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Friday Inspiration, Travel Love.

I need a vacation, an overseas foreign land vacation to be specific. Since the trip to Italy fell through earlier this year it might be a while before I travel abroad again. In order to get my travel fix I guess I’ll watch videos like the one below from Christian Grewe.

This five-minute short is a highlight reel of three separate trips to Asia, Thailand, and South America. All of the footage was shot his Canon 5 D Mark II and III, plus a GoPro Black edition. These feature really nice travel footage, that reinforce the fact that you really need to look around, be adventurous, and pay attention when traveling. Why? Because if you don’t you might miss the little things, and the little things make it all worthwhile.

SMAPP, Will Make You a Better Filmmaker.

If you are a filmmaker, you might want to consider downloading SMAPP for your iPhone or iPad. SMAPP is an app that was designed and built by Still Motion, to help make the filmmaking process easier, and help people that are just getting into filmmaking and digital storytelling understand the decisions they are making. The app is filled with great tutorials, budget saving ideas,techniques, and fundamentals to help make you a better filmmaker. Oh and it’s Free.

meet SMAPP. the stillmotion app from stillmotion on Vimeo.

Learning this craft can be intimidating and there are so many tools that we often don’t even realize we have, or we don’t fully understand how to best use to tell our story effectively. SMAPP was created to make all of filmmaking more approachable and to empower the filmmaker to tell relevant and meaningful stories, their stories, with more confidence than ever before.

Sony NEX Campaign Takes a Shot at DSLR Users.

To promote their new NEX line of mirrorless cameras Sony has launched a new Australian YouTube channel titled DSLRGEARNOIDEA (DSLR Gear No Idea) where the basic premise is you have your bad ass camera and all the accessories, but don’t have a clue about how to, or why to use it.

These are the DSLR clueless – all the gear and no idea. Remind you of someone? Share it with them. Find out more http://www.sony.com.au/productcategory/nex-camera

The campaign asks if you know anyone like the people portrayed in the videos and then encourages you to share it with them. The videos are really pretty funny, and they really are reflective of any number of individuals that bought into the whole idea that having a bigger, more expensive camera will make you a better photographer.

Edelkrone Pocket Rig. I Want One.

I’m always looking for new gear to help improve my photo/video shooting. I have been pricing new DSLR rails and rigs for a while now, but the other day my friend Tim pointed me to Edelkrone and their Pocket Rig.

This rig looks great. It’s small, light and rugged. You can add accessories to it to extend the overall use, and the design is really well thought out. When folded this is the size of a battery grip for camera like the 5D Mk II. When extended it gives you full shoulder support. One thing I like is the fact that you can use this to stabilize your shots, and still be very discreet because of it’s compact profile. Not only that, but the price is right as well. At $399.00 its not bad. If you can wait to take delivery until December, you can get it for $238.00 which is even better.