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Photo Geek Weekly

Don Komarechkaphotogeekweekly.com
Geek out about photography and related news. Technology, laws, ethics, techniques, and picks of the week!
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Episodes

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 131 – The Way Forward

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Skip Cohen joins the conversation to discuss many industry shifts, business decisions, and the way forward in the photographic industry with some classic anecdotes. It’s always fun to chat with Skip – thanks for listening! Story 1: Photokina is cancelled indefinitely (via DPReview) Story 2: Fujifilm Adds Pixel [...]

Nov 30, 20201 hr 14 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 130 – Copyright & Publicity Hits the Fan

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Steve Brazill for our very first LIVE episode! Topics of discussion include where copyright and right to publicity collide, what the future holds form Apple and ARM processors, photographic gift ideas and one of the beastliest cameras I have ever seen. Thanks very much [...]

Nov 22, 20201 hr 9 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 129 – AI Seeking a Purpose

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill joins to celebrate three years of the podcast! Kodak is playing with AI, Xiaomi is playing with collapsing lenses, Canon is playing with High ISO, Yongnuo is playing with oval flashes and then there’s a $22,000 photo book. Not to be played with. All this and [...]

Nov 09, 20201 hr 28 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 128 – Extremes and Accomplishments

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Ant Pruitt joins to discuss limit-pushing technology, a new Android-powered camera from Zeiss, NASA’s latest achievement celebrated in pictures, Adding autofocus to vintage lenses via LiDAR and… liquid-filled lenses? All this and more – thanks as always for listening! Story 1: Canon’s ISO 4 million multi-purpose camera was [...]

Oct 30, 202057 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 127 – Doubling Down

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Jordan Drake joins to talk about new camera announcements, advances in our software tools, innovations and experiments and more! Thanks for listening as always, stay safe out there! Bonus: Don’s latest episode on DPReview TV Story 1: Nikon Z6 II and Z7 II: what you need to know [...]

Oct 22, 202052 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 126 – LiDAR for Photography

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill joins Don to discuss the advancements in mobile photography – specially LiDAR enhancements that we never knew we wanted. The Lumix BGH1 box camera, unusual prototype cameras up for auction, and how the pandemic has affected us as professionals and creatives. All this and more – [...]

Oct 16, 20201 hr 12 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 125 – Speed, Accuracy, and Truth

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Allan Attridge joins to talk about world events, high speed cameras, colour grading for still and video, expensive displays, photojournalism and the dogs of war. And more. There’s a lot going on in this one! Bonus! Watch Don’s latest video on DPReview TV: Story 1: The New Freefly [...]

Oct 12, 20201 hr 1 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 124 – Cinemascape

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Jordan Drake joins the conversation to talk about the new cinema camera options about to hit the market, why in-camera effects matter rather than depending on post-production, the future of prototyping with supercomputers and AI accelerated interchangeable lens cameras. All this and more, thanks for listening! Story 1: [...]

Oct 04, 202056 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 123 – Science, Chemistry, and Tiny Cameras

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by veteran podcaster Chris Marquardt to discuss some silly science lenses, extremely compact full frame cameras, the future of Tetenal and the future of advertising campaigns. All this and much more – thanks as always for listening! Story 1: Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s [...]

Sep 27, 202057 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 122 – Now That’s a Lens Mount!

>> Be sure to check out Don’s virtual workshops coming up via Princeton Photo Workshop On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Jeff Harmon to discuss the highest resolution camera sensor in a telescope, what will hopefully be the end of our coverage on the heat issues with the Canon R5, [...]

Sep 11, 20201 hr 6 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 121 – Lumix Enhanced

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill comes back again for another round of geek talk – this time about all of the Lumix announcements including the Lumix S5, new sensor tech from Canon and what the heck is Phase One up to with it’s XT System? All this and a story about [...]

Sep 06, 20201 hr 9 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 120 – Not Recoverable

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Steve Brazill to discuss data loss woes, overheating woes, lens disassembly woes… and a fun AI algorithm that makes our photos cleaner! It’s really not that woeful an episode, it’ll be a good one to listen to. Thanks! Story 1: Photos and presets “Not [...]

Aug 28, 20201 hr 12 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 119 – Pixels to Life

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don and PhotoJoseph (Joseph Linaschke) chat about the evolving laws and perception of copyright, what might be coming in September from Panasonic, pushing limits with high-speed cameras and we remember one of the great imaging pioneers. All this and more – thanks for listening! Story 1: Google Images’ [...]

Aug 20, 20201 hr 14 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 118 – Security and Perception

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Stephan Bollinger to talk data security, lens hacks, sensor size equivalency and what a photographic legacy can be defined as. A fun philosophical discussion – thanks for listening! Story 1: Report: Canon had 10TB of data stolen from its servers in ransomware attack (via [...]

Aug 16, 202051 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 117 – Better Pixels

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill joins the discussion to chat about the Sony A7S III, Kodak not being a photography company anymore, new lenses, updates and potatoes. All this and more – you don’t want to miss this one! Story 1: Sony a7S III initial review (via DPReview) Related: Sony announces [...]

