February 25, 2024 • 20 mins
Welcome to The Fotobug, your podcast for photography news, reviews, interviews, and how-tos. In this episode, hosts Jim and Fred give a major announcement about the future of the podcast - a transition to YouTube! They've carried this podcast for over a decade, now they're diversifying the platform to reach a wider audience while continuing to provide top-notch photography content.
Delivering the news, they discuss the surprising decline of Kodak, a once-thriving photography brand turned shocking cryptocurrency scheme participant. They also highlight Olympus OM-1's significant firmware update and the revealing of OpenAI's text-to-video AI tool, Sora. In a fascinating peek into the future of photography, they dive into the awe-inspiring work of photographer Nima and the undersea prowess of Alex Dawson, the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.
Furthermore, the dynamic duo zooms in on a new player in the smartphone arena, the Energizer P28K, which promises a battery life lasting a week without charging. They then take a sober moment to discuss a tragic issue related to social media and photography associated with Instagram, highlighting the dark side of the online medium.
The episode features a special segment showcasing Arsenal 2, a gadget designed to enhance your photography skills. The hosts perform a live test of the panorama feature of this tool after a specific request from the audience - proof that they indeed listen to their audience’s feedback and suggestions!
Join Jim and Fred as they light up your life with their deep passion for photography and share valuable insights in the world of images. The FotoBug promises informative, engaging, and inspiring content for novices and professionals alike.
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(00:00):
Music.
(00:28):
Welcome to the Photobug for news, reviews, interviews, and how-tos.
Here are your hosts, Jim and Fred.
Hi, and welcome to another edition of the Photobug. I'm Fred.
And I'm Jim. We're glad you're here. You're still Fred, and I'm still Jim.
That's good. Yes, it is. I like it that way. Yes.
So, anyway, thank you for tuning in to the podcast.
(00:49):
Just be aware that we're going to be cutting back beginning in April.
We've been doing this for probably 13 years, maybe more.
And we're moving most of our stuff to YouTube. That means we're not going to
totally discontinue the podcast, but there's going to be a lot more on YouTube,
and we're going to favor that.
So please go out there and subscribe. We don't want you to miss anything. There you go.
(01:12):
Well, we have some news. Why don't we get started? Yeah, we do.
Okay, first, I've got a photo here. and this photo was the People's Choice Award.
It won over 50,000 other entries in, well, in the UK, I believe,
but I believe the entries came from all over the world.
Nima, the photographer that took this, is a, I'll call him a friend of mine.
(01:35):
We met and worked together in Borneo last year and we're going to be together
in London coming up next month.
That I'm going to be getting together with Nima and his lovely wife,
Karen, for lunch or dinner.
And probably going to do an interview with him as he's going to talk about this
(01:56):
picture. Now, he showed me this when he was in Borneo.
But in addition to that, I'm also going to be returning to Svalbard next year with Nima and Karen.
So maybe I'll get an interesting photo. There you go. I'll do this myself.
Who knows? Who knows? Yes.
Well, how the mighty have fallen. Kodak, which used to be a major brand,
(02:17):
a major word in photography, they're now involved in shady Bitcoin schemes. Oh, no, no sense. Not so.
Well, when their photo business started to go south, basically Kodak was reduced
to sketchy schemes like CashMiner, a ridiculously overpriced Bitcoin miner,
and it became unrealistic.
It basically came with unrealistic promises of lots of money,
(02:38):
riches beyond your dreams.
They also launched a Kodak coin, a photo-based cryptocurrency that nobody is
really sure how it's supposed to work. Yeah, well, we'll just have to see how that develops.
Sorry about that. Oh, we got more IE news. We've got a video here.
This is really something.
(02:59):
OpenAI has revealed its text-to-video AI tool named Sora. Sora, that's S-O-R-A.
The tool can generate videos up to a minute long based upon just a user's text prompt.
The CEO, Sam Altman, showed off the model by fielding prompts from ex-users,
I should say ex-formerly Twitter,
(03:21):
and posting the resulting videos, including a wizard casting a spell with lightning,
a street level tour of a futuristic city, and the company is making Sora available
to experts right now, artists and filmmakers,
just to get feedback before they roll it out to the general public.
