Christian Payne, who is probably better known as @Documentally on twitter, 12seconds, blip.tv and all the other social platforms, swung by the journalism class yesterday, – and he brought sweets. Not really, but it was as good as, just a little more expensive.
If you thought portable devices meant that you had to carry a few of them around, think again. As far as I’m concerned, Chris has a completely different take on this. His philosophy seems to be; the smaller they are, the more you can fit into your bag. – And I like it :-)
I don’t know if he even got all of his devices out during his stay, but here’s what he dug out of his secret chamber while I was watching.
- Apple Macbook
- 3G dongle
Gives him a Wi-fi enabled network wherever here is. - Kodak Zi6
A nice little HD video recorder. - Nokia N95
The device he uses to post Qik videos in conjunction with his iPhone i believe. - Iphone (with a windscreen stolen from his Zoom recorder)
The windscreen helps him look more ‘reporter like’, and the audioboo app let’s him record and upload podcast on the go. - Panasonic Lumix LX3
Lovely little camera with a bright and wide lens. - Eye-fi card
A 2GB SD card you pop into your digital camera and it has a built in wi-fi and GPS chip. It will geo tag your photos and upload them directly to flickr via the built in wi-fi antenna. - Nikon D3
SLR for low light, loong zoom and more commercial high res. photography. - A zoom lens (probably Nikon but didn’t check)
All this, and probably more, stuffed neatly into his North Face backpack – well done for keeping track of it all.
48 Hours in Denmark
I didn’t know about this, but Chris told me about a project called 48 hours in Denmark. Which basically give away a free trip to Denmark for people to come over and shoot some video. Chris and Philip made quite a nice video entry, so please give Philip Campbell and Christan Payne your vote.
Chris was visiting to pour out of his wisdom of multi media journalism in a web 2.0 world, but he couldn’t resist the opportunity to do a quick interview with Paul Bradshaw at the end of the lesson.
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Ahhh.. is this why you were asking all of those questions.. I thought you were planning to mug me. :)
As well as power monkeys and solar panels there was more 'secret stuff' in the bag.. I will show you next time.
Cheers for the mention,
Christian
Great to see you mention the denmark project – thanks for doing that! ;)
Nice little compact and well spaced out post. i like your use of white space.
I WAS planning to mug you, until you pulled out the Eye-fi card, – that made me a little nervous ;-).
Thanks, I hope you get the chance to go to Denmark. I promised Chris that I'd make a shout out for you in Danish, demanding that you go.
…Good luck with it