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Review: Multiblitz Profilux Monolight

KerryG — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:05:19 +0000

Ok, let ‘s start this off with a few disclaimers here. First, hell is not freezing over, pigs are not flying, and the world is not coming to an end, although many of you may think so since I am going to be talking about some studio lights rather than speedlites. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE speedlites! The small size, battery powered, ultra portable boxes of magic that they are just brings a smile to my face. However, speedlites, for all their goodness, are lacking in one very particular area….raw power! When you need just pure lighting horsepower, no speedlite can match a good quality monolight. As Tim Allen would say “More Power! arr arr arr!!”. I was first introduced to Multiblitz studio lights at the 2012 WPPI show and instantly fell in love with their lighting kits. The good folks over at Multiblitz were kind enough to send over a kit for me to review and to use for some upcoming lighting tutorials.

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Review: Canon EOS M Mirrorless Camera

KerryG — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:00:12 +0000

If you haven’t bought a mirrorless camera yet, you will soon. Yes, that is a pretty bold statement, but let’s face reality here, it is more than “just likely” that ALL cameras will be mirrorless in the very near future. Whether its in the small form factor of the EOS M or Sony NEX 7 or in the shape of a DSLR like the Sony A99, mirrorless is the future of camera design. Where companies are struggling right now is positioning existing models into existing markets. Such is the case with the Canon EOS M, is it a high end consumer camera or a low-end extra camera for advanced users. This is going to be a hard question to answer as we take our look inside the Canon EOS M. To help answer the question for myself, I rented one for the weekend from BorrowLenses.com.

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Review: Savage Paper Tech Table

KerryG — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:00:45 +0000

Not everyone does tethered shooting but most people have a need for an extra table once in a while and the new Tech Table from Savage Paper fills both of those needs quite well. The Tech table attaches to the top of a tripod or light stand and provides a platform for you to work with. There are a number of similar tables like this on the market so we wanted to see how the Tech Table stacks up.

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SD Cards – Are All Things Created Equal

KerryG — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:01:13 +0000

Memory card manufacturers are always touting the latest and greatest cards with ever increasing speeds, but does it really matter how much you spend on a card. To put this idea to the test, we took a handful of different cards and used CrystalDiskMark to test the read and write speeds of the different cards. Continue reading to see how low-budget generic cards stood up to the top brand name’s cards.

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Lytro Light Field Camera – The Future or a Cute Gimmick?

KerryG — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:27:55 +0000

As a Christmas present I received a Lytro Light Field Camera and when I posted my first impressions of the Lytro I got quite some flack on social networks that the Lytro goes against the very nature of photography. How often have we heard that one technology is going to destroy an entire industry and then it goes on to completely revolutionize that industry? VCR’s were going to destroy the movie industry, CD’s were going to kill the music industry. In photography, auto exposure, auto focus, and then digital were going to ruin the photography business. Is the Lytro finally going to be the nail in photographer’s coffins or is it just a one trick pony that is destined for the box of useless gadgets we all collect?

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Review: Sony NEX 7 Mirrorless Camera

KerryG — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:33:40 +0000

Ask anyone that really understands cameras and the photography industry and they will tell you that the future of digital cameras is the new mirrorless technology. Without all of the bulk of mechanical mirrors, pentaprisms, and related hardware, a mirrorless camera is much smaller than a regular DSLR. The real beauty of a mirrorless camera is that there is no sacrifice of image quality as the sensors are as good or even better than most DSLRs. At the top of the heap is the Sony NEX 7 which is the top-of-the-line of the Sony NEX product line.

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Review: Techart Canon EOS EF/EF-s to Sony NEX Adapter

KerryG — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:37:51 +0000

The Sony NEX mirrorless cameras have certainly helped boost the sales of mirrorless cameras but the downside is a lack of lenses. While there a a handful of different adapters available, so far they haven’t really given the full power of the Sony NEX platform….until now. The Techart Canon EOS EF/EF-s to Sony NEX Adapter is the first adapter to provide auto-focus and aperture control to Canon lenses. This opens up the Sony NEX system to a huge number of lenses from Canon, Sigma, Tokina, and others.

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Review: Eye-Fi Pro X2 16gb SD WiFi Card

KerryG — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:06:56 +0000

The Holy Grail of camera connectivity is being able to wirelessly and immediately send images from your camera directly to your PC or mobile device. Eye-Fi solved this connectivity issue a few years ago with the first Eye-Fi card that incorporated a WiFI system into a standard SD card. Over the years, Eye-Fi has continued to enhance and improve the cards with larger sizes and faster write speeds (Eye-Fi Pro X2). This year, the latest offering from Eye-Fi is the Pro X2 16gb card. Continue reading to hear my thoughts on this latest version.