(03:42):
Google's Lumiere tool is also expected to compete with Sora in the AI text and video space.
And they said, Fred, well, there goes the video stock business. Yep, there it goes.
Oh, well. Well, we have a photo for you here, Alex Dawson, who has been named
the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.
(04:05):
And this was his image of a free diver examining the aftermath of whaling.
Whale bones beat more than 6,500 photographs from around the world.
So that was a cool photograph that you're looking at. Whale bones was photographed
in the toughest conditions as a breath-hold diver descends below Greenland.
(04:27):
Oh, my God. Yeah, he was breath-holding.
He was doing, they have a word for that, some kind of free diving.
Yeah, he was free diving below the Greenland ice sheet to bear witness to the carcasses.
So Alex Mustard, who chairs the judging panel, said, the diver suit and torch
give it a visiting alien feel. There's a torch, obviously, who's British.
(04:50):
Yeah. Well, listen up, Olympus OM-1 owners.
That's Olympus OM-1 Digital, of course. Of course, WEM Digital Solutions has
announced the much-anticipated firmware update to the original OM1.
And while this firmware update will improve the camera's autofocusing capabilities,
it will not introduce features that are new to the OM1 generation 2.
(05:13):
Second generation, yeah. Yeah.
Well, a relatively new player in the smartphone arena may be setting the stage
for a groundbreaking reveal, a device that promises to redefine expectations
of its monumental battery capacity.
This forthcoming model, dubbed the P28K, promises mind-blowing battery life.
(05:35):
The Energizer brand, while a household name in the battery sector,
might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking of smartphones. phones.
However, the company has dabbled in the smartphone market before,
introducing a handful of models that have garnered attention for their unique features.
The latest attempt, the Energizer P28K, is teased to continue this trend,
(05:55):
focusing on what Energizer knows best, battery life.
The higher capacity battery is expected to last for an entire week without charging.
Well, and I assume it's Android-based, but there was no information on what
operating system they're using.
Well, a legislator from South Carolina is now taking legal action against Instagram
(06:19):
following the tragic suicide of his son.
Roughly two weeks post the memorial
after roughly two weeks after the post of the memorial service of
his eldest son the state representative brandon guffey was
confronted with a private message on instagram containing a mockery emoji nasty
and unfortunately that is the ugly side of social media unfortunately yeah but
(06:43):
i don't know if people trying to legislate morality is what they're trying to
do is going to work. No, it's it's tough.
So people are people. And it's so much easier to do that kind of stuff when
you're not looking somebody in the eyes, you know, faced.
Of course. And a lot of people think that they are basically unknown,
unseen, unfindable. Not necessarily true.
(07:06):
Well, today we have something special. I know we're going back to the arsenal
again, even though we've kind of.
Well, it has good things about it, but to us, it had a lot of negatives.
Basically, it didn't feel as worth the $400 charging. But somebody has specifically
(07:27):
asked us on YouTube if we would go out and do a panorama with it.
And because we demonstrated other features, we didn't do the panorama.
So we're going to go ahead and do that. See, we do listen to you,
and we do answer the questions and the prompts and remarks, comments,
et cetera, that are posted on YouTube.
So if you have any, please go out to YouTube.
(07:50):
First, hit the subscribe button, and then leave all the comments you want.
Sure. So let's go ahead and run that.
Like I said, we love suggestions and requests. Yep.
All right. Let's go ahead and run that. Let's run it.
Music.
(08:21):
All right. So we received a request, a comment that somebody that said they
would like to see how well the arsenal does with panoramas.
I don't think you'd want to just buy the arsenal for doing panoramas.
And I know we've kind of maligned this little gadget.
(08:43):
I thought it was overpriced. and for what it offers, I think it's $399.
I believe that. I'll put it down here. Let's just say $400, but I'm pretty sure
you're very correct on that.
The problem is that it doesn't do terribly.
It's not terrible, but it's not great. And it also kind of makes you lazy because
(09:04):
it's... Yeah, you're not going to learn if you're not doing the things yourself.
And supposedly what this is intended is to take over, you plug it into your
camera, assuming that your camera is supported.
