessories might be 80 or $90. So. [00:54:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Oh, hang on, I've got to remove your thing from the stage before I bring it up. I just want to bring this up quickly. Thanks Jay. So I actually bought it from rush faster rushfaster.com it's an Australian brand who do everyday carry tech camera bags, a whole bunch of stuff. They also do their own bags but it was 260 bucks which was a hundred dollars cheaper than the Leica store because like I sell these. This is one of the, the products that they actually do stock sometimes. It was 100 bucks cheaper on here and I had it the next day. Yeah, from when I ordered it. But yeah, no, it's a great bag. It's someone else in the chat. There's a whole range of, of the pilot series. They also come in that tan color that Justin lent me and they also do all leather versions which must be ridiculously expensive. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they're new. I think they're pretty new. They only come out recently. I think those all leather ones. [00:55:45] Speaker A: Someone asked if it was waterproof. I don't believe it's waterproof. I think it's weather resistant. But given that the main compartment just has a flap that goes over it's Kind of got gussets that don't allow anything to go in. But yeah, it's definitely not. Yeah, definitely not. It's not waterproof. [00:56:04] Speaker B: Not, not waterproof. I'd more than happily cruise around in some rain with it. But yeah, it's, it's going to get, it's going to seep through eventually. [00:56:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:13] Speaker B: But yeah, well covered. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Lots of, lots of positive reviews. These are all the add on bits that you can get. You can get an add on coin pouch, a phone pouch, a battery and SD card fastener, a cord organizer, lens cap holder and a magician's camera lens wrap which is like it doesn't, it [00:56:35] Speaker B: doesn't actually do magic. It's just a soft cloth you wrap around but you know, don't be fooled. [00:56:42] Speaker A: So. Yeah, so I thought that was a good, a good pickup. I'm really happy with it. [00:56:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. Well, we'll have to get an update, you know, with the long term review when you. [00:56:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:54] Speaker B: When the magic wears off and you're like I need a new camera bag. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Yeah, well I'm pretty happy. [00:57:02] Speaker B: Well, we'll see. So I think the time that it takes for you to want to be shopping for another camera bag, that's how good a bag is measured. You know, Was it months? Was it years? [00:57:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:13] Speaker B: If it's a camera bag that takes years before you look for another one, that was a pretty good camera bag. [00:57:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And look I've, I mean when I was with Shotkit, I've tested hundreds of camera bags, backpack, slings, the whole range from like that German brand right through to you know, basic stuff. And this one just feels good like, it just feels like it ticks a lot of boxes. For me it's a, it's a suitable price. It's really high quality materials. Yeah. Just, it just felt like a right purchase, like a, you know, I was doing a good thing. [00:57:44] Speaker B: So yeah, making the world a better place by buying. [00:57:47] Speaker A: I'm doing God's work. [00:57:49] Speaker B: Rick Nelson says I went for a Domkey for slim bag sling bags but that one was a close second. [00:57:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:58] Speaker B: Patrick J Photography says I still use low Pro Stealth reporter. Oh is that. No, that's not the one I'm thinking of. That's soft sided from 25 years ago. Insert comes out soft and it molds to your body. There was one I had a really cool low pro. What was that? It was a reporter. So it had, it actually had a Velcro like flap and it could fit pro bodies in there. But it was also soft enough that if you put regular bodies in. Didn't feel too big, it was sort of flexible. It had a Velcro flap. Actually left it in Cambodia, sadly. But then you could fold the Velcro on itself and then it just had magnets to hold the flap closed. So when I was shooting weddings and stuff, I could have it silent, you know, the flap didn't make any noise with the Velcro. But then when you were sort of out in the city or something and you wanted to make sure the lid stayed tightly closed, the whole thing velcroed really neatly across the front and you could basically cinch it down as tight as you wanted. I can't remember what it was called. It was the lowepro. Sounds like the Stealth reporter, but. Or something like that. There's definitely some sort of reporter or. I don't know, something photojournalisty type name. [00:59:23] Speaker A: Years ago, when I started with. Started up digital photography with Canon Gear, I was mostly using Crumpler backpacks. They. Not backpacks, camera bags. They made some great camera bags back in the day. They still offer a couple of designs now, but they're older designs. They've just sort of freshened a bit. But yeah, I had some great bags. [00:59:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they made camera straps too. They looked really cool and they weren't comfortable at all. Yeah, I bought one and. And I. It had like a neoprene neck thingy and like all these different attachments and stuff and then they just didn't work very well. It was weird. Yeah, it was like they put too much. They tried to do too much to it. It's like less. [01:00:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:10] Speaker B: Which is. I guess that's how we've always done the lucky stuff. Maybe it was just me. Oh, hang on. SNF Reporter 200 Aw. Is the model interesting? It was definitely something like that. Huge, huge ass. Photo says. A couple of comments. I'm a bagaholic as well. Hi, Greg. And then goes on to say I prefer the Bundy Pro. Holds six bodies, I believe. Is that a Ted Bundy joke? Is that a. Is that a serial killer joke? [01:00:49] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:00:50] Speaker B: I think it might be. Oh, maybe it's gotta be. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Get it? [01:00:55] Speaker B: Hold six bodies. [01:00:56] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I get it. [01:00:57] Speaker B: I like it. Well done, Hugh. Well done. What else? I think that's about it. [01:01:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we've. Yeah, I think we're up to speed with everything. [01:01:12] Speaker B: Is it. Is it images time? Is it time for. [01:01:16] Speaker A: Maybe it is. Maybe we should look at some people's images. [01:01:19] Speaker B: You didn't. You didn't have Any this week? [01:01:21] Speaker A: No, I didn't go out. No, didn't go out on camera this week. [01:01:25] Speaker B: I have about a million dog photos but I didn't have the tenacity to get them onto my computer, go through them and try and find one to show tonight in between. [01:01:34] Speaker A: Fair enough. [01:01:35] Speaker B: Yeah, stopping shooting four dogs only left here at about. I don't know what time it is, 4:30 or something when they left the house and I was like, oh, Yelena said you're going to show one on the, on the show tonight. I was like, next week. [01:01:49] Speaker A: Yep, fair enough. [01:01:51] Speaker B: I don't want to see how many I actually took and have to go through. [01:01:57] Speaker A: Have you finished going through your Indonesia Bali photos? [01:02:01] Speaker B: I'll go back through them again. But yeah, mostly I didn't shoot much in the last week. I just wasn't inspired in the last location that we're at to take photos. It was a nice spot but wasn't, wasn't doing it for me other than. Well, the, the best shot I got from there I already showed which was the, the top down shot of the beach and the surfers. Yeah, that was, that was the best shot that I got from that last week. So yeah, I think David Skinner, there will be dog photos next week. Okay, maybe I'll do. Maybe I might just do one. Maybe I'll do a little collection of the ones that I shot. [01:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, go on. That'd be cool. [01:02:39] Speaker B: Next week. Okay, let's. Let's do some photos. [01:02:45] Speaker A: All right. [01:02:48] Speaker B: Should we stick with the format of you read them? I find them on my hard drive. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Sure, sure. Let's start with John Latimer. John says, hey guys, don't have to read it all. I want to. Don't have to read it all. [01:03:04] Speaker B: Bit long. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Thanks for the kind words last week. Really appreciate it. In the process of printing, just struggling with color profiles from computer to print, that's another struggle. Camera bags, printing, playing around with UV printing on acrylic versus canvas against printing on canvas versus paper stock with different printer. But we'll share progress in the coming weeks. We look forward to it. Last week I was away for work near Sydney Olympic Park. The area itself is quite boring. Built on Marshlands for the 2000 Olympics. But amazing photography opportunities around marshes. I went, I wanted to try get fog with all the shipwrecks they dragged in the bay, but it was rained out. I came across wild Australian bush turkeys. That sounds like a drink, doesn't it? Sounds like a bourbon or something. Came across wild Australian bush turkeys high up in the trees. Didn't even know they could fly. Thought they were too plump. The rain and overcast day really added drama to them. In the trees. Balancing an umbrella and a 600 millimeter lens. I love the shots I got. [01:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah, the. You probably can't see. The detail is nuts on that. That bush turkey's head. I'll zoom in in a second. So what was this? This is the A7R3. This is. [01:04:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Shot with an A7R3 with a 200 to 600 at 500 mil. Shutter was 1.500th F 6.3 and ISO 5000. Love the show. Thanks again. Have a great week. Thank you, John. [01:04:36] Speaker B: Oops, wrong button. [01:04:39] Speaker A: That's one of nibs. [01:04:40] Speaker B: There we go. Where's that bush turkey gone? Here he is. Yeah. Look at that. Oh, yeah. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Wow. [01:04:47] Speaker B: Wow. [01:04:47] Speaker A: That's phenomenal. That's at 500 mils. That's gorgeous. [01:04:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Beautiful. The rain definitely makes something special about it, like, because you can see the droplets, you know, in. In some of the branches and stuff behind it. Yeah. A little bit of rain falling and just. Yeah, a heap of. Is there even droplets on the turkey [01:05:13] Speaker A: if you go up to the top? [01:05:14] Speaker B: Oh, there is something. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Is it droplets somehow? I wondered if he's got dandruff. Greg Carrick thinks he's got dandruff. [01:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Look, enhance. And apparently you never see these in trees. [01:05:32] Speaker A: Nice. That's a beautiful shot. Yeah, that's great. [01:05:35] Speaker B: It's got such a tiny head. Look at it. It's like there's a character out of a cartoon or a movie or something that's shaped. Yeah. I can't think of what it is. [01:05:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And Phil said. Yeah, sorry. Great natural framing as well with those branches. Yeah. It just works really well, doesn't it? Yep. Yeah. [01:05:57] Speaker B: You work that angle perfectly. To not have a branch sort of going through the back of the bush turkey. Awesome. What a way to start the show. [01:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Impressive. Let me just take this comment down. [01:06:14] Speaker B: We're in sync tonight. [01:06:16] Speaker A: We are in sync. [01:06:16] Speaker B: Copying each other. [01:06:17] Speaker A: We are next, David Skinner. [01:06:21] Speaker B: Oh, this is a bit of a. This is a serious. This one. [01:06:24] Speaker A: All right. From the dinner plane and Hoffam workshop with Jeff Freestone. The weather was perfect. And it had snowed the day before as well as snowed lightly while we were there. The day became harsher light as the clouds dispersed. Thanks for