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Title: Media Tech Podcast Episode 12: Why You Must Archive Your Favorite Content | Billy Newman's Dual Camera Packing Strategy

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<v Billy Newman>Hello and thank you very much for listening to this Media Tech podcast.

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<v Billy Newman>where i want that's been pretty cool and i was thinking about that after some of these podcasts

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<v Billy Newman>went offline and i've had this happen to a couple other podcasts in the past where i think it was a

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<v Billy Newman>podcast that was run through um like a company like an iheart radio radio station that had an

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<v Billy Newman>that had a person put out a podcast then that radio station component went out of business not

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<v Billy Newman>iheart radio but just whatever this person's component of that business was and now that

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<v Billy Newman>feed disappeared and now whatever was hosting all those mp3s is now gone so you don't get access to

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<v Billy Newman>any of those uh radio shows anymore or any of those podcasts anymore and uh so having that kind of come

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<v Billy Newman>through i was thinking man you know someday it's going to be hard to get a hold of some of these

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<v Billy Newman>videos that i think it's easy to get a hold of now or someday it's like man it's just it's all these

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<v Billy Newman>things are going to be in the same spots forever so if it's uh if it's in the top 10 of my favorite

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<v Billy Newman>things that i kind of always seem to go back to i'm going in and i'm trying to grab that and make

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<v Billy Newman>an archive of that so that i have a full copy of that on a hard drive uh stashed away on the side

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<v Billy Newman>but it's cool yeah i can kind of pull it up anytime grab some of those uh those videos that i've wanted

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<v Billy Newman>to have in an archive and and watch them or play them at any time and it's cool uh for some of the

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<v Billy Newman>other stuff that i'm trying to do like if you have like a playlist of music that you listen to on

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<v Billy Newman>youtube but you want those artists to have or you want that copy of a song on your device or your

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<v Billy Newman>phone or your computer so you can play it anytime you want without having to go to a youtube page you

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<v Billy Newman>can use this service download that whole playlist of videos all at once almost seamlessly and get that

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<v Billy Newman>whole collection of videos or you can have it select just the sound part of it if you get kind

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<v Billy Newman>of into the into the program enough you can have it select just the audio for it you can have just

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<v Billy Newman>the sound come out of it or you can download the whole music video itself and have those on your

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<v Billy Newman>computer but um but yeah i think youtube doesn't like it you can also use this service on any other

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<v Billy Newman>website too so if you go to any website that has like a video link file on it it will be able to

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<v Billy Newman>grab that file and in a pretty good way it'll be able to pull that video file down on your computer

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<v Billy Newman>so you can watch it um as uh as just a full regular mp4 file it's pretty cool i've been liking doing

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<v Billy Newman>some of that stuff and uh it's kind of fun getting to do it but uh i don't know yeah that's kind of my

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<v Billy Newman>advice to everybody is that make an archive but there's a bunch of data that's out there that you

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<v Billy Newman>want to have and you're not really sure how to get to it but someone else is in charge of that

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<v Billy Newman>you should be in charge of it if you can find a way to make an archive or a backup of a bunch of

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<v Billy Newman>the data that you want to have i've tried to do that with all my photos personally and all the videos

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<v Billy Newman>that i've made but there's a bunch of videos and photos that other people have made that i don't

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<v Billy Newman>get to have a copy of and so you can ask them for it it kind of comes and goes you know depending

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<v Billy Newman>on the uh the the capacity of small jobs that the other person has but uh but a lot of time

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<v Billy Newman>yeah that's that stuff kind of gets lost and i don't have it or i don't get to see it

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<v Billy Newman>anymore and a lot of my favorite shows or content or pieces get uh kind of pulled and they just don't

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<v Billy Newman>get to exist anymore in the way that uh that you would have preferred to have it what was it i think

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<v Billy Newman>like this last year the merry christmas charlie brown was pulled from all services not allowed

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<v Billy Newman>to be seen on television and only available through uh apple tv is that right pretty wild huh

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<v Billy Newman>so i don't know yeah i want to have it and i want to have it just on my computer so i can watch it

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<v Billy Newman>anytime so i guess uh there's ways to go about doing that and uh i think it's uh it's kind of

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<v Billy Newman>cool to have a copy of some stuff archived back on your computer i got yeah like a bunch of the

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<v Billy Newman>podcasts i listen to i grab their full archive and i just threw that on a big hard drive that i've got

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<v Billy Newman>it's easy to do i was able to do it pretty quickly podcasts are easy because they want you to download

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<v Billy Newman>them you just kind of click download download download download download and i was able to spike

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<v Billy Newman>their server you know spike their uh their data charge for the month i'm sure you know these

