Two new Canon cameras capture “4K” video — 4096 by 2160 resolution motion imagery that is “emerging as the new standard for advanced effects and post-production in Hollywood,” Canon says. “It is particularly important for big-budget motion pictures that include scenes compositing live-action cinematography with high-resolution computer-generated imagery.”
The EOS-1D C is an SLR camera providing video recording at 4K, as well as Full HD video, and 18-megapixel stills, using a full-frame 24 by 36mm CMOS sensor. 4K video is captured by an approximately APS-H-sized portion of the full image sensor.
The camera records 8-bit 4:2:2 Motion JPEG 4K video to dual CF cards. It has an expanded sensitivity range up to ISO 25600 “for exceptional motion-imaging results with reduced noise even in low-light settings.”
Also, Canon says its Log Gamma enables high-quality video “with rich gradation expression, making possible the type of impressive image quality required in motion pictures by maximizing both highlight and shadow detail retention while also providing a high level of color-grading freedom.” The 1D C has a headphone jack for audio monitoring, and will be available this year for $15,000.
Over the past 4 years the New York City Department of Records has been compiling an online database made up of rare photographs of "the greatest city on earth," and now that database is avai...
Spark or Shadow photographs, developed by Harvard professor, Paul E. Sabine, show the progress of a single sound wave as it travels through a model space. Sabine used them to make pioneering studies of architectural acoustics. In this photograph, the sharp snap of an electric spark, located on the other side of the black circle, has created a single sound wave, much like the circular wave produced by dropping a stone in a pond. A small fraction of a second later, a distant second spark illuminates the entire scene and creates an image of the position of the wave. In the time between the two sparks, the wave has reflected off the back and sides of the box. The tangled mass around the black circle is acoustic noise from the spark apparatus. While these Spark photographs are generally presented as images of sound waves, the image is actually caused by a change of density in the air as the sound wave travels through it. Much like a lens, this dense air refracts the light and produces a band of light and shadow that reveals the presence and position of the wave. Because of the wave's optical effect, this type of photography did not require a camera. The model was simply placed on a photographic plate in a dark room and the illuminating spark created an image by projection.
A recent survey found the vast majority of photo enhancing and editing is done on a computer: just 15 percent of smartphone owners take and edit photos on their mobile device.
The smart move was Instagram’s when they chose to not integrate their app with Facebook last year. It must have taken balls to resist the temptation, but they made it. Because the service was growing independently of Facebook, capturing TSO and growing their user base very fast, they became a threat.
With the $50mm round they were raising at $500mm value a few days ago, they were on the path to becoming an unaffordable threat, in both senses. