The Digital Photography Show #51: A Great Way to Carry Your Camera
The Digital Photography Show #51: A Great Way to Carry Your Camera (23Mb, 65 mins)
May 18, 2007: Welcome to the adjective-less fifty-first episode of The Digital Photography Show!
Today we talk with Doug Murdoch from Think Tank Photo. TTP makes a lot of great solutions for transporting your camera gear, but Michael and I are especially ga-ga over their Modulus line. This terrific belt-borne system lets you carry your DLSR accessories around with almost-no effort, and allows you easy to access to whatever you need.
Enter the contest we’re having this week and you’ll have the chance to win one of two great TTP products: Either their Modulus Speed Kit or this “keep it on the down low” bag from their Urban Disguise line.
Miguel and I also talk about how to remove a beta install of Photoshop CS3 from your Mac before you install the full version, as well as his gripes about synchronizing Adobe Bridge with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
We also wax rhapsodic (which I can spell but not say) about the brilliant entries from our latest photo contest which you can find here. Here are the rules, but check the deadline. You better hurry!
The Theme is the Natural World. That means: no buildings, no people, no artifacts made by people, and no animals (yes, insects are animals too!). By the way, we love people and animals even though they are indeed part of the natural word, however they are not part of the Natural World of DPS Photo Contest #4. So what is the Natural World? Just about everything else found in nature. The photograph should not just comply with the theme, but truly speak to the theme of the Natural World.
The Technique is to produce images with a very shallow depth of field. Your subject should be in sharp focus and everything in the foreground and background would be out of focus. The spirit of the shallow depth of field technique is that the image be captured in-camera, and not through post processing. We’ll be on the honor system for this.
Photos will be accepted through Friday, 25 May, 2007.
You can only enter three photographs. If more than three photographs are entered, the first three received shall be entered.
The image must be in jpg format, and no more than 800 pixels on its widest side.
Please include the original exif info within the image
Please rename the image file with the photographers first and last name (so we know it’s yours).
If you are inclined to title your image (titles are optional), please append the title after the photographer’s name of the image file name.
Example file name: MichaelStein_ElbowStuckInEar.jpgFYI: Only one image per entrant can be eligible as a finalist.
The winner of our next photo contest takes home a Wacom Graphire 6X8 tablet. It’s more tablety goodness than you can shake a stylus at! Good luck!
Send your pictures to TheDigitalPhotographyShow@gmail.com.
Thanks to our advertiser DXO (www.dxo.com) for the 20% discount they are only offering to listeners of this show. Try the program for free, and when you’re ready to buy, use the code DPSSHOW.
And don’t forget the fifty buck discount on Alien Skin’s Snap Art, and the 50% discount on Exposure. Just call and tell them you heard about it on The Digital Photography Show.
You can see examples of how we tranformed some pretty “blah photos” to works of art using Snap Art here.
Thanks to everyone for listening and joining us here on the blog. Snap happy!
Scott
May 20th, 2007 at 4:27 am
I have Lightroom set to write xmp files for every image i import and i found in bridge cs2 my rank (or rating 1-5 stars) does how in bridge in cs2 at least.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Hi!
I’ve been following your podcast since last summer. I think what you guys are doing is really great. I’m amazed by the quality and quantity of your work. One would think that the podcast is your day job.
Best regards
Asmundur Thorkelsson
Reykjavik, Iceland.
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:05 am
another GREAT show - well done guys
by the way “cockles of your heart” - The cockles of the heart are its ventricles, named by some in Latin as “cochleae cordis”, from “cochlea” (snail), alluding to their shape. The saying means to warm and gratify one’s deepest feelings.
You certainly warm and gratify my deepest photography feelings
kev
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:27 am
Another great show guys.
I must admit that I did feel a little uncomfortable listening to you guys talking about your cockles :)
So you guys both got Modulus belts? I’m glad I dragged you over to thier booth at PMA … I’ve been very happy with my Think Tank stuff, they make some really top quality stuff.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:04 am
Thanks for the feedback, all. Kevin, we really appreciate the education about “cockles,” even if they do make Allen “uncomfortable.”
But Allen is right - the Modulus belts are pretty nifty. I feel just like Batman when I wear mine!
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:45 am
Scott said “I feel just like Batman when I wear mine!”
You got the one that comes with a cape and grappling hook? I’m so jealous !
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:55 am
Another great show. TTP speed kit sounds like a great way to carry your gear, anything that can get my 70-200 off my shoulder sounds like a great plan, but how does it work in inclement weather? When you have a longer coat on? Does anyone have any experience with that? Also, one thing I didn’t hear mention of during the show, how secure is it? If you’ve got lenses shifted around to your back, could someone slip it off or remove something without your knowledge?
Thanks,
Holly
May 24th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Great show, guys. I recently purchased a Modulus belt system and used it on a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. I used it for my 12-24 wide angle, my 80-200 2.8 and my 80-400 VR lenses (the latter two with Kirk tripod mounts installed on the lenses) and it worked like a charm. I hate using a backpack and usually use a vest with big pockets on the bottom, but the belt system transfers the weight of the gear from your shoulders to your waist and is a lot more comfortable. Each pouch has a cover and fast drawstring to secure the lens, so in response to an earlier post, it would be awfully difficult for someone else to slip a lens out without being noticed. They also have pull-out rain covers for inclement weather. By the way, no local dealer in Atlanta, so I ordered mine mail order from Penn Camera in D.C. and got great service through their website. Thanks again for a great podcast.
Jeff
May 25th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
After listening to Ep #51, I was ready to rush out and buy the Modulus belt system today but unfortunately there is no distributor in the Charlotte, NC area. No time to mail order now. I’m leaving on a mission trip to Guatemala on Saturday and it sure would have useful to carry my gear through the jungles there. I’m used to carrying most of my gear “Batman utility belt style” anyway using various other pouches on my belt. However the Think Tank Photo products appear to be much more functional than what I have beed using. Maybe I’ll get it before the next trip.(This is my 2nd mission trip to Guatemala. I took over 2100 photos on the last trip.) - David
May 26th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Great show guys! I love the tips/info about the belt system. I was just recently hating my shoulder bag, and I get angry when my camera “bobs” back and forth.
I work in public safety, and am used to having most of my equipment on a duty belt, and I’m glad to see a similar system for my photography. I’m ordering a complete setup immediately.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:13 am
I enjoy the show as evidence of the fact I’ve listened to everyone of them. My favorite show was the interview with Bobbi Lane.
On a side note: please ask Asmundur Thorkelsson of Reykjavik, Iceland to e-mail me. I am planning a 10 day trip to Iceland in July and would like to ask him about photo spots he would recommend. Thanks!
Cheers__ Heath