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Everything but the Kitchen Sink Lighting Class

We have locked in the dates for a new class.  A Guide to Understanding Light is a comprehensive and fundamental instruction in all things lighting.  This means everything from better understanding light that exists in a scene so you know how to make the most of it to breaking out the big studio strobes to completely engineering your own creative vision. 

Whether you are family shooter, hobbyist, amateur or pro, everyone will benefit from this course.  We will be using a variety of products in the second and third sessions including some of my favorite Westcott products from the Apollo line and the uLite series from the Photo Basics line.  The latter are some of the best entry level constant light kits currently available.  I just purchased the Apollo Orb with the Orb Grid for a lightweight on location portrait lighting system and absolutely love it.  

Come join us for three great evenings in April.

robertscamera.com/classes



New Sony Camcorders at CES 2013.

CES is well underway in Las Vegas, and Sony has announced many new camcorders to their already impressive consumer lineup.

First, Sony has stopped producing  their last two standard definition models, SX45 and SX85.  The entry level, CX220 will have an 8.9MP sensor for still image, Carl Zeiss lens, AVCHD and MP4 video recording, and 60p record capable.  That’s a lot of camcorder for only $249!  The CX230 get you all that and 8GB of internal storage for $279.  The CX290 gives you optical stabilizer for $349.

Sony-CX430-CES

Balanced Optical Steadyshot came out on last years CX760 model and it was a very impressive feature.  The lens seems to “float” as you move the camcorder around and coupled with the optical steadyshot, it’s as if you are walking around with the camera on a steadycam arm.  The problem was to get all of that you had to spend $1499.  Not anymore!  The new CX430V and  PJ430V will have that feature and are $699 and $849.  Both have 8.9MP sensor, 60P recording, GPS integration, 5.1 channel mic and mic input, 16GB of flash memory, and Multi Interface Shoe.  The PJ430V adds a projector as past models have had, but this one adds HDMI input, so you can project video/stills from other devices.

The top dog is the PJ790V.  At $1600 it is a premium price, but you get some premium doodads on it.  First, it has a 24MP sensor for great stills and unbeatable low light shooting.  Sporting 96GB of flash memory, you get hours of record time without needing an SD card.  The cool part is the projector.  They upped the brightness of the projector to 30 lumens so it should be a pretty respectable piece, unlike previous models where it was more a novelty.  With the HDMI input, you could use it as a projector for all your toys while you are on the road and bored in the hotel room.

Sony expects to ship all of these goodies in mid February.  We will know more when we get our hands on them!

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Local Shooter Marc Lebryk Talks Dado, Arena Lighting, and Derby Mayhem

Shot by Marc Lebryk

A little while back, local shooter Marc Lebryk approached us about whether or not we’d be interested in helping light-up the local convention center for the Monumental Mayhem girls’ roller derby event. Now, astute readers might remember Marc from his review of the Radiopopper wireless trigger system, and a few of you might have met him at one of our photo walks. So, he’s a guy we know, and we worked out something with our own Nick Henry and rentals to get some gear out there for shooters, along with some of Manfrotto’s neat new DADO balls. And now, Marc has his blog post about the whole experience up. You should, of course, hop over there for the whole experience from a career-shooter’s view.



Canon Day 2011

It’s time once again for Canon Days here at Roberts. If you haven’t checked, we have a bunch of highlighted products in the promos section over on our site (including a special starter accessory kit for just $99.97 with any Canon DSLR purchase).

But, if that’s not enough for you, and you can make it out to Indy or Carmel this Saturday, Nov 19th, you’ll find we have even more in store (get it? in store? oh, I slay me…) In both our brick-and-mortar stores this Saturday you’ll be able to meet the Canon reps, try all the cool toys, ask questions, get answers, and enter a few special promotional giveaways for prizes like a free PowerShot ELPH 300 HS (both stores), or a photo contest to win a Galaxy Tab Android tablet (made possible thanks to Canon’s new PIXMA Pro 1 inkjet printer, Carmel store only).

So, make sure to schedule some time this weekend to come out and see us, if you can. The festivities will happen from 10am-3pm at both stores here in Indiana. How about it? You going to come out and see us?

Are you coming out for Canon Day 2011?

  • You betcha! (73%, 8 Votes)
  • But... I don't shoot Canon! (27%, 3 Votes)
  • Sadly, I can't make it. (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I don't live close enough and wish the website had more specials instead. (0%, 0 Votes)
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Nikon P7000 Photo Walk Full

Well! Just in time for the event itself tonight, we’ve got all our open spots for tomorrow’s event filled up. More people are welcome to come join us and shoot with whatever you like, but we can’t guarantee we’ll be able to loan you a P7000 to try (and for those wanting to enter the special photo contest, all entries do have to come from a P7000, that’s how it is). For everyone who did get a reservation in, we’ll see you tomorrow at 6pm, Holliday Park, we’ll meet out in the parking lot area and figure things out from there. Be sure to bring your own SD cards for use in the cameras, yeah?