And it will supposedly do all the settings based upon what it sees,
based upon an AI model. Now, we weren't impressed. No. That's true.
(09:27):
I guess the analogy is that it's like shooting RAW versus shooting JPEG.
JPEG, you don't have a choice. It decides what colors.
RAW, at least you have a choice. And with this, it takes a lot of the choices
away from you and does it itself.
Yeah, and our previous attempt to use it when we were out doing a sunset,
(09:51):
And we also did the same sunset ourselves using our own settings.
And basically, I thought the settings that we did personally looked as good
or better than those that came from the arsenal.
So I'm going to put a thing up here that you can go ahead on YouTube and go and check that out.
(10:12):
And so anyway, somebody had a comment and said, yeah, you did the focus stacking.
Tracking you did the sunset and you did
the basic review of the automatic
camera settings i guess that's what we can call it well we
didn't do panorama so we're gonna do it well since somebody
asked well just ask and we will obey jim so let's hit it we're gonna go out
(10:38):
to the field right now and give that a shot okay well here we are at pop stencil
park in sunny palm harbor and this,
as we had mentioned, we're doing this as a special favor.
Somebody commented on the YouTube channel that they would like to see us do
(10:58):
a panorama using the arsenal. With the arsenal.
So we're out here, we're going to do that. So we listened. So here it is.
So we did listen. Yes, we did.
So I've got the arsenal loaded up and I've got my iPhone.
And so what we're going to do, I need to move this here. I'm gonna take and
zoom this in just a bit here.
(11:21):
So I'm gonna make sure that this is straight.
We're going to be doing a panorama, which means what we're going to do is it's
going to take a series of shots.
And we're going to have to move the camera until we're finished.
And then supposedly, my understanding, the arsenal will take and stitch this together for us.
(11:43):
So I've got this loosened up. We've got our platyball head here.
And so why don't we go ahead and do this?
Are we ready for it? Let's do it. Okay, well, I'm gonna hit the start button here,
and it took a picture, so the next thing I want to do is, and we wanna have
(12:07):
at least a 30% overlap, so I'm gonna take and move that to there.
I'm gonna do another one. That's the next shot. You might be able to hear it
with the shutter releasing. And another one.
(12:27):
And for some reason, it's giving me a no overlap. I don't know why it's doing that.
And then I hit done.
(12:47):
So we're going to auto crop it, level it, and save it.
I'm not sure why I was getting a message up here that was saying there was no
overlap, because I was giving it an overlap.
Stitching high resolution panorama. So let's see what we got here. So it's doing its thing.
(13:14):
Saving.
And well, there we go. Let me do one more here. Okay. You wanna go the other
way or you wanna start with the same one?
Let's start with the same one. And let's do it a little bit further,
just a little bit bigger panorama.
So I'm gonna do this over again and I go to start.
(13:35):
So I guess that took one picture. So I'm gonna take this, this overlaps here.
It's interesting that the camera temporarily goes out of focus.
It's out of focus right now.
Why aren't you focused?
(13:59):
Well, that's weird. Okay. Well, it lost focus for some reason.
Yeah, every time it shoots, the focus jumps. Now, the arsenal is controlling
the camera here. I don't know what that's all about.
It's out of focus again see where it says there's no overlap that's weird,
(14:24):
okay,
we're going to do a big panorama this time here,
How about one more? Because we've got the sun coming in over here,
going down. Okay, so I'll get a hit done.
(14:50):
I'm going to put level in auto crop.
Hit the save. And the interesting thing, I've got some of you out there saying,
oh, you must have left it on manual focus.
No, he said it's on auto focus. Yeah, it's auto focus. because it was,
every time I'd take a picture, then the focus would jump for some reason.
(15:12):
In fact, they may see it because I'm going to post it. I'm recording my own screen here.
So now it's stitching high-resolution panorama.
Saving.
And there we go. oh, that can't be the one I just did.
(15:38):
Because that one is out of focus. Yep.
So once again, I'm not sure if... Well, maybe we should do...
Maybe we'll go the other way.
And I see where we... I think it's still... We've got to move this in here or...
(15:59):
I think it's still taking shots.
No, no, we do it from here. Let's go up with it because I'm getting this here.