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<v Billy Newman>podcasts are big enough my inconsequential download of 200 podcasts is probably uh small beans for what

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<v Billy Newman>they're used to but it was cool yeah going through getting a copy all that stuff and now it's like well

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<v Billy Newman>hey i got all this stuff that i wanted and uh and the risk of kind of losing a bunch of this stuff

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<v Billy Newman>isn't really going to happen and uh just because i got a copy of it all so yeah make an archive buy a

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<v Billy Newman>hard drive they're pretty cheap you can get like eight terabytes it's like 140 bucks

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<v Billy Newman>it's great it's wild that you can get so much now in fact i just had a hard drive fail like a four

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<v Billy Newman>terabyte drive i had that's what i'm talking about hard drives and backing up stuff i'll get into this

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<v Billy Newman>more too but god hard drive failed the arm of the hard drive got stuck up on the platters i had to

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<v Billy Newman>open it up with these um these hex screws i had this drive i opened the top the top of the hard

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<v Billy Newman>drive popped off and i see like this arm that you know the other the arm is like this piece that comes up

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<v Billy Newman>kind of like a the pin on a record player or something you know the needle you drop the needle

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<v Billy Newman>on the platter and then it reads the data there is kind of the idea so these there's like four

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<v Billy Newman>platters that are stacked on each other and then this this kind of uh pretty complicated arm system

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<v Billy Newman>that reads that data and then it ended up getting stuck up on that arm i think is i don't know part

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<v Billy Newman>of some firmware failure problem it's all kind of complicated but i open it up i reset the arm back

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<v Billy Newman>down and i still can't read the data on the drive so it's just kind of making a weird screechy sound

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<v Billy Newman>now which is uh worse the good news is almost all the data that was on that four terabyte drive was

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<v Billy Newman>backed up in a second location so i'm able to rebuild i'm able to reconstruct all the the data that would

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<v Billy Newman>have been on that drive that i would have lost there's a few things that i did lose that i am frustrated

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<v Billy Newman>about but it's also not really a mission critical failure like i had a bunch of audio samples that

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<v Billy Newman>were downloaded for logic pro 10 i think like 80 gigabytes of samples something like that it's a

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<v Billy Newman>big file to download that got erased i didn't have those files backed up those sample files

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<v Billy Newman>no problem really because i can just redownload all those files off of the internet again and so i can

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<v Billy Newman>get that that data reconstructed the cloud's a good solution it doesn't mean it's lost forever but it is

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<v Billy Newman>also frustrating that it's just not as fast to rebuild or uh you know get right back to where i was in

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<v Billy Newman>my working state um without having like a physical drive that is just that drive

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<v Billy Newman>you

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<v Billy Newman>january man it's moving in already pretty fast but uh i'm out here um kind of traveling around

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<v Billy Newman>i finished up some stuff over in the high desert and i was kind of getting ready i kind of repacking

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<v Billy Newman>some gear after it being pretty cold and pretty wet and pretty cold and i'm trying to go over some

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<v Billy Newman>of my gear and sort of get it prepped and tightened up a little bit so that i have everything kind of

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<v Billy Newman>packed up in a good way and i'm putting together this packing list that'll go up on my website here

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<v Billy Newman>this week and i also wanted to kind of talk about it on this podcast too so probably a lot of these

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<v Billy Newman>podcasts i'll try and go through and talk a little bit about the the stuff i've got to pack or some

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<v Billy Newman>of the gear i've got to bring for for some of these outdoor kind of travel photography multi-day trips

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<v Billy Newman>that i do and it works pretty well just for outdoor camping stuff or backpacking stuff or cold

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<v Billy Newman>weather or warm weather i'm going to kind of try and break down a bunch of those different pieces

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<v Billy Newman>as i sort of move through the year through uh through some of the different locations that i'm

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<v Billy Newman>going to go but um i was going to kind of go through some of the gear stuff part of it first i guess

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<v Billy Newman>cameras is i try and bring one or two camera bodies when i'm going on like a multi-day trip and if

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<v Billy Newman>i normally try and bring two camera bodies so that if something happens with the first one

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<v Billy Newman>i can kind of drop over to the second one pretty easily and that really almost never comes up but

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<v Billy Newman>it is also really pretty nice to have when you when you need that option most of the time what it is

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<v Billy Newman>for me if it's two bodies it's going to be a digital camera body and then a film camera body with a

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<v Billy Newman>roll of film in it so that i can kind of have that as an alternative to what i'm shooting and i really

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<v Billy Newman>almost never have a problem with the camera or the battery system while i'm out traveling or while

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<v Billy Newman>i'm out doing any kind of multi-day trip and stuff and then if i do have a problem i can kind of switch

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<v Billy Newman>over to film for for some of the art photos that i'm trying to put together but like as you guys have

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<v Billy Newman>probably seen in some of like the past work or even some of the current black and white stuff i'm

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<v Billy Newman>trying to put out a lot of those are film photographs so uh for a lot of the creative

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<v Billy Newman>images that i'm trying to put together i'm trying to like work through it on digital but then i'm also

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<v Billy Newman>really trying to capture something that's like one of the solid images i'm trying to get as a film

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<v Billy Newman>frame in that and i'm still trying to do that even this year into 2021 but yeah i definitely try and

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<v Billy Newman>bring the two camera bodies right now it's the 5d mark 3 and then it's a eos elon film camera that was

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<v Billy Newman>a real inexpensive canon film body that is great because it attaches to all of my higher end l glass

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<v Billy Newman>canon lenses that i've got like the i guess i got like the 17 to 40 i've got the the 24 to 70

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<v Billy Newman>and then like another 50 millimeter that i've been bringing around a lot so uh so these have been

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<v Billy Newman>great for me to kind of capture a bunch of stuff but uh but yeah i get to like capture the hd video

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<v Billy Newman>stuff if i want on the 5d i get to capture the photo stuff on the 5d and worked out work out a lot of

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<v Billy Newman>the different uh i don't know just kind of the more like annoying parts of the photography uh sketch

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<v Billy Newman>process as you kind of earlier on or maybe not in the perfect light and you're kind of trying to work

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<v Billy Newman>out the the layout of the composition that you're trying to do but once you kind of figure that out

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<v Billy Newman>um you kind of i try and come back with the phone camera and grab uh like a good moment with that

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<v Billy Newman>that's been pretty cool um but yeah i went through yeah those three lenses are really pretty much the

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<v Billy Newman>only kit that i try and bring and then on some specific stuff that's more landscape based or

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<v Billy Newman>um or where i think i'll really specifically need it i try and bring a 70 to 200 millimeter

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<v Billy Newman>uh zoom lens and for a lot of time when i bring a zoom lens um i want to rent it and that's where i

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<v Billy Newman>can kind of get like a specific lens for that trip and just really put in a lot of work with that kind

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<v Billy Newman>of specific lens and then when i'm home for a lot of the year and i'm not utilizing that lens and i

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<v Billy Newman>don't have to be paying for it and that's kind of what i've realized is you know there's really there's

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<v Billy Newman>really only a number of times where i'm going to be kind of trying to grab photographs with this

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<v Billy Newman>certain type of of lens either at like a tilt shift or a really wide angle like a really wide angle

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<v Billy Newman>fisheye or a really high compression zoom lens like a 300 or 400 millimeter zoom that i'm trying to do

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<v Billy Newman>some wildlife stuff with later into the spring i'm trying to schedule that out so that i have

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<v Billy Newman>rental of a higher end 300 millimeter canon like wildlife or you know like a

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<v Billy Newman>yeah just a what what is that lens that that 300 mil that fixed 300 millimeter 2.8

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<v Billy Newman>wildlife lens i'm trying to get one of those range of dots so i can take it out into the back country

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<v Billy Newman>and then uh get out to you know somewhere and get some shots with it and uh and then i don't have

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<v Billy Newman>to buy it i don't have to spend six grand on it or three grand on it or whatever it is so i think

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<v Billy Newman>that's kind of kind of one of my goals but um uh try and bring a bunch of sd cards and compact flash

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<v Billy Newman>cards that's sort of specific to the the canon 5d mark 3 that it takes both compact flash and sd

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<v Billy Newman>if yours only takes one or the other i guess i'd be sort of discreet on what you select for that

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<v Billy Newman>that's uh but yeah i try and load up this pouch that goes into my low pro camera bag that's got a

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<v Billy Newman>bunch of the sd cards and compact flash cards in it and um i have it pretty well structured so that

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<v Billy Newman>i don't really get it too mixed up with like cards that have photos on it or cards that are

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<v Billy Newman>formatted and cleared and ready to go i'm able to keep that pretty straight but uh but yeah it works

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<v Billy Newman>pretty well to have this little case that i've got one of those little media cases they sell them all

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<v Billy Newman>over and i have that kind of full full output cards i try to when i'm out have my laptop with me so

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<v Billy Newman>that it's in uh it's in one of my bags in the truck and then what i'm able to do is do like a daily

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<v Billy Newman>edit or like kind of after every like bigger chunk of the project i'm able to take the camera

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<v Billy Newman>back to the computer plug in the external hard drive and then uh offload the photos on the card

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<v Billy Newman>offload the photos and video into the lightroom catalog and also have this kind of backup under

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<v Billy Newman>that external hard drive uh right away so that we get all the photos in a couple spots before i get

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<v Billy Newman>all the way back home and most of the time uh unless i kind of come into like an emergency

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<v Billy Newman>you

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<v Billy Newman>And so I'm happy with the changes, happy with the way that it works and stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>Yesterday, I just added a new tab to the page where it says 360.