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Top Five Reasons To Rent Camera Gear

KerryG — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:54:24 +0000

Most people don’t realize how cost effective it can be to rent camera gear when you need it rather than making a huge investment up front. Even if you have never considered renting gear before, go ahead and read through my top five reasons to rent camera gear and maybe you will find a good reason that fits your needs and requirements.

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Review: Cotton Carrier Vest System

Guest Author — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:31:46 +0000

Finding a good system for carrying your gear is always a challenge as everyone’s needs are different. Some people need quick access, some need to carry lots of heavy equipment, others may want to have access to lots of accessories.

Cotton Carrier has been working hard to come up with different carrying options to help provide photographers with a wide range of options. In this review we will look at the Cotton Carrier Vest System.

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Get Your Lost Gear Back With SticKee Tags

KerryG — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:26:16 +0000

Few things are worse than that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize you have left your phone, tablet, or other important item somewhere. The problem is that very few of our important items have any contact information on them, making it pretty hard for someone that wants to do the right thing to figure out how to return it. While some people take to adding complete contact info on their devices, it takes up a lot of space and is hard to fit on every device. SticKee.Me thinks they have solved this with their small stickers that you can put on your devices and items.

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Review: Switronix TorchLED TL-50 Video Light

KerryG — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:00:50 +0000

Videographers and photographers are always looking for great ways to add additional light when they need it and there is no doubt that LED lighting is the wave of the future. The problem is that budget LED lights often suffer from poor color and issues with flicker and higher dollar lights are…well…more expensive. Switronix has designed the TorchLED TL-50 to fill the gap between these two extremes. The TorchLED TL-50 light provides the equivalent of 50 watts of 5600k daylight balanced light, up to 3 hours of operating time and is the only compact LED light fixture to include an integrated rechargeable battery pack. Sounds good so far, but let’s dig into it some more and see if it is as good as it seems.

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Review: JuicedLink RA333 Preamp

KerryG — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:25:02 +0000

I am quite often a perfectionist, or possibly lazy, or maybe a combination of the two. Whichever it is, I want to spend less time in post production by getting things right “in camera”. The problem when shooting video is, more often than not, getting good audio. Unfortunately, getting really good audio (no noise or hiss) is not easy or inexpensive. I have certainly tried to get good audio on a tight budget and no doubt wasted more time and money than if I had done it right the first time. Getting more and more frustrated I turned to Robert over at JuicedLink for advice. He suggested the JuicedLink RA333 Preamp and an Audio-Technica AT875R microphone. After using it for a month, how did the JuicedLink RA333 hold up? Well, that’s the point of this article so continue reading to learn more.

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Review: Sticky Filters Gel Kit

KerryG — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:11:35 +0000

I love using gels on my speedlites, from basic color correction to faking a blue sky to creating colored backgrounds, gels can really come in handy. The downside is finding a way to put the gels in front of your speedlite. One of my favorites has been the ExpoImaging Rouge Gel Kit but as much as I like it, it still requires a clumsy rubber band to hold the gels in place and if you forget that band, you are pretty well hosed. During a recent podcast with Kevin Kubota, Kevin mentioned Sticky Filters. As I started looking around I found that a bunch of people have been using them and were really pleased so I decided I needed to get myself a set and see how if they would live up to the hype.

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Review: Fotodiox FD to NEX Adapter

KerryG — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:51:04 +0000

As you may have noticed recently, I have become almost obsessed with my new Sony NEX 5n. With image quality surpassing most current prosumer DSLRs, the 5n is also a a fun camera to use because of its small size. Since I take the 5n everywhere, it also is allowing me to experiment with a number of different things. One product came up in some searches that looked really interesting, a Canon FD lens adapter for the 5n. At $22.95, the Fotodiox FD to NEX adapter would allow me to pull out my old Canon FD lenses that I used to use on my Canon AE-1 film camera.

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Blurity! – How Not To Sell Software

KerryG — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:45:10 +0000

The Holy Grail of image processing is the ability to take blurry images and make them usable. Adobe demoed this technology last year and I expect to see it integrated into Photoshop in the near future. In the meantime there is a piece of software called Blurity! that claims to do the same thing, and the examples on their website are impressive enough. When I found out about this software I made a note to do a review of it. Normally I will contact the manufacturer of the software, discuss the features, talk about how to talk about it, and maybe ask for license key if one is needed to fully demo the software out. Also, if a product fails to live up to expectations or has some problems, I will talk to the manufacturer and provide feedback and then discuss posting a review or waiting for an update to address my concerns. This post is going to go into my experience in learning about and trying out Blurity! and what irritated me enough to write an article about it.