It's struggling to focus and that's what I'm hearing is that the lens mechanism focus on each.
Do you hear it?
Let's do this. I'm gonna turn the focusing off.
(16:22):
And so it's on manual focus because it did come out blurred there.
Okay, everything now is, you wanna hold my phone there? Mm-hmm. It's kind of crooked.
We got to straighten this up.
Boats are returning for the day. There.
(16:47):
Okay, we're going to let this... Actually, it might be interesting to see what
happens if the boat's in one of the shots.
What we're doing, it might show up several times. So let's do that.
We're going to start here, over here.
Here we go again, my final one. I'm going to go ahead and, okay,
well, it said it took a picture.
(17:09):
So we'll go over here, see that that's got a, oh, I see what it's doing.
It's got a, okay, there it says no overlap. Okay, so that's an overlap.
Okay, I see.
So watch as we go. See, it goes over and over and over and over and over until
it goes and overlap, and then I go back off. Aha!
(17:39):
I think you're good there. All right.
So he's actually seeing it through the phone. He's not looking through the lens viewer at all.
So I'm going to say hit done, and I'm going to auto-level and save.
One of the things that I thought this might be interesting for would be to,
for 3D work, like in Blender, like I like to do, do.
(18:03):
Often you want to have a total spherical that you could put if we were wanting
to put in a real scene. This might be good for that.
However, again, I don't think that's something that a lot of people are going to need.
And again, to spend $400 to do that, you can do that with your camera. So here we go.
There we are. Well, at least that one came out and was in focus.
(18:25):
Yep. And we got the wake from the boat there.
But no boat. It's an invisible boat.
Now, the arsenal can do invisible boats. I think it was just out of the shot.
It was. It was out of the shot down the stream.
(18:47):
So there we go. Anyway, there is the arsenal does do and stitch these together.
And at the end of the podcast or end of our video, I'm gonna put the results and let you see them.
So yeah, keep tuning in and leave your comments and suggestions or requests.
We'll be more than happy to accommodate. We'll be glad to listen and answer.
(19:10):
Music.
(19:31):
Well, there we go. So, again. You see for yourself.
Coming up in April, the next month, I'm not going to be around.
So we're going to be pulling stuff out of the vault and showing that for the next two podcasts.
But in the meantime, say it one more time. Go out to YouTube and hit the subscribe
button, please. Please.
(19:52):
And thank you for those who have subscribed. Yes, we appreciate it.
We've got over almost 510 right now.
Yep. So anyway, hey, it's a big world out there, and I'm going to be chasing
elusive images in the U.K.
And whether you're in the U.K. or in your backyard, we want you out there chasing
those elusive images because anytime you can get shutter time,
(20:14):
it's always a great time.
And with that, we'll see you next time on The Photobug. Be sure to tune in next
time to The Photo Bug for news, reviews, interviews, and how-tos.
And please check out and subscribe to The Photo Bug YouTube channel.
Music.
Music.
(00:28):
Welcome to the Photobug for news, reviews, interviews, and how-tos.
Here are your hosts, Jim and Fred.
Hi, and welcome to another edition of the Photobug. I'm Fred.
And I'm Jim. We're glad you're here. You're still Fred, and I'm still Jim.
That's good. Yes, it is. I like it that way. Yes.
So, anyway, thank you for tuning in to the podcast.
(00:49):
Just be aware that we're going to be cutting back beginning in April.
We've been doing this for probably 13 years, maybe more.
And we're moving most of our stuff to YouTube. That means we're not going to
totally discontinue the podcast, but there's going to be a lot more on YouTube,
and we're going to favor that.
So please go out there and subscribe. We don't want you to miss anything. There you go.
(01:12):
Well, we have some news. Why don't we get started? Yeah, we do.
Okay, first, I've got a photo here. and this photo was the People's Choice Award.
It won over 50,000 other entries in, well, in the UK, I believe,
but I believe the entries came from all over the world.
Nima, the photographer that took this, is a, I'll call him a friend of mine.
(01:35):
We met and worked together in Borneo last year and we're going to be together
in London coming up next month.
That I'm going to be getting together with Nima and his lovely wife,
Karen, for lunch or dinner.
