PhotoNetCast #19 - A look at the Canon 5D Mark II, with Rich Legg and Phill Price
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
On the last show we mentioned that #19 would be all about buying used equipment. But the opportunity to talk about the Canon 5D Mark II with people that actually have used it was too good to pass. And besides that we know this is a camera that is sought by many of our listeners.
So, on this episode we have the pleasure of having with us Rich Legg and Phill Price to share with us their experiences with the 5D’ II.
No giveaway on this one… We didn’t manage to convince Rich to gracefully donate his 5D’ II to one of our listeners.
Our thanks go to both Rich and Phill for their availability to be on the show. It was too late in the day for Rich and too early in the day for Phill, but their effort is appreciated. Thanks guys.
And in the last PhotoNetCast of 2008 we would like to thank everyone of our listeners. Without your support and your presence on that side, PhotoNetCast would not continue to exist.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year…
PhotoNetCast #19 - A look at the Canon 5D Mark II, with Rich Legg and Phill Price [76:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Show Notes
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II: 21MP and HD movies
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II Hands-on Preview
- Tokyo reality (video)
- Canon 5D MKII Pre-Preview
- Sample EOS 5D Mark II Video: Reverie
- 14 days with a Canon 5D Mark II
- Canon 5D Mark II early bug reports : Black-Spot Artifacts
Selected from the Web
- Jim: LR2/Mogrify
- Martin: Big Picture: The Hajj
- Brian: Neil Creek: On the road to full-time photography
- Antonio: Days with my father - Philip Toledano
ATP Photofinder Mini Contest Winners
On our episode #17 we started a giveaway of ATP Electronics products, namely 1 ATP Photofinder Mini, 3 4Gb SDHD cards and 5 1Gb SD cards.
The participation was great, and now that the deadline has passed, it’s time to announce the winners. Unfortunately we don’t have a prize for everyone, but with 9 different products and a random draw your chances were not so bad.
I’m sure that we can’t get the stuff to the winners before Christmas, but at least they’ll know what they’ve won. Thanks to all who sent entries.
Giveaway Winners
ATP Photofinder Mini
- Rory Wallwork
4Gb SDHD cards
- Doug McGregor
- Stefan Weisshaar
- Anthony Skelton
1Gb SD cards
- Deniss Saksa
- Conner Downey
- Jake Brooks
- Angela Byers
- Andrew M
Congratulations to the winners. We’ll be contacting you by email soon. Now if only the winners would be kind enough to write us a review on iTunes… 
And if you didn’t win anything this time, stay tuned… A copy of Lightroom 2 is already up for grabs and we have more to come.
What you wrote
For this contest we asked you to write a few words on how a geotagging device would improve your photographic experience… Here is what the winners wrote.
Rory Wallwork
"As an aspiring landscape photographer, it’s quite necessary to travel a lot to get a large variety of images. So geotagging my images would help me immensely! I take so many pictures, that often I can’t remember where I took what. This would be the perfect addition to my gear. Thanks for the opportunity!!"
Doug McGregor
"No question … I’m accumulating thousands of photos and would really like to remember where I have taken them all, especially to share the location with other photographers."
Stefan Weisshaar
"In my case geotagging would help to organize my photos shot during my tours. This will help the placement on google earth!
Greets and thanks for the organizers of photonetcast, you are doing a great job"
Anthony Skelton
Deniss Saksa
"(…) For improving my photography, it’s simple:
*sometimes I discover a good location for shooting when I don’t have all my gear with me. Using ATP PhotoFinder I could snap a picture of it and have it on the map so that I can find this location later based on the image and map.
* travel photos will benefit from the ability to put them on the map of the visited place.
In two words ATP PhotoFinder helps to bind images with places and if you take lots of images in different places (or just have bad memory) you definitely should get one."
Conner Downey
"Geotagging would help my photography immensely because I’m always wondering where I was when I made a shot and cannot for the life of me remember. I always want to go back and try something new or maybe let my friends and fellow photographers check it out and have a go at it. I am always traveling so I want to be able to visit a place I randomly stumbled upon again as well."
Jake Brooks
"I would be so excited to get a geotagging unit for my camera. I’m studying photography and technology in college, and next semester I’m doing an independent project working on my colleges wiki and setting up a map of the campus that anyone can add information too and view. I’m looking at “egalitarian” mapping more in depth. It would be really awesome If I could combine that with my photography studies. I also work with ecology teachers sometimes, and with a geotagging unit, it would be possible to photograph plant communities, and use the geodata to place it on a GIS map with bedrock, temperature, etc and look at the ecological effects much easier. lastly, it would just be really cool to have geographic info when i’m travelling and taking pictures. So yes please sign me up for the sweepstakes."
