At Fishing Fury, we love shiny things as much as fish do - especially shiny reels. As odd as it may sound, it’s not only important that our reels function well, but that they look great too. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder when it comes to reels though. Personally I prefer the appearance of a round baitcast reel, where as Jon prefers low profile. One thing with both agree on though, is that if we had the money, we would have a serious collection of pimped out reels. Here’s a list of the reels we wish we had, but probably never will.
Click the image below to read our latest feature article, Dream Reels!
There is a very small selection of fishing equipment made especially for kids. Barbie and Spider-man mini rods seem to be the most popular over the years. Not long ago a cool looking device called the Rocket Fishing Rod came onto the scene and even won an award at iCast. While my little one isn’t old enough to fish, my good friend Jonny Mackay has two boys who were happy and willing to test out the Rocket Rod. Click the image below for Jonny’s review on Rocket Fishing Rod.
My friend Shannon picked up this cool camera for me while he was in New York. This camera normally sells for $449.99 CDN around Ontario and around $399.95 in the US, but Shannon managed to find it for a truly amazing $200 USD. While I’m definitely not a big Kodak fan, I think this camera will bring some new versatility to my camera arsenal, which is growing by leaps and bounds this year, and my first impressions are that it’s actually pretty cool.
The Kodak V570 is the worlds first dual optical digital camera. This camera employs both a standard telephoto lens, with a 5X optical (3X digital) zoom capability, and an ultra-wide angle lens for tight places or huge scenery photos. The camera comes with a slew of modes for taking portraits, snow, text, fireworks, etc. Honestly I don’t really care about these modes as they just seem to lock certain ISO, exposure, and flash settings. However, behind all these boring modes I found a feature that made me forget about all that nonsense.
The V570 is capable of taking panoramic photos by stitching three images together using the cameras software. It takes on average about 20-30 seconds and the results are very good. Using the ultra-wide angle lens you can take a full 180° panoramic shot that is stitched perfectly by the software.
Before I give you my highlights I should tell you that I am only reviewing the camera. In fact I tossed out the docking station and software with the box. To get my images off the camera I just pull out the memory card and use a reader built-in on my laptop. Unfortunately, this means that the V570’s internal memory is useless to me.
First Impression Highlights
Quick draw. This camera is on and taking pictures in under 3 seconds.
On camera stitching for seamless panoramas in almost all conditions.
The switching between lenses is as simple as zooming in and out, and is nearly seamless.
Ability to zoom in and out while recording in video mode. Even changing between lenses.
Records movies up to 640×480 in resolution.
2.5″ High resolution display.
Feels good in your hands and makes a great matrix-y mechanical sound when the lens cover slides to the side.
Some things I’m not so sure about…
Movies are recorded in Quicktime .MOV format.
Low burst rate, a maximum of 4 images in any quality mode.
Some things I already hate…
Respect my mode, bitch! Generally I have custom settings in my camera for shooting outdoors, they just happen to be the settings that I’ve built up over the years, but no matter what setting I want every time I turn on the V570 it defaults to auto. Where as my Canon SD10 starts in the mode you left it on. I much prefer Canons behaviour in this case.
I have a friend whose cottage is on Lake Chemong, never fished in it although I've heard all the stories. I was walking in it this weekend past, paddled it too, with Alexander directing.....check out the Curve Lake Powwow sometime!!!!
I worked so hard this weekend, the shirt fell right offen me, so I need that shirt more than ANYONE else!
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I am Dick van Hattem. The men who caught this wonderfull pike in the Netherlands.
The pike was actualy 120 cm long, weight exactly 16.5 kilo's and was caught on a death perch on 10 meter deep water on 27 december 2000.
But now.... the photo was shopped for fun. I had a reading for a fishingclub and this was the last picture of the reading I had for 100 quest. Name of the picture.... I have a dream..... Everybode was laughing. Really funny, never claimed the world record. Because it is not by far.
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