Tag: pentax

  • Valois Bay SuperMoon

    Last night the moon was 14% and 30% that it has been in 18 years. So what better night to set up the tripod and 30 year old 400mm Vivitar Pentax prime lens my Buddy Al is letting me hold onto. Photo taken in in the Valois Bay of Montreal, Canada Set Up: Pentax K200D…

  • DadCast Episode 33 • The Zombie Show: It’s The Yeast We Can Do

    Quite possiby the Livest we’ve ever been… This week we welcome André Nantel, renowned FiB Montreal Systems Biologist, Photographer, Traveller, Gamer, and experienced Dad of two to the Mesa 14 Restaurant on Bishop for a very special live edition of the show. Among the many topics of the night, we finally find out what biologist…

  • DadCast Episode 23 • The Year of the Tablet

    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… With the recent announcement of all the new tablet devices, we try to break down the differences and search for a way to fit them into our lives. Steve and Francois review the Apple TV and Netflix service, Steve gets grilled about his Kindle and the…

  • DadCast Episode 14 – The Big Ranting Canuck

    The Big Ranting Canuck, Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we announce our new sponsors: Audible and we talk about some great customer service from Pentax, some pretty appalling follow tactics by Tweetphoto, the eminent I5 chipped MacBooks Pros and the Steve Jobs recent flurry of emails. Hopefully we’ll see…

  • Pentax Imaging Canada, You ROCK!

    One of the collective peeves from all the Fat Dads on this site is awful customer service. And it’s been pretty much no holds barred for outing and shaming companies that hold the customer in contempt and provide nothing but appalling customer service. On a few very rare occasions, we get to recommend companies that…

  • Jamais Deux Sans Trois

    “Jamais Deux Sans Trois” is a french expression meaning that events always happen in threes. And usually it’s associated with bad luck. And of course this perfectly sums up the past couple  of weeks worth of tech disasters. It pretty much all started when I went on a cross-country ski trip a few weeks back.…

  • I Squish Your Head: Making the Shot

    Every once in a while, we have a little time on your hands over lunch but can’t can’t out because of the rain. So from time to time, we’ll whip out the Lego mini-figs and set up a shot.   Toys and Macro shots are not particularly hard to shoot but being geeks and Lego-maniacs…

  • You NEED a dSLR to Take Great Shots!

    Photo taken by the Burg and permission has been granted to use this shot under Creative Commons. It’s funny but I tend to disagree. As a kid I used to walk around using my hands to frame a rectangle that way I would know what to take a picture of once I got my hands…

  • Pentax K200D Hands-On

    If you are a pro photographer, you should probably stop reading now, unless you really need a good laugh. I finally plonked down the required fundage to buy myself some street cred in the camera department. Of course this means that all my photography skills are yet to come.  For a bit of back ground,…