On recent TWiP podcasts, Alex Lindsay suggested a couple of cool product ideas: – using a computer and one or more projectors to “paint” light onto a studio scene e.g. you could dial-in that you want a certain part of a scene (e.g. a model) lit with warmer light and the software would change the [...]
Billo pointed out that a focusing screen would not be much help with manual focus while shooting a movie with my new Canon DSLR, since the mirror is flipped up / open while you’re shooting a movie. Guess I’ll have to opt for an LCD viewfinder loupe instead.
I’ve always loved driving fast cars (perhaps it has something to do with the time I spent in Michigan). I recently got the opportunity to drive the Nissan GT-R. It’s a very fast car: 0-60 in around 3.4 seconds powered by a twin turbo V6. I was half expecting (and hoping) that Nissan had done [...]
I finally bit the bullet and moved from being a Minolta guy to a Canon guy. I wanted to start investing more in photography gear and wanted to do it with a system that’s more common and has more options available. I tried out both Canon and Nikon cameras, and ultimately decided to go with [...]
Atul Gawande, in one his recent books (maybe Better) mentioned that one should count something all the time. I recently took a taxi to the train station and the cab driver mentioned that previously, of the people heading into the T with bags, 6 or 7 out of 10 would instead come to the taxi [...]
Daniel was right when he suggested that a daily post was quite ambitious. It indeed has been. I have been generating ideas for blog posts and writing them down in various places, but am only now starting to turn them into posts.
As you may have noticed, I’ve been spending a lot of time with digital photography these days. On my commute to and from work, I have ample time to listen to podcasts (esp. at the 2x speed that my iPod allows). I’ve been listening to podcasts hosted by various folks, and I’ve been struck by [...]
Great post today on CrunchGear about how resolution has nothing to do with image quality. Has an excellent in-depth walk-through of how light enters a lens and ultimately gets written out to memory and everything that can turn the image to garbage in-between. I vaguely knew this process; the post really goes into great depth [...]
I met someone who is in the satellite business and works with SES Astra. I asked a bunch of questions since it’s not often you get a chance to learn about the business of satellites. I wondered if bandwidth on satellites would be a shrinking business as more and more of the world gets wired [...]
I recently learned about the “Nodal Point” in the photography context. If you rotate a lens around this point while taking multi-image panoramic pictures, you will not get any parallax error. It turns out that there’s actually a tripod specifically designed for this use: the Nodal Ninja. I did a quick search on Wikipedia to [...]