And probably going to do an interview with him as he's going to talk about this
(01:56):
picture. Now, he showed me this when he was in Borneo.
But in addition to that, I'm also going to be returning to Svalbard next year with Nima and Karen.
So maybe I'll get an interesting photo. There you go. I'll do this myself.
Who knows? Who knows? Yes.
Well, how the mighty have fallen. Kodak, which used to be a major brand,
(02:17):
a major word in photography, they're now involved in shady Bitcoin schemes. Oh, no, no sense. Not so.
Well, when their photo business started to go south, basically Kodak was reduced
to sketchy schemes like CashMiner, a ridiculously overpriced Bitcoin miner,
and it became unrealistic.
It basically came with unrealistic promises of lots of money,
(02:38):
riches beyond your dreams.
They also launched a Kodak coin, a photo-based cryptocurrency that nobody is
really sure how it's supposed to work. Yeah, well, we'll just have to see how that develops.
Sorry about that. Oh, we got more IE news. We've got a video here.
This is really something.
(02:59):
OpenAI has revealed its text-to-video AI tool named Sora. Sora, that's S-O-R-A.
The tool can generate videos up to a minute long based upon just a user's text prompt.
The CEO, Sam Altman, showed off the model by fielding prompts from ex-users,
I should say ex-formerly Twitter,
(03:21):
and posting the resulting videos, including a wizard casting a spell with lightning,
a street level tour of a futuristic city, and the company is making Sora available
to experts right now, artists and filmmakers,
just to get feedback before they roll it out to the general public.
(03:42):
Google's Lumiere tool is also expected to compete with Sora in the AI text and video space.
And they said, Fred, well, there goes the video stock business. Yep, there it goes.
Oh, well. Well, we have a photo for you here, Alex Dawson, who has been named
the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.
(04:05):
And this was his image of a free diver examining the aftermath of whaling.
Whale bones beat more than 6,500 photographs from around the world.
So that was a cool photograph that you're looking at. Whale bones was photographed
in the toughest conditions as a breath-hold diver descends below Greenland.
(04:27):
Oh, my God. Yeah, he was breath-holding.
He was doing, they have a word for that, some kind of free diving.
Yeah, he was free diving below the Greenland ice sheet to bear witness to the carcasses.
So Alex Mustard, who chairs the judging panel, said, the diver suit and torch
give it a visiting alien feel. There's a torch, obviously, who's British.
(04:50):
Yeah. Well, listen up, Olympus OM-1 owners.
That's Olympus OM-1 Digital, of course. Of course, WEM Digital Solutions has
announced the much-anticipated firmware update to the original OM1.
And while this firmware update will improve the camera's autofocusing capabilities,
it will not introduce features that are new to the OM1 generation 2.
(05:13):
Second generation, yeah. Yeah.
Well, a relatively new player in the smartphone arena may be setting the stage
for a groundbreaking reveal, a device that promises to redefine expectations
of its monumental battery capacity.
This forthcoming model, dubbed the P28K, promises mind-blowing battery life.
(05:35):
The Energizer brand, while a household name in the battery sector,
might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking of smartphones. phones.
However, the company has dabbled in the smartphone market before,
introducing a handful of models that have garnered attention for their unique features.
The latest attempt, the Energizer P28K, is teased to continue this trend,
(05:55):
focusing on what Energizer knows best, battery life.
The higher capacity battery is expected to last for an entire week without charging.
Well, and I assume it's Android-based, but there was no information on what
operating system they're using.
Well, a legislator from South Carolina is now taking legal action against Instagram
(06:19):
following the tragic suicide of his son.
Roughly two weeks post the memorial
after roughly two weeks after the post of the memorial service of
his eldest son the state representative brandon guffey was
confronted with a private message on instagram containing a mockery emoji nasty
and unfortunately that is the ugly side of social media unfortunately yeah but
(06:43):
i don't know if people trying to legislate morality is what they're trying to
do is going to work. No, it's it's tough.
So people are people. And it's so much easier to do that kind of stuff when
you're not looking somebody in the eyes, you know, faced.
Of course. And a lot of people think that they are basically unknown,
unseen, unfindable. Not necessarily true.