Nikon and Roberts present a Special P7000 Photo Walk Bonanza


 

Nick and myself are pleased to be working with Nikon to offer you all a chance to come to a very exciting photo walk special. Nikon is going to come out and bring up to 25 of their top-of-the-line pro Coolpix P7000 compact cameras for people to borrow and use for a couple hours. There’ll be a short presentation at the beginning from their tech rep, a cool guy named Jason, to get you familiar with what the cameras are capable of, and then you’ll be free to grab one and roam around shooting whatever you care to for a couple hours. And then, oh yes, and then we’re going to have a photo contest for people who attended to submit to, and the winner will get a $100 gift card to their favorite camera store (no, us, sillies). All attendees will also get a special coupon from Nikon for $25 off a P7000, in case they decide they’d like to add one to their own collection.

This’ll make the second photo walk Nikon has made it out for, and the last one was a blast. I expect this one will also be great. Plus, come on, chance to win a gift card and play with someone else’s toys. You know you want to.

The details are:

Wednesday June 29th, 2011

6pm – ?

Holliday Park (6363 Spring Mill Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260)

As always, no cost to attend. We might have to reserve slots, though, because of the limit on cameras, so, RSVP to us in the comments, on the FB, on Twitter (@robertscamera) or email me at dmartin@robertsimaging.com. Let us know you want in.

And, be sure to thank Nikon for generously making this event possible.



Photo Walk Tonight: Crowne Plaza

So, we have a photo walk scheduled for tonight. Rock. On. We’re meeting at 6pm at Crowne Plaza. But not just anywhere. Cambrie Anderson, who arranged this opportunity for us, passed along the following instructions:

Everyone will need to enter Union Station [huge red brick building] through the double green doors off Illinois Street.  The doors are located underneath the overpass which is north of South Street and just south of the Omni Severin; these doors are on the west side of the building.  They should not try to enter the doors on the north side of the building, underneath the stained glass window [this is across the circle drive from the Omni].  Also, they will not be able to get to the Grand Hall if they enter over by Cadillac Ranch.

If anyone is unsure where it is, there is no physical address, so they can just put the Crowne Plaza Hotel into their GPS [123 W. Louisiana St., Indianapolis, 46225].  If they are at the front doors of the hotel, they will just walk across Illinois Street and enter through the double green doors.

The closest / cheapest parking option would probably be either Pan Am garage or any of the mall parking.

If that’s all a bit abstract for you, I found the doors she means on Google Street View, which’ll also give you a hand approximate address and driving instructions. Click here to map it.

Now, communications: If you have problems finding us, try the following:

Tweet us at @robertscamera

Call Derek at 765-215-9249

And, if you’re still not on the mailing list, shoot me an email at dmartin@robertsimaging.com and I’ll get you added.

See you all at 6!

 



Next Photowalk At Crowne Plaza, Thank Cambrie

Look at this: the photo walk was just last night, I haven’t even imported my photos from it yet, we haven’t followed up for clarifications on that IMA policy, and here I am announcing the next walk. Cool, right?

Before I get into details, I should remind everyone that if you want to be on our mailing list for this, send me an email at dmartin@robertsimaging.com and let me know. If you’re a Twitter person, you can follow either @robertscamera or @zedmartinez to keep up. And, there’s the Facebook page also. Those are all the ways you can keep your finger on the pulse of the next photo walk.

If you’ve gone on a photo walk and have a Flickr, there’s a group you should join and submit shots to here.

OK, now, onto the next walk. 2011 Photo Walkabout regular Cambrie Anderson has arranged for us to be able to shoot in the old Union Station / Crowne Plaza. All massive props go to her for making this one happen. This’ll be taking place next Wednesday, June 1st, at 6pm at Crowne Plaza. You need to show up at a specific place or you can’t get in. Per Cambrie:

Everyone will need to enter Union Station [huge red brick building] through the double green doors off Illinois Street.  The doors are located underneath the overpass which is north of South Street and just south of the Omni Severin; these doors are on the west side of the building.  They should not try to enter the doors on the north side of the building, underneath the stained glass window [this is across the circle drive from the Omni].  Also, they will not be able to get to the Grand Hall if they enter over by Cadillac Ranch.

If anyone is unsure where it is, there is no physical address, so they can just put the Crowne Plaza Hotel into their GPS [123 W. Louisiana St., Indianapolis, 46225].  If they are at the front doors of the hotel, they will just walk across Illinois Street and enter through the double green doors.

The closest / cheapest parking option would probably be either Pan Am garage or any of the mall parking.

And, for those of you who are more visual, she means these doors (picture links to Google Maps street view for more visuals and approximate address):

 

So, got all that? Good. Also, we’re sure Cambrie would love it if you’d check out her site at www.cambrieanderson.com, or follow her on Twitter at @cambrie_a



ManMade show opening and gallery talk at pictura gallery in Bloomington, IN

Brenda Stern, Associate Director of the pictura gallery in Bloomington, IN, dropped me a line today about their upcoming show, ManMade.  The show will run June 3rd to July 30th with the opening reception on Friday, June 3rd from 5-8pm. The pictura gallery is at 122 W. 6th Street in Bloomington. There will be a Gallery Talk with Dr. Brenda Weber on Wednesday, June 8th from 7-8pm.

You can find pictura on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gallerypictura and the event page for Dr. Weber’s talk on Facebook here.