Sunday, December 20, 2020

The store windows are better at night. Bring that camera that does great high ISO along with you....

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I left the house as the sun was setting and drove back into downtown. I was tired of chillin' out in the suburbs, looking at the decorat...

Interesting things I sometimes see when I'm out strolling at night. On Congress Avenue.

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Even in Austin where we all have bumper stickers that read: "Keep Austin Weird" it's strange to see a giant, illuminated owl w...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Just a short post about a light. Yesterday was a full retro experience. But (groan) enlightening...

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I've been trying to figure out how to store my newest gimbal. I wanted a solid case that would protect it while traveling to weird locat...

VSL reaches another (smallish) milestone. We've enjoyed 27,000,000 direct page views here at the blog.

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The Borghese Gardens. Rome. That's the tally from 4,761 published blog posts (plus any that I tossed away over the years for irrelevance...
Friday, December 18, 2020

Finally got around to diving into the Panasonic/Lumix S1R firmware update and assessing the new features. Some were surprising. Surprisingly great!

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Here's a link to the video on Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/492645355 You know how you can sometimes get really busy with lots of pressing ...

A Production Photograph from "Harvey." From a more mellow time. Warning: dire introspection included.

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  For a while my biggest concern, after paying for Ben's college and funding retirement accounts, was just getting through Austin's ...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

I'm sure everyone has been paying attention to advances in field audio recorders so I'm guessing this post is redundant. But here goes.

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  The big news in digital audio recorders this year is a feature they are calling "32 bit float."  But let me back up for a second...