(07:06):
Well, today we have something special. I know we're going back to the arsenal
again, even though we've kind of.
Well, it has good things about it, but to us, it had a lot of negatives.
Basically, it didn't feel as worth the $400 charging. But somebody has specifically
(07:27):
asked us on YouTube if we would go out and do a panorama with it.
And because we demonstrated other features, we didn't do the panorama.
So we're going to go ahead and do that. See, we do listen to you,
and we do answer the questions and the prompts and remarks, comments,
et cetera, that are posted on YouTube.
So if you have any, please go out to YouTube.
(07:50):
First, hit the subscribe button, and then leave all the comments you want.
Sure. So let's go ahead and run that.
Like I said, we love suggestions and requests. Yep.
All right. Let's go ahead and run that. Let's run it.
Music.
(08:21):
All right. So we received a request, a comment that somebody that said they
would like to see how well the arsenal does with panoramas.
I don't think you'd want to just buy the arsenal for doing panoramas.
And I know we've kind of maligned this little gadget.
(08:43):
I thought it was overpriced. and for what it offers, I think it's $399.
I believe that. I'll put it down here. Let's just say $400, but I'm pretty sure
you're very correct on that.
The problem is that it doesn't do terribly.
It's not terrible, but it's not great. And it also kind of makes you lazy because
(09:04):
it's... Yeah, you're not going to learn if you're not doing the things yourself.
And supposedly what this is intended is to take over, you plug it into your
camera, assuming that your camera is supported.
And it will supposedly do all the settings based upon what it sees,
based upon an AI model. Now, we weren't impressed. No. That's true.
(09:27):
I guess the analogy is that it's like shooting RAW versus shooting JPEG.
JPEG, you don't have a choice. It decides what colors.
RAW, at least you have a choice. And with this, it takes a lot of the choices
away from you and does it itself.
Yeah, and our previous attempt to use it when we were out doing a sunset,
(09:51):
And we also did the same sunset ourselves using our own settings.
And basically, I thought the settings that we did personally looked as good
or better than those that came from the arsenal.
So I'm going to put a thing up here that you can go ahead on YouTube and go and check that out.
(10:12):
And so anyway, somebody had a comment and said, yeah, you did the focus stacking.
Tracking you did the sunset and you did
the basic review of the automatic
camera settings i guess that's what we can call it well we
didn't do panorama so we're gonna do it well since somebody
asked well just ask and we will obey jim so let's hit it we're gonna go out
(10:38):
to the field right now and give that a shot okay well here we are at pop stencil
park in sunny palm harbor and this,
as we had mentioned, we're doing this as a special favor.
Somebody commented on the YouTube channel that they would like to see us do
(10:58):
a panorama using the arsenal. With the arsenal.
So we're out here, we're going to do that. So we listened. So here it is.
So we did listen. Yes, we did.
So I've got the arsenal loaded up and I've got my iPhone.
And so what we're going to do, I need to move this here. I'm gonna take and
zoom this in just a bit here.
(11:21):
So I'm gonna make sure that this is straight.
We're going to be doing a panorama, which means what we're going to do is it's
going to take a series of shots.
And we're going to have to move the camera until we're finished.
And then supposedly, my understanding, the arsenal will take and stitch this together for us.
(11:43):
So I've got this loosened up. We've got our platyball head here.
And so why don't we go ahead and do this?
Are we ready for it? Let's do it. Okay, well, I'm gonna hit the start button here,
and it took a picture, so the next thing I want to do is, and we wanna have
(12:07):
at least a 30% overlap, so I'm gonna take and move that to there.
I'm gonna do another one. That's the next shot. You might be able to hear it
with the shutter releasing. And another one.
(12:27):
And for some reason, it's giving me a no overlap. I don't know why it's doing that.
And then I hit done.
(12:47):
So we're going to auto crop it, level it, and save it.
I'm not sure why I was getting a message up here that was saying there was no
overlap, because I was giving it an overlap.
Stitching high resolution panorama. So let's see what we got here. So it's doing its thing.
(13:14):
Saving.
And well, there we go. Let me do one more here. Okay. You wanna go the other
way or you wanna start with the same one?
Let's start with the same one. And let's do it a little bit further,
just a little bit bigger panorama.
