Jim’s Back! The Random Photography Show

[00:00:00] Speaker A: We're not light. [00:00:30] Speaker B: Well, g', day, everybody, and welcome back to the Camera Life podcast. It is Monday. The. What is it the 4th of May? May the 4th be with you, everybody. If you're a Star wars fan, you know what that's all about. Look, stick around tonight. We're gonna have a bit of a chilled chat. We're coming. We've gone global. We've gone absolutely global. I'm in Melbourne and I've just gotten back from a holiday. Jim's in Bendigo and he's been working his little tail off. And Justin, who cares? He's in a resort of some sort of pool. [00:01:00] Speaker C: Wow. It's not. It's not a resort. It's a. It's a little spot. It's a nice little spot. And I'm in Bali, and in true Bali Bogan fashion, I've got not just a bintang, but this is actually a bintang crystal, which I've been told is the upper. It's the upper class. It's like a. Like drinking a Crowny. You know, back in the day, you're like, no, not a. Give me a Crowny. Give me a Crown Lager. It's a. It's a celebration. But, yeah, I'm here and you've got a. [00:01:29] Speaker A: You got a pool boy in the background by the look of it. Yeah, yeah, he just walk past. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Yeah, that's the. That's the person who's kindly letting us stay here for free. So let's all be nice to him. Thank you. [00:01:41] Speaker B: He's taking a leak in your pool. But this is the. This is the camera, like, podcast. And tonight we're going to be covering off everything from industry news. We're going to catch up on what everyone's been up to because we've all been a little bit scattered and busy lately. And. And yeah, we're just going to have a look at everyone's images in the your images section at the end of the show. So thank you to everyone for sending those through. But, yeah, this is the Camera Life podcast. We come to you live twice a week. So every Monday. We're not usually as global as this. We're usually a little more contained, at least in the same state. Every Monday evening, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, we come to you with the random photography show where we talk about industry news, what's going on, unboxings, and also your images. And then, of course, every Thursday morning, we. We do a live interview on YouTube, later available on audio podcasts, where we interview an Australian or Even an international photographer who's got a story to tell and a journey worth sharing. So the best way for you to find out what's coming up on the Camera Life podcast is first to subscrib and then also tickle the bell icon to be notified for all upcoming episodes. And that way you'll get the the episode in your time zone. So you'll get a timely reminder as to when. When we are going live. But yeah, we should probably say g' day to some people. Did you want to take care of that from. From Bali? [00:03:03] Speaker C: I can do it from Bali. I can do it from Bali. I think my Internet's working. We got Starlink delivered only a couple of hours ago by a guy on a scooter. Brought me Starlink in a cardboard box that had been taped up. It's like a used Starlink. It's hard to explain, but we have the Internet. Philip Johnson is here. Oh, Matthew Gardberg is here. What's up, Matt? [00:03:22] Speaker B: Hey, Maddie. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Phillip says, I hope Justin's SIM card is charged. Yeah, look, it's been a thing. Paul says. G', day, guys. Just about to step out for some light painting with Adam and Dennis. See you on the catch up. Oh, yeah, they're doing the stuff. Dennis is. Hey, Mungo. With Paul about to go light painting missing. Not. Oh, well, you guys have the best night. That's going to be amazing. [00:03:46] Speaker A: Yeah, be fun. [00:03:47] Speaker C: Jealous. Alice, Tin type man's here. Says apologies for missing a few weeks. We accidentally ended up on safari in Africa. Thanks for the re. Uncle Donald. In five weeks in the Highlands of Scotland, Isle of Man and uk. Wow. Well, that sounds like not the worst. That sounds like not the worst. Reroute. Congratulations. That sounds epic. I want to see some photos. Okay. Felicity Johnson says, enjoyed the light painting. Jealous. Hi, everyone. Lisa Leach is here. I hope the holiday was awesome, Greg. She says, yeah, I want to hear all about it. He's here. Brett Wooderson is here. Bill Thompson is here. Oh, Star wars day. Yeah. Sorry. Someone had to say it. Greg. Greg said it May 4th. Who else? Greg Carrick. Tweak Productions. What's up, party people? Rick Nelson. Oh, Lisa's lead says hi. Jimbo, Jim Bob, Timbo. Yeah, let's bring that. Yeah, I like that. Tim. Bob like that stick. Grant here, he made it. Looks like a Minecraft character, though. Is my Internet that bad? [00:04:56] Speaker B: No, not. Not right now. [00:04:58] Speaker C: Okay. [00:04:59] Speaker B: Mine's a bit. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Mine looks all right. Maybe it's Grant. [00:05:03] Speaker C: Oh, Yelena's here. Yelena is. She's here. But yeah. You'll be excited to know Dan was a. She was a member, but he. And not a subscriber. So Dan, who we're staying with, it was a member of the channel, but no, it wasn't subscribed. [00:05:18] Speaker A: Yeah, he must have signed in on the wrong account because he still doesn't look like he's a member. [00:05:24] Speaker C: Oh, here he is. Look. That chair has not been paid for. Get your feet off the cushion. It's a long story. It's a good point. We're borrowing this chair. Phil Taylor's here. Yeah, forgot. Yeah, I was gonna borrow Grant 7200F4 and we didn't. We didn't get around to it. So do you guys want to hear what I'd brought over here? [00:05:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:56] Speaker A: How many five years did you back. [00:05:59] Speaker C: I messaged him about it. I tested, I began. I've been threatening to do this test of all the canon 50 mils for ages. And I finally did it and it, I only just started it on, on before we left, the day before we left. And it's. It's just a can of worms tested every 50 miles. And the new well, and the Canon 45 mil, which is that new RF 1.2 lens that they brought out, that's nice and cheap. And it was by far the worst. Just not sharp at all, all that kind of stuff. And then the 45F 1.2 as to be expected, the 50F 1.2 best lens was amazing. The 50F 1.4 that I bought to kind of replace that I've just haven't sold the other one yet is amazing as well. All the other ones are in varying levels. The old 51.2 on the adapter actually performed really well. [00:07:04] Speaker B: That's not surprising. That's a. That's a cracker of a lens. [00:07:07] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. It was a well regarded lens, but people often said that it was soft and stuff. But I think focusing it on the mirrorless, it's way more accurate than it used to be on the DSLRs where it needed calibrating and it would back focus or front focus. And I think that was probably part of it. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:25] Speaker C: Anyway, long story short, after basically making up my mind based on the photos in Lightroom, I decided to throw the camera on and just go for a wander around with my. With a few of the lenses and I ended up bringing the 45 1.2 the worst, the worst lens. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Oh really? [00:07:48] Speaker C: It feels really nice to carry. It's the right size that I'll throw it over my shoulder and not think about it and it's still sharp enough. And that's what I had to keep telling myself. I'm like, it's still sharp enough. It's, it's not. When you go side by side shooting tree bark. Like I was, there was, there was quite a difference. But when you just take a photo, it's like it wasn't a big deal. It's fine. [00:08:12] Speaker B: And if you're looking for it and you're comparing it, you're going to see differences. [00:08:15] Speaker C: That's right, yeah. [00:08:17] Speaker B: But you know, often that, that sort of, that lack of ultimate sharpness or you know, a little something a little bit odd or off compared to like the premium version. So, you know, I, I call that character. If it's a cheap lens and it's sharp enough for you and it does what you need it to do and it has character, but then go for it, you know, lean into it. [00:08:38] Speaker C: It's definitely not great character. There was a lot of, a lot of the characters. Like there's, you know, there's aberrations and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I just, I wandered around and I thought, am I going to just end up leaving this better lens in the bag or the, you know, and, and yeah, so end up, end up taking that. And I've got my two little travel zooms, which is the 16 to 28 and the, the 28 to 70, the lightweight travel zooms, my R5 Mark II and then I've obviously got the Q3 and that's what I've walked around with today. And I'm loving it. I'm back. Autofocus is there. [00:09:16] Speaker B: That's awesome. [00:09:17] Speaker C: Anyway, bit of a derail. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Nice. Well, just before we move ahead with the rest of the show, I would like to do a quick little ad. Ready? Of course, the Camera Life podcast wouldn't be possible, nor would our stunning wardrobes if it wasn't for Lucky Straps. That's right. Lucky Straps is the sponsor of today's episode of the Camera Life podcast. Because we are Lucky Straps. We make handcrafted Australian made leather camera straps to fit almost every camera that's on the planet right now as we speak. Even some that went off the planet for a little while and came back. We've made straps for them too. Not for the astronauts, but for those cameras. Anyway, I digress, but head to Luckystraps.com and take a look at the fine range of leather camera straps we have on offer. We have everything from, you know, slimline wrist straps right through to Heavy duty DSLR and mirrorless camera setups like the sort that Justin and Jim use on the daily for their work. But that's not all. We also sell merch. We have hoodies, we have T shirts, we sell leather belts and we also sell a range of veloret. What are they called again? Winter gloves. They are, yeah, yeah, they're photography gloves. They proved very popular when we're at Bright last year for bfop. A lot of people came down off the mountain on that first morning and, and were so grateful that we had amazing winter gloves on offer. But yeah, head to Lucky Straps, use Code Greek, get yourself a healthy little discount and we'll see you at the checkout, won't we Jim? Yeah. [00:10:48] Speaker A: With Code Jim. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Greg, good to have you back. Jim, good to have you back. [00:10:56] Speaker C: Good to have you back. Should we. Okay, so we don't have a structure for tonight's show but we will still follow the normal rough structure which is the. We'll do some news. [00:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. [00:11:08] Speaker C: At the end of the show we'll do the viewer images that you guys have sent in. But in the middle somewhere we've got to catch up, we've got to find out what Jim's been up to and what Greg's been up to. Where should we go first? [00:11:19] Speaker B: You're the boss, you call the shots. [00:11:22] Speaker C: Well, let's start with Greg. You just went on a trip. [00:11:27] Speaker B: I did. [00:11:28] Speaker C: What gear did you take on your trip? [00:11:30] Speaker B: So interestingly, I went to Tasmania for four nights. Wish I booked longer both session. I went with my partner Sash. We both wish we booked longer because we spent the first two days with family. She's from Launceston, all of her family is still in Lonnie. And we spent a beautiful couple of days just hanging out with Sasha's parents, sisters, nephews, nieces and grand niece. So it was just a lovely time to catch up because the last time I was down in Launceston meeting the family, I was still recovering from, I was still recovering from my surgery. So I was still in a bit of an opium opioid kind of haze. So this time I really got to know the family a lot better and, and yeah, and just sort of marvel at, you know, a different dynamic, which was great. And then we took a bus down to Hobart and we spent two nights in Hobart. We booked a beautiful little boutique hotel. We went to Mona, which is a museum of old and new art which is up the river, about 45 minute ferry ride from, from the docks at Hobart. And we spent the day at Mona just checking out art. We sat down to an amazing, probably the best meal I've ever had in my life. We booked ourselves seats at one of the restaurants there and had a chef prepared meal that was all on theme with, with art and playfulness and, and it was a lot of local produce and it was just simply stunning meal. Anyone that's, anyone that's been to Mona and has seen it will sort of vouch for it but it's, it's just an incredible environment and space. If you're ever in Hobart, I highly recommend anyone. So that was kind of the, the guts of what we did we in Launceston. I took a lot of shots around town. I actually caught up with Bruce Moyle for a few hours one morning we, we went on a bit of a photo walk early together and then Sasha and her dad came and joined us and met Bruce and then Bruce took us on a little bit of a behind the scenes tour of the University of Tasmania and their new facilities which is where he works, that's his day job and that was phenomenal and amazing. And then in Hobart I did a lot of street photography. I did a lot of photography at Mona and yeah, just, I just had my camera with me at all times. I was taking photo of family, I was photographing the kids for portraits and I only took my Fujifilm XC5 and my 23F1.4 and I just, that was all I took. [00:14:06] Speaker C: What about the XC? The little, the little banger? [00:14:10] Speaker B: The little X70. [00:14:11] Speaker C: Oh, X70. Sorry, no, I didn't take that. [00:14:14] Speaker B: No, I left, left that at home. I just wanted to go one camera, one lens. You know I often preach that to people to just leave everything else behind. Grab one camera, one lens, head out the door, see what you can do. And once again, you know, apart from how beautiful a time we had in Tasmania, it was like mid-20s every day. It was like this balmy heat wave that they weren't expecting. It was definitely not seasonal and the light was just calling to me wherever I looked. And yeah, this camera and lens just continues to surprise and delight me with just how versatile it is for all the different things that I tried to shoot. So yeah, that was me. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Sounds like a good time. [00:14:53] Speaker B: It was a good time. It was a really good time. We had some great food and some lovely time together on the last two days and then we walked every Saturday morning in Hobart in Salamanca. They have a Salamanca craft market and that was massive. That was absolutely huge. And it was good for street photography. Lots of People, Lots of good light, lots of interesting scenes, because Salamanca is all old, like, penal college, penal colony, age buildings along this whole strip. And they set up the market right out the front of it. And, yeah, it was just a really cool day. It was good. [00:15:33] Speaker C: Awesome. Yeah, you just want. You want longer, though. You want longer. Is that. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah, like, we got. But the first night in Hobart, we've got this beautiful hotel room. I was like, oh, man, we should have booked longer. We should have booked extra nights, you know, because, you know, four days or four nights is pretty quick. Two of those with family, which was lovely. But then you kind of. You get to the, you know, sort of the second last night and you realize that tomorrow night's your last night and then the next day you're leaving and it all starts to catch up on you again. Yeah, but no, we. We had a great time. It was really cool. Very, very cool. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Very good. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Bruce Moyle says, smelly Manka. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you'd know Brucey. I don't know what that means, obviously. Lovely catching up with Bruce in Launceston. We had a good chat and a good walk. I met some great people. And look, you know, I've always been a fan of Bruce. I've been. I've always marveled at his artistic work and his, you know, his commercial stuff, his videography that he does. But his knowledge of Tasmania and Launceston and the amount of jobs that he's had his hand in was just. Yeah, it just. It just elevated my level of respect for the man because he's done a lot. He's done a huge amount of work down there. Yeah. Yeah. And people would just walk, oh, hi, Bruce. Like, who was that? [00:16:57] Speaker C: He's like the mayor of. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Secretly. Yeah. Secret on the down low, [00:17:07] Speaker C: don't they. I don't know. They'd have some. They'd have something very cool. Well, what about you, Jimbo? What have you been doing? Everyone's been missing you on the podcast [00:17:19] Speaker A: on a little holiday on the weekend to Beachport and rope in South Australia. [00:17:25] Speaker C: You take a camera? [00:17:27] Speaker A: I did actually. [00:17:28] Speaker C: To take a photo. [00:17:29] Speaker A: I actually took some photos, yeah. [00:17:31] Speaker B: What? [00:17:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:33] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Surprise. [00:17:35] Speaker C: We get to see them or are they. They going to be in there today? [00:17:40] Speaker A: They're actually still on the camera. That's so you can see me. But no, I actually took some photos, which was fun. And I took four lenses, which I think just because I could. And I only used one of them. [00:17:55] Speaker C: What one did you use? [00:17:56] Speaker A: 2814. [00:17:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:00] Speaker A: But I took four lenses because I was like, oh, I had room in a bag or taking the car, so the space and had to take a bag anyway. So. [00:18:10] Speaker C: Yeah, why not? [00:18:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Probably didn't need. I didn't need any of the other ones, so. [00:18:15] Speaker C: The 28 is such a good one and done travel lens. It really is. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:21] Speaker A: You can do a bit of everything with it. [00:18:23] Speaker C: You can do a bit of everything. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Y. [00:18:26] Speaker C: It's wide enough to get landscape and. And if you walk in close, it's tight enough that you can. You can sneak off a portrait if you have to. [00:18:34] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And because of the size of the images, you can crop down, you know, if you need to, when you edit. [00:18:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:44] Speaker A: So. So, yeah, maybe I'll bring some of them along soon. [00:18:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Submit them to the viewer images, if they're good enough, we'll bring them up on the show and. And talk about them. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Just on that note, Justin, how do. How do viewers submit their images for the your image section? [00:18:59] Speaker C: That's a good point. If they just email them to me, justinuckystraps.com and then I troll through my inbox, all of the, like, junk and important things and stuff, and then I find your emails and then I save the photos and put the things in and then we bring them up on the show. So ideally, please use your name as the file name. That would be wonderful. Please. [00:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah, we should build like a website. They can just automate it. [00:19:28] Speaker C: I know. Well, the goal would be to have a form where people can just type their form in and submit the form, the photos with that, you know, like an online upload thing. That's what's going to happen. But, you know, we got a lot to do. We're working on it. [00:19:40] Speaker B: We're getting there. Yeah. [00:19:43] Speaker C: What about. Well, what about. Everyone wants to know about the boudoir stuff. Timber. Like you, you've. You're growing this new business and you've been on the show. Talk to Richard Grenfell and lots of other people about this particular subject, how to grow a boudoir business. You made some changes after you spoke to Richard, I believe he said. What did he say? I think he said these prices are too fucking cheap. Roughly like that. So can you give us a bit of a rundown on what you've implemented so far and how it's going? [00:20:23] Speaker A: So, still doing things. Things similarly, in that some are still hosting sort of boudoir shoot days, hiring out Airbnb location, still aiming to do sort of two or three shoots a day. I've just changed the pricing structure essentially. So they pay a session fee and then they buy photos after that instead [00:20:49] Speaker C: of having it as all inclusive. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Or would you like to book just including some photos? That was, that was what was. Because then people are like, oh, I'll just be happy with that amount. [00:21:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:02] Speaker C: And so far how you've had one, you've had one or two shoot days since this. [00:21:07] Speaker A: One shoot day? Yeah, one shoot day. [00:21:11] Speaker C: How'd it go? [00:21:12] Speaker A: Yeah, so good. Everyone bought something, so yeah, it worked extremely well. I was extremely, yeah, very grateful. [00:21:22] Speaker C: Happy customers. [00:21:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, customers. How did they respond? [00:21:27] Speaker A: Well, I assume that they're happy because everyone's paid and you know, bought bought sort of decent amount of photos and imagery and stuff like that. [00:21:37] Speaker B: So nice. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Some people are gone, like. Yeah, got a lot, which is great. So once it's all done, I can probably sort of share a bit more. But yeah, still working through that at the moment. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Yep. [00:21:51] Speaker C: So positively received changes so far. [00:21:56] Speaker A: So far, yeah, it's been great. No, no. And I, you know, I think everyone always, Well, I know for me and I think as well for you, Justin, we always kind of go, oh, like would people ever pay that, you know, that money? We really kind of devalue ourselves. And I kind of just put a price on it that isn't probably outrageous to photographers, but sometimes I probably felt like it was. And everyone was small and comfortable and it's not, it's not outrageous, it's just what it, it's probably what it means. [00:22:30] Speaker C: I was gonna say. Well, not what it needed to be for it to even be viable as a business, as a long term business thing, you know, like if you, like Richard said, he's like, if you do this, if you get, if you book a hundred of these, you're not gonna be, you're gonna be working your ass off and making no money basically with the old price structure. Whereas now it would actually work. And you could run a business like that. If you end up booking 100 of them out of nowhere, it would work. And I think that's always the way to stress test your pricing and things like that. Like what happens if you just filled your calendar with these? Would it still make sense? Is a good way to look at it. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Yeah, now it will make sense. [00:23:14] Speaker C: Awesome. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Pretty exciting. [00:23:15] Speaker B: Well, yeah, and that's a good place to be. You don't, you don't want to feel like you're slugging away and you're not actually getting a recognized financially for your knowledge, your effort, your gear, you know, all those costs that Go into you being who you are as a photographer before you even pick up your camera, you know. Yeah. And. And we've all faced that where it's like, oh, I don't know if I'm worth that much kind of thing. But, yeah, it's good on you for being brave about it and seeking some support. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Just a different way of doing things as well. Like, we've always priced to include, you know, everything always includes images, whether it be weddings or commercial. And sort of the thought of charging people per photo has always felt a bit different. It's just a different way of doing it. And so far, so good. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Very cool. [00:24:03] Speaker C: Awesome. That's great. [00:24:05] Speaker B: Very cool. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Oh, and you. [00:24:06] Speaker C: And you bought the big. The world's biggest softbox. The. The last. [00:24:12] Speaker A: You can't say it's in the frame, but we're skinny, so it is just there. [00:24:18] Speaker C: I can fix that. Let's see it. Nope, still can't see it. Oh, it's in the bag. [00:24:24] Speaker A: In the bag. Yeah. [00:24:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:25] Speaker A: I haven't got it set up in my office. [00:24:27] Speaker C: I thought it was just set up in your office. [00:24:29] Speaker A: No. [00:24:33] Speaker C: What do you reckon? Is it. Is it. Is it a thing? Is it worth. Is it. Because they're. They're not cheap, those bad boys. [00:24:39] Speaker A: No, they basically was not cheap. [00:24:41] Speaker C: Window. They're massive. I don't know. Yeah, anyone's seen them, they're like. They're like. [00:24:47] Speaker A: I think it's 2 meters by 2.5. [00:24:50] Speaker C: Yeah. And it's like a giant softbox, but it's narrow and you put your lights inside them and it lights the whole thing up as if it's like a. Yeah. Giant soft window light. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Yeah. It's really cool. And I got some great photos with it at the shoot day. But I think also it's not. It wasn't necessary the whole time, so I didn't use it the whole time. Like, it's not the only go to kind of thing that I need. [00:25:18] Speaker B: Yep. [00:25:19] Speaker A: It won't replace it. You know, every light. Yeah. The space I was shooting in had a lot of natural light, so I used a lot of that. It worked well. [00:25:29] Speaker B: It's cool. Well, you've got options. [00:25:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Which is good. It's always good to have options with lighting. [00:25:36] Speaker C: Yeah. Especially if you're going into different locations, you know, new Airbnbs and things like that. It's nice to have one constant where you're like, all right, I know at some point in the shoot, I can get this out and I have this sort of light that I Can work with. With it and then everything else. [00:25:56] Speaker A: So you gotta have the space to be able to shoot it. [00:25:59] Speaker C: Does it stand up by itself or do you have to put a stand next to it or does it just. [00:26:05] Speaker A: It maybe there's someone in the comments that might know how to. Got any tips for it because it [00:26:14] Speaker C: would be example, was it. Is it kind of like having. If you were just dragging around a bed mattress to be part of your lighting kit and you're like leaning it up against walls and stuff and you're like, hopefully that won't fall over. [00:26:28] Speaker A: It's a little bit like that. And sometimes the top will stay sort of straight and the bottom will bow so then that'll want to fall over or vice versa. So it's just. It's actually easier to jump in it and then just stretch it out a little bit from the inside. So. [00:26:46] Speaker C: Well, I don't know. I'm keen, I'm keen to see some photos from it at some point. [00:26:50] Speaker A: I've only used twice, so still got lots to learn. [00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:56] Speaker A: But it's big and soft. So the light, which is great. [00:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that's really cool because especially if you're shooting in like Airbnbs that you're not familiar with, you don't know where the light's going to fall naturally throughout the day. You know, you don't know which windows it's going to fall through and if it does, how it's going to fall. And so it's good to have that option. Did you guys see, I don't know if you saw Julie Powell put up a video. I think it was last week and she was reviewing these blow up lights like constant. [00:27:24] Speaker C: They're a thing now. Yeah, they are. [00:27:26] Speaker B: You're like, you blow them up and they fill with air and. And then they take form like they take shape. Like a big long. Almost like a tube light. Yeah. Instead of having it. I think so. Yeah. [00:27:39] Speaker C: I think I've seen them on. On social media. Yeah. [00:27:42] Speaker B: Yeah. She put a review. I think she put a review up on a YouTube channel. So check that out. A few guys are. Anyone is keen on seeing that. [00:27:52] Speaker C: Grant says it's big and soft like Jim. It's good to have you back in the comments. Grant cats in the comments too. And so is Brian Maxwell Carr. Good to see you. Oh, and Yelena says don't forget to give the episode a thumbs up. Yeah, do that too. That's always fun. It helps us. It's good. Makes us feel valued. It's like. Yeah, so we don't get sad. [00:28:15] Speaker B: Yeah. My Minor Jim's annual performance reviews are based on the thumbs ups, purely aligned. So anything you can do to help a brother out would be great. [00:28:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Awesome. [00:28:25] Speaker B: Now, what about you, Justin? What have you been up to? [00:28:30] Speaker C: Well, other than. Other than traveling over here and preparing to travel over here, not a ton. No. Well, okay. I did the podcast without you on Thursday last week while you were in Tassie and had an awesome chat with Eric Yip. Unfortunately, there was a few minutes of. Of silence at the beginning of the podcast, so you guys can all go and check that out if you haven't already and have a laugh at my expense about watching me try and troubleshoot sound issues by myself. And [00:29:03] Speaker A: while you're alive. [00:29:04] Speaker C: Yeah. So Eric and I, which Eric and I were chatting for like 10 minutes before we went live. Everything's working perfectly. Perfect audio, no problems at all. I press go live. It plays the video and then I do the like. [00:29:19] Speaker B: Yep. [00:29:19] Speaker C: You know, good morning. We got no Greg. So I'm trying to do this by myself. And we're all loving it. And anyway, we've got Eric Yip here from EY Excel. And then he goes to talk and it's just silent, just muted. And anyway, so we figured it out. Turns out I think something, when it. When the video played, must have changed his mic setting or something like that to a different mic or whatever. We worked out in a couple of minutes and I was going to chop that part of the podcast off because you can do that in YouTube later. You can, like, cut the first minute or two off and start it from when. But I was like, nah, I want to see. I want people to see the glory of what it is to be a live podcast. And, you know, I said to Elena, I'm like, everyone's gonna think, oh, Greg goes away and the thing falls apart. And I'm like, yes, that is what happened. That is the truth. It went away and the podcast fell apart. But when it comes to audio stuff, I think that that's kind of like my lane. I'm the audio fixer guy, so it's kind of funny. [00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we had to fix it earlier today when we were just all jumped on and chatting. [00:30:25] Speaker C: Wow. I'm trying to. This is my. Is my remote connection. Maybe the chat can tell me what it's like. I'm using this thing. I've got this little road streamer X Bad Boy, and I got my. My gaming headset on. Anyway, so had that chat with Eric Gibb. He is. He's A cool guy. He's a great photographer and that was a really fun chat about commercial photography, but I thought it was gonna. He's a very successful commercial photographer. Had a career change like later into his career. So he's, you know, he didn't, he's not sort of the been doing this forever kind of person, but he, it turns out like his, his passion is like travel photography and stuff like that and had been doing that the whole time he was in his previous career. Like that was his thing. And he was like, if I could do anything, I'd just be lost in villages in India and China and stuff like that, just taking travel photos. It was a really fun podcast. [00:31:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:24] Speaker C: So definitely worth a listen. [00:31:27] Speaker B: Well, actually I got a nice email from him today because I felt we follow up with guests afterwards and, and he was saying that he was really stoked with how it went because he's often not the sort to sort of get up and speak like we often ask our, our guests to do. You know, he didn't. Not everyone feels comfortable getting onto a live YouTube, you know, podcast where there's no pre prepared questions and there's no editing. You know, it's just, that's just you in the, and the, and the mercy of the chat. But, but yeah, he was really impressed and really pleased with, with how it all worked out. So well done, Justin. [00:31:59] Speaker C: Oh, thanks. We had an awesome chat. So that's, that was the most important thing. It was like, man just had a fun few hours just chatting about all things photography. So it was really cool. [00:32:11] Speaker A: Cool. [00:32:12] Speaker B: That is cool. Sorry. [00:32:16] Speaker C: Oh, I was just going to say Elaine's just messaged me saying that it doesn't say the random photography show at the top. And I'm like, yeah, okay. Yeah, I think I've only got the. Anyway, look. [00:32:27] Speaker B: That's right. [00:32:28] Speaker C: Duct tape and, and string. We're getting there. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:33] Speaker A: The other one says call the show but don't call the show. [00:32:36] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. Don't do that. Don't call the show. [00:32:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Justin's setup will just explode into flames. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Or he'll get a bill for like all of the, the redirected calls. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:32:50] Speaker C: Thousand dollar phone bill from everyone calling. Yeah. Don't do anything next time when I'm back. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Well, that's very cool. It's, it's always lovely to catch up, especially to have Jim on the show and get a bit of an update on where everyone's at because we've all been in sort of different things in the last Week or so. But do you think that maybe it's time we talk about some news? [00:33:14] Speaker C: Absolutely. Yes. Don't let me forget. If we get time, there's a few comments in the YouTube somewhere that we could bring up as well. That might be fun. We haven't done that for a little while, but let's start with that. Do you want to start with social post? [00:33:28] Speaker B: Yeah, let's go for socials once again. So this is flashes how I. Yeah, he does keep flashing too. [00:33:38] Speaker A: Flash green for a second. [00:33:42] Speaker C: Wonder if my camera's. Let's have a look. [00:33:45] Speaker A: You might be running out of battery. It's like what my dare 50 used to do. [00:33:49] Speaker C: I got heaps. I don't know what it is. Could be just. I don't know. [00:33:54] Speaker A: It's working at the moment. [00:33:55] Speaker B: Let's just. [00:33:56] Speaker C: Anyway. All right, which one is this? This is the voices in my head. [00:34:02] Speaker B: This is how I imagine you wake up every morning. [00:34:05] Speaker C: Okay, hang on, I'm gonna. [00:34:17] Speaker B: Hopefully it plays. [00:34:18] Speaker C: Go, I know I should sleep, but the voices in my head go, I know I should sleep, but the voice is in my head. Yeah, it is kind of like that. Surely you guys have experienced that as well though. It's not just me. It can't just be me. That's. That's having lenses just running through their brain while they're trying to go to sleep. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought that was a bit of fun. Next one is about the Wide Lux. The original Wide Lux. Now if anyone has has their eye on social media. Jeff Bridges. We've talked about this a number of times. Jeff Bridges is sponsoring like a co producer of a brand new version of Wide Lux cameras. And this is one of the OG ones, one of the medium formats and it's. Who is that freezing? I think it is. [00:35:11] Speaker C: Yeah, a little bit. [00:35:12] Speaker B: It's just a beast. [00:35:15] Speaker C: Yeah. So this is. Yeah. Which we'll get to the. The new one in the news, but. So this is an og, is it? It is early, isn't it? [00:35:24] Speaker A: Okay. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's massive. [00:35:28] Speaker C: I wonder which model this is. I don't think. I think this is a. That was 120 film. This must be a medium format wide Lux. I didn't even know that was right. I don't think they're anywhere near as common as the 35. [00:35:48] Speaker A: It looks sweet. [00:35:49] Speaker C: It's massive. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Well, I mean with medium format it probably only takes what, three, maybe two images tops? [00:35:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't even know. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Super wide. [00:36:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't know it's a 1500. Yeah. That is Crazy. I haven't. I didn't realize they made those. That's super cool. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:14] Speaker C: As is the wide Lux. Although they released the price and. Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll get there. We'll get there. Is it in the news? [00:36:26] Speaker B: I don't know if I put the white Lux in again this time, have I? Camera news. We'll get to it. DJI at it yet again. They've got a product drop coming up on the 7th of May. I've called this the Tamagotchi DJI. DJI because it's tiny. [00:36:46] Speaker A: I thought that actually made a Tamagotchi. [00:36:49] Speaker C: What was that? They were coming back. Hang on. So what is this gonna be? Is it like a remote for a. Is that a remote for a gimbal that can detach? That's a gimbal arm. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Yeah, but it looks like it's one of the. You know, the little. The one they released last week. [00:37:10] Speaker C: That's what it was. You reckon it's an OSMO pocket? [00:37:13] Speaker B: Well, it looks like it. When you look at the. [00:37:15] Speaker C: There. [00:37:15] Speaker B: There's like a silhouette of it. Yeah, but it comes out. [00:37:20] Speaker C: The gimbal looks bigger, though. I don't know. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:23] Speaker C: Wonders in your palm. Interesting. Unless it's a mobile gimbal. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Well, Bruce recommends a mic with E [00:37:35] Speaker C: mic with an E ink screen. Did you see those, Greg? [00:37:39] Speaker A: No, [00:37:42] Speaker B: the set of them. The colored ones? [00:37:45] Speaker C: Not the DJI ones? No. Was it Insta 3? Insta360 Mike, Inc. Let's bring it up. I'm pretty sure. So [00:38:01] Speaker A: where is it? Just while you're looking at that, Phil Thompson said Justin keeps flashing green. Maybe he's on a green screen. [00:38:11] Speaker B: Yeah, he's not really. [00:38:12] Speaker C: All right. I'm just in the bedroom. [00:38:16] Speaker B: Wow. [00:38:20] Speaker C: So, yeah, these mics from insta360 to go with their. This is like a full mic system, like the DJI mics and the RODE wireless mics, but it can also go with a new lunar camera. It doesn't really show it here, but these E ink screens on front so you can customize what the mic looks like. It's like. I don't know, it sort of. Kind of seems pointless. [00:38:45] Speaker A: But anyway, like, for like a lapel or something. [00:38:50] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Basically like a lapel mic, but instead of you trying to hide it, you put a smiley face on it. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it could be cool. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Oh, tweak Production says. I know, but I'm not allowed to tell. It's under embargo. [00:39:05] Speaker C: That must be about the. That one you brought up, Greg. The. The menial palm 1. How good is this? [00:39:11] Speaker A: Look at this. [00:39:11] Speaker C: I just got delivered another. Another Bintang crystal. Yeah, it. Okay. You know, but you're not allowed to tell on embargo. We can tell us. No one listens to this podcast. It's fine. Just. Just tell us here. We won't tell anyone ever, I promise. [00:39:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:38] Speaker C: Oh, we could put a Lucky Straps logo on it then. Yeah. Okay, now I'm starting to see it. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:42] Speaker C: Right. Any new full frame cameras coming out? There is. We'll get to that very, very soon. [00:39:50] Speaker B: And just one more social post. Open Photographer of the year 2026 Al Leontief for the Barefoot Volcanologist. So that. That's l there. She's won the. The big Sony prize. Is her image in there as well? Gosh, I hope it is. Otherwise it's. [00:40:12] Speaker C: Is it this one? [00:40:13] Speaker B: No. Yes, this one. So this is the winner of the award and the subject is quite literally a barefoot volcanologist. [00:40:26] Speaker C: As in he walks around volcanoes with no shoes on. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Yep. [00:40:32] Speaker C: That's crazy. [00:40:34] Speaker B: It says here on the ash plains of Mount Yasur on the island of Tana, Vanuatu, Philip, an internationally recognized self taught volcanologist, stands barefoot atop a volcanic rock bomb wearing a lava protection suit gifted to him by some visiting researchers. The volcano smolders around him, sending a plume of gas and sulfur into the sky. Philip grew up beneath the active volcano and this portrait captures him in his element. [00:41:03] Speaker A: Great shot. [00:41:03] Speaker C: Wow. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's pretty crazy. [00:41:08] Speaker C: Imagine what his feet feel like. [00:41:11] Speaker B: Oh, that'd be like wood. [00:41:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Just like sandpaper. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. [00:41:18] Speaker B: It's a great shot. [00:41:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Very cool. [00:41:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I thought that was worth celebrating. Let's jump into some news next. Let's. Should we start with Len's news? [00:41:36] Speaker C: Do you reckon he could handle walking on the road in peak Aussie summers? [00:41:40] Speaker B: He'd be like, I'm out. [00:41:41] Speaker C: Give me some shoes. This is crazy. All right, the news. [00:41:53] Speaker B: So there's a couple of things happening on 13th May, interestingly from Sony and Canon, I believe. But starting with Sony, the Sony A7 6 and a new 100400 GM lens will be announced according to the rumors on May 13th. [00:42:13] Speaker C: And that that 100-400 GM lens looks to be quite fancy. [00:42:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Photos of it in the wild. [00:42:23] Speaker C: Has it? Yeah, I'm still, I'm behind. I'm a few hours behind. I haven't seen any photos, but it. Yeah. Is it saying that. Yeah, a 100 to 404.5. So it's not going to be like, you know, 100 to 400 that ends up at F7 point or whatever. It's going to be, gonna be fast land. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:42:49] Speaker C: Which is very cool. [00:42:51] Speaker B: Very cool. Wildlife and sport. [00:42:54] Speaker C: Sport, yeah, definitely. But it's probably going to be beefy. I haven't, Yeah, I haven't seen the photos. [00:42:58] Speaker B: Yeah. On another news site somewhere trying to track it down. [00:43:03] Speaker C: But anyway we'll talk more about the A7R62 in a moment. [00:43:08] Speaker B: A7R6. [00:43:09] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. The, the Canon one. It's interesting they're going to do this, some sort of announcement on the same day. That is, that's the rumor swirling around. [00:43:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's interesting how that happens, isn't it? We saw it a few months ago. Do you remember when the Ricoh GR4 dropped? It was around the same time that someone else announced the camera. Was it Fujifilm when they announced the GFX? The RF100? Same. [00:43:36] Speaker C: Was it on the same day? I can't remember. [00:43:39] Speaker B: The XC5? I can't remember. But yeah, it just, it just feels like they know that their competitors are about to put stuff out, you know and they quickly, quick put together a marketing promo like you know, [00:43:51] Speaker C: I mean it's gotta be because it couldn't be that like the coincidence of, of all the days in May that they both be on May 13th or whatever and then not change it too. If you heard the rumors that the other brand was doing it you could, you could change yours. So you don't. But no, it's almost like they, they want it, they want the controversy. Canon's release probably won't be as exciting as Sony, I don't think. [00:44:20] Speaker B: Well we'll see. I mean it's only rumors at this stage in terms of what's going to be released. What else is coming up? In other lens news, the second article, Justin, Canon RF20 to 50F4. [00:44:38] Speaker C: Yeah [00:44:40] Speaker B: that's one of the. The cine lens or not cine but you know it's a hybrid power zoom. [00:44:45] Speaker C: Yeah like a wide angle 20 to the F4 power zoom. I don't know. I need to see it to see when they're talking about it's going to get released Alongside A, the R6B camera. So another Canon releasing a lens and camera combo and Sony are releasing a lensing camera combo and yeah, it's going to be I guess essentially a video centric compact but high quality lens. [00:45:14] Speaker B: Yep. [00:45:17] Speaker C: I'll need to see more about like based on the rumors. It's not super interesting to me. Sony's got a 2250, I think F4. Other than that, it's kind of. It's not a super common focal length. It's an. It's one that I would like. I would shoot 20 to 50, but I wouldn't want it. Yeah, but a 20, a 20 to 52.8. For me, as a travel lens, that'd be pretty compelling. You reckon? [00:45:49] Speaker B: Why? [00:45:51] Speaker C: Because it's not super wide and it's not going to 70 mil either. [00:45:55] Speaker B: You know, like 2.8. [00:45:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Anyway, if it was too big. Yeah, I wouldn't be excited about it. Yeah. [00:46:10] Speaker B: Interesting use cases, though. You know, vlogging, kind of run and gun video. [00:46:16] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah. 20 mils wide enough to get. Yeah. Great wide angle shot. And you punch it to 50 power Zoom puts it in that range because we've got the 24 to 105. 2.8 power zoom. [00:46:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:34] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. I don't know. I need to see it. This is what's weird. This. This photo of some other lens and with no dimensions and what it is and what it's going to do. I don't know. [00:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not sure. Yep. Well, it's still early days. We'll see what they release. What else we got? Nikon, the third article down. [00:46:56] Speaker C: Yeah. This is a new lens. What is this? I saw this on social media or something. Have you seen. [00:47:03] Speaker B: I don't think it's new. This has been around forever, I think. [00:47:08] Speaker C: Okay. [00:47:09] Speaker B: A 2000 millimeter F11. Look at the size of it. At first I thought it was like, you know, like an April fool kind of thing. Like it was just a weird joke that someone had made up because that just doesn't look like a lens. [00:47:20] Speaker A: But no, I think it's a. It's an old lens with a new review. Like it's a 1970s. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:28] Speaker A: 1970 to 1978. They made it. [00:47:32] Speaker C: It's sick. [00:47:34] Speaker B: Have a look at the. The diagram of how. [00:47:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:39] Speaker C: The elements work in over here, then back down here through the filtry and then out the back. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Yep. [00:47:46] Speaker A: Crazy, [00:47:52] Speaker B: But it's massive. It weighs 17 and a half kilos, 25 kilos with a dedicated gimbal. [00:47:59] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's. That's. This one down here. Looks like it's off a pirate ship. Yeah. And like that way, like, check out old mate's guns. Look at him. He's jacked. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Yeah, he's jacked. [00:48:09] Speaker C: Yeah. He's about to drop that. He's like. [00:48:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he needs a lucky camera strap on that. That lens. [00:48:16] Speaker C: He does he could hold it? Yeah, maybe. [00:48:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. [00:48:24] Speaker C: That's fun. That's a fun review. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, that reviews on Nick, on rumors, if everyone wants to go check it out. And finally, Samyang's dropping a new autofocus. 14 to 24 mil f 2.8 super wide zoom for L mount. Officially announced it. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Is that necessary? Like L mount? [00:48:52] Speaker C: What do you mean you don't like our mount? Is it just because you don't have a marker? [00:48:58] Speaker A: Is that what it is? Sorry. [00:49:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So L mount. L mount's getting bigger and bigger too. [00:49:05] Speaker B: Yeah, so. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Yeah, like I thought that was an old cannon mount. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's. Gosh, now I've gotten what? And if. Ma'. [00:49:18] Speaker B: Am. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. Sorry, that was my bad. [00:49:22] Speaker C: Gosh, I'm gonna run out of battery if I disappear. I'm sorry team, but this system's not gonna last forever. [00:49:32] Speaker B: We'll make it work. [00:49:33] Speaker C: We'll make it work. The news. Let's talk. Let's talk about the Sony because Bruce said I believe the son that Sony will announce. I think he's talking about the A7R6 because I only just upgraded to the A7R5 and that is usually the case. If you upgrade, the new one will appear and appear it shell. It's. It's got some pretty high specs being discussed. Although the. The resolution bump isn't very high because the Sony A7R6 is currently sort of the high resolution monster of the full frame world at what is it currently? 60, 61 60. And they're talking about it just going up to 67, but it's not getting a big resolution bump. But yes, it's getting. All right, let's bring this up. And this is where the Internet sucks. Share this tab instead. Big news. Sony A7.6 is a Sony A12 killer with 67 megapixel fully stacked sensor. And it'll be €5,000 dollars, which is a new type of euro euro dollars. It's like, it's just a new thing. And so Katznalenbergen says, why buy the A1 anymore? I guarantee you that it will not be an A12 killer. It will be. It will be a good option for some people and they may choose it over the A12 just like the Canon R5 Mark 2 for some people is a better camera than the R1. They're like, oh, it's got 4 megapixels, you know, shoots 8K video and this and that. But it. It's it's not. It doesn't destroy the R1 in every category. It just becomes a better camera for some people or potentially most people. This, this might be, you know, this will be the landscape photographers just dream camera and potentially be great for bird photographers as well with the extra resolution and if it speeds up. But it's not. They're not going to take their flagship camera and just be like, oh, now, now the one down the line's better. Well, too bad. Anyway, that's my. What do you guys think? [00:51:55] Speaker B: I agree. I know, I agree. I don't think there's no reason for them to butcher their flagship range at all, you know? Yeah, like you said, this will just have. It'll just be an alternative solution for people that need the specific things that this camera offers. Like with everyone that every can, every camera that Sony brings out, they all often feel the same, but there's really, there's really unique differences in them to suit different genres, different approaches to your craft. You know, whether you're shooting video or stills or whether you're doing high speed or landscape, you know, just another tool, just another hammer. [00:52:31] Speaker C: Exactly. And yeah, they just, they're not. This has been their high resolution line or. Well, this will be the sixth iteration of it and it's never been the fastest camera they make. This isn't going to be either. It's never been their flagship camera. So. And I know, yeah. So Bruce saying Sony do leapfrog their top systems with some specific. And that can happen. Canon does it as well. Sometimes you'll end up where a lower tier body has something that a higher tier body doesn't have. That does happen for sure, but. Yeah, exactly, yeah. The overall specs isn't going to end up like making the other one just completely irrelevant. It just won't happen. I don't think it's ever happened, but it does sometimes make people sort of swing from one to the other. A lot of people might buy this camera and then the A7, the A13 will come out and then they'll buy that and go back and that maybe there has been talk as to whether that's a strategy that camera brands implement to kind of keep turning even faster. So you're not just going from a 12 to a 13, you go from a 12 to a 7, R6 and then to a 13. And so you're almost like moving. Yeah, that is possible. [00:54:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:02] Speaker C: But yeah, anyway, because there are people [00:54:04] Speaker B: that, that just chase the latest and best. You know, I know a guy who does that with 50 mil lenses. You know, he just can't help himself. It's. It's like an illness. [00:54:16] Speaker C: I've got the worst one. I only brought the cheapest worst one with me. I feel like I've got an illness. I don't know. I still feel, I'm still second guessing the choice, but we'll see. [00:54:27] Speaker A: We didn't even bring a 50. [00:54:29] Speaker C: It's 55. That's true. Well, you know, it was really interesting doing the test how different the focal lengths of all the 50s were. Wow. They're not all like Bang on 50. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, it was very interesting. You know what else was interesting? I also tested my 28 to 70F 2.8 compact prime zoom lens. Compact, sorry, Compact zoom lens travel zoom lens and it held up really, really well in the scheme of things. At 2.8. Yeah. At 50 mil at 2.8 comparing to the primes at 2.8. It wasn't getting blown away. I was like, yeah, which, which means the primes were really benefiting from that like light gathering wide aperture stuff. But not, you know, you're shooting at F4. There's not, you're not getting like tons of extra sharpness because you're shooting these prime in, in this system. Anyway, I'm going to do, I'm going to do more in depth tests and I'll end up making a, a proper conclusion of it. But anyway, cool. What else? [00:55:46] Speaker B: Let's talk about Canon's rumored drop. The R6V. [00:55:51] Speaker C: Yes. [00:55:53] Speaker B: Which is. Yeah, that one. [00:55:57] Speaker C: Bring her up. This one's to be expected. I think it's kind of a competitor to the Nikon zr. If it, if it comes out as, as it's being rumored, which is like a vlogging, high performance vlogging camera. Not, not quite to the level to where it gets the C designation which the Canon, you know, the Canon C50 which was a recent release Cinema. This is an R or it'll be like an R6B or whatever and that it's more in like the top end of their vlogging style cameras but it'll still be a very competent video camera. That's what I think. [00:56:51] Speaker B: Yep. And once again. Yeah. Like according to the rumors, it's likely to be announced on the 13th of May. [00:57:02] Speaker C: Oh yeah. Yep. You know what's interesting, Jim? The Nikon zr. Have you looked at that camera at all? You probably haven't because it's like a hybrid bit more video camera. It doesn't even have a viewfinder. But the screen on the back is 4 inches. It's massive, the screen on the back. And Adam Edwards took it to Iceland just to shoot stills and stuff with it and a little bit of video. And he was like, that screen is so nice. Every camera should. Yeah, just a massive. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a video on his YouTube channel anyone can watch. [00:57:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:42] Speaker C: He said it was just a dream to use just that big, nice screen on the back. So it'll be interesting to see if Canon go that direction as well to compete or if Canon stick with their crudgy, cheap little flippy addy screens that I'm really getting over. I really want to be able to just, just when I'm walking around. Gosh, it's getting dark in here. Up my ISO a little bit. Hold the line. You know, I'd like to be able to just flip this out and just, you know, just shoot straight down. [00:58:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:19] Speaker C: Easy to. And not have it out to the side like Canon force you to do. [00:58:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:25] Speaker A: Can you go if you want to go up or is yours on an angle still? Like, if you want to hold it above your head. [00:58:33] Speaker C: Would that the Canon or for Leica? This is the like. Yeah, the like. I can tilt it down to like that much. Yeah. [00:58:40] Speaker A: So it's about the same as mine, really? I think. [00:58:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Just enough to get a bit of a thing and then I can tilt it down, which I really like, and look down at it. Like a waist level kind of viewfinder and that. Like that for my Canons for video work is so useful. Being able to shoot video at that level and not have to have a monitor or anything. And then when I flip it out to the side, it just doesn't feel. It's hard to judge where the camera's pointing versus where you're looking. It just. It just puts me off a little [00:59:11] Speaker A: bit across kind of thing. Yeah. [00:59:13] Speaker C: It feels unbalanced or unnatural. Anyway, I don't like it. [00:59:17] Speaker B: Yep. And look, this R6V, if it is whatever they're working on, it makes sense. You know, the, the, the ZR from Nikon is getting some good attention. It's getting out into people's hands more and more and it makes sense for them to bring out a competitor to it otherwise, you know, because Nikon have gained the jump on this, haven't they? They've. They've invested big. They've bought Red. Now they're using Red's technology to build these hybrid cameras. Canon would be fools to ignore that and just let it happen. They have to respond. So hopefully this Is this is their response and hopefully it's in kind. [01:00:00] Speaker C: Yep, I agree. It's the Nikon kind of jumped into a category. Canon released the C50. Completely different, sort of similar, but very different camera at the same time as the zr. And then I think maybe they looked at that and went, oh, hang on, we've left a bit of a slot open here. But a slot that normally gets filled maybe mostly by just hybrid photo video cameras. You know, like someone would just buy just a regular camera to do that job. Said, no, we're gonna, we're gonna put a specific camera in to do that job. [01:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And that in itself made sense. You know, video is king at the moment. It's, you know, it's. What everyone is looking for is video content. Yeah. Even a dedicated video camera makes sense. [01:00:49] Speaker C: Speaking of which, Tony, get off my digital lawn. Says Justin's getting ready for his Fortnite competition after the podcast is over. [01:00:56] Speaker B: That's. [01:00:57] Speaker A: That's wrong, Tony. He's starting a. [01:01:02] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll be reckless. If you, if your phone rings and it's an. It's like an unknown number and then when you answer, there's like a nine second pause and then a lot of static. [01:01:12] Speaker A: Me. [01:01:13] Speaker C: It's me. [01:01:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. What else we got in the news? We've talked about the R6V. Yeah. This little Alfie Box camera thing. This, this looks really interesting because we're talking a couple weeks ago about, you know, we're seeing some people, these amazing medium and large format camera boxes, old ones that they'd either restored or they were just working with however they. They came. And here's someone promising the Alfie Box. And apparently it's, it's going to be launching just a few weeks. Yeah. And the way that it works is that it's like an Instax, but it's just an old school like it. You take the shot and you develop it in the box right there and then. Okay, so it's working like an Instax in that sense that, you know, [01:02:15] Speaker C: you [01:02:15] Speaker B: can do it all in one. [01:02:19] Speaker A: Yeah, but you're putting the chemicals in rather than. [01:02:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Yeah, just. [01:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah, you apply the, you apply the chemicals yourself separately. But yeah, it's just a really cool way of looking at photography and looking at analog photography. And how do we make that experience unique? [01:02:40] Speaker C: Yeah, it says here, basically after the user takes their photos, they then complete four steps to do a black and white reversal process and develop a positive image right there in the field. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's Almost. Yeah, it's more of like a. Almost like a science project, hobby type fun experience as opposed to just. Yeah, very clever. And it looks nice, looks well built. Hopefully. That's real brass. [01:03:13] Speaker B: I wonder if they'll make looks like that front lens mount can be unbolted. Yeah, obviously. And possibly changed with something else, you know, if you want to put other lenses on it or whatever. Anyway, we'll keep an eye on that and see what comes from it and [01:03:33] Speaker C: what's. Hang on, this one's raised almost a million bucks. [01:03:37] Speaker B: Yeah, this is a weird little nugget. [01:03:41] Speaker C: Rewind picks digital screen free compact camera on to offer an analog experience. Yep, there's been a ton of those. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:52] Speaker C: Clickster and all that money. Yeah. So I wonder what, what has it done that no one else has done? [01:04:02] Speaker B: Well, probably very little because you don't [01:04:07] Speaker C: sound very confident about this being. [01:04:09] Speaker B: Well, they fluff it up like it's a new thing. But you know there's other companies that have been doing this for a little bit now. It's kind of more disposable, cheap style digital cameras that don't have a screen or like, you know, wasn't there one that just. All it had was like an image counter on the back. [01:04:29] Speaker C: Yeah. And the one I think it was Glenn Lavender that had it. The one that you load, or was it Greg Carrick that you load the film cartridge in to tell the camera what sort of film you've got. And so this looks like it's got that but through an app instead of being a cool bit of plastic that you would jam in there. I think it was a Yashika looks like this one. You load it in the app and then it's like got unload films, load films, you know. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Well in that respect it's a bit like the X half because the X half Fujifilm wanted you to use the phone app as your development kit. [01:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:07] Speaker B: So it's kind of that concept again which is great. I mean the more people that do it, you know, cheaper the technology becomes all that sort of stuff. [01:05:14] Speaker C: Interesting. And look at this. It's available in two colors. Numerous add ons are available including a bag, waist level, viewfinder, shoe cover, wooden handle, shutter, buttons in different colors. Price from 6 to $29. I mean at least it's cheap. [01:05:32] Speaker A: Raised a lot of money though. [01:05:33] Speaker C: Yeah, a lot of money. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:39] Speaker C: All right, I'm on a ticking clock here. [01:05:41] Speaker B: Okay, what do you want to jump to? [01:05:43] Speaker C: Actually I'm just watching the thing just go down and I'M like, we should. We could do the. Your images just jump into that because we don't have. No, that's what I'm thinking. I'm like, I'm the only one that's got the photos, so just in case my computer dies, maybe we should go through those. Was there anything else before? Oh, I see. No, I couldn't. It's a long story. There's not many PowerPoints. [01:06:14] Speaker A: All right, I'll take your word for it. [01:06:17] Speaker C: I charged everything. Oh, there was a new. A Fujifilm article here, Greg. Did we need to talk about that or. [01:06:26] Speaker B: No, no, it's just a move on. [01:06:30] Speaker C: They just got named one of Times 100 Most Influential Companies of 2026. [01:06:36] Speaker B: Yeah, not a big deal. [01:06:37] Speaker C: No big deal. Was that for the XR specifically or something else? [01:06:41] Speaker B: It wasn't for the xr. [01:06:43] Speaker C: Okay. Was it. No, I did I, I did actually see that headline. Was it Most influential companies of 26? 2026 specifically? I thought it must have been more like an influential company of, of like a long. What do you call it? You know, like. [01:07:00] Speaker B: No, it was for instance. [01:07:02] Speaker C: Oh, right, right, right. [01:07:04] Speaker B: It was more for Instax. The innovation of Instax and you know, the fact that they continued to evolve it and create new products all based on the same foundation of instant film. [01:07:16] Speaker C: Yeah, like that camera and the cine camera and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not just resting on the like here we've got one product that does Instax. What color do you want it in? Kind of thing. [01:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're constantly reinventing it, so. Which is good. [01:07:34] Speaker C: That's awesome. Congratulations, Fujifilm. If you would like to celebrate by sending me an X Pro 4 to review before it gets released later this year, you're more than welcome to. [01:07:45] Speaker B: Yeah, [01:07:48] Speaker C: you know, you never know. [01:07:52] Speaker B: Speaking of Fujifilm, I'm not going to be there, but I've got the, the Creator Summit this coming weekend. [01:07:57] Speaker C: Oh yeah. [01:08:01] Speaker B: In. In Port Melbourne here in Victoria and it's a full day event on the Saturday if you guys are heading down. I'm going to be down there. Yeah, it'd be good to see some people and catch up. Very cool. [01:08:19] Speaker C: Make sure if you do spot Greg's beard, you get down there and, and spot him because he has all the Fujifilm connections and knowledge. And if you're at the Creator Summit, you're going to want to know that guy. Just saying you'll spot. You'll also spot his Fujifilm shoes. [01:08:35] Speaker B: Oh yeah, I got. Oh, I gotta win. Thank you. [01:08:38] Speaker A: Film Beanie on Greg. [01:08:40] Speaker B: Oh, it's a bit. It's a bit warm. It's a bit warm. [01:08:42] Speaker A: Oh, by then it'll be pretty chilly. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Who knows? Yeah, [01:08:48] Speaker C: Paul says I'll see you there, Greg. Lisa Leach will see you there. Greg Carrick will see you there. Tony says, buy a power bank. You tied us. I can't. A power bank that'll run my MacBook Pro that's also running an external monitor and a rode streamer. X. I don't think so. Also, I think my. I think my cannon's about to hang up. You guys just talk amongst yourselves. [01:09:12] Speaker B: Yeah, professional outfit right here. [01:09:16] Speaker A: He's doing a sensor clean. [01:09:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't want to get dust spots on the live stream after doing. After chatting to Wayne Rogers. Wayne from Imaging By Design. I'm paranoid about dust spots now. So this is just a midstream. It was a midstream clean. Now we're nice and clean and we're good to resume. [01:09:38] Speaker A: You know, I actually dropped a lens off there the other day. [01:09:41] Speaker C: Did you [01:09:44] Speaker A: get fixed? I noticed one of my. I pulled out a lens at a wedding and it was. It was wobbly like the barrel. [01:09:52] Speaker B: Oh, no. [01:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah. But anyway, it's getting. It's fixed. I think I should get sent back soon, but. Shout out to Nikon. They. They organized me a replacement lens straight away, so. Yeah, sorry. A lone lens, so. [01:10:11] Speaker C: That's awesome. [01:10:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that is definitely pays being like, you know, an MPS member or a CPS member. Does Fujifilm have like a. Yeah, they do. [01:10:22] Speaker B: They used to be a bit more public about it, but now they're not so much, so. Yeah, they do. [01:10:28] Speaker A: With green? [01:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. The green shoe man. Actually, I was looking at going to Imaging By Design either tomorrow or the next day because when I was away in Tassie, I did a couple of long exposures. I had the camera set on. I'll show you some of the images later, but I had camera set on a. On like a. Just a kind of a bench taking a photo of the ocean with a. With a fishing ship pulled up to the dock. And, you know, I had it open for like one and a half seconds and. And then when I looked at the images, I could see a dust spot in the corner. I couldn't see it on the sensor, but it's definitely there. So I thought, I'll take it in, get them to clean it. You know, first time I've had it clean since I bought it, so. [01:11:12] Speaker A: Very good. [01:11:13] Speaker B: All right, Justin, let's get into It. [01:11:15] Speaker A: Because you're gonna. [01:11:16] Speaker C: Yeah, I was. I'm like. I'm looking at. We're at 22%. It's going down. It's about. Now it's down to 20. All right, we gotta go fast. All right. Let's do some viewer images to be [01:11:24] Speaker A: the fastest one ever. [01:11:26] Speaker C: There might be. [01:11:27] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe. Should I skip the stories and just go for the settings? [01:11:31] Speaker C: No, no, I think we'll get through the stories. We'll just talk faster as I'll let you know if we need to increase [01:11:37] Speaker B: the pace because old mate Phil Taylor has. Has submitted a thesis with his. [01:11:42] Speaker C: He has. But it also seemed interesting. So that will. At least we'll dig into it. At least. Because I was like. Yep. Felicity Johnson bringing it up. [01:11:54] Speaker B: Hi, Justin and Greg. No mention of Jim. Just sitting down and watching your. Your episode with Eric from EY xl. Great info, especially about the documentary film photography. Thursdays are devoted to bird photography with my Birdo pal. So I'm always catching up. My Auntie Lucy has lived in Indonesia for 50 years, 40 of those in Bali. And maybe she's got an extension cord. Please. 40 of those in Bali. And is one of the island's top photographers. She has a huge dislike for tourists and lives in a funny place to live and a traditional house between rice paddies. Lucy took our family to meet her close friends in a fence village to meet Pak Mudita, keeper of village law and musician. Pak also loved looking at photos and he had pin boards full of them. Many of them from Lucy. After that, my family left and I was allowed to stay until midnight to watch and photograph a ceremony in a temple ruin in the jungle. Tourists never get to see this side of Bali. Pac passed away in June 2025. This was shot with a Nikon D750 Tamron 24 to 70. [01:13:01] Speaker C: A beautiful shot, Felicity, and very timely. Did you know that I was over here? That's quite amazing. But yeah, that's. Now I just want to find Auntie Lucy. [01:13:16] Speaker A: You won't be allowed in, Justin. [01:13:18] Speaker C: Probably not because I'm a tourist. But yeah, that. That's. It is. It's really interesting. Getting access to things, isn't. Yeah, yeah. Then that is the key to getting authentic experiences. And the only way to do that is to talk to people. Oh, look, she didn't know. Wow. What a crazy coincidence. But yeah, beautiful. [01:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gorgeous portrait. Up next, crackers. Greg Carrick. G'. Day. I have two images again taken last week on a trip along the great Alpine road. JB Hut In Mount Hotham an easily accessible hut with opportunities for great compositions with surrounding Snow gums. Fujifilm XT2 with a Samyang 12mil1 125th of a second F 5.6 ISO 320 lovely. And then the second shot, Snowy Mountains. You have countless views of the far mountains along the great alpine road. There were lots of smoke haze from burn offs which gave this the atmosphere shot in 1 to 1 ratio. Love it across at 300 miles extra grain etc etc via Snapseed. Fuji XT2 with a Tamron 18 to 301 1000th F10 ISO 200. [01:14:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that. [01:14:38] Speaker B: It's timeless that look, isn't it? [01:14:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:41] Speaker A: He's really probably even better on your screen Justin. [01:14:44] Speaker C: It does well actually. I've got the brightness turned down to one but yeah, [01:14:54] Speaker A: Yeah great. [01:14:54] Speaker C: Yeah. Got his thing. He's got his thing and it works and he sticks with it that that grainy black and white but also that ends in other stuff all the time like there's other, you know, color and also panoramas and all sorts of wild stuff. But then when it comes back to this kind of square format black and white, brainy pushed image. When I think of Greg Carrick's photos that's what I think of. [01:15:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah for sure. They've done a lot of astro stuff recently too. He's got himself a new little toy. Hopefully he'll send in some shots for it. Up next is Phil Taylor. Hi Justin. No mention of me or Jim. I hope these can qualify for the show. The first which is a composite is something a bit different. Full transparency. I've been fortunate to build a career in high speed photography and work for a manufacturer far sighted with a ph with quite unique products. Part of my role involves shooting various phenomena which demonstrates the camera features or simply show something interesting for marketing purposes. Below is one shot I did a few weeks ago. This is a composite image of. Is this it? Yes, it's actually a composite image of I lost my place smashing a US flavor of LifeSavers. It's called Winter Green Green. These lifesavers emit light when the crystalline structures charged nitrogen in the air. Fascinating phenomenon that no one really understands yet. [01:16:26] Speaker A: Oh that is so that there's more on the next page. Greg of explaining this. [01:16:34] Speaker B: As you can see where the strain of the impact creates the flash the actual resultant fracture occurs. The flash of light emitted is extremely dim, barely visible by eye and quite variable. The E9 150s camera