Run!

Here's a quick post, taken from a Schools Cross-Country event last weekend.

Most newspaper work, especially local newspaper work, involves filing "straight" pictures, faces visible, of people, both news and sport.

It can wear you down, after a while, especially if you like entering competitions as a condition of some is "pictures must be published"...

Here's one that I went looking for and liked what I got. It might as well get an airing here...

The details: Nikon D3s, 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm, 1/1000 @ f8, ISO 200.
The ground was so muddy that I was dangling the camera low one-handed, not looking
through the viewfinder, as I used the other for balance on the slippery surface!

Wirelessly, on a budget...

(Edited: correcting a silly error - the router/access point unit is, of course, a TP-Link unit (looking not unlike the Cam-Ranger device..?).

It's the norm with Smartphones and other such devices to expect to snap a picture, then tweet, Facebook, Flickr or otherwise publish it within moments to the world.

Ignoring how worthy many of these pictures might be (..!), it's also becoming the norm that "proper" news and sports pictures should be available within moments of them being taken. Sadly, though the Smart device makers have understood this, the camera manufacturers, almost without exception, haven't really "got" it. I think this is the main reason why sales of compact camera have utterly bombed over the last few years. Phones are doing what their users want.

Not a WT5. But a £40'ish workaround that DOES work in some situations... It's possible to buy flat ribbon-type LAN cables that help reduce bulk. As you can see here, you'll need to think about some way of stowing the router. I wonder about getting one of those cold-shoe things (cheap accessory) and gluing the unit to that with an epoxy resin, so that it sits in the hot shoe.

Wifi modules have now begun to creep into mainstream, dedicated cameras, though the execution of their workflow leaves a lot to be desired, still. (The recently-launched D750 has one built-in, but it's of the type that uses the rather limited tablet and phone App, not the WT5-type software.)

More after the break...