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By Martin Bailey, on February 15th, 2010
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Just back from my Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshops, today I’m going to give you some initial impressions of the new Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera, which I picked up a few days before leaving for the Snow Monkeys workshop. This isn’t going to be a thorough review, rather my impressions as a 1Ds Mark III and 5D mark II user, based on a few weeks in the field.
Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
Also note that I’m not a sports shooter, I’m mainly a nature and wildlife photographer. If you want to read about how this camera fairs for sports photography, take a look at Rob Galbraith’s great review of the auto focus system on the 1D Mark IV, after you’ve read/listened to this.
Note too that I shot [...]
By Martin Bailey, on January 27th, 2010
Today I’m going to take you through some of the basic operations of the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport.
With the preparation for my Snow Monkeys and Hokkaido Workshops, I really didn’t have time to prepare for a Podcast this week, but I had planned on talking about my new X-Rite ColorChecker Passport, which I have fallen head over heals in love with! Having prepared screen shots and everything, I figured it was probably going to take longer to prepare an audio Podcast and accompanying blog post with the screenshots, than it would take for me to just create a video and show you it all in real-time.
Here is the video. I’ll try to upload an iTunes and maybe also an iPhone version before I leave for the workshops, but for now, this is it. Don’t forget you can click the little full-screen icon to the right in the toolbar to [...]
By Martin Bailey, on October 6th, 2009
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I’m not sure if Canon is using this marketing worldwide, but in Japan, they are calling the 7D the Image Monster! On the same day as the 7D release, Canon also released their new EF 100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM and having tested it both in the field and under more controlled conditions, I’m dubbing it the Bokeh Monster! I have been looking forward to this for the last month or so, since Canon announced it. I ordered mine as soon as I saw the announcement on the Canon Web site, and was one of the first people to get my grubby little mits on one. Due to the simultaneous release of the 7D, the store was pretty crowded with people picking up their gear in what I think are some pretty revolutionary additions to the Canon [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 14th, 2009
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Canon EOS 7D & EF 100mm F2.8L Macro Lens Special Preview Event
On Saturday the 12th of September, 2009, I visited the Canon S Tower in Shinagawa, Tokyo, to attend the Canon EOS 7D and 100mm F2.8 L IS USM Lens Special Preview event. I’m a member of the Canon Photo Circle, which is basically a club here in Japan that you pay $80 a year for and they send you a magazine each month, and an annual, each year. You also get cheap services fees etc. and sometimes, you have a chance to see things like the 7D and the 100mm Macro lens before the general public. Today, this helped me to see these two bits of gear approximately 3 hours before the general public. The Canon Photo Circle members were allowed in at 10AM, and the [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 11th, 2009
This is the transcript for an archived Podcast, episode #177, originally released on March 03, 2009.
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The first thing that I want to say today is that I love my iPhone! I owned a Windows Mobile based PC for 2 years before I got my iPhone, and found it to be a constant pain in the behind. There were things that didn’t work well, perhaps more because of the applications that I’d loaded to it, more than the underlying OS, but even things like just having a reliable network connection was often a challenge. You could set up a Wireless LAN connection, or a Bluetooth partnership, and it would work well for a connection or two, then it would stop working, and there’d be no way of telling why. It would start working again later too, with an equal [...]
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