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Light Extruding

Steve — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:01:33 +0000

Some of you might have seen the “Making Future Magic” video on vimeo, it was made by extruding light out of an iPad… Cool right, well if you watch the video it required some pretty complicated 3D modeling, a little beyond your average photo guy. Meanwhile our good buddy Tim Smith from Canon had lent [...]

AF100 ready to roll… Will just miss the Christmas Rush?

Steve — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:00:52 +0000

I know, I know… All you wanted this Christmas was a Panasonic AG-AF100, the repackaged cine style version of their GH2 sensor. Well your going to have to wait… but not too long. Panasonic announced today that the AF100 will start shipping on December 27th at a cost of $4,995.00… Not bad and I’ll bet [...]

10.7 Lion… What does it all mean.

Steve — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:15:27 +0000

So as I’m sure everyone has heard by now Apple is going to talk about what’s happening with the Mac on Oct 20th. They are also going to show off Mac OS 10.7, which is already being called Lion based on the glimpse of a Lion being offered on the official apple invitation. So what’s [...]

What’s on your iPad?

Steve — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:38:13 +0000

I get ask that a lot. I’ve got a mix of stuff, a few games, a lot of comics and a few apps that I use every day at work… So I thought I would put together a quick list. Enjoy. Good Reader This app will let you view just about any file on your [...]

No dancing…

Steve — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:04:46 +0000

Sitting quietly is fine but absolutely no dancing…

Why would you pay 170k for a BMW without back seats or air conditioning?

Steve — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:17:42 +0000

If you know me you know that I love BMWs and if you love BMWs then you really love the M “for motor sports” devision of the company. These are the guys that build the X6/X5 M, the M5, M Roadster and my favorite the M3. Why? You might ask is this a topic for [...]

REDs in space?

Steve — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:56:57 +0000

Well in near space anyway. Check out the latest video from the Red Bull Stratos team. They are using a collection of RED One 4k cameras and Canon 5/7D HDSLRs to record Felix Baumgartner jump from the edge of space… Crazy Stuff. Check it out: THE RED BULL STRATOS CAMERA SYSTEMS

A better way to process 5D material…

Steve — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:13 +0000

I had lunch with a friend this afternoon who mentioned a little piece of software that processes the H.264 footage from the 5D much better than the Canon FCP plugin. I’ve not had time to test it out but the example images on the site look great. They are doing a public beta first then [...]

Teradek’s Cube is one of the best ideas I’ve seen in a while…

Steve — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:06:58 +0000

So there’s this little company in Irvine called Teradek, they have a good reputation for building IP video streaming boxes. The kind you would hook up to your edit suite to share cuts with directors or producers in another location. Cool right? Well ya but not exactly mobile, until now. They have just announced that [...]

Why you should go see Step Up 3D…

Steve — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:35:59 +0000

I really liked Step Up 3D, I know, crazy right. I was tricked into seeing it and ended up enjoying it. As you can imagine the story was not exactly the greatest (hilariously bad at times, which is a good thing), but the dancing was truly amazing. Now to be fair my wife comes from [...]

Is it time to ditch your tower?

Steve — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:46:26 +0000

I know, crazy talk right? Well maybe not. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about moving my “home computer” off of an old G5 PowerMac and onto the new Mac Mini. Why! You may ask… It’s all about how my computer use has changed over the years. You see I have that tower [...]

Worried about your iPad on set?

Steve — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:19:00 +0000

I’ve often thought about using my iPad “Off Road” if you will. The only issue I have is accidentally destroying it. Well in my surfing today I came across the coolest case for the drop prone crowd. It’s made by a company called OtterBox and it’s called the DEFENDER… It makes your iPad into a [...]

Time to Jail Break?

Steve — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:37:57 +0000

Well here goes nothing? With jail breaking being given the ok by Uncle Sam does that mean it’s time to go jail break crazy? Maybe, there is a lot of cool stuff that is only available when using a “fugitive phone”. So, I’m going to give it a go and update my thoughts on how [...]

Hipstamatic

Steve — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:56:15 +0000

You know with the advent of the iPhone 4 and it’s not-too-bad camera, I’ve been spending some time looking at Apps that make iPhone photo-taking a little more creative. In large, I’m not a big advocate of all photography happening on your phone; I think the depth of field you get from a 35mm film [...]

What happened to my MacPro update?

Steve — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:28:19 +0000

I’m just saying we waited for close to 2 years for an update and all Apple could come up with was a few more cores and a slightly faster PCIe buss. They don’t even build that stuff… Not cool. What happened to USB 3? How about another PCIe slot? I understand that it costs money [...]