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Urban Safari: Starry starry night…

September 1, 2016 // 1 Comment

The RainyDayCrew had a very relaxing month of August, away from the rigors of playing with gadgets/testing out new tech/generally fiddling with the stuff that shows up [...]

Urban Safari: Strawberry Moon

June 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

There was a full moon on June 20, 2016; it is sometimes called the Strawberry Moon (because it occurs when strawberry season starts). It just also happened to be the Summer [...]

LapWorks mount for tablets and such

May 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Over the years, RainyDayMagazine has looked at a lot of accessories—cases, mounts, etc.—for smartphones and tablets and the like. While accessories designed for a [...]

WenPod Gimbal Stabilizers FirstLook

May 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back in 2006, we put together the setup that allowed us to take hands-free digital video while hiking, we called it the AdventureCam.  Back then, we had to use a small [...]

Nikon School : DSLR Video Workshop

October 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

We switched from Olympus to Nikon when we went from film to digital more than a decade ago. While the Nikon DSLR gear we have is video-capable, we rarely used it for video [...]

Blackvue Front/Rear Dashcam Installation

September 28, 2015 // 1 Comment

When we got back from Summer Vacation we posted an article with some clips taken with our Blackvue dashcam. We had posted a FirstLook in 2013, and a few readers pointed out [...]

Past Tech: Live Photos from 1997

September 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Buried in the two hours of Apple announcements on September 9th was an interesting bit about the new iPhone 6S and its ability to take Live Photos. When you take a photo [...]

Urban Safari : Spotting the Blue Angels

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Boston was treated to a Blue Angels fly-by on Tuesday. We debated over where in the city we should set up our photo gear, and decided that Castle Island in South Boston [...]

Vanguard Ball Head

May 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Vanguard has made a name for itself with professional photographers since coming onto the scene in 1986. Much of the credit for Vanguard’s rise in popularity goes [...]
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