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Using The JuicedLink RA333 Riggy-Assist PreAmp

KerryG — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:12:09 +0000

If you have been following Camera Dojo over the past year you may have followed along as I discovered Why DSLR Audio Recording Sucks and What To Do About It and then used a JuicedLink DS214 Amp to improve the audio which worked extremely well. More recently I tried using a Zoom H4 as a Boom Mic. While these things did pretty good, my goal was to get broadcast quality audio and I simply was not getting there without extra work in post production. The big question is what to do to really take the audio to the next level of quality. It was time to consult an expert and there is nobody better than Robert Rozak at JuicedLink. Robert made two suggestions, first I needed a better microphone and recommended the Audio-Technica AT875R. The second thing I needed was a preamp with XLR inputs and we settled on the JuicedLink RA333.

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Review: TriPad Tether Table

KerryG — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:00:47 +0000

One of the things I love about running Camera Dojo is getting to see new and interesting products all the time and quite often they are just way too goofy and sometimes never make it into production. Other times you see a product and you can’t believe nobody has ever come up with it before because its simple, effective, and obvious as soon as you see it…such is the case with the TriPad tether table.

The TriPad tether table is such an incredibly simple design that its hard to imagine that we haven’t seen variations of this for decades. For me, the issue wasn’t whether or not the design was good, but would it really be sturdy enough to securely hold my gear while I worked so I just had to try it out.

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Book Review: So You Want To Be A Rockstar Photographer – Gary Fong

Debra Ekas — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:00:56 +0000

Debunking the myth of the Rock Star Photographer and sharing tips based on extremely successful career in the wedding photography business

Gary Fong sets out to open the eyes of new and experienced photographers to what is real and what is illusion within the industry of wedding photography. He exposes the realities behind “rock star” photographers. He gives examples of what can go wrong when a photographer jumps into the deep end before they are ready to take off the water wings. And takes the “industry “to task for being so fickle. He then sets out, in exacting detail to share a business model that helped him create a profitable business, and provide an outstanding product to his clients. Finally he explains why he is compelled after being retired from the wedding industry for 10 years, to be a champion for the underdog, and to call Bullshit when he smells it.

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Review: Gentled IR Trigger for the Sony NEX 5n

KerryG — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:01:42 +0000

If you have seen me anywhere lately, you would see me with my Sony NEX 5n. You can probably tell by some of the recent articles (here, here, here, here). As much as I like the camera and of all the features it has, there is no easy way to shoot a long series of images. The primary reason for wanting to take a lot of shots would be for doing time lapse photography. With a DSLR, you can plug a cheap timer into the side of the camera. However, with the Sony NEX cameras do not have any accessory ports for a timer, the only way to trigger the camera besides the shutter button is via an IR remote. The Gentled IR trigger utilizes this feature to allow you to setup long shot sequences.

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Pico Flex Table Dolly Review

KerryG — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:57:31 +0000

Since we have been spending some time on video projects we are going to have some reviews of some DSLR video related products. In this article we are going to look at the Pico Flex Table Dolly. A table dolly is a small rig that you mount your video camera to in order to get smooth pan shots or nice curved shots around a product. Although it is fairly easy to build your own DIY camera dolly, I decided to take a look at the Pico Flex dolly because the price point is so low that its fairly hard to justify building one yourself when you factor in the hard costs as well as your time to source all the parts and assemble one.

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Review: Vanguard GH-200 Pistol Grip Ballhead

KerryG — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:36:07 +0000

I have tried so many different types of ball heads over the years but I always find them to be more trouble to use than they are worth. This changes two years ago when I started using the Vanguard GH-100 Pistol Grip Ballhead. While I really liked the GH-100, I had one of the early versions and while it worked well, I always found it a little stiff and not as easy to adjust as I would like. The hidden bubble level didn’t make things any better. This year Vanguard has released an improved version called the GH-200.

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Review: Trek-Tech TrekPod XL

KerryG — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:00:39 +0000

It’s very rare that I would review a product a second time unless it had gone through some engineering change and warranted a second look. However, I felt that what was different here was not the product itself, but how the use of the product has changed. When I first reviewed the TrekPod XL I was only using DSLRs so the TrekPod XL was really just a very sturdy monopod. You would never put a DSLR with any decent lens on the TrekPod and leave it like you might with a tripod. As you have seen lately, I am a huge fan of the exploding mirrorless camera segment and my main travel camera is now a Sony NEX 5n. When getting ready for a short vacation I started to pick which tripod to take and I decided to pull out the TrekPod XL.

