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After I made my first video testing out the quiet and silent shutter modes of the Nikon and Canon's, my Nikon rep told me I was using it wrong. He told me that the mode is not meant to be used where you press the shutter and let it go right away. He said your supposed to press and hold the shutter button down, leave the room or tuck the camera to muffle the rest of the noise.

I figured I would try out his suggestion for myself and see if it really made a difference. Than I got to thinking, if I have to leave the room after taking the photo wouldn't I be making more noise than if I let the shutter just open and close normally?

Here is what I have come up with, the Nikon D800's quite mode is by no means quiet. It seems to be slightly less loud than the regular shutter but now it has one extra point where it makes noise. When you let go of the shutter button in quiet mode it makes an audible. So instead of a quick noise you now have extended the noises out across a longer period of time.

This is what I think, if you are in a quiet setting but need to capture the images consider shooting less. Be more selective about what you shoot and pick and choose the images as they present themselves.

Have you used this feature before, do you think there is a difference?



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Don't worry this is not the FINAL EPISODE of RAWtalk ever, just the final one for the year. To kick off this weeks Episode we discuss the recent Bootcamp in New Orleans followed by my few days off in Florida.

As this is the final episode of the year I thought it would be good to look bad at some of the predictions I made last year as well as take a look into what I think will be coming in 2014. What do you think will be coming in the photography industry?

I ended up getting sidetracked and started talking about peoples profile pictures on Match.com. I really have to make a tutorial for how take better pictures on dating profiles.

As always we jump into Stephen's Photo News with extra distractions followed by Wheel of FRO and Flying Solo.

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has listened or watched RAWtalk this year!!!

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What does Post Man Fro have for us this time around? Well it's a generic package from Atomos, it's the Ninja 2.

The reason I contacted Ninja to try out this unit was so we could do continuous recording of our main angle during RAWtalk. In this case we would be using the Nikon D800 with a 14-24 2.8 to.

The Ninja allows you to record video right off the sensor bypassing any cards in the camera via the HDMI cable. This means instead of only getting twenty minutes of record time we can record as long as the hard drive or SSD inside the Ninja has space.

The Ninja also acts as an external monitor with a touch screen. I will not sit here and tell you this is the easiest thing in the world to learn but once you do you will love having this unit.

This unit is for anyone who needs to do continuous recording from any DSLR as well as certain camcorders. For the price it offers you some amazing features.

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Yes you get to see what happens on RAWtalk from the perspective of a viewer looking in. But what does RAWtalk look like behind the scenes? How do we go form recording to having the audio and video live in a week.

So lets take a look at a typical RAWtalk day/week. We like to film on Thursdays which so happens to be a day that I hit the gym in the morning. Stephen meets me back at the loft around 10:45 where we start the process of setting everything up.

We start by removing the table top to the poker table and placing it on the side. Next Stephen starts the process of laying out the cables, microphones and arms. We use the RODE Broadcaster Microphones and RODE studio arms. I have regular XLR cables that we ordered off of Monoprice.com.

The XLR's run underneath the table to my counter where they go into the ZOOM H6. The Zoom H6 is powered with an AC adapter so we never have to worry about the batteries dying on us again. This was a fantastic purchase for RAWtalk. Stephen has general audio levels these days for both of us. I tend to yell a lot but I now know to back away from the RODE when I am going to get louder.

For those who are wondering, RODE has become a sponsor and we are very happy to have such a staple in the audio industry on our side. Of course it didn't start off with a sponsorship. We reached out to them in the hopes we could get some gear to review and test out. One thing led to another and we really like working with each other. Like I have said a million times, I wont promote or work with a product that I don't like or wouldn't use.




After the cables and microphones are in place the next step is to move the lights into place. We just started using some Kino flo lights that I purchased from a studio that was going out of business. These are some of the best lights around for shooting video. Many professional studios use these same type of lights.

We set up a large 4x4 bank of lights facing the poker table to be our main light. Next we have background lights so we have even lighting all the way around. We add a small light to the brick behind me as a separation light. And we place other lights around the room to make everything even.

Once the lights are in place we set up the tripods and cameras. The main angle currently uses the Nikon D800 which Nikon has sent me to use for the show. That sits on top of a self leveling Vanguard Tripod. The D800 uses the Nikon 14-24 2.8 set to around 21mm. We no longer record to the memory card as we are testing out the Atomos Ninja 2. The reason we do this is so we have one camera that never cuts recording. The second angle is my angle which is recorded with the Nikon D4 and the 24-70 2.8. We still record to the card here. The third angle is on Stephen and for the time being is recorded with his Canon 5D MK III and the 50mm F1.2. Since we no longer use the gopro for a main angle Stephen suggested we use it as a behind the scenes wide angle which gets placed on top of my cabinets.

Going forward we have a goal of getting three matching cameras to keep everything consistent. On top of that we would love to get into the live switching game so all the editing is done on the fly. I hope Atomos has a solution for helping us do the live switching and recording.

RAWtalk has evolved over the last year into a real full on production. The only difference is there are only two of us making it happen with the majority of the backend work handled by Stephen.

Let's look at some numbers here. RAWtalks tend to go 60-90 minutes with four cameras running. We are left with close to 75 gigs of video files to edit and store. The audio files tend to be smaller even when they are recorded in WAV.

It is Stephens job to take the clips and sync up the audio from all four cameras and cut the different angles. This process does take many many hours of work. Not only is it time consuming to get everything in place, the rendering can take hours.

The final exported files tend to be roughly 10-12 gigs. A file like that will take an hour or two to upload to YouTube depending on the connection and another 8-10 hours to fully process on their end. Once the video is processed we get ready to put it live.

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Welcome to another photo of the month. This months theme is "Music", this could be a live performance or pictures of a piano or anything that represents music.

What will you come with this time around? All images must be shot between Nov 1st and Nov16th and posted right here. If your meta data does not show the image as being taken between those dates your images will be deleted.

Please limit your entries to five images. The easiest way to post your images is via the flickr bbc code, just grab it and past it into a post.

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In an industry where we are constantly bombarded with new "gadgets" one has come along that is truly unique. The Pixelstick is nothing short of amazing. A killer combination of teach and ingenuity this tool is going to change the way people make light painting images.

Honestly all you have to do is watch the kickstarter campaign video to understand how truly amazing this is. It's one of those things that once you see it you get it.

I got in touch with the founders of the Pixelstick to find out more about their creation. These are two guys who had an idea, built it and brought to to market. At the time of recording they were two sales shy of $400,000 and have since blown past that number.

All I can say is we live in such an amazing time where if you can think it and build it, someone will stand behind you and purchase it.

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