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Intervalometers (timer release cables)

What’s an intervalometer I hear you ask? Well, if you want to shoot time-lapse with your Nikon or Canon DSLR, then you need to be able to set your camera to take a photo at set intervals and/or for a set period of time. Depending on your model of Nikon you will have this function...

WPOTY 2009 winner disqualified

Some of you may have been following the claims that the winning shot of WPOTY 2009, the leaping wolf, was in fact a captive animal and the shot was staged. The photo was under investigation by the organisers of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and today, they have made the decision...

Panasonic Lumix TZ7/ZS3 HD samples [video]

It’s been out a while now but I’ve been asked by a few people on various sites, forums and emails how I find the HD video quality of the Panasonic Lumix TZ7 (ZS3 in the states) as at the time or writing, it’s my only form of video camera. So thought I’d put a rough...

Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010

Photographing otters in the wild, having my D3 fall off the end of my 600mm and actually wanting to get out of the car, in just my underwear to photograph a turtle in the road during a full on tropical storm in Florida (more on that later!)…yep, it’s been a fun year photographically! As we...

My first timelapse test [video]

If you’re not familiar with timelapse photography, it traditionally involves either speeding up film footage or taking lots of photos…in this case, 2353 photos to be exact. That’s two thousand three hundred and fifty three photos to give me roughly 1min 25 seconds of footage. For those of you that are familiar with timelapse, you’ll...