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Wireless Shooting With The Eye-Fi Pro X2

KerryG — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:10:05 +0000

Ever since I really got serious about photography I have yet to have any reason to look at the Eye-Fi cards…until now. What is an Eye-Fi card? Although it’s hard to believe that this is even possible, an Eye-Fi card looks identical to a standard SD card, sports up to 8gb storage, and here is the trick part, also has a complete 802.11N WiFi radio built into it. How they managed to stuff a WiFi radio into an SD card is anybody’s guess but it does open up some unique capabilities. Let’s plug-in the Eye-Fi card and see what we can do with it.

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Review: Vanguard The Heralder 33 Camera Bag

KerryG — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:00:04 +0000

This year is the most traveling I have ever done and am on the road on average of every other week. For the past two years, my go-to bag has been the Vanguard UpRise 38 which is one of the best carry-on bags you can get. The problem is that when I wanted to take my DSLR, a few lenses, as well as my laptop, tablet, chargers, and everything else I take, the UpRise 38 just came up short. When the new line of Heralder bags was announced, I knew I had to get one. Since I have a tendency to over-pack, I decided to not get the biggest model and went with the Heralder 33 which is the mid-size model. How did it stack up against the UpRise 38? Continue reading to find out.

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NEX Proshop Shadow NEX 5n Hot Shoe Review

KerryG — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:48:38 +0000

I really like my Sony NEX 5n but one of my biggest issues, which almost kept me from getting it, is that it does not have a hot shoe. Since the NEX 5n takes images every bit as good as my DSLR (since it has the same sensor) I certainly want to be able to use it to its full potential. Thankfully, NEX Proshop has developed a hot shoe for the 5n.

The Shadow hot shoe, in theory, will enable you to use a manual speedlite or flash trigger. You will not be able to use any TTL controlled speedlites. For me, this is a non-issue as I generally use the Ninja Wireless Flash Triggers that only support manual flashes anyway. Does the Shadow do what it claims to do? Let’s hook it up and find out.

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Sony ECM SST1 Stereo Microphone Review

KerryG — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:22:27 +0000

Ok, let me get the first thing off my chest here…what the heck was Sony thinking not putting a microphone jack on the NEX 5n? The camera does awesome video but the on-board stereo mic is painfully inadequate for anything professional. Sony, seeing (with blinders on) that there just might be a market for some enhanced audio gear and gives us the ECM SST1 stereo microphone. While this is better than nothing, I would easily have dropped $50 to have a microphone input instead of a mic itself. With a mic jack I could use my wireless lavalier mics. I am actually close to buying another ECM SST1 and trying to wire a mic jack into it instead of the mic pickups. Anyway, that’s my little rant, lets get into the review itself.

Kerry’s Quick Hit: The Sony ECM SST1 delivers much improved audio recording over the built-in microphones on the camera body.

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GoCast #21 – Why I bought a Sony NEX 5n

KerryG — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:29:13 +0000

For a long time I have wanted to have a small portable camera to be able to take with me everywhere I go. I never bought a point and shoot because they just felt too limited. Even the Canon G12, as nice as it is, only does 720p video and doesn’t have interchangeable lenses. This has always left me with my larger, bulkier DSLR bodies. I have always traveled a bit but this year is completely insane with trips every other week almost all year-long. I love having a camera with me, but it can get to be quite a pain to lug all my stuff around. With mirrorless cameras becoming more and more popular, the photo quality, video quality, interchangeable lenses, and other features have tempted me for a long time, however, picking one out has been an exercise in frustration.

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Mirrorless Camera Roundup

KerryG — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:47:54 +0000

Mirrorless cameras are a hot trend right now and are quickly gaining more market share. The advantage of these interchangeable lens cameras are their small size, big sensors, and ability to change lenses. The downside is that they typically have no optical viewfinder and many do not have flash or even a hot shoe. Because there is such a wide range of features it is almost impossible to pick out one of these cameras. To help out this situation, we have put together a list of the most popular models to help you make the most informed choice you can.

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Review: Sigma 50-500 f/4.5-6.3 APO

KerryG — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:12 +0000

Kerry’s Quick Hit – The Sigma 50-500 lens has a tremendous focal length range which gives it great versatility. The tradeoff in this extreme focal length range is that the lens is fairly heavy.