So I'm gonna do this over again and I go to start.
(13:35):
So I guess that took one picture. So I'm gonna take this, this overlaps here.
It's interesting that the camera temporarily goes out of focus.
It's out of focus right now.
Why aren't you focused?
(13:59):
Well, that's weird. Okay. Well, it lost focus for some reason.
Yeah, every time it shoots, the focus jumps. Now, the arsenal is controlling
the camera here. I don't know what that's all about.
It's out of focus again see where it says there's no overlap that's weird,
(14:24):
okay,
we're going to do a big panorama this time here,
How about one more? Because we've got the sun coming in over here,
going down. Okay, so I'll get a hit done.
(14:50):
I'm going to put level in auto crop.
Hit the save. And the interesting thing, I've got some of you out there saying,
oh, you must have left it on manual focus.
No, he said it's on auto focus. Yeah, it's auto focus. because it was,
every time I'd take a picture, then the focus would jump for some reason.
(15:12):
In fact, they may see it because I'm going to post it. I'm recording my own screen here.
So now it's stitching high-resolution panorama.
Saving.
And there we go. oh, that can't be the one I just did.
(15:38):
Because that one is out of focus. Yep.
So once again, I'm not sure if... Well, maybe we should do...
Maybe we'll go the other way.
And I see where we... I think it's still... We've got to move this in here or...
(15:59):
I think it's still taking shots.
No, no, we do it from here. Let's go up with it because I'm getting this here.
It's struggling to focus and that's what I'm hearing is that the lens mechanism focus on each.
Do you hear it?
Let's do this. I'm gonna turn the focusing off.
(16:22):
And so it's on manual focus because it did come out blurred there.
Okay, everything now is, you wanna hold my phone there? Mm-hmm. It's kind of crooked.
We got to straighten this up.
Boats are returning for the day. There.
(16:47):
Okay, we're going to let this... Actually, it might be interesting to see what
happens if the boat's in one of the shots.
What we're doing, it might show up several times. So let's do that.
We're going to start here, over here.
Here we go again, my final one. I'm going to go ahead and, okay,
well, it said it took a picture.
(17:09):
So we'll go over here, see that that's got a, oh, I see what it's doing.
It's got a, okay, there it says no overlap. Okay, so that's an overlap.
Okay, I see.
So watch as we go. See, it goes over and over and over and over and over until
it goes and overlap, and then I go back off. Aha!
(17:39):
I think you're good there. All right.
So he's actually seeing it through the phone. He's not looking through the lens viewer at all.
So I'm going to say hit done, and I'm going to auto-level and save.
One of the things that I thought this might be interesting for would be to,
for 3D work, like in Blender, like I like to do, do.
(18:03):
Often you want to have a total spherical that you could put if we were wanting
to put in a real scene. This might be good for that.
However, again, I don't think that's something that a lot of people are going to need.
And again, to spend $400 to do that, you can do that with your camera. So here we go.
There we are. Well, at least that one came out and was in focus.
(18:25):
Yep. And we got the wake from the boat there.
But no boat. It's an invisible boat.
Now, the arsenal can do invisible boats. I think it was just out of the shot.
It was. It was out of the shot down the stream.
(18:47):
So there we go. Anyway, there is the arsenal does do and stitch these together.
And at the end of the podcast or end of our video, I'm gonna put the results and let you see them.
So yeah, keep tuning in and leave your comments and suggestions or requests.
We'll be more than happy to accommodate. We'll be glad to listen and answer.
(19:10):
Music.
(19:31):
Well, there we go. So, again. You see for yourself.
Coming up in April, the next month, I'm not going to be around.
So we're going to be pulling stuff out of the vault and showing that for the next two podcasts.
But in the meantime, say it one more time. Go out to YouTube and hit the subscribe
button, please. Please.
(19:52):
And thank you for those who have subscribed. Yes, we appreciate it.
We've got over almost 510 right now.
Yep. So anyway, hey, it's a big world out there, and I'm going to be chasing
elusive images in the U.K.
And whether you're in the U.K. or in your backyard, we want you out there chasing
those elusive images because anytime you can get shutter time,
(20:14):
it's always a great time.
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