The latest podcast for the week ending 24th Feb 2026 from Australian Videocamera / Creative Content is now available. In this episode: GPU Prices Up DJI Launches Website To Aid In Drone Purchase Selection New Tamron Lens for Sony, Nikon RØDE Direct Connect New Smallrig S70 Wirless Mics The Galactic...
It’s that time of year to look skywards…
And with Christmas coming (and Black Friday sales), what better time to hint hint to love ones ...?
Review: Canon EOS R8 v Canon EOS 5Ds. Sort of.
To test the Canon EOS R8, I approached it from a different angle than the norm. Ordinarily, I’d probably take landscapes photos, or if at the right time of the year some motorsport shots. But this time, I thought why not? It’s been a full moon, so why not use...
Astrophotography: Shooting the Geminid Meteors Dec 13th-14th
If you are planning at having a crack at shooting the upcoming Geminid Meteor shower, this little video from the PhotoPills folk might help out!
Astrophotography: Part One – Getting Started
When I started back in 2002, I was under a big misconception. I thought to get started I needed to buy a decent telescope with an SLR film camera. How wrong can you be!
New Zealand South Island Astrophotography Trip
One of the things the PhotoPills community does regularly is take trips to various locations around the globe to scenic places in order to get that lifetime shot of the moon, galaxies, meteors, northern or southern lights and so on.
Starry, starry night – well almost.
Most people know of Vincent Van Gogh, the eccentric Dutchman painter who sliced off his own ear for some reason. But that’s probably as far as it goes, unless you of course watched the most excellent Dr Who episode where the good Dr and Amy Pond save Van Gogh from...
Tutorial: Photographing the annual Gemenids meteor shower
Because, depending on where you are, these next 4 days offer one of the best astronomical light shows there is via the annual Geminids meteor shower.
PhotoPills. I Think It’s A MUST Have App for Photography
Photography (and videography for that matter) has come a long, long way in the last few decades. I was incredibly lucky as a kid as my Dad was an avid photographer and we travelled the length and breadth of the UK for him to photograph ancient castles, places like Stonehenge,...
Setting up an MSM Star Tracker
I have always had a fascination for Space. Even before the first Moon landing, as a kid I had tens of books on it and used to draw with a compass and pencil images and diagrams of the solar system. I even made a rocket “console” out of cardboard boxes...
Shooting for the Stars. An Astrophotography Primer
I thought I’d stay on the photography theme a little while longer and touch on a subject I have been playing with off and on for a while now, and that is astrophotography. I first approached this at the beginning of the millennium when I still lived on the Northern...
Photographing / Videoing the Total Eclipse. How to get that Killer Shot!
You may have heard that tomorrow night (Tuesday 8th Nov) in Australia we’ll have the pleasure of a total lunar eclipse. This happens when the Earth gets between the Sun and the Moon, thus cutting of most of the light that we normally see reflect off the Moon’s surface. What happens...