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<v Billy Newman>It's kind of below the main masthead and below the header piece there

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<v Billy Newman>where there's a block of links, kind of big photo links that go out to different locations.

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<v Billy Newman>But that first one in the block says 360.

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<v Billy Newman>And that goes to a YouTube playlist that I have put together

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<v Billy Newman>where there's a bunch of the 360 videos that I've put together from the Theta.

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<v Billy Newman>Is it the Z1, I think I was talking about?

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<v Billy Newman>The Theta Z1 360 camera video that I put together.

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<v Billy Newman>And then a bunch of stuff from the GoPro Fusion 360 camera that I put together a couple years ago.

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<v Billy Newman>A bunch of landscape locations across Oregon with some still stationary video clips

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<v Billy Newman>and some walking clips where it's sort of more like a VR tour,

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<v Billy Newman>like a VR walkthrough of an outdoor location.

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<v Billy Newman>But places like Smith Rock, I've got Fort Rock.

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<v Billy Newman>I've got some stuff up in the Cascades.

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<v Billy Newman>I've got a spot by Crater Lake.

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<v Billy Newman>I've got some cool stuff on the coast by some cool kind of mountain cliffs along the Pacific coast.

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<v Billy Newman>That's a really cool one.

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<v Billy Newman>And I've got a couple of – I've got riding a bicycle.

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<v Billy Newman>That one's a fun one.

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<v Billy Newman>Riding a motorcycle.

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<v Billy Newman>Riding a motorcycle on like a dirt road through a bunch of Oregon grape.

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<v Billy Newman>That's a 360 that's up there.

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<v Billy Newman>But a couple of cool VR videos that I've been trying to put together over the last couple years.

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<v Billy Newman>But I've got a playlist together.

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<v Billy Newman>It's up on the YouTube.

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<v Billy Newman>And so there's a new link, new change on the website that cuts over to that, which is pretty fun.

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<v Billy Newman>Happy about that.

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<v Billy Newman>And then I'm trying to go through the website.

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<v Billy Newman>And I'm trying to add some new links to a bunch of old posts.

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<v Billy Newman>So I'm trying to go back through and kind of fill those out a little bit to have some links out to some different spots.

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<v Billy Newman>Like if I talk about like a camera I'm using or a piece of gear, I'm trying to have a link out,

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<v Billy Newman>not to a place to buy it, like an Amazon page,

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<v Billy Newman>which a lot of people have like some kind of like Amazon affiliate or something like that.

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<v Billy Newman>What I'm trying to do is send out like just to places that have like information about it.

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<v Billy Newman>Sometimes it's just the Wikipedia page because that's really like the most current thing that exists about some of it.

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<v Billy Newman>Sometimes it's like the manufacturer page about it.

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<v Billy Newman>Or sometimes it's a third-party reviewer that's sort of a more trusted site.

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<v Billy Newman>But for like a lot of the camera stuff, it's like KenRockwell.com or like DPReview.

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<v Billy Newman>When I'm talking about like the camera equipment I might have used on a trip,

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<v Billy Newman>I would say I mentioned the D3 or the D2H that I used or when I switched over to a Sony A7R.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm trying to go back to some of those images.

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<v Billy Newman>And if I'm mentioning that or if I'm talking about that equipment,

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<v Billy Newman>then what I want to do is fill in a couple of those links so that if you check that page out,

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<v Billy Newman>you can link out and learn a little bit more about that camera equipment specifically for those details.

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<v Billy Newman>I don't really know them all.

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<v Billy Newman>I remember I read it when I bought the camera, I think.

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<v Billy Newman>But outside of that, I don't really remember any of it.

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<v Billy Newman>I also want to talk about these cool PA speakers that I picked up.

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<v Billy Newman>So I got a pair of pretty big like PA speakers.

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<v Billy Newman>I think it's like a 12-inch and then a tweeter, and it's two of those.

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<v Billy Newman>So I got a left and right, and I put them up in the studio right now.

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<v Billy Newman>Really, it's like way too big to go in the studio.

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<v Billy Newman>I could just use like little desk speakers to fill up the amount of space that this is.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's cool to have PA again.

