South Carolina Photography Guild

As photographers in the digital world, cameras are always associated with computers at some point. Whether you are taking family pictures and sharing them on the internet, or are developing commercial photography for Fortune 500 companies, you are using a computer to manage and share your images, whether it’s with Aunt Gertrude or Getty.
As technologies advance, the interaction between cameras and computers becomes even easier and additional features become available en masse. While this photo blog has endeavored to minimize technology discussions, an emerging technology I recently read about in a tech magazine (Maximum PC) could revolutionize the way we use our cameras, and as such, is worth a post.

The technology is called wireless USB (note the spacing as there is another technology called wirelessUSB which is very different), and offers the potential for transferring very large amounts of data across short distances without the need for cumbersome cables (We’re talking on the order of almost 500 MB/s over distances of up to 3 meters. This drops off to about about 110 Mb/s over distances of 10 meters.) The potential here for cameras and photography are quite amazing. We could easily see cameras that use this technology to immediately save the image upon capture to a wireless datapack attached to the shooters belt. This data pack could then incorporate the technology of cell phones to call to a web server for instant uploading to a web site. The same theory could apply not only to still photography, but also to videography. Instant videos!

As we navigate and sift our way through the SD cards, CF cards, memory sticks, hard drives, storage networks, and strive to keep all our images organized among all these different media types, promises of new ways to store, manage and publish photographs are on the horizon…and closer than one may think.

The scphotogs group got together again in smaller fashion this past weekend, and took a walk down Broad Street to see the sights and capture what we saw on camera.  All in all, it was a fun outing…smaller than what we typically see from scheduled shoots, but enjoyable because of it.  The larger shoots are great ways to introduce the group to new people and hopefully generate more buzz about getting people to join in the ongoing dialogues in the forums.  The forums also then generate spontaneous shoots like this last one.  Every once in a while though, it is fun to just get out and shoot.  As the unofficial blog author, I was actually able to test out a new lens that I recently purchased and it passed with flying colors.

Shots from others are in the forums so head on over to check out the sights others saw, as we have some truly remarkable talent already in the group.  We’d always welcome more though, so if you have the inkling to grab a camera and snap away, then you are ready for our crowd!  Here’s a few samples from what we saw on Saturday.

Newer member Dave, (a.k.a. davedude46) spent some time at a plantation that is “just on the north/east side of Folly Rd just after coming across the Wappoo Creek bridge” and generously shared his efforts with the rest of the community recently. A sampling of his handiwork graces the SCPG blog today. View the rest of his and everyone elses’ shots at your leisure both in the forums and the newly formatted galleries via the links to the right. In the meantime, enjoy these select few: