Another day, another hike! I’ve been out enjoying this weather on looooong walks about 3-4 hours a day, listening to all sorts of audiobooks. I usually carry a few pieces of fruit that I eat like a primate while my monkey brain tries to figure out these books.
I was looking for a totally different shot to share today and stumbled across this one and it really appealed to me, so I’m sharing that instead. A Nikon D800+Fisheye lens from a helicopter. Not so flat earth!
Another from the Pixel series, this time the “4” which was a great little device.
The DJI Phantom was my first drone and I’ve had a bunch of others along the way. One which stands out was the Inspire, a huge monster of a quadcopter which had a cool articulated/motorised thing going on when you switched from take-off to flight mode. It was awesome to see. At that point it was looking like quality meant size but more recently DJI have done awesome work in making tiny drones. This is a shot from my Mini 3 Pro which weighs just 249g or something crazy like that!
Just before the start of Lockdown here in NZ I had some time to play around with the a7R IV. Ultimately, I didn’t move over from my a7R III but it was a pretty awesome camera. Just not the leap I needed but it was a good excuse to head out for a hot air balloon ride to find some interesting test shots. 🙂
In a break from our regularly scheduled programming… Here’s a photo I took on the way to Glenorchy the other day to go on a long hike with some friends. It’s been a great summer down here… hiking between 10-20km a day. The nature here is so beautiful and relaxing.
… I do love a Leica lens on my Sony a7R cameras. Even if I mostly use the 24-105 nowadays.
The one area of photography which still continues to evolve at speed is mobile. One of the handsets which really made me start to think about when I wouldn’t need to carry a main camera most of the time was the Google Pixel. It couldn’t compete with my a7R but you could see where the market was going, especially with the computational work that was going on with the images and by the time we hit the Pixel 3 range I was able to drop an image into my a7R series review and have it not stand out amongst a range of full frame images. Here’s an image from my original Pixel…