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<v Billy Newman>It's probably like big enough you could take to like an outdoor event or an indoor event or something.

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<v Billy Newman>You know, you could have it.

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<v Billy Newman>It would run a wedding fine, something like that.

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<v Billy Newman>But I didn't have an amplifier.

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<v Billy Newman>I think I'd gotten rid of it when I moved out to Hawaii.

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<v Billy Newman>So I was looking around online, and I picked up an amplifier that's like a rack mount amp.

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<v Billy Newman>And it's kind of cool.

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<v Billy Newman>Or it's running fine.

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<v Billy Newman>I mean, you know, it's no big deal.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's cool now.

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<v Billy Newman>You can like connect Bluetooth to the amp, which isn't probably my only preferred way.

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<v Billy Newman>I think there's some things that will happen that mess with the sound.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's cool.

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<v Billy Newman>I can just like hook my laptop up, Bluetooth to the amp, and then it's playing out of this big PA system.

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<v Billy Newman>So it can definitely rock the house, that's for sure.

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<v Billy Newman>So it's a pretty small house in sort of a residential area.

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<v Billy Newman>Even if it's a house, but it's not an apartment anymore.

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<v Billy Newman>But as it is even still, it's pretty loud sometimes.

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<v Billy Newman>So I've been keeping it down.

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<v Billy Newman>But it's cool to have it, and I want to try and use it along with like the,

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<v Billy Newman>we've got a couple amplifiers here for the guitar stuff that I've got up on the wall.

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<v Billy Newman>But I want to incorporate the PA into it a little bit too, where I think like I've done some stuff with the acoustic guitar,

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<v Billy Newman>where you can kind of amplify that through the PA.

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<v Billy Newman>And then I also want to try some stuff of micing an amplified speaker,

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<v Billy Newman>and then recording that as sound instead of direct input into the audio interface.

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<v Billy Newman>That's pretty exciting.

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<v Billy Newman>I'm sure you guys are excited to think about how I will route a sound recording that I may or may not do in the future.

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<v Billy Newman>But that's some of the stuff I wanted to talk about.

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<v Billy Newman>Setting up a mixer, setting up a PA, working with Bluetooth.

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<v Billy Newman>And I don't know, how do you use a PA in a studio?

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<v Billy Newman>It seems like it would be pretty easy to understand.

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<v Billy Newman>But for audio, or for kind of the light stuff, it's like, I don't know, I've got headphones on right now.

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<v Billy Newman>So it's not too hard.

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<v Billy Newman>But now I've got a giant PA.

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<v Billy Newman>It's like as big as the one I set up for dances in high school.

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<v Billy Newman>So it's like, this is huge.

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<v Billy Newman>I don't know, probably overkill for what I'm going to need, but it's kind of cool to have.

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<v Billy Newman>So yeah, thanks a lot for listening to this episode of the Billy Newman Photo Podcast.

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<v Billy Newman>I appreciate you guys checking it out, listening to me talk a little bit about smoke,

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<v Billy Newman>about how to find a dispersed campsite, some spots up in the John Day area, some elk hunting stories.

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<v Billy Newman>Wow, pretty cool editing with an X-tach.

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<v Billy Newman>That's been really fun.

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<v Billy Newman>Yeah, we covered it all.

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<v Billy Newman>No way.

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<v Billy Newman>But yeah, you can check out more stuff at billynewmanphoto.com.

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<v Billy Newman>A lot of updates there that I've been trying to put together,

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<v Billy Newman>trying to put some more stuff up on the blogs itself, maybe some more helpful stuff.

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<v Billy Newman>It's a lot of just like kind of photo posts,

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<v Billy Newman>but I want to try and put up some more information about how I'm putting those together

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<v Billy Newman>or sort of what I'm up to with that.

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<v Billy Newman>And I've got the time and stuff, so it's kind of cool to put some of that stuff together

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<v Billy Newman>and see some people use it.

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<v Billy Newman>So I've been happy about that.

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<v Billy Newman>Happy to see the podcast numbers.

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<v Billy Newman>They're cool.

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<v Billy Newman>So yeah, if you're checking out the podcast, thank you.

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<v Billy Newman>Appreciate it.

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<v Billy Newman>If you checked all the way out to this, goodness, thank you very much.

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<v Billy Newman>But yeah, shoot me an email sometime.

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<v Billy Newman>You can find some contact information out at billynewmanphoto.com forward slash about,

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<v Billy Newman>I'm pretty sure.

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<v Billy Newman>So go there and find out all the information about me you want to.

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<v Billy Newman>Produced and hosted by Billy Newman. Explore media technology projects, audio workflows, and support the show at wnp-pay.web.app.