Red Hydrogen and White Balance with Don Komarechka

Red Hydrogen Phone and White Balance With Don Komarechka
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Episode Resources

Photo Taco – DPI with Don Komarechka: https://phototacopodcast.com/dpi-with-don-komarechka/
Red Hydrogen One Phone: http://www.red.com/hydrogen
Petapixel: Plumbers Tape is a Cheap Way to White Balance Photos: https://petapixel.com/2018/09/08/plumbers-tape-is-a-cheap-way-to-white-balance-photos/
FastCameraRaw Blog: DIY White Balance Reference: https://www.fastrawviewer.com/blog/diy-white-balance-reference
Fstoppers – Magic Bokeh Results of Reversing an Element Inside Vintage Lens: https://fstoppers.com/nature/see-magic-bokeh-results-reversing-element-inside-vintage-lens-275013

Introduction
Welcome to the Master Photography Roundtable part of the Master Photography Podcast Network!  You are joined by thousands of photographers listening to this show who are all on the same journey to master their photography.  I am Jeff Harmon, the host for this episode and joining me at the roundtable is a hero of mine, Don Komarechka.
Don, none of my fellow round tablers were able to be on with me this episode, so thanks so much for coming on the show with pretty short notice so that I wasn’t alone.
Don:
Jeff: For those of you who may not know of Don, he is a mad scientist with a camera.  He does some incredible things with a camera that very few people on the planet are doing.  He is probably most well known for his snowflake photography but the work of his I love the most right now is his podcast called Photo Geek Weekly that we will make sure to talk more about at the end of the show.  How about we dive into our two topics for today?
Red Hydrogen Phone
Jeff: Our first topic is a phone.  Not the one everyone might be expecting since as we are recording Apple is unveiling their next generation iPhone in September 2018.  This phone is from Red, the manufacturer of some really high end, really expensive cameras. They call their phone Hydrogen One and I have heard Don gush with excitement like a kid on Christmas Eve about this phone for some time now.  It is an Android phone that has a very unique feature in a holographic display. There were two pre-order models offered, one called Aluminum for $1,200 and the other called Titanium for $1,600.
Don, I never heard of this phone until you mentioned it on your podcast.  I want to know how you find out about it and what about it made you decide to commit to it over a new iPhone – especially when you committed to it so early with a pre-order?.
Don:
Jeff: You finally got the phone a couple of weeks ago, right?  So tell me about it what is like. Has it lived up to your expectations?
Don:
Jeff: Now that we have gone through some of the details with this phone, where do you see this kind of thing going?  Do you expect holographic displays to be something Apple and Google would be likely to provide in their phones?
Don:
Jeff: Last thing on the Hydrogen One phone, what do you think this means for photographers?  Do you think we are headed to a place where photographers need to pay more attention to stereoscopic imaging,