Entries Tagged as 'Video/Multimedia'

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

One Morning in Bangkok

(Phil and Amy stretch a bit in Bangkok)B
After the longest plane ride of our lives, 17 1/2 hours, we’re in Bangkok, awaiting our plane to Kathmandu. There’s internet here, and showers. Nice place. I mean, like wow, nice place. Thai Airways? Mmm, I could get used to that too.
Caught up on some snafus–Canon Professional Services [...]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Now the Main Stills Bag

Packing this one was a kick too. This was the Pelican with the dividers. I was able to fit a pretty crazy complement of multimedia gear in there: 

Leica M8 with 15mm CV, 28mm Summicron, 35mm Summilux ASPH, 75mm Summicron, spare battery and charger
Two Pocket Wizard units and two speedlights
HV20 Canon  camera with ebay lenshood and [...]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

More bag contents: Mobile Video


Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Packing it down

Been spending some quality time with our Pelican bags, trying to configure the kits to make sure that everything crucial gets to Nepal in one piece, and that we can carry all the really key stuff on the planes with us.
To that end, I’ve been configuring our two Pelican 1510 carry-on sized roller bags. These [...]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Canon Professional Services Rocks too!

Canon USA’s Professional Services division also stepped up to honor Serious Customer Service, when I called yesterday to find out status on a body and lens we’d sent in for repair. For whatever reason, these hadn’t been initiated, even though I’d authorized the repair (and emailed a PDF of our warranty cards so they knew [...]