sharing. [01:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah. This is like, what a workshop to go on. [01:06:44] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Yeah. [01:06:47] Speaker B: Look. How did you get these conditions? Hang on. [01:06:51] Speaker A: That's incredible. [01:06:52] Speaker B: It doesn't do this justice, we gotta, we're gonna have to enhance this one. There's, there's about 10 or 11 shots here, so we'll go through them all. But this is, this is a pano. And yeah, just look at the. [01:07:06] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:07:06] Speaker B: Look at that snow and the, just the frozen branches. You got lucky with these conditions and then you made the most of it with great images. Gosh. Yeah, that's a shot. [01:07:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it's print worthy. [01:07:27] Speaker B: Oops. Hang on. You just make sure this is framed properly. There we go. [01:07:34] Speaker A: What camera were you shooting these with, David? [01:07:37] Speaker B: Yeah, good question. Yeah, definitely could have been a lot less snow up there on a different year. I wonder when. This must have only been last week. Last weekend. Last week. Yeah. Phil Thompson says very iconic Aussie winter shots. Yeah, yeah. Snow fields and mountains, alpine regions. They definitely look distinctly Australian, don't they? Yeah, exactly. That's it. That's Australian snow. That could be peak winter in Australia. [01:08:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:25] Speaker B: Great tones on a little bit of tree bark too. [01:08:30] Speaker A: The color in it, it's amazing. [01:08:34] Speaker B: It looks like you had an awesome time. If that's not an ad for a Jeff Freestone workshop, I don't know what is. [01:08:42] Speaker A: Yeah, well done. [01:08:45] Speaker B: Yeah. If I, I, I don't know, I, I can't go. So we'll just quickly flick through all of them. But. The two panos I just, I love and I think, like, this one is great, but I think this one's, I think this one's my favorite. [01:09:04] Speaker A: So these were shot with the Z7 Mark II 24 to 120 or the Tamron 70 to 300, Friday last week. [01:09:11] Speaker B: Wow. [01:09:12] Speaker A: Yeah, wow. But, yeah, that black and white pano, that's, that's gorgeous. That's print worthy for sure. [01:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a beauty. Epic. Thank you for sending those all in. Yeah, I hope you've had a good time. [01:09:26] Speaker A: Up next, crackers, Greg Carrick. Hi, Justin. Greg and Jim. Milky Way from Flinders Beach, December 24th. I was hoping for some aurora action, but just got a hint of it. However, the sky was clear and the stars were bright. Streak is a satellite. This was shot with the Fujifilm XH1 with a Samyang 12 mil at 25 seconds. F 2.8, ISO 2000. [01:09:56] Speaker B: How many Fujifilms have you got, Greg? I didn't know you had an XH1. [01:10:05] Speaker A: That was two years ago, year and a half ago. You might still have it. I don't know. [01:10:13] Speaker B: Great shot. I need to get out there some more. Some more? Astro. [01:10:17] Speaker A: Well, I think Greg. Greg posted on Socials that there's going to be chance of an aurora tonight again. [01:10:25] Speaker B: Is there? [01:10:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I shot you one over the weekend to you and Jim and Grant. There was a notification. [01:10:31] Speaker B: It's been so cloudy. Yeah, yeah. I don't think we would have a chance at the moment, but yeah, yeah, I need to get out and do it. This is, this is inspiring me. Greg. Greg just sold the XH1. [01:10:49] Speaker A: Oh well, there you go. [01:10:52] Speaker B: You'll have this image to remember it by. But yeah, lovely shot. Love the center framing of the Milky Way. [01:11:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's very cool. [01:11:04] Speaker B: Beautiful reflections in the foreground, bit of ocean. Yeah, great shot. And David Skinner says the colors are awesome. Yeah, there is a nice sort of tonal range through from the horizon up. [01:11:27] Speaker A: Yep. [01:11:28] Speaker B: Tweak wants to get out and do it too. It's. Yeah, you just need someone to give you a little inspiration. [01:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:36] Speaker B: Hang on. [01:11:36] Speaker A: Here's Greg's camera list. Fuji bodies, XT2, an infrared XE2, the XE4 and the GFX50R and previously the XH1. Nice work, nice work. [01:11:54] Speaker B: Huge ass photo says my camera only goes. No, my camera only when shooting over 30. Here we go. Different comment. When shooting, the camera only goes to 30 seconds. What if I want a longer time? I have Canon. You would need to use bulb mode, which basically means you need to manually time the shutter. So you just, you press bulb mode, you press to open, you press to close. The issue with that is, is when you press the shutter on a tripod, you might actually make the camera move. That's why people usually use a 2 second or even longer delay. When shooting at say a 30 second exposure, you'll set it to a delay. So you press the shutter, camera waits two seconds, then it opens the shutter to make sure everything stopped moving. So what then most people would do is buy a remote like an intervalometer that you plug into your camera and it can allow you to do either custom longer times or you can at least just press the shutter button and not have it move the camera. So you can just press it and hold it open and count in your head or whatever we can, you know, you can, you can just hold a bulb at the bulb mode. You can hold the shutter open for as long as you want. [01:13:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:12] Speaker B: So as Tintype man says here, you need a cable release or an intervalometer or something that you plug in to the port in the camera. As Greg Carrick says, if you're thinking of doing a shot like this with longer than 30 seconds, you need star tracking or you'll be aiming to do star trails, which most people these days with digital will stack star trail shots rather than doing like a long timed exposure because you end up with too much noise. There's a whole lot of info on this on the Internet. Like it's a, it's a bit of a rabbit hole. But yeah, to start with, basically for longer than 30 seconds you need