WOW! Here’s why to go cheap/fast/light!

I saw this and had a big surge of “And THAT, M-Fers, is why I got into HD for Indies in the first place!!!! An F900 can SUCK IT!”

What we have here are two skimboarders (OK OK I cheated in the headline sub - skimboarders is long/complex/weaker than surfer) with a cheapie GoPro camera....on a broomstick. What happens when you hold up a lightweight, waterproof, wide angle lensed camera on a pole looking back at you while you do sports? Fun stuff! Video after the jump.

iPad Follow-up Thoughts - thoughts on v2 hardware and v1.5 software

OK, it has been a couple of days to thunk on it.

First off - wrong on GPS - it DOES appear to have assisted GPS, not guessed-at GPS - I thought they were referring to using WiFi and 3G to guess at location rather than augment it - this is actually better than plain GPS (such as indoors).

I think I’ll probably pass on iPad 1.0, but I’m betting within 18 months we’ll get a 2.0 with camera/s, lower price, maybe 4G/LTE. As noted, I was wrong about “true” GPS capabilities.

I think this product is rolling out the way the original iPhone did - remember when there was no 3G, no apps, no video, no copy/paste, no MMS? They’ll catch up with this one too. This establishes Apple in the market, and gives them a place to build on, relatively early in a viable, consumer pitched tablet market (note: prior tablet efforts didn’t meet these criteria). I like all the talk about this being an appliance, nota a professional tool. An appliance is something most everyone can use day to day (think a $500 handicam). A professional’s tool is more powerful and customizable and allows you to augment and get in under the hood (think a Red One camera). Moreso - does your Mom use appliances every day, or professional tools? Why do you think they call them iMacs and Mac Pros? Hello? For all the high end user complaining (and count me in on that), this isn’t aimed at us - look at all the complaints about the original iPhone from a technical perspective. How many tens of millions of those have they shipped? Yeah. That. And I don’t think Apple really new it was coming - they pitched it originally as a great Phone, a better iPod, an Internet communicator, and a portable web browser, or something like that. Apps? Never mentioned. Yet that is the biggest point of differentiation I’d say as compared to any other smartphone. Not that other phones don’t offer apps, but certainly not the breadth and depth (as in, choice and quality) of what is available on the iPhone.

Apple’s iPad - All the Details, What It Means For Us

OK, this one’s a two parter. Part One is just the practical details of what it is, what it costs, what it does. Part Two is what it means for users like us - now and in the future. Overall, I think the Apple iPad is interesting, I think it is useful, it demos damn cool and as of today I don’t expect to buy one, and why you may not want to either. Read on for the details.
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Apple iSlate=Segway 2010?

OK - so it is Tuesday night, the night before the tablet launches. I’ve been reading all the scuttlebut, and I think it boils down to this - unless Apple pulls a TOTAL miracle out of Steve’s scuttlebutt, I don’t think the tablet is going to be as big a deal as hyped. Remember Dean Kamen’s project Ginger? Whuzzat? Oh yeah, that’s what the Segway turned out to be. I think Apple’s Tablet is likely to be the Buzz to Bomb again, Segway 2010. Read on for why I think so.

Band Pro 3D - roundup panel discussion on stereoscopic

At the Band Pro 3D event today, some industry vets discussed tips, tricks, good, bad, and ugly of stereoscopic imaging and post production, with a huge number of useful tips and suggestions on how to successfully navigate the 3D minefield. My raw notes begin after the jump.

Band Pro 3D - Technicolor 3D is 35mm film based stereoscopic projection solution

At the Band Pro 3D event held at Technicolor today, Technicolor showed off their film based 3D solution - they wanted to speed up the 3D rollout with something dependable, affordable, and available- so they went back to the future with a film based 3D projection system. See below all my notes from the panel on it today - continues after the jump.

Band Pro 3D - Element Technica shows off their 3D camera rig

Element Technica, best known for their Red accessories, has been working on a 3D camera rig for some months, and was showing it off at the Band Pro 3D event today. The rig is called Quasar, and they discussed their future rigs called Pulsar and Neutron coming in the future (as well as hints of underwater 3D rigs). Lengthy Q&A included, all my raw notes after the jump.

Band Pro 3D - Iridas’ metadata driven stereoscopic toolset

Steve Crouch from Iridas gave an impressive demo of their current and future Speedgrade DI versions. Highlights:
-support for all the major RAW formats, including SI-2K, Red, Phantom, D21, etc.
-realtime playback of all of these
-realtime stereoscopic playback of all of these
-embedded .look LUT files from Cineform done on set carry all the way through to conform and final grading
-nondestructive metadata driven image color and geometry manipulations

...and more. Read on.

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