What Happened at the Fujifilm Creator Summit! The Random Photography Show (EP181)

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sa. Well, g' day everybody and welcome back to the Camera Life podcast. This is the random photography show and it is Monday 11th May 2026. You guys need to stick around because I had an amazing weekend of photography. I went to the Fujifilm Creator Summit here in Melbourne and I'm going to unpack a little bit of that for you. And we've also got a, a prize to announce from that event. But of course, joining me tonight live from somewhere, Ms. Justin. G' Day Castles, how are you? [00:00:58] Speaker B: Good evening. Live from somewhere. I'm. I'm live from Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. And we've got Internet, that's good. We've got power, that's good. We've got very dodgy sound. I don't know why, I'm super loud in my own headphones so I'm trying to figure that out on the fly, but otherwise we're good. [00:01:18] Speaker A: That's good to have you. Good to have you. Now of course folks, this is the random photography show and for the uninitiated, we discuss random photography, related news, events, we do live unboxings, but more importantly, at the end of every episode on a Monday evening which goes live at 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, towards the end of the show, we go through your images. That's right, you can send in one or two of your images, maybe one image and maybe one behind the scenes to justinuckystraps.com with a short story and maybe your camera settings. And we will aim to present your images every Monday evening and we'll have a little chat about them. So don't forget to send them in. And then of course every Thursday morning we go live at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time to interview an amazing Australian or international photography guest. We, we've got, we've got the next three months are booking up very fast. We've got some great guests coming to you, some Australian legends in the photography game. Steve Parish, anybody? So stick around for that. Make sure you subscribe too. Give us a like, it helps a lot. And if you subscribe and you hit the bell icon for all notifications, then you'll get notified in your time zone every time we are about to come at your eyeballs. So yeah, stick around, stick around, stick around. Yes, indeed. Now you have to bear with us tonight folks, because as Justin has said, he is coming to you live from somewhere in Indonesia, doing a great job of it obviously. And I'm coming to you live from my new studio. [00:02:55] Speaker B: It looks fancy. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks good. We, we've we finished the painting. We've got half the furniture in, but I'm coming to you. I actually put a post on Facebook about an hour ago. I'm. I'm on this tiny little desk. Like, the desk is barely bigger than my laptop and. But I had my son, Brendan, and Exe was over today. We're hanging out and chatting. My friend xy, and he helped set up the lighting, and I think he's done a pretty good job of. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Looks good. It's very professional. You look like. Like a Marvel movie or something. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. [00:03:30] Speaker B: The blue and the red. [00:03:31] Speaker A: It's. Yeah. Very patriotic. Very patriotic. Where should we. Well, actually, Justin, do you want to do an ad read before we say. Say good evening to some people? [00:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah, that. That's actually a great idea. If you. So I was walking around today with my camera, and if I didn't have a camera strap, it would have been quite a pain to wander the streets of Surabaya because it was busy. It's hot here and busy. And so I had the camera just, like, slung over my hip and I could pull it up whenever I wanted. Take a photo. And if you don't have that kind of camera strap, if you've got the one that come with your camera or one that you bought somewhere else and it's just not doing it for you, go to Luckystraps.com and check it out. They're full leather, very comfortable. Go all the way across your body so you can pick it up, take a photo, put it back down, walk comfortably in the streets or on an African safari or wherever you happen to be. And they've got a nice little quick release system, too, that leaves nothing on your camera when you take it off. So if you're doing the landscape photos and you whip that thing off so it's not flapping in the breeze, there's no little dongle danglies left on there. It's. It's quite nice. Go to Luckystraps.com and use code Greg if you want to do that. And if not, just enjoy the podcast, because that's cool, too. [00:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah, indeed. Look, it's great to have you, everyone, here. Hey, what. [00:04:51] Speaker B: How do I sound for all of you in the. In the. In the chat? Tell me, does. Is the audio sound weird? Do I sound terrible? Because I'm trying to fix it on the fly. Sounds terrible to me and I'm trying to figure it out. So if you guys have any advice. Do I sound louder than Greg, quieter than Greg, anything like that let me know. We're doing this thing live [00:05:14] Speaker A: Now. Dennis Smith has just dropped a quick thing to say. Oh, everyone's saying levels are good. Brucie, you sound fine. Tintype man. Audio good. Thanks, guys. I've just said a later. Half the people in the chat. Do you want to take over from there and say good morning [00:05:31] Speaker B: in the chat? Let's see. I'm gonna go. I'm going back to the start. Burmy AU says first to class for once. But they were slightly behind dinner Smith, so there's that too. Tintypan's here. John Pickett. Felicity Johnson from Gorno. Good to see you. I'm a long way away but, you know, normally close. Philip Johnson. Bruce Moyle. Paul's here. Morning. Different time zone here. We'll have to find out what Greg's done on the catch up. Well, yeah. [00:05:59] Speaker A: What is he doing now? [00:06:00] Speaker B: Has he bought a gfx? Did you see the thumbnail I made? [00:06:03] Speaker A: I did. I thought it was awesome. [00:06:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:05] Speaker B: As he bought a dfx. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. A Fujifilm creator summit. Like the gravitational pull of that can be very strong. [00:06:14] Speaker A: Yeah. I. I orbited the. [00:06:17] Speaker C: The. [00:06:17] Speaker A: The house of photography shop that they set up there several times and I've got some stories about that which we'll share with some images to go with it. So a lot of fun to be had. [00:06:27] Speaker B: Yeah. What else? Rick Nelson is here. Hugh Jazz photo says. No way I'm buying that. Clickbait. Greg Wood. I think maybe that got cut off. Greg wouldn't. I don't know. David Skin is here. Hello, all. Been hospital twice since last week. Oh, no. Ruptured a blood vessel. A ruptured blood vessel and hematoma. I'm now getting better. It's all right. Only hurts when I laugh. Okay, we'll try not to make too many jokes, but that's. [00:06:56] Speaker A: That's no good. [00:06:56] Speaker B: David, I hope you're feeling better. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Rest up, mate. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Yep. Dennis says hematomas are the worst. Nev. Can't imagine you buying a gfx. Oh, I definitely can. I definitely can. I could see it in my. Yeah, yeah. My imagination. Rodney Nicholson. Tintype man. Goal for tonight is to make David laugh. That's fun. Jimbo's in the chat. Says see you soon. Hopefully he'll be joining us. That's why I threw him on the thumbnail. We'll see. He's. He's like. He's holding down the fort while I'm over here. When I've got Internet that may or may not work. And audio that may or may not work. Craig Murphy. Nice to see the boys are creatively late. No, that was me trying to figure out why I'm. I'm like deafening in my own ears right now and I can barely hear Greg, so it's. It's freaking me out. Who else? Lisa Leach. Good to see you. Yes. I have charged my batteries. I'm actually. I'm in a different spot. And so I've got a power plug, like right here, which is much better. Apparently. We're gawkling at Jim's boudoir picks. [00:08:04] Speaker A: What is gawkling? [00:08:07] Speaker B: Gawking. Gawkling. I like gawkling better. [00:08:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:15] Speaker B: Greg Carrick says, listening in while shooting the comment. [00:08:17] Speaker C: Oh, [00:08:20] Speaker B: no, I'm not in the bathroom, Tony. I'm in a hotel room. Steve Parrish. He did his masterclass. Felicity. Well, yeah, we'll be live streaming a masterclass, won't we, Greg? [00:08:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:08:30] Speaker B: Yep. That's an exciting get. There's a few other big names you've got just orbiting at the moment, too, which is very exciting. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Yep, Most definitely. [00:08:43] Speaker B: What else? Anyone else? Everyone says we're good. I don't know. Jeez, there's lots of you here tonight. Lots of images, too. It's going to be a great. Your images section later on. Actually, I need to fix this up so we can see that. Because I did the graphics this week, Craig. [00:08:58] Speaker A: I noticed. Yep. Nice. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Jason's here. Greg would never buy a Fujifilm, right? No, he wouldn't. Yeah. And finally, gawkling is like an arcling. I don't know what that is either. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, a bit worried about that one. Must be a Yara Rangers kind of thing. [00:09:27] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe. [00:09:29] Speaker A: Who knows what those folks do up in the hills. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Where to start? Do we just go straight into the Creator Summit? [00:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do that. Now, you've should have some links there to a image folder, I think. [00:09:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I've got those. I've got the image folders ready to go. I'll just have to pull them up, but yeah, downloaded and ready to rumble. [00:09:55] Speaker A: Cool. Let me give you a little bit of a recap as to what the day held. Anyone that went to last year's Creator Summit. I didn't get to go. Justin refused to fly me first class, so I refused to go. If I couldn't go first, I couldn't go at all. That's just the way it is. Oh, no. I'm back. Rick Nelson said I froze. I'm back. I'm here. So on Saturday here in Melbourne, in Port Melbourne at, I think it's Timber Yard, it's a, like a big function venue. Fujifilm put on quite the feed for hungry visual creatives in Melbourne. 1200 ticket holders, an abundance of staff, plus caterers and security all flocked to Port Melbourne. Gates open at about 10 o', clock, I think, went through to about 5 and the creator, Summer, I didn't really know what to expect. I kind of thought there might be a little bit of, you know, having been to befop, obviously you kind of get a bit of a feel for trade shows and things like that, but it was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. It was very different to befop. It was different to any other thing that I'd been to. And so basically what Fujifilm did rather successfully is that they opened their doors to a very diverse range of visual creators. So not just, you know, the hardcore photographers, not even just the hobbyist photographers to anyone that was making any form of visual content, digital storytelling or, you know, visual storytelling, they were welcome at this event. And it was, it was evident in the crowd there was such a diverse mix of ages, demographics, people shooting different genres, people that are influencers know creating a lot of content online for different brands and, and for their own brands. And it was just a masterclass in how to bring community together. And you know, Justin, you and I here, we'd like to think that we do a pretty good job with fostering community and supporting community. I think it's, it's probably one of our pinnacle principles of what we do and why we do it. And the Fujifilm, Fujifilm certainly showcased that same sort of, you know, love towards the community. There was so much, so much to do and so much to see. So when you got there, the first thing that happened was that you, you showed up, you got your QR code scanned on your ticket and then you were handed an Alpaca high quality tote bag. Now when I say I'm not talking about a Woolly's green bag here, this thing is premium. I haven't got mine here with me. But every ticket holder got, there's, there's, there was, I think there was 1100 of those bags made for Saturday's event. [00:12:48] Speaker B: Really? [00:12:49] Speaker A: Yep. The team at Alpaca just, they pulled out all stops and I've been doing a little bit of work with alpaca recently, just doing some product stuff and, and I'm an influencer now. That's right. And, and they made, yeah, they made well over A thousand of these bags. So everyone got one of these totes. Though they're gorgeous quality, this is basically like one of their standard product lines. But they altered it with Fujifilm and. Which is really cool. It's just that little attention to detail. So the interior color of the tote is matched to Fujifilm's special color palette. You know how all big corps have a color palette for branding. They changed some of the internal pockets so that they would. Then they were now lined with this super soft material for holding smaller compact cameras like an X100 Mark VI or my little X70. It's got a laptop sleeve. And then there was some bits and pieces in it. First, there was a discount to all alpaca products. 30 on the day, which is a huge saving just for that day. [00:13:57] Speaker B: There was. It like you had. You had to buy something on the day to get. [00:14:00] Speaker A: And they had it. Yep. And they. They had a trade space and alpaca was on hand to sell product and by all accounts they. They did well anyway, so the tote was great. It was full of little knickknacks. There was a discount for alpaca, obviously. There was a 20 discount on all Fujifilm products. 20? Yep. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Across that one on a GFX100 RF20. You didn't even text me. [00:14:29] Speaker A: I might have caged you might have too. I should have. But, but. And Greg Carrick took. Took good advantage of that discount. But we'll get to that a little bit later when we start looking at some images. So, yeah, that, you know, there was some. There was a. A can of drink and a, like a muesli bar kind of thing. Protein bar, I guess, and a couple of other bits and pieces. It was a nice Nissi keychain. Anyway, so that was that. And then you basically, you walk in and there's a huge marquee. And in the marquee there was the team from nissi. They were on hand. There was. There was people there from Atmos. There were people there from obviously alpaca. Who else is there? [00:15:14] Speaker B: The. [00:15:14] Speaker A: What's the Monitor brand? [00:15:17] Speaker B: Easo. [00:15:18] Speaker A: No, really traditional photographers. Monitor brand calibrated. [00:15:25] Speaker B: No. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Not easy. What's the other mob? Someone can think what I'm trying to think. Can you please put it in the chat because Justin's clearly not helping. Who's Ezo? [00:15:32] Speaker B: No one. [00:15:32] Speaker A: There is no Ezo. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Ezo is. Is Ezo. No, no, Adam. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Benq. [00:15:41] Speaker B: The traditional calibrated. The benq's like. It's like. That's what I've got. That's like the poor man's Ezo. Whatever. These are like those ones that have the, you know, those fancy hoods on [00:15:53] Speaker A: them that the proper photos too. Yeah. I don't know what this Discrimination is towards BenQ. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Oh no, nothing easy. Yeah. See this is the thing. I've got a Benq but they're great. Benqs are amazing monitors. But ezo's the monitor brand as Dennis Smith. But it was always out of record in terms of like what you get for the money. Oh is it? Hang on. Oh, it's pronounced Azo. That's right. Okay. Despite the fact that it's pronounced with an e. But so, so yeah, in [00:16:29] Speaker A: terms of retail, thank you. As a po Mantez summit, Greg, who else was there? So yeah, benq. I might have missed one. Another Adobe was there. Not many people visited their stall. It felt like. [00:16:45] Speaker B: How was that? Was it, was it weird? Was that awkward? [00:16:48] Speaker A: Were you like crickets and tumbleweeds? No, it wasn't awkward. It wasn't awkward. It was good to see them there anyway. So then they had that, then they had this huge, what's called the House of Photography which is Fujifilm's retail brand. They've got a store in Sydney. They did a pop up store here in Melbourne at Chadson Shopping center and the same I guess display that they built which was massive for Chads and they brought that to the Fujifilm summit and that was telling everything from Instax to binoculars to gfxx, the whole lot. [00:17:22] Speaker B: So did they shut the Chadstone saw down to, to move all the stuff? [00:17:26] Speaker A: No, that was only a pop up, was only up for like a week or two actually. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Okay. So they, they probably looked at this and went well we're going to build this to M, like for this one event. We might as well see if we can grab a space in the lead up to it, get a feel, refine the stands and everything and then move it. That's actually genius. Very smart. [00:17:47] Speaker A: Really clever space. It was cramped because there was, you know, 11, 1200 people walking through it. But this, all the staff were amazing. They were just like. And they just had an abundance of stuff. It wasn't like you were looking around for someone to help you with something. They employed a team of folks to clean image sensors for free on Fuji cameras I think. I don't know if they're doing all cameras but obviously it was a Fuji summit. [00:18:12] Speaker B: So they were obviously they were spitting in other cameras, scratching them up, going, [00:18:16] Speaker A: oh, look at this. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll clean that for you. [00:18:20] Speaker A: 20 off at the store. 20? Yeah, go get a new one. Anyway, so. And then, you know, then they had all these sort of these creator spaces. So they had. Oh, plus a whole lot of loan gear so you could go and loan Fuji gear and. And yeah, use it throughout the day, borrow it for a couple of hours, come back and swap it over something else. [00:18:44] Speaker B: Loan anything? [00:18:45] Speaker A: No, I didn't need to. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Got it all. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I had what I needed and yeah, and then there was like, there was people doing like, there was food, catering. There were like three different places where you can go and get good coffee and really nice food, you know. [00:19:04] Speaker B: Coffee in Melbourne? [00:19:05] Speaker A: No, no, but good coffee at an event like this is pretty rare sometimes. Yeah, it was funny because I went to one of the coffee stands and one of the girls working at the coffee stand was someone at a local cafe too, that I often go to. So that was pretty cool. But anyway, I digress. And so then there was this. Made the main stage space, which is what you're looking at now. And the general manager of Fujifilm Australia, he's like the top in Australia. He gave this amazing talk about the power of image making, the power of telling stories through images, but also about how everyone's concerned to see where this whole AI thing is going. And he gave a really strong message about AI In a nutshell, he said that AI has already read everything we've ever written and it's already looked at all the photos we've ever taken, but it has not lived one of those moments once. Not for one day, not for one year, not for one hour, never. And it was just a really. And it was a really compelling talk about that people still need that human interaction when it comes to storytelling. So, yeah, it was great. It was good. And then this is the main stage. They had a bunch of different guest speakers come on throughout the day, but they also had other workshops going on. They had people doing workshops for like photographing cocktails being made. There was Taiko drummers, like a local. I'm not sure if they're from Melbourne, but they're definitely an Australian based group that train in Taiko drumming, which is a Japanese drumming and storytelling process. And I watched that workshop twice because it was just so good. It was amazing. And in fact, this photo you're looking at here is just the crowd who are all very compelled by what's going on with the Taiko drumming in front of them. [00:21:02] Speaker B: You're like, I know this guy. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Yeah, he shows up a lot. [00:21:07] Speaker B: He was. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Yeah, he's prolific. Yes, that, of course, is Greg Carrick. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Look at all those Fujifilms in. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it was really cool. You know, there were lots of people that had different brands, but there was so many people with Fuji cameras. I mean, obviously, but it was just really amazing to see, again, the diversity of people that were shooting with this product, you know, Very, very cool. Craig Carrick, freeloader. Yeah. [00:21:37] Speaker B: And hey, xy, what's up? Good to see you. [00:21:40] Speaker A: Hey. So the day itself, there was a timetable which I didn't follow at all. I just sort of showed up where the light was good and there seemed to be something interesting going on. But a lot of the time I was just catching up with folks. I was socializing, I was meeting up with old friends, a lot of past alumni from the show, the people that have been on the show before, as well as people that, you know that came and say good day at BFOP or in, you know, watching this every week. You know, Lisa Leach, Shane Henderson was there. Mark Bluetooth was there. Actually, great story about Mark. So Mark does volume photography for schools and he often does graduations for universities. And he was telling me the story how he realized that he had actually photographed Dr. Michael Coyne, who was a past guest of ours when he received his PhD in photography at university, and Mark was there and photographed him. So obviously I know Michael Coyne and I know Mark, and Michael came over to say hello to me at the end of the thing and I called over Mark Blue Hoof and. And Mark told the story to Michael and they had a great chat and I've got some, some nice photos of that in the mix of images I caught. But then I called over Jason Lau, who is another past alumni, and. Oh, he's Shane Henderson. He's been on the show too. And all of a sudden I had like six or seven past Camera Life guests standing in a circle chatting like it was just a beautiful moment where our community, the power of what we do here. Justin, you know, became this sort of this moment for all these creatives to connect over something that had more things that they had in common. Not just about photographers being interviewed, but also just about their journey as image makers. It was really beautiful. [00:23:35] Speaker B: That's. Yeah, that's pretty cool to have them all just congregate physically in person. And I mean, did anyone from Fujifilm notice? I mean, Greg Carrick said Neil Pash was there. Did anyone from Food you notice? And do you think they would be interested in sponsoring the podcast for 12 months and by simply giving both of us. A GFX, something like that. Or the Expo maybe. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, maybe. Maybe. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Charlie was obviously there because he was one of the key presenters as well as an organizer. And yes, Neil was there. He was running around crazy in the background. I only got to catch up with him very briefly because he, you know, Neil is a. [00:24:18] Speaker B: He. [00:24:18] Speaker A: He kind of keeps everything moving along it seems, which is great. But yeah, Tim Siamas was there. He was there. He was, he was hanging around and he, you know, Tim's easily excitable when it comes to this sort of stuff and he was having a ball. He was having a great day. Lisa Leach, obviously Lisa was there and this photo here. So got a bit of a story to tell. So that's Greg Carrick everybody, in case you don't know. Crackers. And Greg was there for the full day. He was running a little bit late because the, the train got replaced by buses and. Etc. Anyway, so we're halfway through the day and we're, we're kind of all sitting around a table just enjoying a bit of quiet and maybe having a coffee or something. And then Greg Carrick pipes up, he goes, guys, I need you to talk me out of something now. Now I've hung around long enough with you castles that I know when you say that you actually want us to convince you to buy something and it seems like Greg Carrick, you never know. Like I. [00:25:17] Speaker B: But you want someone to take the decision making out of your hands because it's causing turmoil in your brain and you're just like, I want this thing. Just, just tell me yes or no. Just, just do it for me. That's what I, when I usually ask you guys, that's what I'm looking for. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Someone to relieve the pressure. Yeah, he knew what he was doing. So he's, he's, he's sitting there. We were talking about how I convinced Nev to, you know, pushed him along to get a Q3. And anyway, so we're talking about that and then Greg Carrick pipes up and says, hey fellas, I need you to, need you to talk me out of something. We're not going to do that. What is it? And he said, well, you know, he's got a gfx. He shoots GFX often. He does a lot of Astro with his gfx and he will use adapted lenses, sometimes lenses Adapted with a 3D printed mount. So he, he makes the most of whatever glass is available to him. But he actually piped up and said, I'm thinking about buying an actual Fuji GFX lens for my gfx. And we said, well, what's the hesitation? We're not going to talk you out of that. Of course, you need it, you know. And I started off with my Greg, the world's on fire, half the world's at war. We don't know where that's leading. Just live life. Just go and buy the thing. So then we all marched him over to the Fujifilm House of Photography shop, which is this photo here. And after a little bit of something was going on with the, with the FPOs machine, it didn't get. But then eventually we were all chanting and cheering. There was like about six or seven of us and yeah, we're all standing around this, this, this activation center in the, in the, in the shop. And he bought himself a GFX lens. You know what was really cool is that, you know, our little group, our little posse that followed him in there chanting the whole way, all stayed in there while it was happening, photographing Greg. And this is the moment where he's tapped his card to it and gone. I'm probably going to be homeless after this. So we're not sure what Mrs. Crackers has said. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Well, Lisa Leach says you don't forget. Cracker said that we would have to tell his wife. So apparently there need to be a delegation before he got home. [00:27:30] Speaker A: We kind of ignored that bit. But, but yeah, what lens did he get? It was a gf. It was a wide zoom. [00:27:40] Speaker B: Yeah, wide zoom. That's what I, I thought based on all the stuff that he does. I was like, it's got to be a wide zoom. That's his. [00:27:46] Speaker A: I can't remember which one it was in. My, my computer's not working at the moment. Drop it in the chat, Greg, if you're still listening. [00:27:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Brucie says peer pressure if I ever heard it. And yeah, well, that's, that's how it goes. Hey, David De Parkers. Hey, what's up? Good to see you, David. [00:28:07] Speaker A: 20 to 35, I think. F4. [00:28:10] Speaker B: Nice. [00:28:11] Speaker A: Yep. But, you know, 20 off a GFX lens if you're gonna buy a mortgage repayment. [00:28:21] Speaker B: Bruce says Justin was so scared of all the Fuji film being near him, he jumped on a plane to another country. It's, it's close to that. I'll, I'll actually, I'll talk about later. I'll talk about later. I've got some photos that we might have a look at later and I'm I've been thinking a lot about Fujifilm while I'm over here. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Cool. [00:28:39] Speaker B: So yeah, just tell us if there's [00:28:40] Speaker A: something you want us to talk you out of. I'm here for you, boss. [00:28:44] Speaker B: The problem is is what I want doesn't exist yet, but when it comes, it's. I'm going to be calling on every Fujifilm contact you've got. Great. [00:28:57] Speaker A: I can help with that. Now, did Jim just joined? Did I see Jim show up. Hey. [00:29:01] Speaker B: Hey. [00:29:01] Speaker C: How are you? [00:29:03] Speaker A: Good, man. Good to see you. [00:29:05] Speaker C: Thanks. I didn't know you're on, Justin. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Well, you know, someone had to hold the show over until you got here. I'll go see us. [00:29:14] Speaker C: Just do what Greg did last week and just disappear. [00:29:17] Speaker B: I did. [00:29:17] Speaker A: I'd hit the wrong button. [00:29:19] Speaker B: No, I'm in. I'm in Surabaya. But the Internet's actually like. Does it look. Am I freezing or anything? It's. It's this hotel Internet at a very. So the hotel that I'm at to give everyone an idea is $30 a night. So it's not. We're not living luxury. But the WI fi seems to be pretty stable and the hotel's really nice to be honest, like for. For that price. It's actually wonderful. So I was pretty. I was fairly sure it wasn't going to work and it's working. So it's good. [00:29:54] Speaker C: Looks like it's. Yeah. No dramas. Why am I. Yeah, there we go. [00:29:59] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's doing the thing. Dennis is a big fan of your windows, Jim. Saucy looking windows. [00:30:06] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. Yeah. [00:30:10] Speaker C: Old school edition because Justin and Grant had cool LEDs and I didn't. [00:30:16] Speaker B: Well, I don't know, I did. Not today. You should see. [00:30:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:19] Speaker B: My setups. It's pretty good. [00:30:22] Speaker C: Is that a shoe on the ground behind you? [00:30:24] Speaker B: I did see a shoe. This is a hotel room. [00:30:33] Speaker A: He's given up people. He just stopped caring. [00:30:36] Speaker B: No, this is just. This is living. This is what I have to do. It's getting through day by day. [00:30:45] Speaker C: What did I miss? [00:30:48] Speaker B: Oh, actually, well, let's. Let's pause for a second. What'd you miss? Greg's been recapping the Fujifilm summit and it sounds like it was a big day. So it was one day. You were there from like what time, Greg? Like 10 till. [00:31:02] Speaker A: Yeah, night. I got there at 9:30, got home at about 6:30. So I hung around at the end and chatted to a few people. But yeah, it was a big day. [00:31:11] Speaker B: They peer pressured people into buying expensive lenses Fujifilm did 20 off for. For like the day, everything off. I think that's, that's actually really good. That's a. It's a cool way to get excited at a festival and then be like, yeah, let's do it. [00:31:34] Speaker C: Yeah, that's nice. [00:31:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Not like, oh, this one lens and this, this body that's everyone knows about to get replaced and, you know, all that sort of stuff. It's. It's like just across the board. That's why I said we could have got GS. [00:31:51] Speaker A: So, yeah, look, I mean, at the end of the day, the summit was more than I expected it to be. It was better than I had hoped it would be. And there were a lot of great takeaways. And especially for us, there was the first presenters after the head of Fijifilm Australia was this couple that work out of Sydney and they're podcasters, Tony and Ryan. And they're not specifically, you know, photography podcasters, but they, they do a daily show. They record five days a week or five shows a week. And, and, and they've made it big. They're traveling all over the world. Like that night, on the Saturday night after the summit, they were heading to the airport because they were flying to, I think, Canada for a meet and greet with their fans. And they do these crazy events and yeah, they're really, they're young and they've got energy, Justin. They're nothing like us. [00:32:45] Speaker B: I'm young. I got energy. [00:32:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I've got energy. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:49] Speaker B: Jim's got energy. Look at his mustache. It's sweet. Yeah, we're full of energy. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Powerful. But the, the theme that keep. Kept coming through was about visual storytelling and community, you know, and it was just. And it was evident. And I think everyone. Am I frozen? [00:33:08] Speaker B: Is it just me? [00:33:09] Speaker C: I've got him. Just you? No, Greg's perfect on my end. [00:33:13] Speaker A: Perfect. [00:33:18] Speaker C: You're clear too, Justin. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Am I back? [00:33:23] Speaker C: Yeah. You haven't, you haven't gone. [00:33:28] Speaker B: Cool. Yes. You guys just disappeared. [00:33:33] Speaker A: And just on that note of community, I just want to run through some numbers that Fujifilm Australia sent me this morning. So they do, like an annual report of people that use their services and people that don't and their products. And so these are just some of the headline stats that came through from this report. There is a full report online somewhere if anyone wants to look at it. But I'll just go through some of these. I don't think this is specific. Specific to Fujifilm. This is quite broad across the industry. 60% of Australians say Better image quality would make them consider using a dedicated camera with look and feel being a 39% indicator and a creative control also being a key driver. 60% of visual people that make visual content are leaning towards minimal or no editing, indicating a shift away from that heavy post production stuff, which. Which leans well into that whole Fujifilm ecosystem of film simulations and JPEG quality, which is clever. 77% say, what's going on? [00:34:46] Speaker B: It was so funny because the audio is spaz and you. But you're frozen like this. But there was no facial expressions. It was just stuck there. The show goes on. So we weren't saying anything. But then the, the chat started coming through Greg's fist. Greg, I'm sorry folks. Anyway, it seems like you're moving again, which is wonderful. Incredibly still. [00:35:17] Speaker A: Okay, keep going. Where was I? Where was I? 70 say people survey say it's important. Have I gone again. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Through the. David's gonna sit. It's like swallowing flies. [00:35:37] Speaker A: You're like, no, I don't know what's going on. [00:35:40] Speaker C: Maybe it's just when you talk about Fujifilm. [00:35:42] Speaker B: The Internet doesn't care, ruining everything for everybody. [00:35:46] Speaker A: But anyway, no, it's every time because I've only got the one screen at the moment because I'm in my temporary setup. [00:35:52] Speaker B: So you can see yourself as soon [00:35:55] Speaker A: as I click off onto another tab. That seems to be when it freezes. [00:35:58] Speaker B: That's probably what's doing it. That's probably what's doing it. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, that's rubbish. Anyway. There's lots of good numbers indicating that people are looking for authentic images and that. I think it was something like a half of people surveyed or a third of people surveyed said they found it hard to determine what images online were actually authentic versus those created by AI. [00:36:22] Speaker B: And that's a big deal. [00:36:23] Speaker A: That is a big deal. That's a very big deal. Felicity Johnson, let's just, let's just lean into this. Felicity Johnson said, Jim, you are jerking now. Jim, I thought we talked about this in, in the, in, in the prenatal. No jerking online. [00:36:39] Speaker C: Yeah, not on the podcast. Maybe everyone's. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:45] Speaker B: Is there more, Greg? So we got up to this picture. Would you want to flick through the rest of your. Of your Fujifilm images before? I don't know how many. [00:36:53] Speaker C: This is from the summit. These images. [00:36:55] Speaker A: This is from the summit. So they had these three Taiko drummers. This was Charlie Blevins workshop. He did it twice, I think throughout the day. But yeah. And there's Dr. Coyne after introduced him to Mark Bluetooth and I've sent Mark a bunch of photos because he was pretty stoked by that moment. [00:37:14] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's looking happy and I think, oh, okay. Well, I ran out of images and then there's some images of people with you, but should we. Do you want to hold them off to Label? [00:37:26] Speaker A: We'll leave that for the competition reveal. Yeah, that's okay because we're giving. [00:37:32] Speaker B: We're giving some stuff away, aren't we? [00:37:34] Speaker A: We are giving some stuff away. [00:37:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it'll be. [00:37:38] Speaker C: Indeed. [00:37:40] Speaker A: So that was kind of it. The. The creator summit was amazing. I've been thinking about it all weekend afterwards and chatting to people that were there and said, we've been sending images back and forth and chatting online about. It's just generated this really amazing, beautiful buzz after the event. So, yeah, it was great and I give it 10 out of 10. There's not much. The only thing I would have if I was to give feedback, which I probably will eventually. Some of those smaller spaces, like where Charlie held the Taiko workshop, it was outdoors, it was under like a roof, but the crowd was packed in, so only the first two rows could really see what was going on and people behind that were obviously struggling. So just. Just something to think about for future events. [00:38:27] Speaker B: But yeah, it does seem to happen with. That happened at the. Not a Fujifilm thing, but the. What was it called? What was it called in Sydney? Something. Fest. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Frame Fest. [00:38:44] Speaker B: Frame Fest. I couldn't hear. Yeah, it was. It was kind of like that. It was like. Yeah, the first couple of. Because it's. It was all centered, you know, around a photographer that had a subject or whatever. And then the first row or two could. Could see. And then beyond that, it was like, it is what it is. You're just standing in the crowd and you could get a peek, but you couldn't really see what was going on properly. I mean, that's kind of the nature of these larger events where you're not specifically booked in for like a workshop. But it's still. I mean, it's still very cool, but it's just. You're not going to see everything if you're not there early, I guess. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it's true. And because of that, like, the first time I did the Taiko drumming workshop, I was kind of two rows back. I managed to get forward a row and then I, like, after about five minutes, I stepped back and let someone else come forward. But then the second time in the afternoon, it was on. I went in early into the space and Just sat on the floor with it. Yeah, just right in the front. Just like get some nice angles and. Yeah. But, yeah, look, it was a great day. You know, it had that same sort of energy and that positive energy that we got from bfop, you know, where you just walk away going far out. That was incredible. You know, it was. It was kind of like that. That's how I found it. [00:40:05] Speaker B: Anyway, so as good as before. [00:40:09] Speaker A: Different. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:40:10] Speaker A: Similar energy. [00:40:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:15] Speaker B: Now just. Let's have a quick. A quick segue then. I want to find out what Jim's been going on. [00:40:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:20] Speaker B: This week because I've been away and he's probably been doing cool stuff. But I just got an email while we were talking, and I bring it up because Greg Carrick is out right now. Where is it? And Greg Kirk is out right now. He say. He said. Just emailed you a comment pick. Taken while you were chatting. So Greg Kirk's out. He just took this photo while he's on the podcast. That's cool. Send us more, Greg, we're waiting. That's cool shot that must. Is that through a telescope? [00:41:02] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got this new telescope. It's like a smart tracking camera all in one. And so he's been using that a lot lately. But there was a post on his Facebook, I think it was earlier today, or maybe his Insta, where he had a shot that he'd taken and all of the Starlink satellites were streaking through it. And he was talking about how there's this software he uses that identifies what are stars and what are. What are supposed to be in the sky and what are not, and it removes them. And it was. Yeah, it was really clever because that must be such a pain for some. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, but it. Yeah, there's so many up there now, going in all directions. [00:41:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:48] Speaker B: Greg, Eric says he's using The Sea Star S30 Pro Sea Star L S E Star. Not. There's actually a brand of marine steering equipment called Sea Star, which is spelled se A star, as you would imagine, like the ocean, but not that Easter. S E E Star. Yep. [00:42:11] Speaker A: Very cool. [00:42:12] Speaker B: Speaking of images, this is Katzen. Alan Bogan says, can photo submissions be of anything like street architecture, et cetera? Absolutely. If you're sending a photo in for the. Your images section, and we're not having some sort of specific theme, which we're not at the moment, just email me justinuckystraps.com any photo you like. Just one photo. Or if you have a series of photos or maybe an A and a B and you're like, I don't know if I like this crop better or this crop better or this frame better or this frame better or something, that's fine. But don't, don't send us 10 random photos. Give us like one photo or an A&B photo of two you're trying to decide on or a series of exactly the same kind of subject that you've been working on and send it to justinuckystraps.com make the image subject your images, make the files titled your name. That would be amazing. Yeah. And we'll bring him up on the [00:43:09] Speaker A: show and, and include a little, just a little story about, you know, just small paragraph about why you were shooting the subject, how, what, what was the story behind it and what were your camera settings too? That's always, people always like to know that. So. [00:43:23] Speaker B: And if you want feedback, if you just want to, if you just want to show us something cool, send that. But if you want feedback, feel free to ask that too. Like if you're like, oh, I'm not sure if I use the right settings or I'm struggling because I'm not getting enough motion blur or you know, like something like that, do that too. But whatever you want, it's a free fall. Jason says I'd. It'd be better if we stopped sending all that crap up there. It would, but I've been using Starling Flat out for the last week and it's really good. So there's that. [00:43:52] Speaker C: You got a power lead in the end. [00:43:54] Speaker B: I'm stuck in the middle. What's that? [00:43:56] Speaker C: You got a power. [00:43:59] Speaker B: But if I charge my laptop I could use the Starlink. Actually, no, we do have a power if, when I get back I'll have a power lead. But then when I get back we're going north to go scuba diving. So then I won't have a power lead anyway. We'll figure it out. Jimbo, what have you been doing? [00:44:19] Speaker C: I actually shot yesterday. Yeah, so. So you would. Remembered the motorbike job I did last year. So the guys that sort of do rider training and that sort of thing. The one that Nick Fletcher. [00:44:36] Speaker B: Yes. [00:44:37] Speaker C: Yeah. So Nick Fletcher's friend Paul rode with his. He did a two day ride. I just did one of them. And yeah, photographing that. So riding and photographing, which is pretty fun. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Oh, you got to ride too. [00:44:52] Speaker C: Yeah, got to ride too. [00:44:53] Speaker A: So. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Wow. [00:44:56] Speaker A: And so they supplied, they supplied the bike for you and everything? [00:44:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Yep. So I had to learn on the fly of how to ride a new Bike and different bike. Yeah. [00:45:08] Speaker B: Who supplied the backpack for your camera gear? [00:45:12] Speaker C: Jaycastles backpacks dot com. [00:45:17] Speaker A: You rated his supply? [00:45:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:19] Speaker C: For all your backpack needs. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Just go there if, if anyone ever needs a backpack for something that they don't do normally. [00:45:26] Speaker C: Any camera bag. Really? [00:45:28] Speaker B: Any camera bag? [00:45:29] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, whatever you need. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Try before you buy in stock. Yes. Oh, that's awesome. Did you have fun? [00:45:39] Speaker C: Yeah, it was good. Almost died. Four, four kangaroos tried to. To get me. [00:45:45] Speaker A: Wow. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Just coming out of nowhere. [00:45:48] Speaker C: Yeah, they were going for my front wheel and I think they looked at me and then they thought about it and they darted off at that, you know, in like a microsecond. Your brain does maths. I jumped on the brakes as this kangaroo was jumping from my front wheel and then I thought I braked and then I've just braced for impact and gone. In my head I'm like, okay, this motorcycle weighs a fair bit. Like, I'll probably be okay maybe, but maybe. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:19] Speaker A: Was that the same maths that you, you employed just before that car broke your leg that you might be okay? [00:46:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, that one the math was a bit different because that was like a three and a half ton car versus a, you know, a small kangaroo. [00:46:33] Speaker A: So. So what sort of bike were you riding? [00:46:36] Speaker C: A KTM790 adventure. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Oh, did it get you? So for anyone that doesn't know, adventure bikes are like the ones that. Well, smaller, but the same kind of thing that. What were the guys that did the long way around and the long way. Thank you. The long way around and long way down. Charlie and Ewan. Yeah, yeah. And they did those TV shows, their adventure bikes. Like, it's like, load up your gear and go out, go camping, aim to carry everything kind of thing. Much heavier but more comfortable for long term touring. Whereas Jim normally used to like a half the weight bike maybe or something like that. Nimble. And, you know, you don't carry all of his stuff to go camping for three days on it necessarily. So how did you go dealing with that? [00:47:29] Speaker C: It was like really good. [00:47:33] Speaker B: Oh, you want one now? Yeah. [00:47:36] Speaker C: I'm trying to try to justify how I can need one for work. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:41] Speaker B: So is it. Would you say it's the equivalent of someone who like normally shoots with a, you know, some sort of normal camera and then they get given a medium format or whatever for a day and you're like, oh, no, now I need one of these. [00:47:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it's exactly like that. So, yeah, it was really cool. [00:48:00] Speaker A: That is cool. [00:48:03] Speaker B: Can you guys hear coming through my microphone the call to prayer. [00:48:07] Speaker C: Yes. [00:48:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:48:09] Speaker C: I thought it was. [00:48:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:10] Speaker C: I wasn't sure what it was. [00:48:11] Speaker B: I don't think I can cut that out. So where we are is. Is very heavily influenced by Islam. It's a. It's a complete. It's so different to Bali. Bali's got a lot of Buddhist influence, whereas Surabaya, East Java is very heavily Islam. It's. Yeah, it's. It's a really interesting place. Very interesting. We've only. We just arrived today, so it's. We're still sort of trying to figure it out, but went for a stroll around and it's just. Yeah, it's completely. Not completely different to Bali. That would be wrong to say, but, like, it's. It's starkly different to us because we've just come from there and it's not the same. [00:48:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And it took me a little bit to figure out whether the people. The people in Bali are so friendly, so smiley all the time, but. And the people here seemed more reserved, and I think they're a little bit more reserved, maybe a little bit more traditional, but as soon as you engage with them, they're. They're super happy. And. I don't know, people were. Yeah. Talking to us and. Yeah, it definitely. It felt a little different at first, and then it. It started to ease off as I got more comfortable with what it was like, and then everyone was still very friendly. Yeah. [00:49:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Yep. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Pretty amazing. [00:49:37] Speaker A: David de Parker. Oh, sorry. You doing. [00:49:39] Speaker B: Sorry. I tried to bullet it up or something. Yeah. Surabaya has always had an edger. [00:49:45] Speaker A: I don't know what that means. [00:49:47] Speaker B: An edge. [00:49:49] Speaker A: Like, it's edgier. [00:49:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Dana Smith says it's beautiful. I always love the call to prayer. We've heard it a few times today. Oh, and it's. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's definitely very different to Bali. Obviously, Bali is heavily influenced by tourists, but even in Bali, when you're away from the tourist areas, obviously they're still more familiar with, I guess, different. A lot of people from different cultures visiting them because it's just such a. Like, it gets pummeled from. People from all corners of the earth are going to Bali all the time, whereas Surabaya probably has some tourism. But, like, we stood out. Every street we walked down, people looked at us and. And some people. Because. Because you would just be like, what are you doing here? You know, it was kind of like when we were traveling in some parts of Mexico and stuff like that. Yes. Just. It was just Different. Yeah, but, yeah, pretty wild. Went to it. Hey, we went to. We went to a Fujifilm place here in Surabaya today, Greg. Yeah, like a branded store in a massive, like, mall. The. We. We went to a mall that was so big that when I asked the guy where the Fuji. The Fujifilm shop was, he said, oh, that's in Tower four. [00:51:17] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:51:18] Speaker B: Six towers. So we were constantly trying to figure out what tower were in. And then each tower had like seven levels, maybe more. I don't even remember it was. And every brand of every, you know, Nike and. And then all the expensive brands and all the watches and all the. All that stuff throughout this whole mall. And then you. And then you got. Finally found your way to the outside and then it was just back into Indonesia again. Yeah. You know, one block away. It was a completely different life. It was, yeah, quite bizarre. Anyway, Fujifilm, no GFX equipment whatsoever, only X Series. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. X Series, Instax and the X half, which I don't. I don't believe fits in either of those. Yeah, I had a play with the X100 and I really remembered how good that thing fits in your hand. That's what I was talking about. I. The X4 Pro, after doing like this trip so far, is heavily in my mind of. The Q3 has been awesome and it is far better for autofocus. But, you know, and the. I'm shooting with the R5, but I definitely stick out a little bit more with the R5 on the street than the Leica. Just a bit. [00:52:46] Speaker C: Just a little bit bigger. [00:52:48] Speaker B: It's just that little bit bigger. It's a little bit more noticeable. In Bali, that's not a problem. But over here it felt different. [00:52:56] Speaker C: It's interesting, isn't it? [00:52:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And. And people always talk about that and I. I think there's pros and cons. Sometimes being noticed as a photographer isn't necessarily a bad thing because it kind of can then break the barriers down of like, yeah, I'm not trying to. I'm here, not hiding. I'm hiding, you know, but it definitely seems. Maybe it's just my own perception, but it seems to be different when I walk down the street with the Leica versus the R5 Mark II with a fairly modest lens, but still a much bigger lens than what the Leica has built into it. I feel like an X Pro 4 with a couple of primes could be a good middle ground between both of those because, yeah, I do enjoy having the potential to Put a little, a light zoom on there and I like the potential to shoot at a 50 mil focal length. And also the 28, the 28 is definitely the best for me. For street, for sure. [00:53:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The X. The X Pro 4 is proving to be sort of a hot topic. Interestingly, I saw someone had one of the limit not limited edition born, a special edition X Pro 3. So when, when Fujifilm Australia launched the X Pro 3, I went to a. They flew me up for the event and that's where I first met Dr. Michael Coyne because he was the keynote speaker of that little shindig. And they had, they had the X Pro 3s, which are beautiful cameras, but they had these special. I can't remember, it was titanium or it was some sort of finish on it that was sort of a bit scratch resistant. And they had it in three different colors. There was obviously the black, there was more of a silver and there was more of a goldy kind of a goldy silver color. Like a gun metal. But anyway, when they brought that out, they brought out a special edition of the Fujifilm XF23F2 lens in the same metallic finish as the camera. And it just. [00:54:56] Speaker B: It. [00:54:57] Speaker A: And, and it also included a special retro style lens hood. So it didn't look like a typical lens hood. It was kind of vented. And, and that was such a beautiful camera system. So cool. And there was a guy at the, at the, at the summit on the weekend who had one. I just saw it from the quarter mile, went oh, that is so nice. I want one now because such a good camera. Yeah, yeah. They brought out three different finishes and then a couple something like Duratech or [00:55:22] Speaker B: Dura something that was the titanium one that I was like. Yeah, that's what I would have got. [00:55:28] Speaker A: Yeah, that was like an extra thousand bucks just for that coating at the time. [00:55:33] Speaker C: Finish. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Here we go. [00:55:36] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:55:37] Speaker A: Jason said. Yeah. The titanium diamond finish, scratch resistant but attracts fingerprints. Yeah. Did I remember like this convention? [00:55:46] Speaker B: I've never heard that. [00:55:47] Speaker A: That's cool. Yeah. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Oh dear. Yeah, that's. Yeah, yeah. X Pro line makes sense if you like the optical viewfinder. Yeah, I did enjoy that from the X100 series and I think it'll be nice anyway. It's, it's, it's in the back of my mind at the moment. I'm happy. But if it was just traveling one body and a few lenses, it would be nice I think to be able to shoot with the X Pro 4. Similar form factor to the Leica despite far inferior Image quality being a crop sensor. Sorry. I mean, it's basically been a show about Fujifilm. I had to throw a dagger in there somewhere. Yeah, I know. And yeah, I. I think it would be a good all rounder, but who knows if they'll ever bring it out anyway. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Well, it's. Apparently it's in the works. [00:56:44] Speaker B: It's the mythical beast at the moment. It is. [00:56:50] Speaker C: I'm not being rude either. I'm just trying to edit a couple of these images because no doubt you want to. You'll probably ask to see them later [00:56:56] Speaker B: if you've got some. Yeah, [00:57:01] Speaker A: okay. [00:57:01] Speaker B: Well, Exe just said in the chat. Hello, Justin, I sent you a Google Drive link for some photos. The email went through. It did, sorry. It absolutely did. I'm just downloading now. And. What. Ideally, if anyone can remember, and I know you guys all got busy lives and stuff, and this podcast probably isn't the first thing on your mind on a Monday, but if you do remember, ideally send them through before the show. So I'm not clicking away because I can hear my own mouse in my ears. But I'll still. I'll keep an eye on the emails while they're coming through. Just let me know if you do send one. [00:57:39] Speaker A: Cool. [00:57:40] Speaker B: Nev says now that I'm one of the Leica brethren, more commonly known as the Image Stubble Club. Yeah, look, but it's hard not to be. When you pinch and zoom in on one of the files, you're like, oh, we are better. Yeah. Dennis says, nev, we can snob together. Yeah, we can snob together, but never. [00:58:01] Speaker A: We can also form your own little club. [00:58:03] Speaker B: The. The files are magical. I've actually got some. I don't know if we'll get time to look at them tonight, but I've got a little collection of files that I've shot over the last week. A mixture of Q3 and R5 Mark II. I'd be interested to know if anyone could pick which is which. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll be a fun little. Fun little gig. Should we talk some news? [00:58:28] Speaker B: Let's do it. Because. Yeah, there's that. And we gotta. We gotta keep rolling. [00:58:32] Speaker A: Yeah. There is, once again, just an abundance of lens news. Rumors, confirmed rumors, teaser trailers. It just feels like every week there's. They're just throwing more and more out there, which is great. It's great for us and it's good for the manufacturers, obviously. Let's maybe. Should we just jump straight to some camera news? There's a couple of big ticket items in there that'll probably warrant a little investigation and discussion. [00:59:05] Speaker B: Let's do it. [00:59:06] Speaker A: Okay, let's do that. Let's talk Sony. Sony has officially teased the Sony A7R6. [00:59:18] Speaker B: They put out a little video or something. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I. It's unusual behavior for them, but we are seeing more and more places do it. You know, like last year when they launched the GR4 and the NC5, remember that? Everyone was putting out little teasers and I think what they're trying to do is get ahead of the game and maybe even get ahead of the leaks, you know, because as a business who spends, you know, tens if not hundreds of thousands on a launch event for a brand new product, you know, to have to have rumored sites go and steal your thunder with shitty images that [00:59:55] Speaker C: are, you know, and get all distraction. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they think that, but they, I think they also know that they're somewhat. Those people are helping build the hype anyway because ultimately they don't give a. About anything other than selling cameras. So if the rumor sites are hyping up because you've got, we all know there's, there's the T. What do you call them? There's the early adopters and then there's that next tier and then there's the laggards and stuff. And it's like the early adopters are the ones on the rumor sites. They're the ones. I'm the one that will tell Jim to buy the next lens. You know, Jim's a somewhat early adopter that I, I've used. He been like, jim, it's got released today. And he's like, what got released? And I'm like, the thing we're gonna buy. And he's like, oh, okay. And then he buys it. And then that flows down to the person is still shooting a D3s today being like, no, this is the most megapixels you would ever need. And then it's like, that's the perspective of tech, I guess. [01:00:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:58] Speaker B: And I think, I think the camera brands understand the rumor sites have a place in, in their marketing because at the end of the day they're pumping them up. But I think you're right in the sense that they also are going, hang on a minute. If we put a teaser out, we get a little bit of that. [01:01:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Excitement. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Our channel, not just at someone else's channel. Yeah, yeah. [01:01:25] Speaker A: I think for the brands, obviously it's frustrating because, I mean, we, you know, I don't, I can't speak for Jim, but you and I have assigned NDAs on products that are coming, that are, you know, soon to launch, that have never been announced before. And you know, these businesses go to a lot of trouble to prevent these things from leaking early, to make sure that the competition doesn't get ahead of [01:01:47] Speaker B: them and without giving too much details of what the NDAs are like. But we were making the straps for the R5 and the R5 mark two and we had never, we had never seen the camera, had any idea of what it would be. And I mean, when, I mean seen, I mean, she's even. Nothing. Yeah. Had no idea of what the specs would be. Nothing like that. And we had, we had, had to sign NDAs. They could have told us all that stuff and legally we could have said nothing. But they still, they keep intentionally keep that stuff very close to their chest because it's really important for them that it's a release of technology that they've been working on for probably. I don't even know. I'd love to know how long a camera takes from, you know, beginning to end, but it's been years, I'm guessing, for that new camera to come out and then they don't want it spoiled by some idiot that makes camera straps in Australia telling everyone, you know what podcast and. Yeah, exactly. And they. So they, for that reason they make a sign in NDA. But even then, and I didn't ask because it's not relevant for me to know how many megapixels it is to be able to make a strap that suits it. Well, it's not part of our role in that process. But yeah, we had. I, I found out all the information about those cameras from rumor sites. Yeah, not from, not from. The only thing I knew was the model designation because that was going to be on the camera strap and that was it. And also obviously Canon knew what they were building it for, so they gave us the idea of what size it needed to be. Yeah, but nothing about the way the camera functioned was relevant to us. [01:03:31] Speaker A: It's that whole needs to know basis, isn't it? And you get what you need. [01:03:36] Speaker B: Yeah. David Skinner said. Are you going to click that video, Justin? Yeah. Okay, we're going to. Sorry, we got distracted. [01:03:44] Speaker C: Not like us. [01:03:46] Speaker B: This is the teaser for the Sony Next R. Oh, no, that's. That's alive. God damn it. This isn't what we want anyway. Where's the teaser? [01:03:58] Speaker A: I think that's it. [01:03:59] Speaker B: No, it's not. This is live in two days. This is the live. Oh, no. [01:04:05] Speaker A: By frozen again. [01:04:07] Speaker B: No good on error. [01:04:09] Speaker A: Oh, good. [01:04:10] Speaker B: This Is the live that's coming up for the event announcement in two days. [01:04:14] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, hang on. [01:04:16] Speaker B: But that's their fault because it says Sony launches the official teaser. Anyway. Somewhere there is a video. I saw it. [01:04:24] Speaker C: They're teasing you about the teaser. [01:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah, [01:04:29] Speaker B: I don't know where it is. [01:04:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it. But you know, even having said that, I mean this, the us, the, this Sony camera that's coming out, it's, it still has been one of the worst kept secrets because they've been hinting at rumors of this. But I, I guess there's also that element of, you know, some rumor sites kind of lean into the. Well, we, it's, it's going to happen eventually. So let's just start the rumor mill now. You know, let's just start talking about it and getting people hyped about it without actually knowing anything about it. [01:05:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you go back in time from the A7R series, I don't know if we're talking about the, the six that's coming, but I'm sure with the A7R, I've heard just of 100 megapixels. I've heard rumors of 80 megapixels. I've heard all sorts of things over the last number of years. So they just kind of know that stuff's coming down the pipe for that line and they throw stuff at the wall and, and then. But at the moment it definitely seems to be really settled around the 67 megapixel mark. But a fully stacked sensor, so a tiny bump in resolution, almost negligible to say a landscape photographer or whatever. Going from 60 to 67 is not relevant, but it's going to be much faster, a faster scanning sensor. That's what all the rumors are saying and it would make sense, but I would like to see him go the other way. Just go like 80 or 100 and be like, yeah, it's still a slow answer, but check this out. Yeah, that'd be fun. [01:05:59] Speaker C: Yeah, that's all we can do. [01:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:06:05] Speaker A: Moving along, other camera rumors or news. Canon EOS R6V and an RF20-50F 4 power zoom lens is due to be announced probably on the Same day on the 13th of May according to the rumors. [01:06:22] Speaker B: A couple of days. Yep. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Yeah, in a couple of days. Another rumor. Yeah. Well, we Talked about the R6 a bit previously, didn't we? [01:06:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be very similar sensor to my R6 Mark 3, the 33 megapixel, I think it'll be. I'll run the same thing, and they'll just tweak it to suit a different application. And it's a smart idea, and it'll compete against the zf, and we'll see how it goes. [01:06:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Does that F or the ZR, you mean? [01:06:55] Speaker B: Sorry? The R6. The ZR. [01:06:59] Speaker A: ZR. [01:07:00] Speaker B: The R6V will compete. Competing against the ZR, the Nikon ZR. The. The video focused. [01:07:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I was just trying to adjust my white balance. It's really hard when they've got a bright light, like, shiny in your eyes. [01:07:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:16] Speaker A: Trying to edit that podcast. What else? OM Systems apparently rumored to launch a monochrome OM3 this year. So the OM3. I'm not sure. It's a rumor. [01:07:31] Speaker B: I know, but then I saw. I saw that, and then I saw somewhere else say, the OM will not release an OM3 monochrome in a different article from a different, like, rumor website or whatever. And I was like, what is happening? Who. Who knows? I mean, they've got the tech to do it, don't they? [01:07:52] Speaker A: Yeah, why wouldn't they? [01:07:53] Speaker B: I mean, because didn't they do the Pentax thing? Is that them or is that someone else? So, confused thing, the monochrome that they. That Pentax. [01:08:04] Speaker A: Did you mean the Ricoh? The gr. No. [01:08:10] Speaker B: Okay. But that's not om. Well, if they didn't om. No, I got confused. Yeah. I read an article that said OM3 will not release a monochrome. And I was like, how would you know? Because I saw that the article you'd linked, and then it was like, within an hour or two, I got something fed in my social media that said this won't happen. [01:08:29] Speaker A: The opposite. Yeah, the opposite. Well, apparently it's on the rumors. [01:08:36] Speaker B: Oh, we're not Pentaxi, apparently. I don't know. I got confused. I mean, you're getting very confused. [01:08:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:41] Speaker B: Okay. [01:08:44] Speaker A: Yeah, monochrome seems to be all the rage. You know, GR did it. Leica. [01:08:52] Speaker B: Yep. [01:08:53] Speaker A: So they. They've got the tooling, they've got the body, they've got the. They don't have to change anything other than the sensor and the firmware. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's a lot more complex than that, but you know what I mean? Like, it. In terms of tooling to build the body and components. Well, that should already be in place. [01:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I was actually watching a few Q3 monochrome videos again while I've been over here. Again. Because, like, every time I'm like, that would be amazing because I shoot highest high ISO at night, shooting the Q3, like, that'd be great. And then I realized at the end of the day, for me, even though as a. If you pixel peep, the monochrome would be way better, but it. Does it really change the substance of the subject in the photo and the way that it looks greatly. You know that whole thing about if you notice the grain, you. Your photos, you know that thing how they say, like, yeah, I know, brain. Like, you didn't even take a good photo. [01:10:02] Speaker C: But people are adding grain now. Like, it's not even. Yeah, you know, it's cool to have grain. [01:10:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Because it speaks of authenticity. So we're getting sick of absolutely pristine images and questioning whether they're real or not. And grain kind of changes that up a little bit. [01:10:20] Speaker B: But [01:10:23] Speaker A: it's not just about the image output, though, is it? Often it's about the experience of shooting. When you work purely with. With tonal values, you don't. You don't get color. [01:10:34] Speaker B: You can do that in a color camera by switching it to monochrome. [01:10:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [01:10:40] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So it's like I shoot you three in monochrome all the time or in black and white profile. And it's like, yeah, I know the monochrome one would give me better image quality, but I also love switching to color sometimes. And I'm not gonna have two Q3. You know, like, that's. That's crazy. [01:11:00] Speaker A: I guess you need to draw the line at 12 cameras. [01:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, there's a. There's a line. I'm not crossing it. Then you get to this point where it's like, I was watching the videos and I was peeping in, and then like, yeah, as you can see on the tree branches that there's slightly less grain. I'm like, yeah, it looks cool, but would anyone notice if this was printed in a exhibition or something like that? I don't know. Maybe. Depending on the style. Yeah. [01:11:30] Speaker C: Is it worth it to ch. You know, to then lock yourself into that? [01:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:36] Speaker A: Well, if that was your only camera, then I would say no. But if you're like castles here, you'd have 12 cameras that you could choose from. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Or if you were committed to shooting black and white only, then. Absolutely. I still like flicking it to color. [01:11:51] Speaker A: And it's not for you. [01:11:53] Speaker B: No, but. So Dennis is not greatly, but it is extraordinary to shoot with. And yeah, it's. I think it is one of those things. It's. And. And maybe it's a journey going at some point where you buy a monochrome camera for three to five years. And you really dive deep into that world and then you sell it again and you. You go back to color for a while or something. Like it's a. Like an EB and flow kind of thing. [01:12:15] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe. [01:12:17] Speaker C: I don't know. [01:12:17] Speaker B: But yeah. Only within the last 48 hours, I've watched multiple images about the Leica Q3 monochrome. That's where I'm at. [01:12:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:26] Speaker B: Anyway, deep dive. Deep diving. What else we got? Oh, one for Jim. Speaking. [01:12:32] Speaker A: Speaking of Leica, there's rumors, there's leaked images to go along with it that Leica are about to release metal gray M11P Q3 Deluxe 8 and a 50 mil f2 lens in a brand new finish that they haven't done for a little while. Yeah, that's worth looking at. [01:12:58] Speaker B: Where are they? It's like a metal. Like that titanium. Gosh. My Internet's in struggle town. [01:13:19] Speaker A: Just while you're doing that, I'll just read out this from Jason. There's an argument that having control over the three color channels can produce better monochrome if you're into editing. But the dedicated mono produces a different psychology method, I suspect. [01:13:37] Speaker B: So that's what, that's what Peter Coulson was talking about where he said he will never buy a monochrome camera because even though he shoots in black and white all the time, he said the ability to tweak his image using color channels, for him was more important. Important than the ultimate resolution that a. A monochrome camera gave him, where it gave him finer, finer control. Finer, sorry, finer detail, but less control over the color channels. So it's very interesting. [01:14:12] Speaker A: Yep. [01:14:13] Speaker B: All right, what do we got? [01:14:15] Speaker A: So this is the. The new rumored range of Leica bodies coming out. An M11P, a Q3 and a Deluxe in this new finish, which they have done before. Obviously we have seen these before, but typically, you know, they stick pretty much to the matte black. Every now and then they'll put out a glossy black camera or a glossy black lens, but we haven't seen this for a little bit. [01:14:41] Speaker B: It's not for me. It's either. [01:14:44] Speaker A: It's. [01:14:45] Speaker B: I. I used to think that if I got a liker, it would be silver because that's that like, sort of traditional thing. But it's. It's either it's got to be this, the black, or that reporter edition or the green. Green. And like carbon looks sick. [01:15:05] Speaker A: I remember a story years ago about. Was it Lenny Kravitz? Didn't they do a special Lenny Kravitz edition in that color as well, yeah, they did too. Yeah. [01:15:13] Speaker B: I don't know if it was in that color, but they did it. Lenny Kravitz Leica. I did do a. Oh, no, it was nothing like. [01:15:26] Speaker A: Wasn't it? I thought it was a green one. Was it snakeskin or something? [01:15:30] Speaker B: Yes. Oh, it was. This is wild. I bet they. These things are probably worth a fortune now. Yes. [01:15:42] Speaker A: Oh, look at that. [01:15:44] Speaker B: Look at it. That's sick. [01:15:47] Speaker A: Nobody knew what I thought. [01:15:51] Speaker B: That is amazing. Apparently Jason Momoa has one. [01:15:57] Speaker A: One of these. Wow. Is it real snake skin? I bet it is. [01:16:02] Speaker B: It's probably human skin. [01:16:05] Speaker C: Where's the red dot, though? [01:16:09] Speaker B: Some of them don't have red dots. When they're so cool, you don't need the red dot. [01:16:13] Speaker C: Okay. [01:16:14] Speaker B: There's a certain level of coolness like this where it's like the snake skin does the talking for the dot. [01:16:21] Speaker C: There's a cool looking camera. [01:16:23] Speaker B: It's insane. Yeah. [01:16:26] Speaker C: I feel like the problem is that you'd have that and it's obviously ridiculous, but no one would appreciate just how good it is. [01:16:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:34] Speaker C: Like they just think it's. It's some cover or something. That's not knowing that it's. Yeah. [01:16:42] Speaker B: Look, it come with a snakeskin camera strap that I bet isn't as comfortable as ours. [01:16:49] Speaker C: You could have made one of them. [01:16:51] Speaker B: We can make one. Look, stitching's crooked. I'm kidding. [01:16:57] Speaker A: Well, we had someone. Someone who went to BFOP last year, asked me whether we could do barramundi leather into a strap member. But I don't know. I don't know what happened to that. [01:17:07] Speaker B: Barramundis aren't long enough. Yeah. You need a big barramundi, maybe a shark. Yeah. There was the green Special Edition Q2 called the 7 James Bond Edition or something like. Yeah, I saw it in store. [01:17:23] Speaker A: It was beautiful. It was actually the. What was the actor who did the last sort of three Bond movies or four Daniel Craig, I think it had his signature engraved on it. Yeah. [01:17:37] Speaker B: Felicity Johnson says it says it's vegan python accents. Yeah. Vegan. Vegan. I don't know what a vegan python is, but it's python that only bananas and. And grapefruit killed the snake himself. His own Leica. Well, Lenny Kravitz locker. [01:18:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Final piece of camera news is the DJI finally put out a teaser, even though everyone knew it was coming for the premium Osmo Pocket 4 Pro or 4P with the dual lens. No, they're just teasing the. [01:18:22] Speaker B: Just teasing. Yeah. And everyone. Everyone was happening kind of Thing because it. Oh, okay. It does show a fair bit, I think, because insta360 started teasing the angel lens ones they didn't like. [01:18:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:35] Speaker B: They're like, oh, let me Show Agile Lens 1. [01:18:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:37] Speaker B: And it goes back and forth. It does anyway. [01:18:41] Speaker A: It does indeed. So that's it for the camera news in terms of lenses. There was again like a ton of articles. Let me just read out a couple of the top ones. Laos producing a CF 4.5 to 10 mil fisheye zoom for APS C. That's going to be announced on the 13th of May as well. Viltrox are putting out a couple of pro lenses. What else? Nikon's officially announced the development of a new Nikon Z120 to 300. [01:19:17] Speaker B: That thing like a beast with the teleconverter. [01:19:20] Speaker A: With a built in Teleconverter 1.4 Teleconverter. Have you heard about this one, Jim? [01:19:26] Speaker C: It's only eight grand. [01:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you use your 7200 at the shoot? [01:19:41] Speaker C: Mm. [01:19:42] Speaker B: You did. How do you like it? [01:19:44] Speaker C: Yeah, it's good. [01:19:45] Speaker A: Oh, the new one that you hadn't used yet? [01:19:48] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I've unboxed it. [01:19:51] Speaker A: Wow. [01:19:51] Speaker C: It's gone down in value now. Yeah, that was good. Yeah. It's better than the Tamron 35 to 150. [01:20:01] Speaker B: Okay. [01:20:01] Speaker C: Like, it's sharper, it's got better contrast [01:20:04] Speaker A: and stuff like that. Yep. [01:20:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:07] Speaker A: And did you end up getting your lens back from imaging by design or. They've still got it. [01:20:11] Speaker C: It arrived today. It's in a box. I'm assuming that that's what it is. [01:20:16] Speaker A: What is it with you leaving everything in boxes? [01:20:19] Speaker C: Just lenses. [01:20:22] Speaker A: He puts them away for a rainy day. Yeah. Oh, nice. Very nice. [01:20:32] Speaker B: So you liked it? You. It was good. You enjoyed the experience shooting with a 7200. [01:20:36] Speaker C: 7200. Yeah, I do. [01:20:41] Speaker B: No, so. [01:20:43] Speaker C: So you'll laugh at this, Justin. So on the ride I had a backpack and I had carried two bodies. [01:20:49] Speaker B: I know. The backpack. Yes. [01:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah. So I had a 7200 on one camera, the 14-30 F4. And I had a. And I put. Took my 50 mil 1.2. Because I knew in between when we were doing riding shots I'd want that for more lifestyle images and stuff. I probably didn't need it, but I thought, I want to take it. And it's not that much more weight. [01:21:19] Speaker B: It's a fair bit more weight if it was a nifty 50 or like. Yeah, even like a 3 or 400 gram one, but. Yeah, that's. That's a kilo. That. That bad boy. Anyway. [01:21:32] Speaker C: Pardon? [01:21:33] Speaker A: It's not just heavy. It takes up a lot of space. Sorry, Jay. [01:21:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't use it out on the ride, really, other than I took some head shots with it when people, like, first took their helmets off, which I probably could have done with the other lens. [01:21:46] Speaker B: If you take a few steps back with a 70, like 7200, you can. You can shoot at 2.8, but, yeah, it's. It is not like a 50 is nice for lifestyle, definitely. But, yeah, it's. I don't know, it's. Yeah, that's a heavy lens to lug around and I probably wouldn't. For that. [01:22:10] Speaker C: I didn't notice it, to be fair. Like, I didn't notice the bag. [01:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's not relevant. [01:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:22:17] Speaker B: But then there's lens changing and stuff, too. So what would be interesting is whether you could have got away with the 35 to 150 Tamro on that you've got, or whether it's just not fast enough or. I know it had issues with the ghost. Oh, not ghosting, but like, low contrast in backlight situations, which is a really common thing. If you shouldn't. Dirt bikes, you want the sun behind them, you want dust, and the last thing you want is all of them to be washed out and like, not. Not crisp. And then racking into 200 over 150 is. Is a benefit as well. [01:22:51] Speaker C: I shot a lot at 200, so, like. Yeah, there's a fair chance I would have loved a 250 mil lens kind of thing. [01:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:22:59] Speaker B: Or like one 120 to 300 with a teleconverter. [01:23:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Need a bigger backpack. Yeah. [01:23:08] Speaker B: Maybe a sidecar, a motorbike. [01:23:11] Speaker A: Isn't it meant to be a constant 2.8? [01:23:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:23:18] Speaker B: Proper sports. Like a. Yeah. Did we. Remember the guy we were shooting with at that moto job? They had the canon 1, the 120 to 300. Like, that thing was a beast. Remember the dude that was like a sports. He had, like a beard and a monopod. Yeah. That thing was, like, massive. Yeah. He was carrying on a monopod. Like it wasn't a camera you just put in and out of your backpack. Yes. I don't know if the Nikon one might be more compact than that. We'll see. [01:23:51] Speaker C: It looks pretty. Judging by how small in the picture the lens mount is compared to the rest of the lens. Like the heart of the. It's going to be huge. [01:24:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be big. It'll be big. [01:24:08] Speaker A: Very cool. That was the guts of the news. No, there was, like I said, lots of other little bits and pieces, but lots of rumors, lots of third party lens stuff. There's a lot of activity at the moment, a lot of rumors about, you know, flagship bodies coming out, you know, if they bring out. Well, we know the A7, R6 is coming. We know that there's potentially an X Pro 4 on the horizon. We know that, you know, Canon are about to release this, this new cine camera, hybrid camera. There's a lot going on. It's good. It's really good. [01:24:40] Speaker B: It is, Yep. Hold down the fort. I'll be back in one second. [01:24:46] Speaker A: All right. For sure. He must need another beer. Let's. We're going to go to the competition. Maybe we'll just jump on some comments quickly while Justin's away for a moment. Where were we up to? I think we've covered most of them. Talking about the. Dennis is in Sydney. Hey, Dan, safe travels. I'm in Sydney for a few days. I'll be drooling over the Leica store for sure. Yeah, good luck with that, mate. And then Jason has said this is why Sigma Foveon sensors can produce amazing monochrome. You have the sensor acuity but retain the color channels. But you have to shoot at ISO 400 or under. I don't know that I fully understand that. Take your word for it. Jason, do you get that? [01:25:43] Speaker C: I got some of it, yeah. Not the, not all of it. I'm not a tech guy, Greg. [01:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I get that. There's a lot of comments for a lucky strap snakeskin variant. [01:25:57] Speaker C: We did a, a tartan one last year. Tartan, like a custom. So it was leather on one side and tartan on the other. Not tartan leather. It was proper [01:26:13] Speaker A: fabric. [01:26:14] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:26:16] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [01:26:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:18] Speaker A: And we've got one, haven't we? [01:26:21] Speaker C: Sorry? [01:26:22] Speaker A: We've got one vegan friendly strap, which is the cotton one. [01:26:25] Speaker C: I think it's almost done. I think we've, I think we sold the last three the other day. [01:26:29] Speaker A: Oh, really? Yeah. Cool. So [01:26:35] Speaker B: it's back. [01:26:38] Speaker A: Oh, Dennis dropped his Q3. I dropped my Q3 from some height. Massive scratches and dents. So cool. Can't replace that. No, that's very true. That's very true. [01:26:52] Speaker B: Unique. Yeah. [01:26:54] Speaker C: Custom. [01:26:54] Speaker A: Yep. Personalized. [01:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:01] Speaker A: Should we, should we give away some lucky strap stuff? [01:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:05] Speaker A: All right, so let me just give you a little context, folks. So in the lead up to Saturday's Fujifilm Australia Creator Summit. Justin and I had a quick chat and we thought we might hold a little, little giveaway for anyone that was coming to the event that was either part of the Lucky Straps family or, and, or the camera life family. And so what I said was I put a post out on, on Facebook and I said, I'm heading to the, to the summit. If you find me, come and take a selfie with me and show me some Lucky Straps slash camera life love. And then I had to put a caveat in there saying preferably no touching, which I got a lot of flack for. Everyone wanted to touch me, apparently. And so throughout the day I had people coming up to me or spotting me or, you know, flagging me down and we would have an amazing chat and we would talk about what we're doing on the day, you know, what we'd seen, what we hadn't. Just building that community, engaging with friends and it was lovely. And so I, I, yeah, took selfies with a bunch of people. This is Claire, who's one of my oldest Fujifilm photography friends. She. She's been in the Fuji XRS group, I think, almost as long as I have, and we seem to bump into each other at every event. Always lovely to see her. And so, yeah, so Justin has very kindly. With the Lucky Straps, our sponsor of today's show has very kindly offered to. To give away a prize to the person who I thought showed the most amount of camera life Lucky Strap love. And so if we just jump through some images. Jay. I think that's Emma from bfop. [01:28:46] Speaker B: Danny. [01:28:47] Speaker A: No, that's Danny. Emma's the. Yep, next one. Sorry, that's Emma. Yeah, that's Jason Duggan. He hung around a bit. That's John Pickett, folks. And John's daughter Haley. Yeah, he was having a ball. He was having a ball. He had such a good time. He's such a happy character. I love hanging around him. It's got good energy. And so all of these. Is that the last one? I think that's it. [01:29:25] Speaker B: That we've got a new. Yep. [01:29:29] Speaker A: All these people came up and chatted and that was lovely. But I have decided to choose a winner. If we just go back to the previous photo with John Pickett. So this is John and John's daughter Haley. And we were. I chatted with him today to make sure that this was all okay, but I'm actually awarding the Lucky Straps prize to Hayley. Pretty sure from memory, Hayley was around 10. They both came up to me very early on in the summit. We're both very excited. Hayley watches the podcast with John. It's something they do together and has been getting into photography. Really loving the craft. Was super excited to be there for the day, you know, with her dad. And so, yeah, so I decided that Hayley showed the most lucky strap slash camera life love. And it was wonderful to see. It was very inspirational to see someone so young being so passionate about the thing that, you know, that we all do, that we obsess over, that we lose sleep over, that we remortgage over all those sorts of things. So, yeah, that's great. So congratulations, Hayley. Justin, have you decided what the prize will be as yet? [01:30:37] Speaker B: Hayley, you've won a one year subscription to the Camera Life podcast. You can listen to every single episode, no cost to you. All you do is you subscribe and you like to the podcast and you can listen to every episode, no cost, free of charge for one year. Congratulations. [01:30:57] Speaker A: So heartfelt, so generous. [01:30:59] Speaker B: And also, I think it depends. It depends. We'll give her a choice of either some of our lucky straps hoodie or a wrist strap, depending on what she's. What she's keen on. But we'll figure it out. [01:31:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So, Haley, I'll be in touch with dad and, uh, yeah, we'll work that out and we'll get that sent out to you from Bendigo. Jim will take care of that because everyone else has left him to do all the work he is. So, yeah, Jim will get on to that as soon as we know what you're after. And we'll get that out to you. But congratulations and thank you for coming to the summit, for showing your love for what we do, but also for, you know, having such a fantastic hobby and an interest and especially something that, you know, that you get to hang out and do with your dad. I think that's. That's the of part. Priceless. So well done. Good job. [01:31:45] Speaker C: Very good. [01:31:46] Speaker A: Yeah, that's it for the giveaways. I think it might be time to look at your images. Yeah. Keep waiting for the sound effects, but we don't have. [01:31:56] Speaker B: I know I don't have it. I think. [01:31:57] Speaker C: I don't even know before. [01:31:59] Speaker B: I've got four buttons on this thing that I bought to bring over here, and I don't know what they do. Press them and just see what they do. Yeah, yeah, of course. Okay. [01:32:11] Speaker A: No, say something. [01:32:12] Speaker B: Say something dirty. [01:32:14] Speaker A: You are a filthy [01:32:18] Speaker B: nice. What about this one? Nothing. Oh. Oh, that's not good. It changes my voice. [01:32:28] Speaker A: I didn't notice. You sound the same to me. [01:32:31] Speaker B: It's lucky I discovered this late in the show. Could have been an awkward two hours. Anyway, turn that off. [01:32:43] Speaker A: Oh, that's much better. Go, Jim. [01:32:47] Speaker B: This is the devil. [01:32:51] Speaker C: Bye. [01:32:54] Speaker B: It's got a hundred megapixels and Nikon sucks. Okay, I'm not pressing any more buttons. [01:33:03] Speaker A: Yeah, please don't. [01:33:07] Speaker B: Okay, so your images, Jim, do you have. Did you say images? Do you want some that you want me to show? [01:33:14] Speaker C: How could I send you some? It's in the. Either on your email or on the camera in the document. [01:33:22] Speaker B: It's neither. Let me have a look. Nope, not an email. Let me refresh the document. [01:33:32] Speaker C: You don't have to show. I tried to color down, but I didn't do very good. [01:33:36] Speaker A: Oh yeah, Jim's link is there. [01:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not linked. I got it. I'll copy that and do that download. Oh, man. How many? [01:33:51] Speaker C: If the colors are wrong, it's because I can't actually see anything. [01:33:55] Speaker B: Oh, please, please, please. I'll show some of mine first while that's downloading. Yeah, I'll do that. All righty. So I haven't. Oh, gosh. [01:34:14] Speaker A: I just want to quickly do this while you're fumbling with that. Lots of love for Hayley. Go Hayley. From Greg Carrick, Dan, Haley, you legend, Greg. Characters use code Haley and John. Haha. She's watching live. So I spoke to John this morning and said this is what I plan to do. Obviously just wanted to get his permission first before talking about his. His daughter on the show. But let's keep it a secret. We'll put it on live. So yeah, lots of love here, Hayley. For you, Felicity. Woohoo. Well done, Haley. Bruce Moyle. Awesome. And John Sims. Thank you guys. Lots of love. So yeah, well done, kiddo. Very cool. [01:34:58] Speaker B: All right, while this is downloading, what James is downloading, I'm going to quickly show some stuff from my last week in Bali. It's more than one image, but, you know, it's our show, so that's what happens. But I want to explain some of the stuff I was talking about last week. So this was one of the brass stores. There was six in a row within one block. And this is what I was talking about with, like this is a brass store and they sell brass stuff and obviously it's very clear out the front. There's all these door handles. But if, if you could see inside where it's darker, you might be able to see it a little bit. This there's just hundreds and hundreds of different brass things. You're like, okay, that's pretty cool. But this is so next. This is the button store. Now they sell. You see the jars? Do you see those jars? [01:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:35:49] Speaker B: Yeah. They're full of buttons of particular sizes and colors. Every jar in that store has a different size and color of button. And you can go in there and you buy any button you want. [01:36:01] Speaker C: Do you buy a button or do you buy a jar of buttons? [01:36:05] Speaker B: Either. You could buy one button. You could buy 10 buttons. You could buy jar of buttons. [01:36:09] Speaker C: A lot of buttons. [01:36:10] Speaker B: To going close. This is made of buttons. Behold. They're all buttons of different types that they sell everything you can want. And you want to know something really funny? I bought a party shirt from a thrift store over here and it cost more than it should have from a thrift store. And I got it home and I went to put it on this. I would buy a party shirt. I mean, basically a short sleeve tropical shirt, like something you would wear, like a Hawaiian party or whatever. He's trying to blend in a button up. Yeah, Yeah. I just wanted. I mean, it was just nice. Anyway, got it back. The thing only had one freaking button. All the other buttons had been ripped off because obviously someone had gotten drunk and been like, yeah. And ripped their shirt off and then gave. Gave it to a thrift store. And they didn't check the buttons. So I went to this place and I was like, well, actually Elena asked and she said, can you. Can you also sew the buttons on? And they were like, no, no, we just sell the buttons, but somewhere else. We'll sew the buttons up. That's how niche the stores are over here. Sew buttons on. They just sell buttons and then you take them somewhere else to get them signed on. [01:37:18] Speaker A: We don't care what you do with it. [01:37:19] Speaker C: How much was a button? [01:37:21] Speaker B: I didn't ask for pricing. I was. [01:37:24] Speaker C: I didn't give it like, [01:37:28] Speaker A: yeah. [01:37:29] Speaker C: So like, how do you make a button store work? [01:37:32] Speaker B: They. I mean, they. They've got. It's a four frontage store. They're doing well. All right, let's move on. [01:37:39] Speaker A: I. [01:37:39] Speaker B: Last week I talked about the place that sells. I don't have a close up for you guys, obviously, so I can zoom in though. This. This place sells glass that's blown over the top and. And like melted over the top of timber in individual pieces that you can have in your home. Every bit of glass that you see here is like an individual vase hanging over some like, timber that you could put in your house. [01:38:11] Speaker A: This is. [01:38:12] Speaker B: That's out the front. And the whole store is full of it all. Just. Just that one thing. Just different types of glass blown. That's then draped over a bit of timber and used either on a table or some of them are quite tall and could be like up a wall or whatever. That's the whole store. And it's. The bit that you can see is nowhere near as big as what's actually in the store. Anyway. Okay, where to next? People on roofs. Everyone in Bali is so friendly. And there's these construction guys everywhere where we're staying. And I. Every time we go out, I wave to them. And now they wave to me even if I haven't waved to them. So we go past them and they're on the roofs working. And it's also geometric and. And very cool. And then everyone. Hang on. [01:39:10] Speaker A: Everyone goes to the button store. [01:39:12] Speaker B: Everyone goes to the button. Everyone waves when you go past them and they're on the roof of something and it's awesome. [01:39:21] Speaker A: That's so cool. [01:39:22] Speaker C: That's a cool shot. [01:39:23] Speaker B: So friendly. And where's this one? I mustn't have exported it. Oh, there's tons more. There's tons more. What else do I want to show you guys? Some things of this store. I feel like Greg would love just the arrangement of the windows. Oh, it's just satisfying. [01:39:47] Speaker A: I do like order. And then what do they sell? [01:39:51] Speaker B: I have no idea. I think they sell. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Tons of it. They have heaps of it. But the power lines. Chaos. [01:40:13] Speaker A: And yet you have no power. [01:40:16] Speaker B: Well, I do tonight. Yeah. What else? What else, what else? What else? Pets. [01:40:24] Speaker C: Let's go to. [01:40:25] Speaker B: Oh, first, like geometric. I don't even know what the right word is. [01:40:31] Speaker A: Flat. [01:40:32] Speaker B: I'm calling this flat. Layers of buildings. Not flat lays, but like where the shape front on flat shapes of buildings is so satisfying here. Everything. So there's like this and then this. And I don't know what it is, if it's the colors, the shapes and the little weird idiosyncrasies or this. It just doesn't seem to be. The colors are just. They pop when you're walking past everything. [01:41:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:41:16] Speaker B: And then finally the. The weird animals. By the weird animals, I just mean cats and dogs aren't weird. So there's lots of guard dogs from. So like this one. [01:41:36] Speaker A: That's a great photo. [01:41:38] Speaker B: And then this one. This was an old. Yeah, an old pooch right in the walkway in the middle of the road. That definitely was deciding to hold us up. And that thing on the. On the left was such a. Like the colors in this place, just so easy to photograph. That's exactly uncropped. That's just exactly as it was. That's cool. [01:42:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:42:09] Speaker B: But then more dogs. Guard dogs. It's not a guard dog. It's a rat. It's a rat. It's tiny guard puppy out the front of the. That was just 100 meters from where we were staying. And then this cat, actually, before the cat, this dog that this lady was obviously just taking everywhere with her. And was that on the Q3? Oh, it's a great question. Let's have a look. I've lost track of what I was shooting. I reckon this was probably on the cat. Oh, no, that was Q3. F2, 1 2, 50th at ISO 200. [01:43:00] Speaker A: That's lovely. [01:43:00] Speaker C: It's a great photo [01:43:04] Speaker A: you shot it at. That's really cool. [01:43:06] Speaker B: It's off. It's. It's. It's off. It was a quick. That wasn't a decision, that angle. [01:43:10] Speaker A: No. [01:43:10] Speaker B: But it was consequence, you know? [01:43:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:43:14] Speaker B: I didn't try and fix it. I was like. No, that's how it was shot. That's. That's what it is. Yeah. And then this cat that I got down and hung out with. Where is it? Not that. And so it's hanging out on the ground, rolling around and looking up at the sky. And then this was a shot of the sky that it was looking up at, which is the power lines framing. These are all the kites that are up in the air in Bali. I don't know if you. They're so high and there's so many of them. Always tons of them. It's a whole. It's a whole thing. It's such a beautiful. Like the. The place we were staying, the area we're staying was. We felt like we were much more part of the community, even only hanging around there for a year. Sorry. For a week. Than. [01:44:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:18] Speaker B: Than like if we spent a year in a tourist area. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was really cool. Anyway, Tons more. Tons more to look through and to show and to. [01:44:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:30] Speaker B: Get into. Oh, do you want to see my favorite photo from last week? [01:44:33] Speaker A: Please? [01:44:34] Speaker C: Definitely. [01:44:35] Speaker B: Okay. This is if we. I was just going to show one. I was going to show this one. Yeah, it's a bit. Bit hard on a small screen. [01:44:48] Speaker A: No, that's. That's beautiful. I love that. [01:44:52] Speaker B: So this is outside the prison, and this is where you park to go in for Visiting. I'm not sure if this woman was here to visit or what she was doing. She was carrying something. [01:45:02] Speaker A: Looks shady. [01:45:03] Speaker B: Yeah, she might shady. [01:45:05] Speaker A: There's a file in that piece of fruit or whatever it is in the bag. [01:45:08] Speaker B: Shovel or something. But just. Just the shuffle. I don't know, the lines that. The helmets leading in where her face is and then. Yeah, all the other. [01:45:20] Speaker A: That. [01:45:21] Speaker B: That's. So that was a couple hundred meters from where we were staying. [01:45:24] Speaker A: Yep. Well, that's excellent. I love it. [01:45:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:45:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:45:31] Speaker B: Very cool. What was that taken on? Let's see. Am I canon guy or like a guy? Like it now? Well, I guess that's that. [01:45:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:45:45] Speaker B: All right, we better move on to actual people's photos. [01:45:50] Speaker A: Oh, and just while you do that, Yelena's got a definition for manicwangi or manic wangi. Translate to fragrant jewelry or centered bead. [01:46:01] Speaker B: Centered bead. Interesting. All right, I'll. I'm bringing yours down at the moment, Jim. And we'll look at those at the end. Maybe once I get through all this stuff. [01:46:16] Speaker A: New folder. [01:46:17] Speaker B: Jim. Greg, is you. Are you going to be. Do you want me to read stuff out? Are you going to read. [01:46:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I've got them on my phone here. [01:46:27] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:46:27] Speaker A: So we start with Scott. Scott Longdon. Tintype man. [01:46:32] Speaker B: Yep. We got two weeks for Scott because I must have missed last week somehow. I remember reading it, but I don't remember looking at his photos. But anyway, we'll figure it out. [01:46:42] Speaker A: So this is from last week. So Scott says, not sure if it'll make it for tonight of around 3,000 images to process. So it might take me a while, but this is one of the more average images, around 200mil on the R6 I took thanks to Uncle Donald on routing us via South Africa on our trip to the UK. Truthfully, I had my 150 to 600 on the R6 for the whole safari, but the animals got so close and I didn't have time to change lenses that I needed to use my phone for a heap of shots just to prove that the line was. Was so close I needed to use my phone. The lioness decided to bite the mirror of the truck we were traveling in. Apparently a few weeks ago, a lioness actually bit the tire and punctured it, stranding everyone in the park for a few hours. [01:47:28] Speaker B: This is nuts, isn't it? That's awesome. [01:47:36] Speaker A: That's so cool. [01:47:37] Speaker B: Oh, we scared. Oh, no. Yeah, that's crazy. Anyway, that's why you need a second body with a wide Angle lens. [01:47:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:47:56] Speaker B: And then, yeah, I think there was some more photos submitted for this week. [01:48:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So Scott goes on to say, hopefully you got my images from the last week. Accidental sojourn into Africa whilst trying to avoid Uncle Donald's war in the Middle East. The elephants were just amazing, as elephants always are. We were in an open top Jeep and the elephants were so close to us that you could literally reach out and touch them. This shot was taken at 150mil, but that was way too long. And I was struggling to get images with the elephants far enough away. The thing that really blew me away was when they were breathing, the sound was so low in bass that my chest was vibrating in rhythm to each breath they took. We also encountered a family standing in the middle of the road. Talk about a roadblock. They weren't moving and we simply had to sit and wait for the 30 minutes until they decided to move on. And I'll send that shot separately. [01:48:49] Speaker B: And he did. [01:48:51] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome. That's really cool. What a great way to turn misfortune of having to reroute your flights into something amazing. [01:49:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:49:02] Speaker A: Well played. Very well played, Scott. [01:49:07] Speaker B: And Dennis says the tight shot still works too. And it does. [01:49:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it does. [01:49:11] Speaker B: Yeah. You might, you might feel like you're like, I. I'm missing the ears or whatever. But no, it's a close. It's a close portrait. Same with this one. [01:49:21] Speaker C: Absolutely. [01:49:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I think it works. Indeed. I'd move that, that signature to the left side, put it in the black bit. [01:49:34] Speaker B: Oh, good idea. [01:49:36] Speaker A: Distracting on its mouth, maybe. [01:49:39] Speaker B: Yeah, good thinking. It'll be easy to read on the. In the darker spot. [01:49:44] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe. [01:49:46] Speaker C: Probably just a preset on Lightroom Export. [01:49:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:49:49] Speaker A: To protect it. Yeah. Amazing. What an amazing experience. Coming up next, we've got John Latimer. All right, to answer your last week's question, will I be upgrading to the Sony A7R6? No. I have a rule that I only buy one decent piece of camera equipment per year. One piece per. I don't understand what he means. Do you just. [01:50:18] Speaker B: Jim, I think he's confused. That can't be right. John, are you sure? Maybe just check in with us, because that doesn't sound accurate at all. Are you sure it's not 100 pieces per year? [01:50:29] Speaker A: Yeah, or one per month. I mean, even that. Stretching it. [01:50:34] Speaker B: One per week, [01:50:37] Speaker C: One for each month of the year. [01:50:39] Speaker A: Yeah, something like that. Anyway, he goes on to say, I got into photography with a Lumix FZ300, which was a 25 to 600 equivalent at a constant 2.8 bridging camera. The second year I worked out what I wanted with photography, birds and wildlife. And so I got a Sony A7R III and a 200 600. Well see there you've already broken your rule because you said one piece named on two. So we are really confused here. Third year, last year got Sony's 100 millimeter macro. I would like it. But skills carry across. I would like to upgrade the skills carry across any gear and high end gear only shines once you've grown into it. Which is a very, very good point. My photo this week is a white necked heron. The change in this. [01:51:30] Speaker B: Sorry, I just want to zoom in on the, on the water on this thing. But yeah, go on. [01:51:37] Speaker A: So it's a white necked heron. The change in the season have turned all the wetland grasses red which made for a great background. Sony A7R3 200 to 600 at 600 shutter priority and 1/3 200th of a second. Edited in Lightroom and Topaz to help with some noise. Love the show and the community. Take care and we love you John. We love your photo. [01:52:02] Speaker B: A great shot. [01:52:03] Speaker A: How beautiful is the contrast with the red color? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The color contrast is just amazing. [01:52:12] Speaker B: Yeah, beautiful shot. Thanks John. [01:52:14] Speaker A: Yeah, nice work, mate. Crackers is up next. Oh, he's been busy. Where is his. [01:52:24] Speaker B: There it is. [01:52:26] Speaker A: So Greg had to say after the Fujifilm Creators Summit, as though he hadn't had enough, Southern Cross station got swamped by the footy crowds. So I decided to hang around and take photos rather than squeeze onto a train. Multiple exposures in camera. Fujifilm XE4 with a TT Artisan 251 125th of a second by three. So it was a stack at f8, ISO 640. [01:52:52] Speaker B: Cool shot. [01:52:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:52:54] Speaker B: And square kar square. [01:52:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it did some, some really cool shots of the Taiko drummers at the festival too. At the summit. Sorry. [01:53:05] Speaker B: Same kind of stuff. [01:53:06] Speaker A: Yeah, with some shutter drag and also some multiple exposure stuff like just. Yeah, really clever. Just Greg Carrick being Greg Carrick. Pushing the boundary, you know. [01:53:17] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. [01:53:18] Speaker A: Amazing work and so good to hang out with Greg and because we don't get to actually be in person with some of these people very often, you know. And Greg and I have been on photo walks together but often once we start a photo walk walk we kind of disappear because we follow the light as we see it. But actually spending time with him and convincing to spend three and a half thousand dollars On a new lens was. Was delightful. It was. It was great. [01:53:44] Speaker B: It's always good when it's someone else's money too, isn't it? It's fun. [01:53:48] Speaker A: You watch that because. And I honestly thought he was going to back out because the lady doing the till, there was some sort of technical issue and then like, there was two other people got involved. I thought, oh, don't take too long. He might change his mind, you know, like, oh, no, I can't do it. But he went through with it. It was great. [01:54:06] Speaker B: Oh, dear. Well, great shot. [01:54:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:54:10] Speaker B: And I think Rick Nelson says, I feel the rush of the photo with the story. It tells me why, though. Yeah, the free travel crush. Exactly. People everywhere. All right, [01:54:27] Speaker A: John Hall. [01:54:29] Speaker B: John Hall. Here we go. [01:54:32] Speaker A: Hi, Justin, Greg, Jim, Angelina. Thanks, John. After a month of being cooped up at home with the flu, we managed to get out again last weekend for a walk around Sydney. We ducked into the state library and found an interesting exhibition on Mervyn Bishop, the photographer. I'm sure you've all seen his photo of Gough Whitlam pouring soil into the land, into the hand of Vincent Lindari. I don't know if I remember that one. Anyway, I was not expecting to take any photos here. It is not exactly encouraged, but walking through the galleries, I was struck by the framing of this stained glass window in the reading room. Through the window in a darkened gallery, I waited until no one was around before quickly getting my camera out and taking a sneaky pick. Unfortunately, in the rush to get the shot, I'd forgotten that it was still set for outside. So I ended up with a 1,200second exposure at ISO14400 still, with the noise reduction in lightroom, I was able to bring it back to something resembling a usable image. This was taken on a Z6 Mark III, 24 to 120F. Is that what, 24 to 120F 4S lens at? Yeah, at 24mil. Yeah. [01:55:45] Speaker B: Let's have a look. [01:55:46] Speaker C: Good still, because it's. It's Nikon. [01:55:48] Speaker A: Yeah, let's have a look for that ISO. [01:55:52] Speaker B: This looks pretty darn good, doesn't it? And obviously a little bit of noise reduction done, but, yeah, it. It looks great. Yeah, [01:56:04] Speaker A: nice and. [01:56:05] Speaker B: Yeah, nice framing. Good reflection and things. That's just. Yeah, it's like symmetrical, but not because of that glass. [01:56:12] Speaker A: Yep, yep. Very cool. [01:56:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:56:18] Speaker B: Thanks, John. Beautiful shot. Hope you're feeling better. A month of the flu sounds not good. All right, who's up next? [01:56:29] Speaker A: We've got Jamie Vanden Brink tweet Productions. [01:56:33] Speaker B: Here we go. Go for it. [01:56:38] Speaker A: Okay. Hi, Camera Life team. Happy Mother's Day to all the mums listening and watching for yesterday. I wanted to share some photos from the lovely Mother's Day I had yesterday with my two kids, Jack and Jenna, as we went for a photography walk through the Japanese gardens in Toowoomba. Oh, that's just such. That's amazing. I love that. The gorgeous autumn colors just looked amazing. Creating a beautiful palette across the gardens. Jack, my nine year old, was armed with the Canon 70D with the 18 to 200. And my daughter Jenna, 14 years old, had the Canon 90D with an 18 to 135. And I had my R5 Mark II with the EF100L Macro and a few other lenses. It was wonderful to share something that really brings me joy with my two little humans. Luckily, they're both little creatives themselves and had a good time and got some great photos too. And here is a photo from each of us for the podcast. Hope you enjoy them. Let's see. [01:57:34] Speaker B: All right, so this one with the two ducks on one leg is. And I think she had the long lens, so she's obviously taken advantage of that zoom to get close on that, which is very nice. And good framing too. Rule of thirds, it's like, that's all. That's a nice shot. [01:57:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:57:57] Speaker B: This one was from Jamie [01:58:03] Speaker C: Color. [01:58:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:58:05] Speaker A: That's crazy. [01:58:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Dead center, symmetrical. Beautiful shot. And that was 100L macro. Yeah. And then Jack shot was this one. Jack actually had submitted a different one. And then there was another email come through and she was like, Jack actually really likes this one. Yeah. Even a change, a change in mind of which one was the one. And I love it. [01:58:37] Speaker A: Yep. [01:58:38] Speaker B: That's cool. [01:58:39] Speaker A: It's really cool. It's really interesting. It's got these beautiful layers and. Yeah, it's lovely. Very autumnal. [01:58:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:58:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:58:56] Speaker B: And thank you for sharing your family photography adventure. Really cool. [01:59:05] Speaker A: All right, should we move along? [01:59:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:59:09] Speaker A: Neville Clark's up next. Where is you shot? Okay. I just love the lines in the sand. Nev says Denmark, Western Australia. Like a Q3.28 with a Nissi CPL. Look at where the light falls. That's gorgeous. ISO 100 FA shutter 1/60. I'm so glad I bought this camera. Thanks, Greg, for just saying just do it. It's what I'm best at. That's a gorgeous shot. I love the way the light just is sort of softly, like kind of fades out towards the bottom of the frame [01:59:57] Speaker B: to also like a Rim light around the water. Like if the water was a person and the light was hitting their hair, that's the same kind of effect. It would have, that kind of rim lighting. Yeah, it's really interesting. [02:00:12] Speaker A: That's a great shot, Nev. Although, mate. [02:00:14] Speaker B: Yeah, beautiful shot. I mean, I don't want to say your GFX probably could have taken that shot as well, but the Q3 definitely sealed the deal. [02:00:24] Speaker A: Yeah. The color is amazing. [02:00:26] Speaker B: And that's coming from me, who has a Q3, so. [02:00:30] Speaker A: Indeed. [02:00:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Beautiful shot. Yeah. Light on the edge of the water. Everyone's keen on that. [02:00:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:00:41] Speaker B: Also, just. Just going back a second, Rick Nelson says, you know what they say about the family, that photographs together, they edit together. Yeah. All right. [02:00:57] Speaker A: Up next, Andrew Connor. G', day, Andrew. I love autumn. My favorite season for sure. And this one the other day, just the local lake in Sunbury. Autumn morning light is just better, more vibrant, I think. And the coolness creates these light mists on the water. It is my definition of happiness, seeing it like this. And this was taken on my Lumix Bridge. FZ 2500 11, 25th of a second, ISO 200 and Lightroom used to lighten the shadows slightly for the detail. Square crop, too. That's amazing. [02:01:38] Speaker B: I bet it was nice standing there in that moment. [02:01:42] Speaker C: Enjoying it. [02:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah, just enjoying it. [02:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah. And that softness over the water kind of draws you in to find detail. It's really well done. Well done. Great frame. Very cool. Well done, Andrew. Thank you. Up next is Dennis Smith. [02:02:05] Speaker B: Oh, I've heard of that guy. [02:02:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen him around. [02:02:08] Speaker B: He's a. He's a new listener, isn't he? [02:02:12] Speaker A: Isn't he from Bendigo? [02:02:13] Speaker B: Could be, yeah. [02:02:15] Speaker A: Dennis Smith. Hey, mate. This was to Justin. Obviously missed the show last week, but we'll be back around tonight. Here's a pick. And behind the scene, [02:02:30] Speaker B: my computer's stuck. There we go. Got it. Got it. Oh, wow. It's beautiful. [02:02:37] Speaker A: Jesus, Tim. [02:02:39] Speaker B: Has he lit that landscape? [02:02:41] Speaker A: Yes. I'll get to that. Show the first one. Show this while reading. So this is. This was created in the Flinders Ranges at a very special spot. To me, it is great as an astro spot for obvious reasons. Although this is not technically light painting, I wanted to light the foreground, so I took a long time to get just right. The scale here is immense, but this is a single exposure. The second shot is a pano to show the location of the lights. They were insanely dim. Always hard to. Always hard to the side to create shape. [02:03:16] Speaker B: There's no. Second shot, Dennis. [02:03:18] Speaker A: Oh, well, I have to imagine it's only one. This was shot with a Sony A7R4. [02:03:27] Speaker B: Oh, excuse me, sorry. [02:03:29] Speaker A: 20 millimeter F1. 8G. Beast 3200 ISO F18 and 30 seconds. [02:03:38] Speaker B: All right, hang on, hang on. I found the other shot. It was weird. They were both in the same link anyway. I can do this on the fly. [02:03:45] Speaker A: You can do it. [02:03:46] Speaker B: Come on. Seven seconds left. [02:03:50] Speaker C: That's not it. [02:03:52] Speaker B: I know. That's the whale again. Hang on. [02:03:56] Speaker C: Just making sure that we're on the same page. [02:03:59] Speaker B: Try my best. Here we go. No, now it says there's 15 seconds left and we're still on the whale. If we go back. [02:04:07] Speaker C: There we go. [02:04:10] Speaker B: I mean, I'm in Indonesia. Give me a break. All right, panorama coming right up. [02:04:28] Speaker C: We can. We can hear your computer chugging away. [02:04:33] Speaker B: There we go. [02:04:34] Speaker C: There we go. [02:04:34] Speaker B: Wow. Okay, so two lights. [02:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's bananas. Even. Just getting up there to place them, [02:04:46] Speaker B: not falling off in the dark, getting [02:04:53] Speaker C: them the right brightness. [02:04:55] Speaker B: You guys must have had an awesome couple of days out there. [02:04:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:04:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Looks cool. [02:05:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:05:06] Speaker B: Dennis says that's a long way up the hill. It was sick. [02:05:13] Speaker C: Always so enthusiastic. [02:05:14] Speaker B: Oh, wild. [02:05:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:05:21] Speaker B: That's beautiful. [02:05:21] Speaker A: Well done, Ted. Great work. [02:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah, epic. I just want to go there. I'm gonna. I'm next workshop. Next. Adam Edwards and Dennis Smith workshop. I'm signing up. [02:05:38] Speaker A: Cool. [02:05:40] Speaker B: And go to Broken Hill. Gonna visit the gallery, take some photos. [02:05:45] Speaker A: Nice. Actually, speaking of that, I was thinking about maybe jumping onto one of Glenn Lavender's workshops coming up. [02:05:52] Speaker C: Really? [02:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:05:53] Speaker A: Just lighting. Yeah. Specifically portrait lighting. [02:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's a good idea. [02:06:01] Speaker A: So I might treat myself to that. [02:06:06] Speaker B: All right, who we got up next, [02:06:08] Speaker A: second to last is Lisa Leach. I caught up with Lisa at the summit on the weekend. Always lovely to hang out with Lisa. She's got such a beautiful energy about the craft and just about hanging out with the people, which was always great to see. Lisa Leach, please see my image for the your images section of the podcast. Whilst I seriously considered sending the money shot of Crackers paying for his Fujifilm for purchase at the Creator Summit, I could not resist showing off some more magic scenery from New Zealand. It was. It was great to meet up with some of the TCL community this weekend. I hope Crackers remains happy with his purchase and Mrs. Crackers has not banished him to the doghouse. Warmest wishes, as always. [02:06:49] Speaker C: Beautiful shot later. [02:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that. That's amazing. It just draws you in and then your eye runs along that horizon line. [02:07:05] Speaker B: So I was going to say the perfectly placed clumps of more like foliage in between the mountains. [02:07:12] Speaker A: It's almost like a sound. You know how you get those? You get like sound waves when you edit video. [02:07:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [02:07:20] Speaker A: I don't know what it's called, but [02:07:21] Speaker B: you know what I mean. [02:07:21] Speaker A: It almost looks like that. Like there's a. There's highs and lows in it. [02:07:26] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, it's very cool. Mystical. It's a bit shot. It's very beautiful. [02:07:38] Speaker A: Great stuff. [02:07:42] Speaker B: Also, I think, Felicity, Josh Johnson was there. Don't miss that one. [02:07:46] Speaker A: Oh, did I miss Felicity? Yeah. Oh, I did. Sorry, guys. [02:07:50] Speaker C: You missed. [02:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sorry. All right, let's go to Felicity. Sorry, Sorry, Felicity, I didn't mean to skip you. I went on a five day wow photography tour with Ben Erickson and it was an amazing experience. My first time seeing a whale. Ben was really adamant, you don't have whales in Bendigo or Gorong. Surprising. Ben was really adamant on getting us to put the camera down and really take in the experience of these whales lunging through the air. I did shed many happy tears, particularly when the baby whales jumped right out of the water with glee. I love the way they lay on their backs and just popped up their fins, waving them around. It's pretty magical. [02:08:31] Speaker C: It's nice with the town in the background. [02:08:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:08:38] Speaker B: Hey, we need to enhance this. Enhance. [02:08:44] Speaker A: Get the detail in there. [02:08:46] Speaker B: Every little dot. [02:08:49] Speaker A: You can see the water coming off it. [02:08:58] Speaker B: That's a beautiful. That's amazing. Print it. I want to go on that work. I want to see a whale. [02:09:10] Speaker A: Also. [02:09:11] Speaker B: I'm just trying to catch up. Did we bring up Philip Johnson? [02:09:15] Speaker C: No, we missed Philip. That was. [02:09:16] Speaker A: Oh, What? [02:09:17] Speaker B: Yeah, Good job. Yeah, we miss Philip as well. [02:09:23] Speaker C: We miss Philip and Felicity is Phillips on this and we haven't got to Rick yet, but. [02:09:28] Speaker B: And then we've got Xe as a Finding one that there isn't any words for. [02:09:33] Speaker A: Where's Phillips? Ah, Autumn in the Blue Mountains. Sorry, I'm working off my phone screen, guys, because the second screen's not here. Sorry, guys. Should we go to Phillips first? [02:09:43] Speaker B: Yep, Phillips. [02:09:44] Speaker A: All right, Philip Johnson. Sorry, Philip. Autumn in the Blue Mountains offers many opportunities for landscape photographers. Thus, this image was shot as a panoramic image and then stitched and processed using Photoshop and Topaz. Photo image shot in Blackheath, New South Wales. Early morning camera. Sony A7IV with a 70 to 200 lens. Look at the color. That is so beautiful. [02:10:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the color [02:10:15] Speaker C: in it. If it's a piano, [02:10:20] Speaker B: you. [02:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:10:22] Speaker C: You said it was a stitch. [02:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a stitch. [02:10:26] Speaker B: That's impressive. [02:10:30] Speaker A: It's almost like a painting, isn't it? Just that there's that soft quality to it. [02:10:35] Speaker B: Here's a. Here's a question. Would you like it better with or without the car? [02:10:42] Speaker A: I can't tell. [02:10:44] Speaker B: I feel like I would like it better without the car because it gives more. Not mystery. Like I would have a. Yeah. A harder time placing where it is and when. What year it is. And I think I'll enjoy that more. [02:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's. Let's get the. The chat to vote. [02:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah. What do you guys think? [02:11:09] Speaker A: Rodney Nicholson, Rick Nelson. Definitely. Like a painting. [02:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got that painting vibe. [02:11:18] Speaker A: I mean, it works with the car. I don't think the car's an issue, but I. I get what you mean. [02:11:22] Speaker B: What. [02:11:23] Speaker A: How would the story alter if the car was gone? [02:11:25] Speaker B: That's all I'm thinking. I'm not thinking which. Yeah. I'm thinking