either an intervalometer or at least a cable release or bulb I think. I'm sure you can do bulb mode. You don't need, you don't need a cable release, do you? Tint up man. You can just do bulb mode. Depends on the camera on which Canon model. But my question would be why do you want to take a longer than 30 second exposure? Because if it's to do a shot like this, it's probably not a good idea unless you're planning on tracking the sky with a star tracker and then taking separate photos for the foreground, blending them together and it's a whole different kettle of fish. And for stuff like that you want to go to Richard Tatty's YouTube channel, Nightscape Images and just well first listen to Richard Taddy's interview on this podcast and then go to his YouTube channel because that'll give you a good background of who he is and what he does. Then go to his YouTube channel and just hoover down every video he's ever made on Nightscape Photography. [01:14:46] Speaker A: Yep. [01:14:48] Speaker B: But yeah, yeah, so David Skinner says cable release will keep the camera steady. Nev says bulb mode with 2 second delay. But yeah, more for using ND long exposure of water and clouds. Well then yeah, you definitely need to get a cable release or an intervalometer. There's really cheap ones you can get. They don't have to be expensive. You can get like third party brand ones. You'll just have to make sure it's compatible with your model of camera. But yeah, if you went on to like, I don't know, check a camera store, check your local camera store or otherwise jump onto just Amazon or something like that or just Google around for an intervalometer or cable release that fits your model of camera. [01:15:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:40] Speaker B: Okay, now who's up next? [01:15:46] Speaker A: Rick Nelson. [01:15:48] Speaker B: Rick Nelson. Nelson. [01:15:50] Speaker A: Hi Justin. Greg and Jim haven't gone out to photograph much lately. Although I have been editing photos I haven't touched since taking them. This is one of those photos taken with my old Canon Revel T7 and the EF S55 to 250F 4.5 F4 to 5.6 STM. This was taken back in The States on a photo walk at a local park I would frequent shot at 250 millimeters, 1/500th of a second. F 6.3 ISO 800. I love the texture of these leaves, even though this photo brings me the feeling of sadness and beauty. Love seeing what everyone is creating and always enjoy the show. Thanks. Rick [01:16:31] Speaker B: does have a bit of a sad feeling with the way the leaves are drooping and just the way it curves down at the bottom there. [01:16:38] Speaker A: It's. Yeah. And I love the way the edit. It's more silver tones than black and white. Do you get that, like, it's just got that really silvery kind of ethereal. [01:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got a tiny bit more contrast on my screen than what it's showing through there. But it's still. It's still very silvery rather than black and white. [01:17:03] Speaker A: Stuck. Yeah, that's lovely. [01:17:05] Speaker B: I just love the idea of yet going back through the archive. You know, when you haven't been out doing much photography lately, go back through, either re edit a photo in a different way or find a photo that originally didn't speak to you and you'll uncover something and then edit it and sort of. Yeah, that's something I wish I did more of. Yeah, for sure. I know there's photos hiding in the archive somewhere that I could do a different edit on or just never edit it at all because at the time I was like, this isn't anything. But then you look at it again maybe. [01:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And especially when you do it, like I've done that often with my shots from Japan, you know, because you go and you take thousands and thousands of shots and when you do your first run of kind of sorting through them, you know, you pick your best, maybe your second best, and you edit those and then, you know, you do what you do with them. But often though, it's those that other sort of 80% that you never really look at properly because you've just skimmed over going, now this one, this next one's better, you know, and trying to [01:18:12] Speaker B: get through so many. Sometimes you get decision fatigue too. Like when there's so many photos and you just like, you just start moving through them faster and you miss something special, you know. [01:18:22] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah, it's true. Gorgeous photo. Yeah. [01:18:28] Speaker B: Tweak production says sad leaf. Nev Clark says, love this. Great characters, a good light and definition. Yeah, yeah, Great edit. Love everything. It'd be interesting to see. Yeah. Whether it was cropped, what the original crop was. I think it'd be interesting to see what it looked like. What it would look like square if there was enough room to do square. But I actually think this vertical crop following the, the sad like vertical line is the way to go. But that's probably something I would play with if this was my image. I'd be sort of looking at, you know, whether this, whatever this is at the top here, does that need to be in there? But if you wanted to keep this aspect ratio, if you tried to crop it out, it would. You would be too tight on the sides of the leaf. So you would then be looking at changing your aspect ratio, whether 4 by 5 might work or something. So, yeah, I would play around with the crop if this was my shot. But it would depend whether you've already cropped or whether this is as shot, which doesn't leave you a lot of space to do to try different things. So. But yeah, that's probably the only thing my eye gets drawn up here to that and I don't know whether that needs to be there or not, but it might need to be there. I usually just play when it comes to crops. I look at it and then I'm like, well, maybe I'll get rid of that. And then you go, it was better when it was there. [01:19:58] Speaker A: Yep, yep. [01:19:59] Speaker B: You know, you don't really know until you try. [01:20:01] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah. So that's good advice. [01:20:07] Speaker B: Nev Clark says, yeah, I go through all my old photos. I'm still finding photos that are good ones that I didn't even edit