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 [...]
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Posted 13 July 2010
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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.
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Posted 25 June 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 21 June 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 18 June 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 18 June 2010
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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.
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Posted 18 June 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 18 June 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 19 May 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 18 May 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 18 May 2010
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