Monthly Archive: January 2011

My Blackberry Is Not Working

This about sums it up!

Why the future of video is the DSLR form factor

I just posted this to an article on EOS HD. It was about the form factors of HDSLR’s vs Video cameras.  I agree for the most part. This is what I wrote: Long Live The HDSLR. I don’t use all that extra rigs and gear on my Canon 60D. Just did a professional shoot with …

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Inexpensive Laptop Plug Travel Adapter

European Plug fits USA Power Adapter

On a recent trip to England a friend forgot his adapter to plug his USA Mac Book power supply into an outlet in the U.K. The solution? He removed the sliding unit with the USA prongs on it and then inserted a standard two hole power connector into the space on the Apple charger. Like …

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Pop Photo Tests the 60D

A review of the camera I am using. Popular Photography has a technical review of the Canon 60D.

Can glasses free 3D viewing increase consumer appeal for 3D and take up of 3DTV sets.

About 10 percent of the population don’t see 3D including me. I wish 3D would go away like many gimmicks that it is as it did before. The nice thing about not seeing 3D is that I don’t have to spend more money at the Cinema or for other devices that include it including TV’s. …

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1000fps for free – using Motion Optical Flow instead of Twixtor

This is from our friends a Crumple Pop: “We were inspired by Oton Bačar’s incredible bmx videos on Vimeo to experiment with retiming 60fps video shot on the Canon 60d. Specifically, we were interested in whether an obscure feature of Apple Motion called “Optical Flow” could achieve results that were comparable with Twixtor.” “After a …

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Kodachrome T-Shirt

Dwaynes Photo in Parson, KS has accepted the last order of Kodachrome processing. They are offering a T-Shirt to “To commemorate the best slide and movie film ever made, show off the Kodachrome colors with this 100% cotton T-shirt.” I ordered one.

For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas

Here is a article from the NY Times. I have a lot of Kodachrome slides. In it’s day, it was the best photography offered. They are the only slides that have not faded. Kodachrome is a victim of Digital Photography. I have known about this for some time. I do have some old rolls of …

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