On a recent vacation I wanted to make sure that no subject was going to be out of range of my camera so I needed a big lens. The problem with long focal length lenses are that they are huge, bulky, and usually fixed to a specific focal length like 400mm. I wanted something more portable and with a wide focal length range so I decided to try out the Sigma 50-500mm lens.

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Review: SpiderPro Camera Holster

KerryG — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:00:54 +0000

Most new products come in and you just know right away if it is something that you will like or not. The SpiderPro Holster was not one of these products. I have tried numerous camera straps over the years and no matter what I have tried I have always gone back to my original R-Strap from the summer of 2008. It’s comfortable, has some storage on it, distributes my camera weight well, and suites my shooting style. So to say that I went into the testing process with a small amount of bias would be an understatement. This SpiderPro review was not something I whipped out one evening, I have really been putting it through its paces and using it exclusively for two and a half months to really see if it was something I would continue to use after knocking out a review. After that intro, your probably wondering what the result was…well…continue reading to find out.

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Review: Midland XTC300VP4 Wearable Action Camera

KerryG — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:15:27 +0000

Wearable point of view camera are all the rage right now with everyone that is doing any kind of action sport strapping cameras on to give the viewer a sense of what he/she was seeing. a newcomer to this field is Midland Radio….yes…I said Midland Radio…the same company many of us older folk knew and loved back in the CB radio craze. (yesssum, that was before all these crazy internets). Those of us who chose Midland gear did so because the stuff just worked so when I saw that Midland had an action camera, I just had to get my hands on it and give it a test drive.

Did Midland score a win with the XTC300VP4? There is only one way to find out….put it to the test!

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Review: Nexto DI 500 GB NVS1501 Photo and Video Storage

KerryG — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:04:01 +0000

Kerry’s Quick Shot: The Nexto DI NVS1501 is flat out the fastest and most reliable backup device I have ever used. I simply won’t leave home without it!

Last year I took my wife to Maui for our anniversary and on the very first day the hard drive in my laptop crashed. At the time I had the Nexto DI eXtreme portable storage which allowed me to quickly back up my CF cards each night. Without a portable backup solution, I would have been nervous about losing my data until I got home. Data loss is the ultimate enemy of the photographer so the sooner you get a backup the better off you are. With more and more video projects coming in, I wanted to make sure I had a backup solution for video files as well as still images and the Nexto DI NVS1501 was an obvious choice since I had liked the Nexto DI eXtreme so much. Let’s take a look and see if the NVS1501 is a worthy successor to the eXtreme.

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JuicedLink DS214 Amp w/AGC Disable Review

KerryG — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:34:02 +0000

Recently I wrote about why audio recording on DSLR’s sucks so bad. While you can fix the audio issues on the 5D Mk II with the Magic Lantern Firmware you are still don’t have a software -based solution for the Canon EOS 7D. JuicedLink has a unique solution with the DS214 Amp. The problem with the 7D is that you cannot disable the 7D’s Automatic Gain Control so what ends up happening is that the cleaner the audio signal, the more it tries to bump up the microphone gain resulting in a lot of noise being added to the audio. The best microphones in the world only make this problem worse by eliminating extra noise, so the 7D fights itself to raise the signal during silent sections. The JuicedLink DS214 solves this in a very unique way as we will see in this review.

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KCWtechnica MRK (Modular Rigging Kit) Stage I

KerryG — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:09:55 +0000

I have been getting very interested in shooting video with my 7D but I really want to have all the toys. I want a shoulder mount, two-handed rig, a camera caddy, and everything else so that I can do any type of shot I want. The problem is, buying all of these individual components is horribly expensive, together it can set you back a couple of thousand dollars. I recently ran across a company making an entire new class of video DSLR components. KCWtechnica has a completely modular kit for under $1,000 that can be used to create all many of rigging setups.

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GoPro HD Hero – It Does Stills?

KerryG — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:45:24 +0000

If you dont know what a GoPro camera is, you might possibly have a home underneath a boulder. To say that the GoPro has had a huge impact on broadcast TV would be a huge understatement. You will find the GoPro HD Hero on shows such as Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch, The Amazing Race, Auction Wars, and Whale Wars to name just a few. With their tiny size and 1080p video recording, they have had a huge impact in the world of video. What very few people know is that they also have some interesting still photo features.

