Recent content by sturgisphoto

I've started several multi-million dollar businesses in my lifetime, all of them successful. In my semi-retirement I started an art gallery / retail store / commercial photography / custom framing / leather work / laser cutting and engraving / and now, aerial photography business. These are all...

If you volunteer with the Civil Air Patrol do you need a commercial rating? I suspect the answer is no.

Testing a new camera with pictures of clouds and fog? That picture could have been taken with a cell phone.

Thanks QP, when the two systems were announced I assumed I would want the X5R, but after reading about storage requirements on the raw video, I may have second thoughts. Although I do have an 18TB raid for storage. Even that seems kind of puny in the raw video business.

I'll admit I've been having fun shooting video on my inspire, but I'm really only interested in stills. Will there be a difference in the raw stills from X5 vs. X5R?

While some of the folks here may have a legitimate need for zoom, I'm not too interested myself. When you go to a longer FL lens, you need a more stable platform to get a sharp picture. As good as the Inspire platform is I'm not sure it's good enough for anything other than wide angle.

I'll admit I'm new to video but I know photographers spend 10s of thousands of dollars to get an extra stop of dynamic range. Even though I just got my Inspire 1 a couple of weeks ago I'll definitely be getting the Inspire Pro X5R. I like the idea of having a backup bird. Would I fly the pro...

This discussion is the very same that wedding photographers have been having for 20 years. For every highly skilled professional wedding photographer out there, there are 50 "housewives with cameras". Now, nearly every family has a cousin with a decent camera. Why spend $3,500 on a real...