Aug 05, 20201 hr 21 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 116 – Future From All Angles

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Alex Lindsay joins the conversation to discuss photojournalism, mirrorless cameras and where the industry is headed, videographers with human rights issues and plenty of banter. I absolutely loved this conversation – thanks for listening! Follow-up: A Real-World Look at Overheating Issues With the New Canon Mirrorless Cameras (via [...]

Jul 28, 20201 hr 10 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 115 – Burning Desire

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Allan Attridge to discuss overheating cameras, too many Ks, the hipster approach of Pentax, mirror lenses and more. A great rambling discussion about photography, geekery, and opinions. Thanks for listening! Follow-up: Canon EOS R5 and R6 Overheating During Video Recording – Official Statement (via [...]

Jul 19, 20201 hr 17 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 114 – Canon’s Revolution

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill joins Don Komarechka to discuss the tidal wave of announcements from Canon including new cameras, lenses and sensor technology. We get into the weeds about video encoding technologies and the ethics of admitting your edits and composites. All this and more! Thanks for listening. Story 1: [...]

Jul 12, 20201 hr 31 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 113 – Film is Dead, Long Live Film

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by expert wildlife photographer Juan Pons to discuss his transition from film to digital, proper procedures for dealing with wildlife, medium format raw video, nifty accessories and “wild” cameras. All this and more – thanks as always for listening! Story 1: Opinion: The film vs [...]

Jul 05, 20201 hr 1 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 112 – Olympus Has Fallen

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Ant Pruitt joins the conversation to talk about the future of Olympus Imaging (whatever it will be called in the future), the Lumix G100, Smartphone optics that zoom and what happens when a client fires you for a difference of opinion. All this and more in another great [...]

Jun 26, 20201 hr 9 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 111: Lights Out

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill joins the conversation to rekindle the distaste of the changes at ShutterStock, Light L16’s consumer failure, cracked bits inside Sony cameras, broken memory cards and robotic pig cameras. Sounds like a good chat, right? Thanks for listening! Follow-up: New Stock Coalition Calls for ‘Global Shutdown’ of [...]

Jun 19, 20201 hr 27 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 110 – Shuttered Stock

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by a new voice on the podcast, Troy Miller! Topics include the woeful state of microstock agencies, new (and strange!) lenses from Canon, an unexpected copyright clarification from Instagram and what happens when you kick your clients when their down. All this and more – [...]

Jun 13, 202058 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 109 – Sensors That Think

Note: This episode is horrendously delayed. I had a major computer failure and was waiting on replacement parts. Sorry for the delay, and there will be a new episode in a few days! On this (belated) episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Bryan Weiss joins Don Komarechka to discuss the building o processors onto sensors, the [...]

Jun 11, 20201 hr 3 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 108 – Fast, Fast and Artificial?

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is rejoined by Steve Brazill to chat about the fastest cameras, the fastest lenses, and the fast evolving landscape of computational photography and photo industry interactions. I think you’ll like this one – thanks for listening! Story 1: The New ‘World’s Fastest Camera’ Can Shoot 70 Trillion [...]

May 15, 20201 hr 12 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 107 – The Moment it Clicked

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Steve Brokaw to chat about DIY geekery, new cameras and functionality on the horizon, camera retailer woes and what the early defining moments in our photographic careers were. Lots of great topics and a fun discussion – thanks for listening! Story 1: Raspberry Pi [...]

May 09, 20201 hr 19 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 106 – The Cloud at Home

On this week of Photo Geek Weekly, Steve Brazill joins the discussion to geek out about (maybe?) using your NAS storage as Cloud Storage, the current financial state of the photo industry using Canon as measurement, what happens when Sony embraces Light Field technology and optics that can see behind objects. Plenty to listen to, [...]

Apr 30, 20201 hr 16 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 105 – The Dead Horse

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Frederick Van Johnson joins the discussion to opine on the trends in pixel binning on mobile platforms, misappropriating images, how much video resolution is really enough, and what happens when your beautiful camera design is counterfeited. All this and more – thanks as always for listening! Bonus: Watch [...]

Apr 24, 202054 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 104 – Small but Mighty

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Stewart Wood joins the show to opine on macro photography, micro4/3, hacking film cameras to digital, the Porchrait Controversy and “lens bling”. All this and more, thanks so much for listening! Story 1: Panasonic says: “we want to energize the Micro 4/3 as much as possible…please wait for [...]

Apr 18, 202059 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 103 – Sweat the Small Stuff

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by the ever-geeky Steve Brazill to discuss some new macro cinema lenses from Cooke, colour calibration charts to the next level, a much-needed lens from Tamron and the philanthropic actions of LensCoat in this time of crisis. All this and more – thanks for listening! [...]

Apr 09, 202058 min

Photo Geek Weekly Episode 102 – Necessities

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Allan Attridge to chat about world events, photography, crazy expensive specialty cameras you will never own, and how the photography industry is helping the world. All this and more – thanks for continuing to listen! Story 1: Camranger will only deliver medical equipment if [...]

Apr 03, 202045 min
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