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Vanguard Auctus Plus 324AT Tripod Review

KerryG — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:45:31 +0000

I am not really a “tripod guy” as I do as much handheld as possible but once in a while you do need a tripod so I have used a Vanguard Alta Pro 284CT for about two years for doing detail shots, product shots, brackets, and other things that need a stable platform. While theÂ Alta Pro 284CT has been a great platform, there have been times that I needed something a bit more solid. The problem is that a really good, heavy-duty platform has always been well outside my budget range, until theÂ Vanguard Auctus Plus 324AT came along.

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Lowepro Pro Roller x200 Review

KerryG — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:27:03 +0000

We recently took a look at the Lowepro CompuDay Photo 250 and are following that article up with the other side of the spectrum with the Lowepro Pro Roller x200 which is more of a traditional roller bag…albeit with a few twists. Does the Pro Roller x200 hold it’s own against some of the top camera bags on the market? Time to dig into it and see what the Lowepro Pro Roller x200 is all about.

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ColorRight Pro White Balance Filter Review

KerryG — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:03:31 +0000

It doesn’t seem that long ago that the big discussions everywhere were all about how to get good white balance in-camera…then came RAW and the resurgence of the “fix it in post” mantra. I own no less than six different white balance calibration tools and yet I am as guilty as it gets when it comes to getting my white balance set in-camera before a shoot, except on certain occasions. In most shooting situations if I get at least a gray card shot, I can fix everything in post production extremely quickly, and even in large batches. However, when we are shooting events where we are printing on-site (some charity events, proms, grad nights, etc) then we have to shoot in JPEG and there is no ‘fixing it in post’ before it heads to the printer. In these cases, white balance is critical as nobody wants a weird color cast on them making them look like Pappa Smurf on Prom Night.

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Lowepro CompuDay Photo 250 Backpack Review

KerryG — Sun, 15 May 2011 02:16:51 +0000

Early on in my photography career I was like most people and tried to save money by buying cheap gear like camera bags by buying cheap bags off eBay. The problem was that they never lasted very long. One 30 dollar backpack had one of the straps tear off the first time I used it. After going through this several times I finally figured out that you really do get what you pay for and that good quality bags can actually save you money in the end. While I had heard good things about Lowepro bags, and I had never got a chance to check one out until recently. The bag I got to try out has the awkward name of CompuDay Photo 250. While the name may not tell you what it is, the Photo 250 is a basic backpack for easy handling of a small set of camera gear along with a laptop computer. (...)
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Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Lens Review

KerryG — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:00:24 +0000

If you shoot people, at some point you will want to consider getting what is considered to be one of the best focal lengths for portraits, which is the 70-200mm. With the compression that this focal length range provides, people look good, backgrounds look great, and with good image stabilization you can get a few stops of extra light in dim situations. The Canon and Nikon pro-level 70-200mm lenses are considered by many to be absolute essentials to portrait shooters. The question is, can Sigma produce a lens that is as good as the name brands?

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PocketWizard AC3 ZoneController

KerryG — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:30:19 +0000

By now everyone should know that I am a huge fan of off-camera lighting and with a little practice, itâ€™s not that hard to really get the hang of it and add a whole new dimension to your images. I actually donâ€™t think understanding the concept of lighting is nearly as hard as figuring out the technical aspect of how to actually make it all work. The Canon wireless system requires a line of site from the camera making complex lighting setups difficult and can really prevent the use of some types of modifiers. Inexpensive wireless triggers bring good range and affordable cost but you lose the ability to control light output from the camera. Higher end systems like the PocketWizard ControlTL system combine the control of the Canon/Nikon TTL system with the power of using radio frequencies but then you are sometimes constrained by the limitations of the Canon or Nikon controls. What you really need is the benefits of radio frequencies, the power of the cameraâ€™s TTL metering, but with a multi-zone override and manual control, all from the camera. This is precisely what PocketWizard has delivered with the AC3 Zone Controller.

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ExpoImaging Rogue 3-In-1 Grid Review

KerryG — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:00:26 +0000

I am a sucker for gadgets and light modifiers and one of my favorites lately has been the Rogue FlashBenders. What I really liked about the FlashBenders is the built-in strap and the bendable strips that help the pieces keep their shape. I wasnâ€™t sure what they would do as a follow-up and I was pleasantly surprised to see the release of the new 3-In-1 Grid.

