I just ran across this review of the new Sony NEX-VG10 camcorder. While it resembles some of Sony’s other “Handycams”, it differs significantly in design. It uses the same large CMOS sensor as the Sony NEX series still cameras. This results in the sort of great depth of field images people are getting from DSLR’s
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Click ..! Click..! Click..! Click..! Stitch… stitch…stitch..stitch. Aaarrrgh..! Well many of y’all might be aware of this process for creating panoramas, so I am not going to talk about that it here. This traditional process of making panoramas i.e. taking multiple images and stitching them involves lot of effort and time. While taking landscape panoramas
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I guess I must be in the minority here, but I’m just not as excited about the whole 3D craze as everyone else seems to be. This is probably due to the fact that I have a visual disorder that results in the fact I get virtually no sense of depth from 3D. One thing
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I’ll bet there’s a good chance that you are a Netflix subscriber. I’ve been one for years, and really have enjoyed the service. Since the addition of streaming on demand, and a Samsung player that plays Netflix online content, my wife and I have enjoyed many a film and TV show. If you are a
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It’s a little funny when I think about a young person reading this title today. I think the message would be quite the opposite as to what was intended in 1942. Unlike then, radio is now in a decline. Online content, mobile apps that stream to your phone, your computer, all offer tough competition to modern
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[thumbshot url=http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder4_Overview.aspx]Microsoft Expression Encoder is the latest Windows Media Video encoder from Microsoft. Some will scoff and say, why don’t you just use Quicktime??” Well, most business clients use some version of Windows. Installing new software on a corporate machine is often not an option due to security restrictions. Besides, Windows Media 11 offers a
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A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that may have great potential for a brand new breed of solar cells.
This is something that has been bugging me more and more these days. It really came to a head when I was trying to view a sample video from a fairly major effects plugin provider. Unfortunately, the embedded video was so teensy, it wasn’t big enough to get any real impression of what the effect
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Hulu recently announced their upcomming “Hulu Plus” subscription service. Hulu is an online video portal, with a well designed interface. They also offer a stand alone application that give a somewhat “Tivo like” interface suitable for a media center. While the free portal will still carry on, subscribers can now watch entire seasons of current
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An example video shot with an iPhone 4 that I just happened across on Vimeo. Sure, a low end camcorder could challenge it, but this is a phone. I can remember when you had to “dial” a phone! Now I ask you, where’s my rocket pack?? Iphone 4 video test from Jesse Power on Vimeo.