Angela Byers
"How would geotagging help my photography? I might actually remember WHERE I took my photographs at!! I have people ask me where some of my photographs are taken at (and since I have no sense of Route Direction - I’m very visually oriented!) I can’t explain WHERE I actually was (if I can remember what city is was in in the first place!!"
Andrew M
"(…) geotagging would help me immensely when I’m post-sorting ski race photos, as I don’t always have an accurate location I’ve shot from when I’m shooting a race, as words do not always do a riverbank location justice!
When traveling, it would be great for being able to auto-tag a location, especially for those candid shots that we fire off out train windows, or from a boat in the middle of a lake, where you may one day want to go back to re-capture the moment with more attention to detail…
keep up the great work with the podcast guys!"
PhotoNetCast #18 - Interview with Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty
Interview with Tom Hogarty, product manager for Lightroom
As we had announced before, in this episode we had the pleasure of having with us Tom Hogarty, product manager for Lightroom. The conversation was good and we had the opportunity to take a closer look at one of the favorite applications for photographers. There is so much "behind the scenes" going on with this software, and so much that we could have talked about, that we could have gone for a much longer time but time, as always, is limited.
Of course, we would like to thank Tom for his availability to join the show and all our listeners who have sent questions for Tom. If we forgot some, we’re sorry, but I believe we covered everything you sent our way.
For now, on with the show…
PhotoNetCast #18 - Interview with Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty [77:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAnd a new giveaway - Copy of Lightroom 2
Adobe was gracious enough to provide us with a copy of Lightroom 2 to giveaway on the show to one of our listeners. If you still haven’t tried the software this is a great opportunity, not to mention the $299 value.
Deadline: December 17th, 2008 - 2pm PST
How to participate: For this giveaway we came up with two different ways for you to participate.
1. You can write a few lines on your blog about your workflow and how Lightroom changed/would change it. Link to this post so we can track it. This will count as 2 entries for the random drawing.
2. Don’t have a blog? No problem. Just leave us a comment on this post answering the same question. This will count as 1 entry for the draw.
Easy for the value, no? In either case, make sure that we have a way to contact you afterwards (use a valid email address).
If you don’t win but still want to try the software to see if it’s right for you, don’t forget that you can download a 30-day trial version of Lightroom.
Show Notes
Some links mentioned during the interview
60% of Photoshop Users are PIRATES!
4 Quick Ways to Boost Lightroom 2 Performance
Selected from the Web
- Brian: PresetsHeaven
- Jim: Lightroom Presets. The Ultimate Free List, Constrained Cropping in Photoshop
- Antonio: LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search
If you’d like to listen more about Geotagging in reply to our last episode, and much more, there’s a new photography podcast out there, the Subject, Composition and Light podcast . Try it…
Everything Lightroom - Ask your questions
If you’ve been following PhotoNetCast you know that one application that we usually recommend is Lightroom.
Now we have the opportunity to find out more about this fantastic piece of software from Adobe: Tom Hogarty, product manager for Lightroom, will be joining us on one of the next episodes of PhotoNetCast.
And we know that we are not the only ones curious to know more about LR. So, if you have any questions regarding the product, please feel free to send them our way we’ll try to get Tom answering them on the show.
As always, you can use the comments section, our contact form, the voice messaging widget or even record your questions as mp3 and send them to photonetcast (at)photonetcast (dot) com. But be fast, the recording will probably happen in the middle of the next week.
How long should PhotoNetCast’s episodes be? - Poll results
We understand that the length of the show is also time that you have to invest in listening to it. But it’s a very fine balance: on one hand we want to deliver the information in a clear and relaxed way without being restrained by time (something that from my experience in radio shows, for example, it’s not always possible) and on the other hand we don’t want to "steal" too much of your time.
To help us define the correct length for each show, we asked you about it.
And here are the results…
What do we conclude from these data?
Did I sound too much like the scientist in the headline? 
We are currently aiming for the duration of each show to be between the 45 and the 60 minute mark. It seems that about 70% of you agree with it.
Sometimes, especially when we have guests on the show, it’s hard to cut the interviews, and this should actually be my job, but normally the conversation is flowing so well that we don’t even realize how much time we’re taking, but we’ll make an effort.
In any case, we’d like to thank everyone who participated on the poll. We hope that the show doesn’t feel much like a sluggish block of wasted time on your mp3 player and that you keep looking forward for it every two weeks. We know we do.
As always, if you have comments that could help us improve the show, use the comment section or contact us directly through the contact form. Any feedback is appreciated.