because I thought something else was better. Your style changes and it's always work worth having a look back through. Phil Thompson says, Justin and Greg, I agree. Especially good to do on a cold winter's day. Also, you get a new appreciation for them after not looking at them for ages. I think that's one of the important things. A bit of time changes everything. [01:20:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:20:38] Speaker B: And Greg Carrick says maybe, maybe even a vignette on the edges of this one. Yeah, that would. I would definitely try that as well. I, I would try it, but actually I reckon I think it might be better without it. But you've just got to experiment sometimes with that just to see, to see what it looks like. Rick Nelson says, I left the crop because it felt it got too tight. Yeah, yeah. Could clone out the top piece. Yeah, exactly. You could clone out if the crop is. If this was as shot and you don't want to make it any tighter, which I agree, you need, you need that space that's on either side of it. Definitely. Yeah. Maybe even cloning out the top piece. But it's not critical. That's just like. That was just something my eye kept getting drawn to, but it couldn't quite figure out what it is. So it makes me think, well, would it be. Would it be cleaner without it there? [01:21:29] Speaker A: Yeah, lovely. Okay, Nev, Clark's up next. Speak of the devil. [01:21:36] Speaker B: Where is he? Oh, there he is. [01:21:37] Speaker A: Here we go. The wind farm. Albany, Western Australia. Leica Q3.28. So it's the 28 mil version. What's the other one? 43. [01:21:48] Speaker B: 43. [01:21:49] Speaker A: 43. [01:21:50] Speaker B: What a good combo that would be. [01:21:54] Speaker A: This was shot at ISO 400F11. 1 2. 50th. [01:22:01] Speaker B: Gosh, Nev, you could have told me that was shot with your gfxs. And I would have thought, oh, yeah, maybe I need a gfx. But it turns out I've got that exact camera that you shot this with sitting right on my desk here. [01:22:15] Speaker A: Beautiful rendering. [01:22:16] Speaker B: Look at that. Yeah, Yeah, Love it. Great shot. Love the treatment. Like, I like what you've done with the edit. Like the sky. Very cool. Have we got the settings? We don't have the settings, do we? [01:22:33] Speaker A: Oh, we did, yeah. It was ISO 400F 11. 1-2-1-2.50th. [01:22:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great shot. [01:22:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I love it. [01:22:47] Speaker B: Did you have to crop it at all, Nev, or was that basically as shot? I'd love to know, but yeah. Beautiful. Yeah. The Q3 has regained its place in my. [01:23:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you're thinking of getting rid of it there for a bit. [01:23:06] Speaker B: It was on the chopping block, but this trip to Bali, it's redeemed itself that that new firmware has. There's still a couple of things I don't love about the new firmware that they changed, that I've been able to figure out. But overall, the improvement to the autofocus has made it a camera that is. Is much more reliable. Still nowhere near a Canon in terms of autofocus, but way more reliable that I can actually trust that it'll. It'll attempt to lock onto something that's moving. [01:23:38] Speaker A: So [01:23:41] Speaker B: Nev says no crop. The light. Some light added to the path. It was cold and the like has got him out more. Well, that's good. And yes, you were going to buy mine. That's right. Mine was on the chopping block like it was. It was close. [01:24:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:02] Speaker B: Phil Thompson says, great lighting on the pathway. One very moody shot. Yes, yeah, yeah. Very, very nice. Everyone's loving it. Tweak. Loves how the boardwalk curves and becomes the water. I didn't Even realize that. But that's exactly. It's a. Yeah, it's like a beautiful S curve. [01:24:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it is, isn't it? [01:24:27] Speaker B: Drifting into the middle of it. I didn't even notice that. But that is exactly why it's so pleasing, isn't it, that it just drags your eye all the way through. You see some beautiful blue in the water and then you just rewarded with the. The windmill light rays from that sort of upper right hand corner. [01:24:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Lovely. Well done. [01:24:56] Speaker B: Great shot. All right, here we go. [01:25:00] Speaker A: Next, Philip Johnson. Oh. So Philip, this image was captured yesterday, I think he's saying, in the Blue Mountains. My aim was to isolate one tree process using Topaz photo and Photoshop. This was shot with the Sony A7 IV using a 7200 with a 2 times tally converter, trying to isolate that one lone tree. I chose the square format. It seemed to suit. I agree. [01:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say. I completely agree. I think square works perfectly for this. Yeah, this is cool. I don't know if I've seen an image like this from you, Philip. I love it. [01:25:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's great. Just a separation of foreground and background is so beautifully done because of all that mistiness in the background. [01:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Very, very cool. I really dig it. Is this something new for you, Philip, or have you done images like this in the past? This is sort of part of your repertoire. Yeah, I really dig it. And yeah, 7200 with a two times extender. That's a bit of a beastly setup. [01:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah, [01:26:17] Speaker B: yeah. No notes. I. Yeah, no notes. Just really, really like it. Honestly. [01:26:22] Speaker A: Can't stop looking at it. [01:26:24] Speaker B: Yeah, [01:26:26] Speaker A: well done, Philip. [01:26:27] Speaker B: It's a great shot. I think it's a. It would be, you know, if. If Philip had a series of blue mountain shots, this would be a great addition to some of his. You know, you've got tree bark and then you've got these epic, you know, panoramic landscapes and things like that. [01:26:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:26:46] Speaker B: This is a great middle ground between those two styles of photography to tie things together. It's. It's more intimate than