I plan on my next DSLR having video capabilities, being able to use my zoom and manual lenses sounds like just too much fun not to try. So I signed up for this little web-cast based on a book coming out titled “From Still to Motion: A photographer’s guide to creating video with your DSLR” By Richard Harrington, Robbie Carman, Matt Gottshalk, and James Ball. looks interesting and only an hour long, and hey, it’s free!
Pearson School Systems WebEx Enterprise Site
So I just got back from vacationing in a cave apparently because I had heard nothing about the new MacBook Pros coming out! I was a bit torn between trying to decide between an iMac with the i7 processors or a now older MacBook Pro. Now the 15 and 17 inch MBP’s come with either a Core i5 or i7 processor, guess that makes that decision easy for me… Plus, one of the coolest things I’ve read is the graphics switching per application. With the older MBP’s you’d have to choose either the on-board graphics or the actual graphics card, depending on what you thought you’d be doing. the on-board graphics obviously using much less power and therefore getting better battery life, but if say you knew you were going to be doing a lot of editing or something else more graphics intensive, the on-board graphics wouldn’t cut it, so you’d opt for the graphics card. Well now, I guess there’s built in magic that knows what the graphics needs are per application and can switch from the less powerful to the more powerful graphics processor depending on what application you’re running. So go from surfing the web to working on a 1000 RAW files in Aperture per say, the GPU would be swapped without having to re-boot, how cool is that! This will definitely be my next main computer. Check them out here!
I’m always excited to find stuff like this. Michael Clark, the adventure photographer, did a talk over at Google just recently, and now it’s up on the Google Talks site. I’ll post it here below but you might want to go and watch in on HD over on You Tube.
Wow, this is a pretty good deal, granted it’s a rebate but still good!
3XSDCFX3008GA31 SanDisk 8 GB Extreme III Compact Flash Memory Card – Pack of 3
I just came across this very interesting little camera by Yashica, the Japanese camera manufacturer. It’s a little 5 megapixel, fixed plastic lens, digital camera. And I guess it’s pretty cheap too, like 100 bucks or so. The funny thing is the way the sensor works, it’s more like a rolling shutter in that it seems to scan the image rather then capture the image all at one. Because if this it suffers from the same thing some digital SLRs that can take video suffer from, angled lines that should be straight, either because the subject is moving or the photographer is moving too fast. But then again, aren’t these types of funky little flaws the reason Holgas is so popular to begin with? Anyway, check out the video from Japan Exposures below.
A first look at the Yashica EZ F521 | japan exposures
Have you read the owners manual for your Nikon Flash? Have you read Joe McNally’s book “The Hot Shoe Diaries“? Well here’s one more resource to help understand the Nikon Creative Lighting System. It’s actualy a post of another post by Russ MacDonald.
http://dptnt.com/2009/01/nikon-creative-lighting-system-practical-guide/
For those of you who might not be aware of the R-Strap it’s a new take on the old shoulder strap idea! Check it out here. I use one and can attest to it’s coolnesisity!
Anyway, some people out there have built one for themselves with off the shelf parts. Check it out here!
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY_R_STRAP/
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