To prevent excessive chopping and changing I set myself a target of keeping new toys for four years. The Motu 1248 has just reached this benchmark so, in theory, is open to be upgraded and it’s a good moment to have a retrospective. The four year target is a bit of a blunt instrument, it’s… Read More »
An ongoing list of equipment used on the For Folk’s Sake sessions. Rev. Simpkins There were a few reasons for doing this outside, but I’m glad I did and it turned out nicely. This is really the session that made me think it would be good to get out more. This was car based, so… Read More »
I’ve been having another go at using Blackmagic Resolve Studio for editing my sessions, rather than Adobe Premiere Pro. I tried this a while ago with the free version, and did publish a video from the attempt, but ended up going back to Premiere which I found overall easier to use. But ended up buying… Read More »
Quick one, hopefully. For powering my Panasonic cameras on shoots I’ve been using dummy batteries with USB PD adaptors for the tripod cameras. These have been working OK but I recently found out this setup is actually slightly underpowered and it made me a little paranoid about stability. For USB power directly into camera Panasonic… Read More »
A small collection of results from playing with USB powerbanks. USB power is a really interesting way of powering devices: there’s lots of capacity options, charging is easy and they’re reusable across devices. And prices are low compared to NP-F batteries and certainly first party batteries for devices. The biggest issue is finding quality options… Read More »
Quick post. My phone was up for renewal so I went large with an iPhone 13 Pro. This was an acceptance that I take more photos on my phone than any ‘real’ camera so made sense to spend the money. After a few weeks my opinion is basically that’s it’s fine, but not miraculous, and… Read More »
The For Folk’s Sake sessions went on a long pause during the various UK lockdowns, but now things are mostly back to normal I’ve started recording again. The first person in for this new run was Basia Bartz. Basia was previously here alongside Catherine Rudie, where I was intrigued by the combination of violin with… Read More »
For completely legitimate reasons other than “I was bored in Lockdown” I commited to an CPU & motherboard upgrade on my studio machine, previously an Intel i7-6700. I considered AMD, but stayed with Intel in the end. Mostly this was out of fear of PCI & USB stability issues, and slightly that I wanted to… Read More »
About eight years ago I decided to get a really nice colour accurate monitor for photography and bought a NEC Spectraview SV242W and an X-Rite i1Display Pro. It didn’t turn out to be very useful as at the time the software support was pretty poor. I never really got any sense out of the actual… Read More »
My studio PC is an i7-6700, which is fast enough for audio work but a bit underpowered for video editing. For a potential upgrade I’d like to consider something AMD Ryzen based. Going AMD means I’d have to give up on my upgrade to Thunderbolt, but that’s only a nice-to-have so I can live with… Read More »