I personally love using grids to help control light spread. Grids are great for hair lights, accent lights, and can even be used as a primary light for some really dramatic lighting. The downside to grids is that you basically get what you get. Even the most popular companies that make grids make them in different styles so you can get different amounts of light spreads. If you want any variety you have to buy multiple grids. ExpoImaging has attempted to solve this problem with the 3-In-1 Grid by providing three different styles in order to get different light spreads from a single piece of equipment. How does it work? Well, you need to read the complete article for details.(...)
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Sigma 8-16mm F/4-5.6 DC HSM Review

KerryG — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:44:23 +0000

If you are a photographer that is using an APS-C sized sensor like the Canon 50D, 60D, or 7D you may suffer from wide-angle envy compared to photographers who have full-frame sensors like the Canon 5D Mark II. The smaller APS-C sensor create a zoom effect on regular lenses giving them a longer effective focal length by a factor of 1.6x. So a regular wide angle lens like a 12-24mm on a Full Frame becomes a 19.2-38.4mm which is still wide, but not super-wide. Sigma has addressed this issue with the Sigma 8-16mm DC HSM. The DC in the name denotes that this is actually designed for APS-C sensors giving photographers a truly super-wide lens.

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Use An Extra Monitor With A Sewell vDeck USB to VGA External Display Adapter

KerryG — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:05:00 +0000

As photographers we can really benefit from a second, and in some cases, a third monitor.

The problem often is how to connect the new monitor. Unless you have a video card with two monitor ports on it and especially if you want to add a third monitor, this can turn into a real technical challenge. There is actually a fairly simple solution to this with the Sewell vDeck USB to VGA External Display Adapter.

This simple device claims to be able to drive a monitor while using only a USB port. How well does it work? Continue reading to find out.

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25 DVD from Jason Groupp

KerryG — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:20:11 +0000

Jason Groupp is one of my favorite photographers when it comes to his use of off-camera lighting using minimal equipment. Jason has just released a new DVD called â€œ25â€ featuring, as he puts it, 25 kick ass lighting setups. Regular readers of CameraDojo may have noticed the pretty much complete lack of any reviews of DVDs over the past few years, this is due in large part to two main reasons. First off, most good DVDs are stupid expensive, often hundreds of dollars. On the other hand, most affordable DVDs arenâ€™t worth purchasing. While there may be some exceptions to that, I havenâ€™t found them myself. Jasonâ€™s â€œ25â€ was priced at WPPI for $99 (normally $150) which might be a little much for some people but it isnâ€™t stupid expensive. At the same time 25 delivers over two dozen lighting setups that generally use 1-3 lights (one example uses 4 lights).

Update: Jason has offered almost a 30% discount on the DVD using discount code “cameradojo”, this is a very limited time offer so take advantage of it this week!

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X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Review

KerryG — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:03:07 +0000

The world of digital photography is a magic and wonderful place where you press the shutter on the camera and instantly have the exact scene you saw with your eyes captured in perfect color inside your camera and then in all its brilliance on your computer screen…

If you believed that line than you are obviously living on a different planet than I am because I am constantly trying to get the right color on the screen as I saw with my eye. I know this as sure as I know that the color Ferrari Orange is not a real color.

X-Rite ColorChecker Passport

So solve this problem, our software needs to know what the colors in an image are supposed to look like. If we can make our software understand our specific cameras, then we are certainly going in the right direction. Adobe made an excellent attempt to solve this on a very broad scale in Lightroom 3 with camera calibrations. What Adobe did was to take a color chart under different lighting conditions with different cameras and then use that data to create a calibration that is designed for specific cameras. I have to admit, this works pretty darned good and I have relied on this for my image processing since the day it came out.

Is it perfect? No, its darned good, but I always felt it wasn’t quite 100% there. Maybe my lighting conditions aren’t perfect, maybe there is a variation in camera bodies/sensors, maybe Adobe had to compromise to make it as good as possible for a broad range of users. Whatever the case, I always thought I could do a little better if I had a calibration profile designed specifically for MY camera and MY lighting…and this is where the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport comes into play.

X-Rite ColorChecker Passport

The ColorChecker Passport is a combination of a shooting target with different color swatches and a piece of software the will analyze the resulting image to create a custom calibration profile for your specific camera.

All you really need to do is to shoot the target so that it fills about 10% of the image and have a good exposure and the software will do the rest. Ok, it’s not exactly that easy, the image has to be in DNG format so I use Lightroom to Copy as DNG (which I do most of the time anyway) at least the shot of the target. Then open the folder with the ColorChecker Passport software and drag the image file onto the application. In a few seconds, you have a custom calibration.

X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Software

Once you have completed the calibration and saved the file, you will need to restart your editing software (Photoshop or Lightroom) so it reads in the calibration profile.