the. The grand landscape, but it's not close up. Like tree bark. [01:27:00] Speaker A: Yep. [01:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah, great work. Everyone's saying, yeah, painterly. David Skinner says so painterly. [01:27:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:27:11] Speaker B: Rodney Nicholson loves the depth tintype. Man's paint says painterly as well. And Patrick Johnson says. Patrick J. Says wonderful image. [01:27:20] Speaker A: Yep. [01:27:24] Speaker B: Phil Thompson says, Philip, great depth of field and isolating. That tree looks very much like our dog rocks tree that vandalize. [01:27:35] Speaker A: Yeah, well done. [01:27:40] Speaker B: Great Work. [01:27:43] Speaker A: Next we've got Phil Thompson, I think. Yep. Phil Thompson. Hi, Justin and Greg. Here is a photo of Speargrass Flat Road that runs between Queenstown Queen. I can't say it. Queenstown and Arrowtown in New Zealand. It was captured late one afternoon during my trip over there in April, May last year. This was shot with a Pentax K1 Mark II with a Pentax 70200 tele lens, 1/60 shutter, aperture f13 and ISO 800. Once again, thanks for your wonderful podcasts that are so informative and also a great platform to draw photographers and those with an interest in photography altogether. Thanks, mate. [01:28:27] Speaker B: Thank you. Thanks so much. But also thanks for sending this photo in. [01:28:31] Speaker A: This. [01:28:31] Speaker B: Yeah, this is beautiful. Arrowtown is. Arrowtown is a stunning place. It's. It's really close to Queenstown. It's like this sort of little satellite town that's not far. I don't know, what would it be 20 minutes away or something from Queenstown. And yeah, this is what it looks like. It's. It's like this. Just little nestled town with these beautiful trees and pretty quiet and. Yeah, it's. It's amazing. I'd never been through there before until last time. We're in Queenstown. We drove through, I think on the hunt for some petrol or something. Wow, this place is stunning. It was kind of like a mini bright. Yeah. [01:29:12] Speaker A: Okay. [01:29:13] Speaker B: You know, you know, like that, like when you drive through and you're like, this place is beautiful. It was like that but way smaller and just. Yeah, just everyone's front yard just looked like a picture. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a good comment. Rick Nelson says, I really like the yellow flipped on either side. Beautiful split. It's a great point. I hadn't. [01:29:37] Speaker A: It is that. [01:29:38] Speaker B: But that's. [01:29:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:39] Speaker B: That sort of offset. [01:29:41] Speaker A: Well, yeah, there's, there's. There's a lot leading you into that, that bright point off center. You've got a fence, you've got the road line, you've got the top of the green trees on the right and then you've got the orange yellow trees on the top right kind of pushing down. It's just this. It's all just drawing you in. [01:30:01] Speaker B: For me, it's the wave in the fence. That's what got me, got me hooked. So, you know, everything. The colors are beautiful, the trees are beautiful and everything. But then the thing that lingered was my, my eye running up and down that wavy fence. Yeah, it's sort of. It's like the fence was there long before that. Road was there, that. That bitumen road. Like, you could almost imagine it being a track or like a, you know, a dirt road. Yeah, I really like it. It's definitely somewhere I'd like to be right now. That's. Yeah. Look at that sister postcard. [01:30:48] Speaker A: Yeah, very much. [01:30:52] Speaker B: Wonderful image. Who else? Nicholson says, smart composition. Nev. Clark says, I love Monday nights with the gang. Photography connection. Awesome image. Love the leaves that drift onto the road. Yes. Yeah, I think that definitely helps as well. Sort of ties everything together. Tweak. Loves the autumn colors. [01:31:19] Speaker A: Amazing. All right, up next, it's Bruce Moyle. [01:31:29] Speaker B: It's Bruce Moyle. [01:31:32] Speaker A: Last minute, just for the hell of it. An architecture shot from a morning walk. ISO 411,000 shutter, a 7R3. Cannot remember the lens or the aperture not in the data. [01:31:52] Speaker B: What am I seeing? [01:31:53] Speaker A: I can't work it out. It's doing my head in. [01:31:56] Speaker B: I assume it's flipped upside down. It can't be reflected. No. [01:32:02] Speaker A: Or is it reflected? I don't. I can't work it out. [01:32:15] Speaker B: I think it's upside down. I love the way the roof line mimics whatever. So are we seeing the underside of something that's close to the camera? That's mimicking the shape of the roof? What's happening? [01:32:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't work that out. Even if you were sort of pointing the camera straight up and you had like a roof on either side of you, that doesn't gel either. [01:32:48] Speaker B: I mean, it's. It's got to be. It's got to be. It's upside down. And then. Yeah, above the camera's head. Above the camera is a veranda that has that shape, you know, like a. [01:33:05] Speaker A: That. [01:33:05] Speaker B: That has those. That jagged shape that mimics the roof line. [01:33:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:13] Speaker B: But, yeah, I love the lines. I love the way my eyes is bouncing around everything. [01:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:18] Speaker B: And then the. Gosh. Bruce says, greg, you've been there. [01:33:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think this is at University of Tasmania in. In Launceston. Ah. Bruce and I had a photo walk there when I was in Tassie a few weeks back. He took me on a tour. It was lovely. Amazing architecture. That whole area is just gorgeous. New and old industrial, you know, all that sort of stuff. It's also where Bruce works. He's not running well. He's not running photo tours around the campus. [01:34:03] Speaker B: Yeah. David Skinner says, great abstract. Bruce, please explain. [01:34:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:34:11] Speaker B: Tintype man. It's the shot that gets you thinking it's close. Yeah, yeah, it's. I really like it. It's got, like this whimsical. Not whimsic. What's the