Ep. 101: A Photographer's Sony Service Nightmare - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Episode 101 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
Download MP3 - Subscribe via iTunes or RSS!
Featured: Paul Nisely, Sporting News Director of Photography
In This Episode
If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us.
Sporting News Director of Photography Paul Nisely opens the show. Thanks Paul!
A photographer/videographer in Hawaii is given varying reasons why Sony wouldn't fix his a7s II then goes public and gets their attention. (#)
SmugMug steps up and saves the day...along with 200 million photos of now-defunct Picturelife. (#)
Think Tank Photo updates their Shape Shifter bags to v2.0 with some great new upgrades. (#)
9-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has an arguably reasonable demand for future shoots. (#)
Canon patents a new sensor design which would improve performance at the edges. Is it the sensor in the 5D Mark IV? (#)
A new camera slider is super-compact and pretty darn cool looking. (#)
After show: Comparison of my daughter's outro over time.
Guest outro: David J. Murphy of the Around the Lens podcast.
Connect With Us
Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community.
We'd love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome!
You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: "Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you're listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!"
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Sporting News Director of Photography, Paul Niseley, and you're listening to the |
| 0:04.3 | Petapixil Photography Podcast with Sharky James. |
| 0:07.4 | Enjoy. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast 101. a photographer's Sony Service Nightmare. |
| 0:20.0 | In this episode, |
| 0:21.0 | Sony Service may need some revamping, |
| 0:25.0 | Smug Mug steps up, cannons working on the edges, |
| 0:29.1 | Usain Bolt has a demand, |
| 0:31.3 | think tank's shapeshifter's get an upgrade, and a tiny camera slider hits the market. |
| 0:37.0 | All that and more in episode 101 of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. Podcast. Thank you so much, Paul, for opening the show. |
| 0:48.0 | I greatly appreciate it, brother. |
| 0:51.0 | Paul Nicely has a pretty sweet job. He's the director of |
| 0:55.1 | photography for Charlotte North Carolina-based sporting news. A now online-only |
| 0:59.7 | publication that's been in constant publication since 1886. |
| 1:05.0 | No, not 1986. |
| 1:07.0 | You heard right, 1886. |
| 1:09.0 | That makes it over 130 years old. |
| 1:12.8 | Amazing. |
| 1:13.6 | Paul holds a BFA and photography |
| 1:15.7 | from the Rochester Institute of Technology, |
| 1:18.0 | was a photo editor, then sports photo editor |
| 1:20.4 | for the Associated Press, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sharky James, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sharky James and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.