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 [...]
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
Did you know that you can make a super computer by networking Playstations together? I guess the 7 core “cell” processor is really great for super computing and computations that can make use of parallel computing. Also its much cheaper, $300.00 per “cell” as opposed to $5,000.00. All you need is a dvd copy of [...]
I found this on the Chase Jarvis Blog: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/
Really great…. Ive seen more than a few ideas for the location laptop setup but I really appreciate the simplicity of his solution.
Heres a great preview of the new 3k chip Red Scarlet from the Engadget site. Its intended to be in the price range of prosumer shooters and indie film makers. This type of quality and versatility in this price range could very well revolutionize the technology within the industry. This is exciting in a time where more [...]
Apple Insider calls them the “Undisputed teardown experts at iFixit”
The teardowns are great fun as well as having a parts store and free repair manuals:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown
Optimizing your hardware for heavy Photoshop work is most importantly about three elements: processor, RAM, and scratch.
Processor: It is important to have a fast processor, but that it pretty much the norm nowadays. Today we have to think about how many cores to get. Photoshop is not a program that can make use of multiple [...]
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British Journal of Photography - Phase One and Leica scrap 10-month old partnership [update].
“We are committed to exciting future developments for the Leaf brand of products through innovative engineering, worldwide marketing and customer service,” said Henrik O. Håkonsson, President and CEO, Phase One. “Leaf customers will benefit from the many synergies with Phase One.”
“Since introducing the world’s first digital camera back in 1992, Leaf has been recognized as [...]
One of our blog members reminded me that there is a iPhone app to fire your Phase One back remotely. This was in response to the recent Next Generation Cable Release blog post.
also here are the instructions to use Air Mouse:
http://www.phaseone.com/HOME/Content/Support/Article.aspx?articleid=1219&LanguageID=1
Also a way using MochaSoft VNC:
http://www.phaseone.com/HOME/Content/Support/Article.aspx?articleid=1220&LanguageID=1