has 52 micron pixels and an ISO of 200,000 monochrome. No Bayer. In this case Exposure time is 2.14 microseconds or 1.467,000th of a second shot with a Nikon. Microsoft isn't that insane? Nikon micro 105 at f 2.8 and has captured a frame rate of 400,000 frames per second. Always used high speed cameras designated as still cameras since the workflow and image acquisition is quite similar. [01:17:24] Speaker A: That is. [01:17:26] Speaker C: I thought this was backlit with flash or something. Is he implying that though that the light from the cracks is from this release of the nitrogen energy emitting light when the crystalline structure chain charges nitrogen in the air? That is so cool. [01:17:48] Speaker B: Isn't it bananas? [01:17:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that is really cool. [01:17:51] Speaker C: I love this podcast. It's crazy. Yeah. [01:17:55] Speaker A: Who would have known that that happens, [01:17:57] Speaker C: that that happens and that someone has a job to photograph it and then send it into us. [01:18:04] Speaker B: That's the best bit. And let's jump to his second shot. [01:18:09] Speaker C: You need to know more about this [01:18:14] Speaker B: of a more typical subject here is Mordialloc Pier shot on the Fujifilm GFX 50s Mark II. While I love my Fuji GF glass, I absolutely love using lens movement, especially tilt when I can find an appropriate subject. Here I Adapted a Pentax 645.45mil lens via a Kip on tilt shift adapter which allowed focus on the concrete pad through to the pier and horizon while letting the water go soft. That's bananas. [01:18:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:44] Speaker B: Another reason I chose to send in this in is the odd coloring. For many years low pressure. So here we go. For many years low pressure sodium vapor lamps used to be a major nightmare for photographers since they have a monochrome spectra and can't be white balanced. Now LEDs are largely replacing the street lights. The odd colors we used to see in many images are slowly disappearing. And like huge film grain subdued or pastel colors which are now retro, these unbalanced images are becoming a thing of the past. I did find there is a genre of photography specifically using sodium vapor lamps which I found quite amazing. Amusing in my 40s but feel old. So this was shot with a 50s GFX Pentax 645A45 at 2.8 F4 half a second aid noise used. Sorry for too much info. Never apologize for too much info. [01:19:38] Speaker C: This is good. [01:19:39] Speaker A: We needed it all. [01:19:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:19:43] Speaker C: Otherwise I would have been like oh wow, he's backlit. Some some. [01:19:48] Speaker B: Someone else talked about was it in LA or California? Somewhere in California. Someone we spoke to was talking about how they were replacing all of the old lamps that gave up that beautiful kind of orangey glow with. With new age LEDs. [01:20:01] Speaker C: I worked on a marketing campaign for that when it rolled out through. [01:20:06] Speaker B: Oh, really? [01:20:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Most of Victoria's got changed to LEDs. [01:20:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:13] Speaker C: I don't even know when that would have been. Eight or nine years ago. Yeah, yeah. There's a big rollout. Yeah, it is. It is a bit of a sad. Yeah, it had a look, but obviously LEDs led it. Actually. LEDs had a big. They reduced a lot of light pollution because they were able to be focused more on the street and obviously then different color, use a lot less energy, [01:20:35] Speaker B: longer lifespan, all that stuff. [01:20:36] Speaker C: But yeah, yeah, la. Because LA has that for movies like they've got. There's so many iconic scenes that everyone knows and it has that look. [01:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah, indeed. Next. Sometimes it's not about the photo, it's about the story. This is my son, Ethan, 20 years old, and he's such a keen photographer. We went out yesterday and just caught some beautiful light and I happened to look over when he was looking at the back of the screen. It filled my heart with love and joy that he joins me on the journey on this thing we all love. Lucky Q3. And Ethan is rocking the XT5 with a 16 to 55, another Fuji convert. It's a great show. [01:21:22] Speaker A: So it's not about the shot, but it's still a great shot. [01:21:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not about the shot, but also. Yeah, look at that. Look at that. Like a color. [01:21:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, interestingly, Nev asked me whether an X100 would be good for one of his kids. And I said, yeah, any of them. I said, I'm currently playing around with Justin's original X100 Fujifilm, and it's such a. Such a blast to shoot with. Like, it's slow, it's clunky, but, gosh, it's got character. And so, yeah, doing everything I can to convert people to Fujifilm. [01:22:02] Speaker C: And so Nev's doing everything he can to convert people to Fujifilm while he keeps buying Leicas. [01:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:22:13] Speaker C: All right, next. [01:22:15] Speaker B: John Latimer. [01:22:16] Speaker C: John Latimer. Hey, guys. [01:22:19] Speaker B: This week I've been experimenting with printing my own photos on canvas and acrylic blocks using my different printers I have for work. Long story short, color profile, from editing to what different print software have slowly fried my brain. So took a break to enjoy just taking photos. Photo of a new Holland honeyeater taken at the Marong Wetlands. Sony A7R III with a 200 to 600 shutter speed of around 1 4,000th. It's amazing to freeze the bird in motion. Edited in Lightroom. Love the pod. Take care and have a great week. Thanks, John. [01:22:56] Speaker C: Thanks. [01:22:56] Speaker B: Amazing im. That's very cool. [01:23:04] Speaker C: Yeah, just that getting that full extension. I don't know. That's crazy. [01:23:10] Speaker A: Is that like Morong near Bendigo? [01:23:16] Speaker C: Is it? [01:23:17] Speaker A: I didn't know. I didn't know we had a wetlands. [01:23:22] Speaker B: Might be worth a Google. [01:23:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Give it a go. [01:23:32] Speaker B: Should we go on to Jamie Vanderbilt? [01:23:36] Speaker C: We will. John, I'd like to hear from you at some stage, will you be upgrading to the A7 R6 or are you not worried? [01:23:45] Speaker B: Yep. [01:23:46] Speaker C: All right, Jamie. [01:23:49] Speaker B: Well, for that matter. So just before we go on, if anyone is considering a camera upgrade, first think Fujifilm, but then also let us know in the, in the. In the comments. Either live chat here or later on. If you're listening, let us know what it is that you're hoping to upgrade to. But are you scared that a next generation camera is going to come along and supersede it? Let us know. [01:24:12] Speaker C: Yes. [01:24:13] Speaker B: All right. Tweak Productions. Yeah, here's my photo for this week. Once again, just trying something different and a bit more artsy and minimalist. Went to Hin's Dam near the Gold coast as I had this awesome staircase spillway. No water flowing, but I loved all these lines and textures. It had also just this one broken piece that disrupted all the lines. Caught my eye. Not my usual bugs and bikes, but I really enjoy just photographing anything and everything. And we'd love you for it too. Tweet. This is with the R5 mark II 24 to 105 F4 and at 1 320th F63 ISO 200. Thanks again for making a space to share our passion. Lovely. [01:24:59] Speaker C: How good's the love coming in this week? Thank you guys. Thanks for sending photos in because without that this segment would be pretty terrible. It would just be me and Greg and Jim just showing you our photos. Yeah. [01:25:11] Speaker B: Crickets. Just crickets. [01:25:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [01:25:17] Speaker A: Paul Hendo said, wonder if they mean meringue wetlands near Melbourne. And I googled it and that's what came up. So I guess it's meringue. Yeah. So no Marong wetlands for us, Justin? [01:25:33] Speaker C: No. That one. [01:25:35] Speaker B: No. Oh, well, the. The canal floods every now and then. [01:25:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:25:41] Speaker B: The creek. [01:25:42] Speaker C: Yeah, the creek. [01:25:43] Speaker B: Creek. [01:25:44] Speaker A: There's bats there too. [01:25:47] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes. [01:25:48] Speaker A: We should do a bat shoot. [01:25:50] Speaker C: I'd like to do a bat shoot. I'd look up at them because they fly over a house, like regularly. Yeah, yeah. Especially on warm nights. They just wear on their trail and they just fly over. But it's so dark, it's hard to freeze the motion. It's. Yeah, it's tricky. [01:26:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:05] Speaker C: All right, we better move because I'm currently on. I'm on 9%. [01:26:09] Speaker B: All right. Phil Thompson. Hi, Justin and Greg. No mention of Jim. Please find attached my image for tonight's podcast. Phil Thompson one. It was taken at the lookout at Lindis Pass in New Zealand on my last trip over there in April, May last year. It is on Route 8 when we were traveling between our overnight stops at Wanaka and Tekapo. What caught my eye with the ridge lines and also the contrasting colors between the dry grasses and the blue sky. Photographed on a Pentax K1 Mark II Pentax 15 to 30 wide angle lens with the Wandapana 0.9 GND filter shutter 1/60 f22 ISO 200. Nice. God. [01:26:54] Speaker C: A graduated nd I've never used one. I'd love to try one one day. I know. I think Grant's. I think you've never used it. [01:27:02] Speaker A: No, no, not at all. It's above pay grade. [01:27:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:27:09] Speaker B: I played around with a few different filters, but more just out of curiosity than actual creativity. [01:27:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:27:15] Speaker B: So, yeah, I have nothing. Great shot. [01:27:21] Speaker C: Files 2 and 3 are there to show the high one approach on either side of. Monica and Te. [01:27:36] Speaker B: I love how the. The line, the distinction between the sky and the land is so crisp. [01:27:42] Speaker C: I've driven. I've driven this before and it is stunning. [01:27:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet. [01:27:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Absolutely stunning. Yeah, it is. It is a beautiful sort of stretch of. Of countryside. New Zealand's amazing. [01:28:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:03] Speaker B: Let's jump onto the lucky last one. Lisa Leach, everybody. This is my photograph for the podcast your images segment this week. Another image from magnificent, magnificent, magnificent New Zealand. A long exposure, 15 seconds. An old jetty at Glenorchy. The post rain, moody skies provide an emotive edge to this old relic. Yeah, they do. [01:28:27] Speaker A: Good job. [01:28:30] Speaker B: Amazing. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to catching up with anyone from TCL community attending the Fujifilm Creators Summit on Saturday. Warmest wishes, Lisa. [01:28:39] Speaker A: Just another plug. [01:28:40] Speaker B: Well, that wasn't even written on the form. I just made that up. [01:28:46] Speaker A: That's a great show. [01:28:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Damn. Damn you and your beautiful photography and your trips in New Zealand. Yeah, it looks stunning. [01:28:58] Speaker B: Very cool. Have we got time for a couple of my images? [01:29:02] Speaker C: We sure do. Greg Carrick and Nev Clark are having an nd off in the. In the comments. So we'll see how that works out. All right, thank you for sending that in. And let's get to Grace, everyone. [01:29:16] Speaker B: All right, we'll just skim through these very quickly. So this is. These are all from my trip last week. And of course, as I mentioned, I caught up with Bruce. I took a couple of portraits of him. I even took a portrait of Bruce with a random delivery guy that was just crossing our path. I said, hey, hey, get in the photo. And so he did. Didn't even get his name, [01:29:42] Speaker A: but I'm [01:29:42] Speaker B: pretty sure that he's grabbing Bruce's ass, which is why Bruce is smiling in the second photo. You know, each of their own. [01:29:49] Speaker A: We can't prove it. [01:29:53] Speaker B: And so this is Bruce's work. This is University of Tasmania. Brand new building, State of the art education facility. The architecture of this space is just mind blowing. Absolutely beautiful. [01:30:11] Speaker C: Yeah, that and then. [01:30:12] Speaker B: Yeah, beautiful. And then this is from Mona. That's actually a poo machine. I think they. I can't remember what the official term is, but they move waste between these. These. They simulate a stomach and a. And, yeah, like a digestive tract [01:30:30] Speaker C: and [01:30:31] Speaker B: they create gas and they empty them every now and then. [01:30:35] Speaker C: Is it. Is it poop on the floor or anything? No. [01:30:38] Speaker B: Well, I didn't try. [01:30:40] Speaker C: Okay. Whoa. What's this? [01:30:45] Speaker B: This is one of the. In this room they've got this space for a small. Like a quartet maybe. Plus this guy who's actually a conductor. And so every day he. He writes a new composition. This is the art. So he creates this new composition and then he. He conducts this small orchestra at 4 o' clock every afternoon to perform live to people with this piece that he's written. [01:31:14] Speaker C: Wow. [01:31:15] Speaker B: And it's just this beautiful, like this massive room and there's just sort of some little. Just to this, to the right out of frame, there's just some little tables and chairs with candles and. Ready for the four o' clock performance. But it was this sort of stuff at, at Mona that just sort of. It just made you stop and go, oh, wow, that's. That's so bizarre, unusual, fun, unique. It just really got you thinking about it. [01:31:42] Speaker C: Greg Carrick says, excellent black and white and I agree. [01:31:45] Speaker B: Thank you. Crackers. [01:31:47] Speaker A: Perfect. [01:31:48] Speaker C: Like contrasty punchy. [01:31:51] Speaker B: Yep. [01:31:52] Speaker C: The details everywhere. Yeah, that's. That's a great show. [01:31:55] Speaker B: Very happy. This is. This is my own lightroom. Preset Tokyo across. [01:32:01] Speaker C: You should sell those. [01:32:02] Speaker B: I'll sell them to you. Everyone else gets them free. Oh, [01:32:11] Speaker C: big ball. [01:32:12] Speaker B: This was. Yeah, it was just this weird. No, I shouldn't say weird. It's the wrong word. It was just this really unique exhibit, exhibition piece with these huge balls that on one side were sort of this silver foil on the other. They were clear, but when you looked into them, there were all these different layers. And yeah, it was just a really captivating. I just loved the lighting in there and the big reflection and so that. That ball was about half the size of your van, Justin. That's how big. [01:32:37] Speaker C: Holy moly. Really? [01:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's really big, that one. And then there was a couple more. [01:32:43] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [01:32:44] Speaker B: And then this is in the Faro restaurant. So this is half underground, half jutting out over the river. And it's this amazing piece of architecture. That giant sphere that's. That's probably a double story house in height. She's actually standing on. Not a table, but like, you know, like a high table with bar stools. So she's actually standing on a higher. A higher table. She's a mime. She's a performer. And she came into the restaurant while we were eating and did all of this performative art and would just do random things. Like she even handcuffed herself to another to one of the people sitting at the table eating his meal and let him into the middle of the floor in front of this ball and dance with him while this double bass player played a tune like. It was just obscure but amazing and breathtaking stuff. Yeah. [01:33:41] Speaker C: Wow. [01:33:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And all of. As Bruce. Bruce said somewhere in the chat, all of Mona. Almost all of Mona is underground. [01:33:51] Speaker C: Yeah. And. [01:33:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:33:54] Speaker A: Cool. Looks like a great spot. [01:33:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a beautiful Hobart. [01:33:59] Speaker C: Beautiful tones in this as well. Yeah, just nice light. [01:34:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Came true. Really well. [01:34:08] Speaker A: Guess Fuji isn't so bad. [01:34:10] Speaker B: Thanks, mate. I'll pass it on. [01:34:13] Speaker A: No, no, I said it's okay. [01:34:20] Speaker B: Was that the last one? [01:34:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that was it. [01:34:23] Speaker B: There should be more. Actually there should be a few more. [01:34:26] Speaker C: Oh, sorry. There is. There's two more. There's two more. Oh, yeah. Ice cream man. Salamanca. Sweet something. [01:34:38] Speaker A: Sweet tooth. [01:34:39] Speaker B: This is a. This is Salamanca Market, which is the one that happens every weekend. You can see in the. Slightly in the background the old buildings. Like those buildings are there from when Tasmania was first colonized. They're epic and old. And our hotel was in the. In one of them up the top. But I just love the shot because there's this kind of. This group of. Of women sort of milling about behind him and he's just stopped and gone. Yeah, I'm just going to stand here and have my ice cream. I love his jacket. It's like, why not? [01:35:16] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. This is the characters. [01:35:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:24] Speaker C: Pirates, Tassie. He's a wild face, full of wild boys. Wild Bruce. [01:35:31] Speaker B: Yep, that's it for me. [01:35:35] Speaker C: Bruce is glad you had fun. Phil Thompson's love the tunnel. Greg Carrick said shot of the year. Incredible. From Lisa Leach and Brew. Greg. That was all right around, I reckon around the. The. Yeah, yeah. I think that was coming through pretty hard. Bruce Moore says I need to see. I need to send. You send in my Mona images where I got to use the whole space for a day with dancers. Yes, do please send them in. Please send them in. I'm on. I'm on 2%. So any moment I'm going to leave you guys. Jim, do you have any images? No. [01:36:18] Speaker A: Yes. No, not yet. I will have some maybe next week. [01:36:23] Speaker C: Okay, cool. I was wandering around with my cat with my Q3 today and I actually, I don't really do a lot of. I've took some photos of this abandoned building which I really like and I'm not sure. So one thing, we're on borrowed time here. Any minute I'm going to disappear. One thing is this is. I've got the Leica JPEG and a processed image and I like them both. And I don't know which one I like better, but also which angle. I think this angle. [01:37:01] Speaker B: Yeah, the low. From lower down. I think from lower down. Like pointing up a bit more. Like this one. Yeah. [01:37:07] Speaker C: And also not symmetrical because the symmetrical one is kind of weird. [01:37:11] Speaker A: I like the bricks, though. [01:37:13] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah, I like the bricks and I like the dangly bit. A little dangly cord. Yeah. So bricks in the dangly cord. And then here we're low down. And then here I went up a little bit higher. [01:37:27] Speaker B: And then the shadows are good in the corners. [01:37:30] Speaker C: Yeah. And the bit of grass become a focal point in this one. And I'm like, I don't know what I want, actually. [01:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I think being able to see the deeper shadows works better for the composition from a little bit higher up. But I like this compared to the front on look because the angles lead you around the frame better. You've got this angle in the foreground at the top that leads you to the right. Then you've got a wall moving in at an angle that leads you to the middle. And then you've got a wall moving out at an angle that leads you out of the frame again. So your eyes traveling around the frame. That's how I see it, but I do take a lot of drugs, so. [01:38:05] Speaker C: So this was the. This was the order that I took them in when I. When I rocked up. And I'll show you the JPEGs. This is the JPEG in camera I shot. I walked in, I took this, and then I took this. Then I took this. [01:38:20] Speaker B: Oh, he's gone. [01:38:22] Speaker A: Oh, I can't even. Oh, wait, we can kick him out. [01:38:26] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do something. Let's see. Oh, look, it's just you and me now. Hey, you've got that spare lucky strap. Credit card. Let's do some online shopping. [01:38:35] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it. [01:38:36] Speaker B: Everyone gets a win. [01:38:38] Speaker A: We'll go to Japan. [01:38:40] Speaker B: Now we're talking international. We will, we will. True International. Not this Bali. All right, well, do you think maybe that's a good place to park for tonight? Did you have anything else you wanted to cover off, Jim? [01:38:56] Speaker A: Not today. I know that some people did want a update on my client that I spoke about late last year or early this year. So now it's probably not the time to talk about it because we're right at the end and we probably should let everyone go to bed, but maybe we can chat about that soon. [01:39:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that'd be good because I think there was a lot of investment from around everyone trying to understand how you managed. [01:39:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a lot of help, I think, client that I got from everyone. So it's probably good to give them an update and quite the update I've got, so maybe we can chat about that. [01:39:35] Speaker B: Yeah, and it's also good for you to debrief with that sort of stuff, too. [01:39:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it'll be interesting to let everyone know. So. [01:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, no, I look forward to that. I think it's definitely worth something that people be invested in again. But good to see you back on the show, Jim. I have missed you. [01:39:55] Speaker A: It's nice to be back. [01:39:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I hope that we can get into a bit more of a regular pattern of having you back on the podcast whenever you can and. Yeah, can't believe it's already. Maybe. I was talking to someone last week. Oh, I think I was talking to Bruce about bfop. Like, it'll be here before you know it. You're starting to fly again. [01:40:19] Speaker A: Sure is. [01:40:21] Speaker B: But, yeah. Well, look, folks, I think on that note, we might. We might say some farewell. I've. I don't have any of the access to the cool stuff because Justin doesn't trust me with it, so I can't play any music or roll Any credits. But we can certainly say goodbye to some folks in the chat. [01:40:38] Speaker A: Do we have an outro? [01:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah, but I think you've got an intro. What have we got here? Intro. Outro. That's an outro video. Let's just leave it. Don't worry, it's all good. [01:40:58] Speaker A: Thanks, everyone. Thanks, everyone. [01:41:00] Speaker B: That's just for all of you. But look, thanks to everyone for joining us again tonight on the Camera Life podcast. Random photography show. Just a reminder that if you're new here. Well, first and foremost, if everyone can give us a like, it helps out a lot because it lets the YouTube algorithms know that people are actually engaging with our content. If you're new here, welcome. 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So looking forward to catching up with Annabelle on. What did I say? Thursday morning. [01:42:20] Speaker A: Thursday morning, 9aM 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time. [01:42:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's yet to be seen where the castle shows up. Surely by then he's found with a power cord. [01:42:31] Speaker A: He did say I'm gonna get one tomorrow. Where do you say that? Somewhere. [01:42:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he said that earlier. [01:42:37] Speaker A: I'll get an extension lead. Maybe he will. Who knows? [01:42:41] Speaker B: Some guy on a scooter will show up with it. Yeah, seems to be the way commerce works. But look, on that note, Jim, thanks once again. Great to see you, mate. Glad to see that you're well and fit. And yeah, everybody be safe out there. And make sure you send in your photos for next week's segment of your images. But on that note, we'll say goodbye, we'll pretend that there's music, Jim's gonna dance, and then we'll fade to black. [01:43:03] Speaker C: There it is. [01:43:05] Speaker B: All right, see you, Jim. See you, everybody. Be safe. All right, See ya. And [01:43:16] Speaker A: Craig's just left. You didn't end the live, Greg. I'll end the stream. See you guys. Thank you.