Can you really tell the difference in finished images? I will let you be the judge of that with the following images:

Mouse Over Image To See The Corrected Version

With the Viper, the red’s are definitely richer. This has always been a complaint of mine with my Canon camera’s. The Lightroom Camera Standard calibration setting does really good at fixing that but is not quite as good as the ColorChecker Calibration.

Mouse Over Image To See The Corrected Version

Again with the Ferrari, the yellows with the corrected version are much richer. To see how these colors shift, let’s take a look at the ColorChecker colors using the Adobe Standard, Camera Standard, and a custom calibration created with the ColorChecker Passport software.

Passport Profile

ACR 4.6

Camera Standard

The biggest differences are in the blues and reds. While Camera Standard is very close, and probably perfectly usable for a large number of people. When you really need accurate color, a custom calibration is the way to go.

DNG vs Dual Illuminat

What Adobe did for their calibrations is to shoot a color target under different light conditions so that their camera profiles would hold up in different situations. What we have looked at so far is creating a single image calibration which is appropriate for a single lighting situation. The X-Rite ColorChecker Passport also allows you to create your own Dual Illuminat profile as well. Simply use two images shot with different lighting, like one with flash and the other with tungsten hot lights. The ColorChecker Passport software can then use both of those images together to create a more robust profile than we have been able to create for ourselves in the past.

ColorChecker Target Size Comparison

Is it Worth It?

While you can look at the images above and certainly see a difference, is that difference worth $99 to you? For me, the majority of the work I do is product photography and usually very little color is involved. However, when I am shooting weddings, portraits, cars, or other things that really have vibrant color, I want to be as accurate as I possibly can. I would certainly recommend that every camera club buy one and let all of the members have a shoot day where they can create their own calibration files.

Gray Card Function

But Wait…there’s more!

We have only looked at 1/3 of the functionality of the ColorChecker Passport, albeit a very important function. Â Flip the target around and you also have a decent sized gray card that is just slightly bigger than a small WhiBal card.

The large gray card is ideal for product or food photography since you can get it into the scene and then use that image in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw to get a really good white balance. For People and Landscapes, its the next function that is really interesting.

Creative Enhancement Target

The the calibration target over and you get what X-Rite calls the Creative Enhancement Target. There are two main purposes of the Creative Enhancement Target:

Allow for one-click white balance across a range of swatches
Allow you to easily see white and black clipping

The middle two rows are designed for portrait (top) and landscape (bottom) photography so you can easily select a white balance that is best suited for your situation. Often portraits are added a little warmth and landscapes with different color temperatures can really help make the sky bluer or grass greener.

At the bottom you can use the clipping swatches while adjusting exposure and blacks to make sure you are not overclipping those settings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vpuDg0abH8

X-Rite ColorChecker Passport

Summary

If you are like me and strive for accuracy in your colors, then the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport is absolutely a must-have. If you are not shooting images where color accuracy is critical, then go in with a few friends or your local club and buy one just to have a good calibration profile for your camera.

X-Rite ColorChecker Passport on Amazon.com

X-Rite Website: http://xritephoto.com/

X-Rite Blog: http://blog.xritephoto.com

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Cactus V5 Wireless Trigger Review

KerryG — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:00:31 +0000

When it comes to wireless flash triggers you have the big names like Pocketwizard and Radio Popper but on the other side of the scale, one brand has been known for its reliability and on-going innovation, and that’s the Cactus brand. My Cactus V2′s have been with me for years and still work so when folks at Harvemetst One, the company behind the Cactus brand, asked me to try out the upcoming V5′s, I jumped at the chance.

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frio Cold Shoe Mount Review

KerryG — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:07:06 +0000

Rarely does a new and unique product come into the photography world. Sure there are always “new” products but not very often does a truly new product hit the shelves. I use different types of flashes, different triggers, different cold shoe mounts, some fit well and are nice and secure…some…well..are a little scary trusting my gear with. The frioâ„¢ (yes, its supposed to be spelled with a lower case f) aims to solve this with an extremely simple and yet highly effective design.(...)
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Harbor Digital Design Quick Spot

KerryG — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Most of you know I love using speedlites and am always looking for ways to use them more creatively. Recently I heard about a company called Harbor Digital Design and their new Quick Spot product.

The Quick Spot is a basic grid spot designed to fit over the end of your flash without needing an extra strap or Velcro. A unique feature of the Quick Spot is that is comes apart in order for you to put different colors gels (several included) in order to color balance the light or provide special effect lighting.

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Vanguard Auctus Plus 324AT Tripod Review

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Lowepro Pro Roller x200 Review

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ColorRight Pro White Balance Filter Review

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