right word? Like surreal. [01:34:26] Speaker A: Yeah, there's almost. Yeah, it's almost a surreal. It's like that M.C. escher, the illustrator, he used to do Ben Perspective with like upside down staircases and. Yeah, I can't remember what his works were called, but he. Yeah, he was a famous illustrator who did stuff like this that kind of just made you stop and go, hang on, how is that working? You know? [01:34:48] Speaker B: Yeah, and Bruce is saying. Yes, it's flipped. It's flipped. [01:34:52] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah, very cool, Bruce. He got us all thinking for a minute. [01:34:58] Speaker B: Yeah, thank you. [01:35:08] Speaker A: Let me just have a quick look here. Last one is tin type man, Scott Longdon. Here's my late entry for tonight's show, if it makes it. Yes, it did. Last week I put out a call to fellow beef operas to see if anyone was interested in doing a Tintype photo shoot this week. I had a number of takers and today Steph visited the studio. She was fabulous. I asked her to show me attitude and she did that in spades for the whole session. Very cool. We made quite a few tin types, which was great. But the real win for me was that this was the first time that absolutely everything was made from scratch. There was no store bought chemistry. I made, mixed, made and mixed. The collodion, the developer and the fixer, all from the raw ingredients. Merck Pharmaceuticals was certainly asking questions when I ordered raw ether, an anesthetic from them, along with a couple of dubious salts. Especially when the chemistry arrived in insulated aluminium bottles, then sealed it in another tin labeled dangerous and explosive. Now all of the research that jumping through the hoops to buy dangerous chemicals and even a police check have been proved worthwhile. Anyway, love your show. That's incredible. Jesus. [01:36:25] Speaker B: Nuts. [01:36:26] Speaker A: Well done. That's phenomenal. Wow. That's like. That's just mind blowing. [01:36:33] Speaker B: That's a lot of work. [01:36:35] Speaker A: Yeah. But geez, how impressive is that? [01:36:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:36:39] Speaker A: Just to create it all yourself. That's bananas. [01:36:44] Speaker B: Nuts. I thought I was clever because I made my own lightroom preset. [01:36:50] Speaker A: I shot him black and white one day. [01:36:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:36:55] Speaker A: Wow. Yeah. Yeah, that's very cool. [01:37:02] Speaker B: Love this photo too. That attitude and the pose. Yep. Yeah, that's a. That's a. I don't know if. Yeah, I don't know if I've seen one of those. This start like with this much sort of attitude from. From Scott from Tintype. [01:37:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:37:24] Speaker B: Sent into the podcast. I'm sure he's done this sort of stuff before, but yeah, I love it. The Tintype really gives it sort of a little bit of a creepy vibe. [01:37:33] Speaker A: Yeah, it does. [01:37:39] Speaker B: Craig Carrick says, okay, that wins. Packs up and goes, yeah, I'm feeling [01:37:44] Speaker A: a bit, yeah, I feel a bit like that. It's like, oh wow. [01:37:48] Speaker B: Bruce is. Yay tin types. Yay tin types. [01:37:54] Speaker A: And yeah, incredible. Steph was fab. He said, yeah, I bet she looks [01:38:06] Speaker B: like she knows how to work. Work it for the camera. [01:38:08] Speaker A: Yeah, amazing. [01:38:12] Speaker B: Wow, what an image to finish on. [01:38:14] Speaker A: Yeah, indeed. Thank you everyone for sending in your images. Great, great collection tonight. Some thought provokers, some pure whimsy and some chemical marvels like this one here. [01:38:30] Speaker B: And that's still nuts. I just don't. It's. That's like, it's one to, to go through all the complexity of, of actually mixing your own stuff, but the fact that you have to get a police check and stuff just to buy it, that's insane. And then it's explosive ether. [01:38:46] Speaker A: Yeah. What the LIBIS think. [01:38:49] Speaker B: Well that's, [01:38:55] Speaker A: yeah, that's, that's very impressive. So just a reminder for anyone that's watching along that didn't get a chance to send in an image tonight, you can do so we, we do, every Monday evening we do the your images section. All you need to do is send an email to justinuckystraps.com include the image file, try to keep it to sort of one or two images and tell us the camera, the lens you use, the camera settings, but also a little story about why you took the shot and why you chose to send it into us and what your experience was like. Because seeing photos is amazing but hearing the creators stories along the way is just as, just as incredible. So yeah, send through your images for next week. [01:39:43] Speaker B: Yeah, do that. And if you're listening later, whether you're on Spotify, because some people like to just listen on Spotify while they're strolling, walking the dog or whatever. Or if you're on YouTube, don't forget you can leave a comment afterwards. I haven't been, I've been keeping it up with the comments. We haven't been reading them out on the show so much but let me just have a look now let me have a quick look at the comments. What's been happening over on the comment tab? Oh, here's one. We'll have to get one on Louise Sedgman's show from back. Episode 126, the Art of Photography. Tenacious Cowgirl is asking what editing program Louise used. Yeah, Tenacious Cowgirl. [01:40:29] Speaker A: That's awesome. [01:40:31] Speaker B: Was asking what Editing program Louise used with her Santa's photos. Um, [01:40:37] Speaker A: yeah. [01:40:37] Speaker B: Oh, first part was talked over the top of and can't catch it even when rewinding. Well, sorry, that was probably. We must have talked while she was trying to explain what she uses. So. Okay, that's probably not a good example of comments. Oh, someone's commented on the XE4 versus XE5 short that I made of you explaining the differences and they've commented. Love the megapickle, so that's nice. Who doesn't love a mega pickle? Dennis Smith commented on Marcus Bell's interview saying, this was a great interview. Thanks, Marcus. I'm gonna love that because I Love Dennis. And Dr. Dr. Mandana. Dr. Mandana Arshi says Marcus is the best photographer weddings