The Digital Photography Show #9: Author and photographer Rick Sammon!
The Digital Photography Show #9 – An Interview with Rick Sammon! (MP3 – 25 MB – 71mins.)
June 1, 2006: Thanks for joining us for the nefarious ninth episode of the Digital Photography Show!
We are truly lucky to have the inimitable Rick Sammon on with us today. Rick is a great photographer, a wonderful writer, an accomplished teacher, and an all-around-great-guy. Don’t believe me? Check out the interview.
He also gives away a copy of his book, Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Digital Photography: 107 Lessons on Taking, Making, Editing, Storing, Printing, and Sharing Better Digital Images, to a lucky listener who answers the trivia question he asks in the show. Send your answer to TheDigitalPhotographyShow@Gmail.com.
Before Rick comes on, I give Michael a fun quiz on the future of DSLRs. I based my questions on an interview with Chuck Westfall, Canon’s Director of Media and Customer Relationships, from June’s PC Photo Magazine. Chuck talks about all kinds of new technologies that will make our picture taking better.
Do you know what Wavefront Cooling will mean to your camera? How wireless technology will transform your shooting? Whether or not there’s really something called a Liquid Lens? You will after you hear this quiz. Come play along and see if you can do better than Michael (you wouldn’t think it’d be hard, but Michael actually does pretty well!).
As always, thanks for listening. Please let us know what you think of the show by leaving a comment below. And we’d be especially grateful if you’d leave a positive review on iTunes or Yahoo Podcasts. We live for your love.
Scott
June 4th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Hi guys….I’m an ER nurse and my job can be pretty grim. I was listening to this latest show on my 35 mile trip to work yesterday and found myself really laughing out loud. It was great from beginning to end. I particularly enjoyed the razz bits with the questions and answers. By the way those were very good fake answers….quite believable, except the one where you said that Nikon and Canon would make interchangable lens. Profits being the bottom line I’m sure that one would never happen as you went on to mention I believe you used the term “Bread and Butter”, well put.
I’m going to check out Rick Sammons website. He was an outstanding guest and the interview was very helpful.
I think adding the tips and answering questions really added to the show. I was left very entertained and couldn’t wait to download a few of the older shows to listen to them too. I’ll be able to say I knew you when. Much success…you really have something good going here. Take care and stay safe. (That’s the ER nurse in me)
Denise in Santa Cruz, CA
Kelsana is the name my photography is known by. I didn’t mean to be cryptic. If you Google Kelsana you will see what I mean.
January 19th, 2007 at 11:59 am
There are a couple of things in this podcast that made me think.
One is the statement that you can’t dial down your ISO if its native setting is 6400. It seems to make sense that you’d be able to set the camera for less sensitivity rather than more. Basically images are currently noisy at high ISO because they are amplified low signals. It seems to follow that you could turn down a high native sensitivity with better success and clearer results. “Minimum” and “native” ISO aren’t synonymous.
The other thing is about the ubiquitous wireless internet thing. On this I agree with Michael: I would hate to rely on a global wireless network system. I think digital cameras should be following some camcorders, and including their own miniature harddrive, with a card slot as well. That way a camera could store a ton of images safely and reliably, and transfer the info pretty quickly. And the card slot would be used as a failsafe, or a tactic to save battery life. There are a lot of places in the world where wireless internet access is an unfunny joke — I sure wouldn’t rely on it if I was a travelling pro.