I want to give you all a quick heads up on some new photography related gear that I’m testing and let you know about a great opportunity for you to win some of this gear for yourselves. Last year I wrote about the Capture Camera Clip System by Peak Design and how much I loved that it [..Read More..]
One of the best developments in the gear mockup process has got to to be the accessibility and significantly reduced cost of 3D printing for rapid prototyping. You can make a pretty decent 3D printer for under $200 these days. The Polepod on Kickstarter is one the best uses of this technology that I’ve seen [..Read More..]
Ever since recently buying a new backpacking camera, a Lumix GF2, I’ve been trying different ways to carry it with me on my backpacking trips. The first, and simplest, way I tried was to attach the neck strap to the camera and hang it around my neck, but I quickly discovered how bad that was [..Read More..]
I’ve been using my iPhone4 as my primary camera for the photos taken on my blog for the past 18 months now and am really quite impressed with the quality and clarity of the pictures it takes. I don’t bother taking my old camera, a Nikon Coolpix S51, with me anymore on trips because the [..Read More..]
Somehow I seemed to have ended up with a lot of different trekking pole camera mount gadgets. I don’t think it was deliberate but I have quite a few, so thought it might be fun to look at some of them and compare their pros and cons. As you can tell from the photograph above, [..Read More..]
My family and I recently spent a long weekend over Spring break to get away to the Great Smoky Mountains. We had decided to combine a couple of interesting short day hikes in the Smokys with some fun at an indoor water park in the town of Sevierville, TN. We picked short day hikes that [..Read More..]
A little while ago I wrote a brief review of StickPic and even created a video review of the same. Since that time the developers of this nifty little gadget (Rod and David) have been hard at work thinking of ways to improve on their original concept – no easy task after hitting a home [..Read More..]
Thought this was worth a mention. Wired Gadget Labs just picked up my blog post about the home-made camera tripod that I made using parts from my local hardware store. I spotted the Wired referrals while reviewing my blog site stats and saw a lot of hits coming from Wired. Pretty cool, even if they [..Read More..]
A long time ago I came across a website that showed how to make a really nifty little Pepsi bottle top camera tripod out of a few inexpensive nuts and bolts, but I lost it and the idea slipped from my mind. Recently I came across what I think is the same posting and got [..Read More..]
One of the main reasons to get outside and go hiking is to enjoy the scenery, but I often forget to stop and admire the small details that are easily missed along the trail. So on my last trip I remembered to pack my handy dandy digital camera and took some close-up pictures to show [..Read More..]
