Circuitous Conversations With Bill & Dan

After almost 4 years, Bill & Dan are back to let you know that we’ve launched a new show called Ask Bill & Dan. It’s a call-in Q&A show where we answer listener questions about cameras, lenses, lighting, computers, and almost anything in between. So go subscribe now over at http://www.askbillanddan.com or on iTunes or your latest podcasting app like Overcast for iOS.

Bill and Dan talk karate, audio interfaces, and a circuitous trip through director Tony Scott's movies. SHOW NOTES: Rick Wenner MMA Fighters Mackie Onyx Blackjack MBox mini Aaron Sorkin on Fresh Air Riff Trax Numb3rs episode with Baldwin Brothers Intro

Bill and Dan talk camera repair and what Dan's been up to for the past few weeks. SHOW NOTES: Milo Olympic Robotic Camera Phantom High-Speed Camera Jurassic Park Theme Slow 2012 Tonymac Recommended Builds Samsung 830 SSD on Amazon Heather and the Fallen Tunnel Tree Autofocus Reality in Canon Cameras on Lens Rental Blog Canon Professional Services

The boys catch-up with talk about their new computers, Bill's 5D3 image corruption, Dan's experience with the Nikon D800e and why Mac OS chews up gigabytes of space it might not have to. SHOW NOTES: Hackintosh update Hibernate space Flashpoint 16” Softbox 5d3 Image Corruption Drobo 5D Drobo Mini  Nikon D800 Keyboard Maestro

The boys delve into the Apple announcements at yesterday’s WWDC Keynot. The fancy new Macbook Pro with Retina Display, how Apple screws it’s biggest fans, new features of Mountain Lion and iOS6. SHOW NOTES: WWDC 2012 Macbook Pro Retina Display MacBook Pro Retina Display at Amazon Mountain Lion iOS 6 Beta Flame malware

Once again Bill & Dan are live in the same room talking about the new Canon pancake lens, hands-on with the D800, LEDs, and WWDC rumors. SHOW NOTES: Canon 40mm/2.8 pancake D800 hands-on Canon 5d Mark III Dedo light

This week, on a very special holiday edition of Circuitous Conversations, Bill & Dan are live in the same room talking about moving around terabytes of data, why finder still sucks after so many years, why Dan's thinking about building a Hackintosh for video conversion and more. SHOW NOTES: SoftRAID Calibrate 5D Mark III in Lightroom Ze Frank 'Wadman Mission'

In episode 86 Dan walks us through the job of being a digital imaging tech or DIT, we discuss color grading in video and how it relates to you photography. More about hard drives and USB3 and thunderbolt and how Bill hosed his MacOS install on his main Hackintosh, only to get it back with good backup planning. SHOW NOTES: MPEG StreamClip Douglas Trumbull Calibrate 5D Mark III in Lightroom Ze Frank 'Wadman Mission'

Episode 85 has Bill & Dan talking about their memories from 1985, evidence of upcoming Mac hard releases, and a discussion of The Avengers movie by Joss Whedon. SHOW NOTES: Geekbench

This week's episode is chock full of into about Adobe's new subscription model & copy protection, an update on Bill's new Ivy Bridge hackintosh, the ethics of eBay sniping, and more. SHOW NOTES: Jes Young - "Tab Bennett and the Inbetween" Jbidwatcher - eBay Sniping Tool Beatmaker 2 TonyMacx86.com BlackMagic Speed Test App Sonnett USB 3 PCExpress Card LaCie USB 3 PCExpress Card

RAID storage, why modern cropped sensors are pretty good, and the crazy low cost of computing nowadays are the topic this week for Bill & Dan. SHOW NOTES: RAID Arrays on Wikipedia ChronoSync SoftRAID

Dan and Bill talk shooting in hotel rooms, some of Bill's recent museum visits, and Dan's search for iPad midi Nirvana. SHOW NOTES: Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center Bill Wadman Portrait Workshop Annie Leibovitz - Pilgrimage  Video game exhibit Ivy Bridge 3770K Father’s pictures of his daughters And his Flickr page

Dan and Bill talk about 80's BBS files, the legal limits of print editions, and some mini-reviews of recent aquisitions. SHOW NOTES: Lens Loop Strap Lumopro LP120 mini review Eggleston Editions mess Jason Scott Video 1 Video 2 air server + screenflow 80's Touch Tumblr Silver & Light

Dan and Bill take on small venue concert photography, the advantages/disadvantages of 4/3rds and similar cameras, and the right and wrong way to copy old hard drives into the present. SHOW NOTES: Light Reinforcement Panasonic GH2 @ Amazon Paul C Buff CyberSync Four Thirds camera system Chronosync

Dan and Bill talk about how video games have and have not changed, why camera straps are so annoying and what to do about it, slow-motion cameras, over-cooked action movies, and more. SHOW NOTES: Nintendo Game & Watch Prometheus trailer William Eggleston in the Real World Lens Loop Strap Luma Labs Cinch Duncan Davidson Phantom high-speed camera Singularity

Dan and Bill discuss Bill's new 5D Mark III, CF vs SD, iPads one week in, Photoshop CS6 beta, and more! SHOW NOTES: Nikon D800 DxO High Score Photoshop CS6 beta Canon EOS 5D Mark III (Body)

Dan and Bill have their new iPads and tell you what they think of them from the point of view of the photographer, the gamer, and the just plain computer nerd. Plus, it's the one year anniversary of Bill's hackintosh, and more! SHOW NOTES: iPad Mike Daisy Real Racing 2 HD Catan HD Ticket To Ride Art Authority PhotoForge 2 Photosmith Easy Release Air Video Dynamic DNS Screens Intel 520 Series 240 GB SSD

Our guest this week is independent horror film creator Brad Rego, the man behind 'The Killing of Jacob Marr'. Don't miss out as we talk behind the scenes, the hurdles, the workflow, film festivals in the days of the internet and more. And the new iPad. SHOW NOTES: The Killing of Jacob Marr Gargalese Without A Box Act Naturally Shooting "Act of Valor"

Dan and Bill answer the age old question of if and why prime lenses are sharper than zooms. Is it technical or technique? You'll find out. They also discuss the recently announced and long awaited Canon 5D Mark III digital body. Plus a couple of duplicate file utilities for your Mac. SHOW NOTES: Gemini ImDeDuper Lens Rentals Best Blog Posts Doug's iTunes Scripts Lens geneology

This week's chat includes bits about Apple's newly announced OS ten update (Mountain Lion), a story about meeting interesting people on assignment, a follow-up on Bill's new printer, and our thoughts on the movie Hugo. We wrap things up with a quick rundown of softbox options for speedlites. SHOW NOTES: Mountain Lion Epson Stylus R3000 Hugo Lastolite's Ezybox Westcott Micro Apollo