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| Jonas - iPhone3G properly clamped to the Joby |
My new camera, the dedicated, no longer a phone, iPhone3G has
left me excited at all its possibilities. Its one failure is that when I use it
in my small Kitsilano studio with the hot lights that are built into my studio flash
system the exposure used is a slow shutter I cannot control.
Because the iPhone is heavy it feels firm in my hand. But some of the resulting pictures have been a tad soft because of “camera” shake.
I went to Leo’s on Granville and friendly Jonas showed me
four clamps with which I can attach my iPhone3G to my heavy Manfrotto tripod.
We decided on the more expensive Joby as it can easily be switched from iPhone
vertical to iPhone horizontal.
I love the service of Leo’s because it is a real camera
store. The smell (heavenly) when I enter the shop is of camera metal. Their
back-up to everything I have bought through the years has been excellent.
A few years ago in a magazine shoot in my Kerrisdale home my
Fuji X-E1 would not fire my studio flash. In desperation I called up Leo’s and
asked for Jeff Gin my point man there. Because it was Wednesday (Gin’s day off)
he was not there to help. They put on Jonas who immediately asked me, “Alex do you have your Fuji on silent mode?”
Modern cameras exercise free will and, sure enough, they do
stuff without their human masters telling them. It was on silent mode (and why
would a camera not fire a flash on silent mode? Don’t ask me). The problem was
resolved instantly.