Author Archives: Nate

“Moving Into Motion” by TWEAK Digital

Overwhelmed by the prospect of shooting video with your DSLR? MN Digitechs has partnered with Jeremy Wilker of TWEAK Digital and Studio 1414 to bring you a DSLR video workshop.

“There is widespread buzz about digital SLR cameras that shoot HD video. Your clients may even already be requesting you to shoot video clips in addition [...]

Zeiss Announces Canon EF-mount Cinema Lens

The world is changing fast folks. Zeiss has announced a cinema lens that comes with a Canon EF-mount: Zeiss LWZ.2 Zoom 15.5-45mm T2.8. You can now put a lens worth tens of thousands of dollars on your $800 video SLR!
http://www.cinema5d.com/news/?p=3232
http://www.zeiss.com/cine

Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Released with Native Tethering

Lightroom 3 Beta 2 has been released with native tethering support! We had a meeting with the Arden Hills, MN Adobe office (where Lightroom is developed) last year and this is one of the things we insisted they should add.

New in Lightroom 3 Beta 2

Improved performance throughout the application for faster importing and loading of [...]

Keep Your Film Skills Fresh?

Clark Patrick writes about the future of film:
“We all know that over the last few years digital photography has grown by leaps and bounds. Digital image quality is getting better almost exponentially and computer editing tools are getting easier and faster for professionals and non-professionals alike.
What I would like to argue, however, is thatĀ analog, film-based [...]

Ideas for Meeting Topics/Locations Wanted

Hi All,
We’re due for a meeting. Any ideas for topics and or locations out there?

Question of the Day

Will Canon compete more directly with RED?

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Photography + 3D

I saw this on John Nack’s blog today. This is pretty incredible stuff: software that allows you to create 3D models automatically based on photographs and video.

John Nack - Video: Rapid creation of 3D using a video camera
John Nack - Photoshop 3D is not about 3D
Strata 3D software

Adding to the Default Paper Sizes

Need to use an uncommon paper size? Most of us would just make a custom paper size in Page Setup, and that works well until you want to use that size all the time. You’ll try to go into the “Print & Fax” preference pane and see that custom paper sizes do not show up [...]

American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent

Here is a really interesting book, written by Benjamin Nugent.
American Nerd
Radio Interview: The Sound of Young America
Benjamin Nugent is the author of “American Nerd: The Story of My People”
It’s a book on nerds that’s part history, part sociology, part reportage and part memoir. Nugent traces the history of the nerd, from the antagonists of romanticism [...]