William Audain Asks About Battery Life for Olympus and Lumix Cameras
Great to hear from you William. Your issues regarding battery life with both your Olympus cameras is not surprising. Olympus makes a great camera but it’s incredibly small size puts it at a disadvantage when it comes to battery life. I recently returned from our Alaska whales and brown bear photography… Read More »
Panasonic Lumix GX8 Manual to Download
Panasonic Lumix GX8 Manual to Download. I was trying to head out the door for the Pantanal and South Africa this morning and realized I should probably have a user manual for the new Lumix GX8. I began a frantic search across the Internet for a PDF to download and AMAZINGLY it took… Read More »
Panasonic Offering Three Year Warranty On Many New Lumix Products
Panasonic is offering a three-year warranty on many new Lumix products. I just returned from Alaska where I was shooting lots of action with the GH4, 4K Photo mode images, time lapse, and the crazy cool Panasonic HX-A500 Wearable 4K POV Camcorder. The HX-500 is Panasonic’s version of a GoPro and it’s a… Read More »
Full Frame Leica with Panasonic Technology
Full Frame Leica with Panasonic Technology. There is another very interesting rumor floating around that suggests there are more surprises coming from the Panasonic/Leica relationship I recently wrote about. The rumor is that Leica is about to release an entirely new, designed from the ground up, full frame digital camera system that is… Read More »
Leica and Panasonic Lumix Reaping Rewards
Leica and Panasonic Lumix Reaping Rewards. One of the major benefits of the Lumix system is Panasonic’s cooperative agreement with Leica, the world’s best lens company. I’ve been aware of Leica since my early days in photography. They are world renowned and have been since the beginning of 35mm cameras. When… Read More »
Backblaze Updates Hard Drive Failure Rates
Each quarter, Backblaze updates hard drive failure rates with the latest data. Seems the HGST drives are still far and away the best drives out there. I find this report extremely helpful for those of us who want to know which drives fail and which ones don’t. If you want to… Read More »
6-Axis Image Stabilization Updates for Most Lumix Lenses
Recently Panasonic introduced updates for most Lumix lenses so they can utilize the amazing new 6-axis Image Stabilization on the recently announced Lumix GX8 camera. To get the same feature in all other Lumix cameras you have to update your lenses’ firmware. The firmware updates have now been released. To get… Read More »
Are you the Family Photographer?
If you love photography, and most likely you wouldn’t be here if you don’t, you may be the family photographer, like I am. It’s not an easy job, getting people to smile, organizing the group, having to shoot when everybody is just relaxing and having fun. But it’s an important… Read More »
Lumix GX8 Sample Images
Lumix GX8 Sample Images Last week I attended the Lumix Luminary summit and had a chance to shoot the new Lumix GX8 which I wrote about in a previous post titled Lumix Luminary Summit Glancing Back Looking Forward with Lumix GX8. In that post when I spoke about the GX8 I… Read More »
Swarthmorean Features NE Explorer Beth Jones
The Swarthmorean – July 24, 2015 Summer Travel: Wilderness, Meadows and Praries of the Northwest Explorer Beth Jones has been on several photography tours with Natural Exposures, including Romania, Cuba, and Yellowstone. Most recently she traveled with NE to the Palouse region in Washington. Upon her return, her local Pennsylvania newspaper,… Read More »