just like, would I prefer to not know, like, what. [02:11:33] Speaker C: When it was kind of. I would. Yeah. Yeah. [02:11:36] Speaker B: Leave it up to the imagination or does the car give it scale and perspective and make you go, oh, yeah, I've driven down a road like that and it was awesome? Yeah, that's. [02:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:11:46] Speaker B: It's hard to know. [02:11:47] Speaker A: Some mixed responses in the chat. David Skinner with Jason out. [02:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:11:56] Speaker A: Car dates it, which can be good. [02:12:00] Speaker B: All bad. [02:12:01] Speaker A: He says, without Felicity says, car out. That's interesting, isn't it? As. [02:12:06] Speaker C: As John Pickett said, if the car. Car in. If it was maybe something older, which. [02:12:11] Speaker B: And, yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm probably not talking about removing the car. I'm talking about waiting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not necessarily saying, like, this is my photo now get rid of it. I'm thinking like I was here in this moment. What I've thought, maybe I'll wait and see. Yeah, yeah, [02:12:34] Speaker A: yeah. And it grounds it. [02:12:36] Speaker B: Exactly. That's the other thing. And if it was a. Yeah. Like a tourism photo or something. Sometimes they like to see cars in there. [02:12:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:12:45] Speaker B: Philip Johnson says. Interesting. A photographer up here was accused of removing cars. How far is acceptable? Exactly? And I. I don't know if I would remove the car as opposed to just. Would I have tried the shop without it? Maybe that's not even possible. I've been doing that here a little bit on some of the busy roads. If there's a. The front of some of those buildings. I took A photo of. There's constantly scooters and cars coming past, and I'm just waiting, Waiting and hoping to get a clean shot in between the traffic. [02:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. [02:13:19] Speaker A: Beautiful photo regardless. [02:13:22] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. Painting. Yeah, Beautiful painting. Jason says the car does give it a contrast of solidity against the softer ambience. Might look like more. Look like less like a road and more like a trail without a car. Yeah. Tintyp man says the car was there, so keep it simple, but. [02:13:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that, too. [02:13:49] Speaker B: Yep. So there's plenty of ways to look at it. Yeah. [02:13:56] Speaker A: Amazing. Great work, Philip. [02:13:59] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks, Philip. [02:14:01] Speaker A: Now I'm fairly sure this is the last one. [02:14:03] Speaker B: All right. Except for Exy, who doesn't have any words. Yeah. [02:14:09] Speaker A: All right, let's go with Rick Nelson first. [02:14:11] Speaker B: Rick Nelson. Holy moly. Oh, wow. [02:14:15] Speaker A: Let's just enjoy this. [02:14:16] Speaker C: You got Greg excited. Yeah. [02:14:19] Speaker A: Oh, that's really well done. What has he said? I went to explore some new wetlands the other day on my day off. I was just walking a little off the trail to get close to the marsh area. And on the tree I was about to duck under was this guy. Now, I was planning for birds, but my favorite shot of the day was this giant grasshopper shot on the Lumix S5 Mark II with Sigma 100400 at 1/1000F F10. ISO 400 at 400mil really punched in there, and it's just completely obliterated whatever might have been in the background. Yeah, that's beautiful. [02:14:56] Speaker B: Really? [02:14:57] Speaker C: Well lighting, everything's just. [02:14:58] Speaker B: Just right. It's crazy. Like an alien. Yeah, [02:15:06] Speaker A: that's beautiful. [02:15:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just. There's so much detail on my screen. It's so sharp. Epic. [02:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:15:22] Speaker B: Oh, macro. One day. One day I'll get one for you. [02:15:27] Speaker C: You had a macro lens. [02:15:29] Speaker B: I know, but I don't have time for macro. Infrared first. [02:15:33] Speaker C: No, you had one, though. You had the 105 Macro, the Nikon one back in the day. [02:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. That was for wedding rings. And I was like, yeah, that's just shooting wedding rings. But you do it once and you're like, wow, that looks cool. You do it a second time, you're like, all right, I don't want to do this anymore. It's just. It's not fun. No. Yeah, not needed. All right, X's got some film shots. Here is the caption. XY says hello. Here is the caption. If my computer catch up. Come on. Why won't this work? There we go. Shot on Fujifilm GW683 and Fujika STX. One film used Lomography 800, Fujifilm 100 and Kodak 500T. These are just. Films. I don't think I've used any of those films. [02:16:49] Speaker A: No. Yeah. I went through these with Etsy last night. He hadn't shown them to anyone. I said, what are you doing? You need to show these to people. And he's actually. I've actually paid for one of his prints which I just got today. [02:17:06] Speaker B: Really? [02:17:10] Speaker A: It's going to be really hard to see, but this is like a. One of those little underground strip shops in Japan. It just. I remember like exploring a whole bunch of these whenever I was in. In mostly in Tokyo, around Asakusa, around the train station. And yeah, it just. The colors, that. That doesn't do it justice. But the colors are absolutely beautiful. And it's that. Sydney, still 800. [02:17:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I was going to say shot film, obviously. [02:17:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, [02:17:46] Speaker B: yeah. It's just got a different look. [02:17:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it does. [02:17:53] Speaker C: What? [02:17:54] Speaker B: Preset exe. Just kidding. Dummy. Dummy. Yeah. [02:18:02] Speaker C: Look at him. [02:18:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Look at the. Look at the blues. Like, it's just really cool. [02:18:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's Jason's like, despite the digital attempts, nothing looks like film as much as film. Yeah, there is. And I think it's the second guessing when you edit your digital files to look like film and you're like, that doesn't look like film. [02:18:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:18:30] Speaker B: Whereas when you shoot on film, it's. There's no second guessing. It is what it is done. I have to pretend [02:18:39] Speaker C: it's a bit more raw too. [02:18:42] Speaker B: Yes. [02:18:43] Speaker C: Because like you haven't gone in and edited and tweaked and. [02:18:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Made it perfect. Yep. [02:18:50] Speaker B: I think this one is my favorite from that set. Colors on the right and then negative space a little bit in the foreground on the left, but then that's balanced out by the buildings on the left. Then you've got this sun just hitting the chair and like giving that little twinkle. Yep. [02:19:14] Speaker C: Lens. Lens flare in there. [02:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah, Little lens flare like this one. And then the guy's just doing their thing. One's so. One's just chilling. The other guy's working. I don't understand, but is it like, is this guy already finished all of his work? That's why he's empty. He's like, I'm done, man. But I'll watch you watch you finish off anyway. Yeah. Great shots. Great shots. [02:19:44] Speaker A: Yep. [02:19:45] Speaker B: All right. Well done, you guys. [02:19:47] Speaker A: Probably well done, everybody. [02:19:48] Speaker B: Time is it there? [02:19:50] Speaker A: It's almost 10. [02:19:51] Speaker B: Oh my gosh, yeah. [02:19:54] Speaker A: Well, the good thing is, is that I'm not, I'm not coming to you live from someone else's bedroom anymore. I've got my own studio so I can stay up as long. I'm like a grown up now. [02:20:04] Speaker B: Just do a 24 hour live stream. [02:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah, let's not get silly. But thank you everyone for sending in your images. Thanks. [02:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, Jim, Jim. Jim's images. [02:20:18] Speaker A: Oh really? [02:20:19] Speaker B: I mean, if we're not supposed to swear, that's. All right, wait, let's finish off with Jim. Yeah, we're two, we're two hours and 20 minutes. [02:20:30] Speaker A: Let's see. [02:20:30] Speaker B: Jim slowly deciding that he's going to buy an adventure bike as the weekend goes on. So tell us, tell us about it. Oh my gosh, he's going down. [02:20:42] Speaker C: Yeah. So there's a few shots from this puddle. So this was like the first obstacle of the day and this was the second guy through. But just unfortunately there's a few photos of him going down. [02:20:59] Speaker A: Oh wow. [02:21:02] Speaker C: But he was okay. [02:21:03] Speaker B: He's all right. [02:21:05] Speaker C: Yeah, he's good. So it was, it was again difficult trying to ride and take photos and not know what's ahead. So you're constantly second guessing yourself of is this a good spot or should I keep going on? Because at no point is the light perfect because you haven't been anywhere before [02:21:31] Speaker B: and you're not riding it like golden hour. It's no, it's like mid morning, mid afternoon, just normal. [02:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:21:38] Speaker B: You like, you got to make the best of it. [02:21:40] Speaker C: Yeah. And, and you know, you might, you get told, oh, you know, this will be good. And then, or just right up here there's, you know, stop on the crest of the hill and then 5k's later you didn't see it opening in the crest of a hill and you're like, he's like, yeah, you went the wrong way. And I was like, [02:21:58] Speaker B: you second guess everything when they send you out first and say, oh, there's a good spot up there. It's on it. Yeah, there's a good climb. And you're like, is this the good climb? Because it doesn't seem good. [02:22:08] Speaker C: Maybe it's the next kind of feel rushed the whole time. [02:22:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:22:13] Speaker C: So sorry, there's a few photos from this one puddle but. [02:22:18] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. [02:22:19] Speaker C: You know the ro canopy. [02:22:26] Speaker A: Oh, I can see what you meant about the light gym. It's really quite, quite hard to work with, isn't it? [02:22:36] Speaker C: It's quite harsh. At this point. This was, this was lunchtime. So but because we were. It was winter. It was like, I was able to backlight some of them, or there's a bit, obviously, direction with that, so it's not directly above. [02:22:51] Speaker A: Yeah, [02:22:57] Speaker C: You'll. You'll laugh at this, Justin. When I was standing up on this log, one of the guys says to me, he goes, do you want us to face the other way? Because if we face this way, our faces will be in the shadows. And I was like, no, we can do it that way. But then you'll look like me. And I'm looking up to the sun with my eyes closed because it was horrifically bright. [02:23:19] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [02:23:20] Speaker C: I was like, I've done a couple of group photos. [02:23:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I got this, bro. You got. Relax and ride your bikes. I can do this. Yeah, it's nice, though. [02:23:31] Speaker C: One of the guys in this photo has one of your camera straps, Justin. [02:23:34] Speaker B: What? Which one? [02:23:35] Speaker C: He doesn't have it on him, but that guy there. [02:23:38] Speaker B: Which one? The guy there. [02:23:42] Speaker C: The guy next to the fluorescent jacket. You remember? [02:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:23:48] Speaker C: Do you remember Andy from the CF Moto? [02:23:50] Speaker B: Right. [02:23:52] Speaker C: The video. The head video guy. [02:23:56] Speaker B: Oh, a little bit, yeah. [02:23:58] Speaker C: Yeah. So that's him. That was the. [02:23:59] Speaker A: Is that him? [02:24:01] Speaker C: But he's had us, like, he's had a lucky strap for a long, long time. [02:24:04] Speaker B: He said, heck, yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Was he judging everything he did? Probably. Oh, I like that one. [02:24:18] Speaker C: So this was starting to get into the end of the day, and this was when I was starting to be able to find spots. So we'd ridden this track in the morning, so I had a bit of an idea of what I might be able to get. So this was the. The. Like the. The owner of the trial riding thing. [02:24:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, That's. That's. That's the best one I've seen so far in terms of, like, dynamic framed really well. Good use of light. Obviously. Be better if it was two hours further into the afternoon, but you get what you get. You don't, you know? [02:24:58] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [02:25:00] Speaker B: Some of these days. [02:25:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [02:25:04] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. [02:25:06] Speaker C: So he actually went through that part twice for me. [02:25:09] Speaker A: Enhance. [02:25:13] Speaker C: That's sharp. Don't worry. [02:25:14] Speaker B: I'm just checking, Jim. I just don't want to make sure your 7200 is calibrated. Looks okay to me. I'll let you pass. [02:25:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I liked the. The backlit. The dust. [02:25:26] Speaker A: The dust, yeah. Because it just creates this kind of a halo around him. [02:25:33] Speaker C: So. [02:25:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:25:34] Speaker A: Nice. [02:25:35] Speaker B: I think that's the last one. Yeah, it's the last one. [02:25:37] Speaker A: Yeah, That's a great shot. I love that. [02:25:39] Speaker B: Epic. [02:25:41] Speaker A: Well done, Jim. That's a good job. [02:25:43] Speaker B: That's great, man. The dust looks wild. [02:25:46] Speaker A: Thanks. Sick. [02:25:49] Speaker C: That was fun, though. [02:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:25:51] Speaker C: Fun to do two things that you really like. [02:25:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:25:56] Speaker B: Yeah. And then go shopping for an adventure bike afterwards. [02:26:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:26:02] Speaker B: David Skinner says you use the light to your advantage. Gym. Well done. Tweak says those are awesome and they were nice. [02:26:12] Speaker A: Thanks, guys. [02:26:13] Speaker B: All right, I'm gonna go eat some food. Yolanda's probably fading away to a shadow. [02:26:18] Speaker C: I need to drink some water. [02:26:19] Speaker B: Hungry? Yeah. [02:26:20] Speaker A: I need to sleep. Well, look, I think that's a great place. It is the place to tie a bow. In today's episode of the Camera Life podcast, random photography show. Just a reminder for everyone that is watching, we've got to our Thursday morning interview show coming up, 9am this Thursday, Australian Eastern Standard Time. It's already there. It's on YouTube. You can go check out the preview now. Make sure you hit the bell icon or on the actual video itself. You can hit. Notify me and you'll get a notification just before it goes live. And we are interviewing Chris Anderson this week, I think from memory. Let me just double check. Yeah, Chris Anderson is joining us. He's a multidisciplinary photographer, so we're going to learn a lot about what it's like having, you know, your fingers in all the pies. I don't know what that means. I'm sorry. It just came to me. But Jim, thank you so much. Great to have you jumping back on the shows lately. We really appreciate it. It's always great to hear your updates. And yeah, Justin, I hope you and Lana have safe travels. And how long are you going to be in that area for? Where you staying now? [02:27:27] Speaker B: We're here to Wednesday night, so I'm not sure if I'll let you know. I'm not sure if I'll be on the show on Thursday morning or not because we won't get back until late on Wednesday night. And then the show would be 7am the next. Anyway, I'll. [02:27:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll let you know. All right, we'll see how we go. [02:27:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Only a couple of days here. [02:27:46] Speaker A: Yep, fair enough. Nice. All right, well, let's play some music. And Justin, do you want to do the honors of saying goodbye to some folks? [02:27:55] Speaker B: I've got no music, but, yeah, I'm still drinking. [02:28:00] Speaker C: We'll just pretend. [02:28:01] Speaker B: But Felicity Johnson says, good night, everyone. David Skinner says, good night, everyone. Bruce Moss says, Chris is an awesome photographer and mate well, it doesn't come much higher place than that. So everyone make sure if you can be here Thursday morning, 9am Melbourne time that you are and if not listen to it later. It'll be sitting there ready for you when you are ready. Tweak production says good evening all. Always a joy to see everyone's images. Inspirational. Excellent. Good night people. Bruce Moyle. Good night everyone. Nev Clark. Thanks for the show everyone. Catches on the flip side. Who else? Tintype man. Greg Carrick. John pickett. Rick Nelson. Dennis Rodney Nicholson. Music makes this more fun. Jason. [02:28:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:28:43] Speaker B: You could. [02:28:44] Speaker C: You could put that voice changer on and sing for everyone. [02:28:47] Speaker A: Oh, what have you done? [02:28:50] Speaker B: Philip Johnson. Who else is here? Xp Lim. Thank you. Thank you, Greg. [02:28:59] Speaker A: Thanks, everybody. [02:29:00] Speaker B: It's been a wonderful evening. This is a new viewer, Nolando 1. Thank you, Nolan. Day one. [02:29:09] Speaker A: It was good to have you here tonight. [02:29:11] Speaker B: And with that we'll catch everybody. [02:29:15] Speaker C: This is Justin's normal voice. He's normally got the voice changer on. [02:29:21] Speaker B: Good night, everybody. Good night, Jim. Good night, Greg. [02:29:25] Speaker A: Good night, Justin. [02:29:29] Speaker B: All right, see you.