I’ve had some time to myself with the recent birth of Ryan, so to pass the time I’ve been playing with some ideas that have been bouncing in my head. This one is to test the usable range of the WFT-E2 unit I have for the MK3. I wantes to see if it could be [...]

From the 9th to the 13th of September I had the pleaseure of working with Duane Hart and the rest of the SportingImages team at the ITU Triathlon World Champs on the Gold Coast. It was a hot couple of days for a Sydney sider like me, but great fun.
My job was to run the [...]

I spent the first weekend in September in Mount Stromlo, Canberra, covering the UCI world Mountain Bike Championships. I drove down with Murray on the Thursday afternoon so get the Accreditations, then we shot Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Today’s goals were to test some mountain bike set-ups and remote flash set-ups. I am hoping to put in a good display at the MTB world champs in September with both stills and video snippets.
VIDEO TESTS
The main test here was sound. I am using the JCV 3CCD HD camcorder because of its compact size, but [...]

Some time ago I changed my beam cross trigger to 9 Volt to make batteries easier to get. However, I had no idea how long the system would work on such a small battery. The 12 Volt system would run for days, but it’s not so easy to get 12 V batteries when you travel.
The [...]