for weddings. We were lucky enough that he did our photos for our special day after. He's still. I cannot stop looking at our photos. The essence of each second is captured by him. Thank you, Marcus. Wow, that is a. That's quite a testimonial. [01:41:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:41:47] Speaker B: Who. What else? Lots of comments. Someone's having trouble with their 6D Mark 2. That's focus breathing. Well, the self Dharma counts down. Well, that's a problem. I'll have to talk to them. That was when I filmed me trying to take a family self portrait for one of my. That's a comment on that video. Okay, what else? Oh, the Andrew Connor said that roo shot from last week straight to the pool room. Remember the not albino kangaroo. What the other name for it was? [01:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that was pretty cool. [01:42:30] Speaker B: What's Bruce saying here? You need to make a mega pickle T shirt. We do. We are. We are not. Yeah, we just. We don't have the design yet, but. But it's happening. What else? Yeah, tons. Tons of comments that we need to go through. Tweak. Missed the show a couple of weeks ago. What else? Lots of things. Anyway, so get in there, get in, leave a comment. We'll start reading them out on shows again. We've got to get back into that, I think. [01:43:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, definitely. [01:43:05] Speaker B: And Greg Carrick says smack that like button. That'd be good too. [01:43:10] Speaker A: Yeah, indeed. And don't forget, if you are new here and this is your first time watching the Camera Life podcast, you can help us out a lot by a giving the the video a like. But also by subscribing to the Camera Life podcast channel on YouTube. Helps us out. But also you get notified in your time zone of every time we have a live show coming up, which we do twice a week. Every Monday evening, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, we have the random photography show and then every Thursday morning we interview a photographer at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time and we unpack their story journey and take a deep dive into their craft. So yeah, that's right. [01:43:49] Speaker B: Oh, and we've got a sponsor of the podcast too, Luckystraps.com have we, have we mentioned that today at all? Have we done another full episode where we missed that again? We need to, we need like an on screen reminder like hey, maybe yeah, if you have a camera, which you probably do if you listen to this and you like to carry it around comfortably. We talked about bags all night tonight, but most of the time, honestly, especially when I'm traveling, I don't leave my camera in the bag. I have it across my body on a camera strap which we sell on Luckystraps.com they're leather, they're amazing. They've got quick release clips, anti theft cut resistant Dyneema webbing and little safety locks on the quick release clips are there your beautiful Leica Q3 or your Canon R5 Mark II or Greg's XE5 with his nice little, what is it, the 23 mil? One point. [01:44:41] Speaker A: The 23, 1.4. [01:44:43] Speaker B: So they're nice and safe and they don't go anywhere. They've been, they've been sent all over the world to tens of thousands of photographers and we've got thousands of five star reviews. So if you're interested, go check them out and if you're not sure which one to get, email me justinuckystraps.com and I'll help you find the right strap for your camera and how you like to shoot otherwise. I think that's basically it. [01:45:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Or you can use Code Greg checkout for a discount. Just saying. [01:45:12] Speaker B: Oh yeah, don't forget that too. Yeah, you'll get 15% off. So that's good. Oh, we also sell winter photography gloves. They're not lucky straps brand. They're from a company called Valarat Norway. They're available on our website as well. We sell them in Australia and winter is coming. It's getting chilly down here in Victoria. So indeed, if you have cold hands but you want to still be able to take photos by flipping the fingers back and being able to operate your camera. Check those out. Okay, we should do the ads at the start of the show when people are listening, [01:45:46] Speaker A: when they're saying goodbye, not [01:45:48] Speaker B: when they're saying goodbye. Okay, we should probably say goodbye and read some of these last comments because there's some good ones. All right, let's roll the thing. [01:45:56] Speaker A: All right. [01:46:00] Speaker B: What's. David Skinner says I had a Nuge burger for lunch today at the Nutty Pub and it had a mega pickle in it. Well, that's cool. [01:46:07] Speaker A: Hey, nice. [01:46:08] Speaker B: Nev's gonna let the WA Landscape Facebook page know about this podcast. There's 12,000 members on that page and we'll get this up to 5,000. Yeah. Can you tell them to subscribe? That'd be good. [01:46:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:46:19] Speaker B: And you can get your name put on or your mum's name. Oh, thanks. Thanks, guys. Mean the world to me. I don't know, maybe he wasn't talking about this, but either way, help us out, Niv. Thanks. Philip Johnson, as always. Thanks for the great image that you sent in. Rick Nelson, thanks for sending an image in. Oh, Bruce, Mo, I need to talk to you about the gloves. Got an extreme shoot coming up. Let us know. Bruce, you will hook you up. Yes. Let us know what you need. Tintype man. Love the show, guys. Thanks again. See you next week. You need more light, Scott. I saw. You need more depth of field. You can buy more lights, tweets productions. Always a joy to see everyone's photos. Have to get my together and go through my photos next week. Good night, everybody. All right, what else John Pickett says? Cheers, guys. Greg Carrick, Aurora. Maybe tonight at 1:00am Rodney Nicholson, good to see you. Until Thursday. Philip Johnson, John Latimer, Great show. Thanks, everyone. Phil Thompson's. Thanks guys for another great show. Good night, everyone. Thanks for your comments. Bruce Moyle. Thanks, everybody. Always good way to do admin on Monday nights and listen in. Oh, and Shamicha 3346. Great show, Nev Clark. Later, peeps. And goodbye. See ya. [01:47:29] Speaker A: See ya.