New pricing for the Canon EOS-1D C will go into effect in North America February 1st, taking the retail price from $ 11,999 down to $ 7,999. The camera is coming up on its third birthday, introduced in April 2012. The 18MP full-frame sensor is capable of 4K video. Read more
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Tamron announces SP 15-30mm F/2.8 release date and $1200 price point
Tamron has announced availability and pricing for its much-anticipated 15-30mm F/2.8 stabilized wide angle zoom. Set for availability on January 30th in Canon and Nikon mounts with Sony to follow later, the lens will retail for $ 1199. Read more
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Vela One LED promises 1/2,000,000 flash duration for the price of a normal hotshoe gun
An inventor from Bristol in the UK is developing an LED-based light source for high speed photography, promising to produce a burst of flash with a duration short enough to freeze a bullet. The Vela One, which will be priced at a similar level to standard hotshoe flashguns, uses nine LEDs arranged in a bank that generates a million lumens and is powered by just four AA cells that the inventor claims will last a full day’s shooting. Learn more
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Price released for Brikk’s 24k gold Nikon Df
Luxury goods brand Brikk has released the price of its forthcoming ‘Lux Nikon kit’ that has been finished in its trademark yellow gold and which will be on sale this month. Set to cost $ 41,395, the kit will include a gold plated Nikon Df body, a Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens with gold plated lens cap and lens hood, together with the usual charger, cables and software, and will come in a specially made gold plated Zero Haliburton hard case. Read more
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Canon confirms price drop on select EF lenses
Canon US has confirmed several price drops across its range of lenses, including several L-series models. According to Canon the price reductions are in honor of reaching a milestone – the production of 100 million EF lenses. Price drops range from a modest $ 40 up to $ 1000 off the original retail price, depending on the lens. Read more
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OnePlus launches 13MP, 4K video smartphone at bargain price
OnePlus is a new smartphone maker based in China founded by a former Oppo executive. Today the company has released its first high-end smartphone, which is simply called the One. With its 2.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC, 5.5-inch 1080p screen, 3GB of RAM and a 13MP camera, the One’s specifications are on a similar level as other flagship devices released this year. Learn more
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Panasonic UK announces price and availability for Lumix DMC-GH4
Panasonic UK has announced pricing and availability for its flagship 4K video-recording mirrorless camera, the Lumix DMC-GH4. It’ll go on sale on 5th May for £1299.99 body only, £1749.99 with 14-140mm zoom, or £2499.99 with the specialist DMW-YAGHE video interface unit.
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Sony pins $1500 price tag on E-mount FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS
Buried at the end of its press release announcing the α6000, Sony has revealed pricing and availability for its previously announced FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS. Like the other FE lenses it’s not especially cheap, though; the image-stabilised telezoom will be available in March for about $ 1500 (or £1240 in the UK). The lens will work on both full frame and APS-C sensor E-mount cameras, offering a 105-300mm equivalent range on the latter.
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Fisher Price Camera Tripod Modification – It’s Never Too Early Tutorial
This summer I took my 3 year old son to Big Sur for his first camping trip to show him the Milky Way. Remarkably he held on to this experience beyond expectation and he’s been talking about the Milky Way ever since. On top of that he’s really developed an interest in photography and cameras. I’m not sure how that happened, perhaps it is something in the water supply. Fast forward to last week when he caught sight of my Joby tripod. I gave it to him to play with thinking it’d be one of the few items he could bend and try to destroy that wouldn’t worry myself or his mother. To my surprise he immediately dug up his retro Fisher-Price toy camera and proceeded to put it on the Joby tripod. The kicker is that he was telling me he was photographing the Milky Way. This would be a short story if it wasn’t for the fact that every day since he’s been setting up his camera and tripod all around the house to photograph different things at all times of the day.
If my little guy is going to get serious about make believe photography I felt it was my parental duty to make sure that he was going to develop good habits. To put it bluntly no one in my household is going to take sub-par make believe photos and to avert that we needed a secure way to fasten his camera to the Joby tripod. When I explained the dilemma to my son he was eager to take me up on my offer to modify his camera.
Here for your entertainment is the Fisher-Price camera tripod modification:
(Have a great Christmas!)
The Fisher-Price rubberband mount wasn’t cutting it. For simple shots sure it worked, but….
The rubberband mount worked well enough for level shots,
but not for all shots.
Any non-level use of the camera resulted in camera instability.
We were pumped to fix the problem and even more so
because we weren’t using toy drills.
Just before we started the modification.
Things would never be the same again.
To create a stable mount we had to drill a hole in the bottom
of the camera to install the Joby base plate.
Looks good lets try it out
Making sure that the base plate was installed as
level as possible we put it to the test.
Our first test was a positive one, but what does the photographer think?
My little photographer was quite content with the new
tripod mount. Now he’s on his way to good make believe
photography technique.Copyright Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved
Fisher Price Camera Tripod Modification – It’s Never Too Early Tutorial
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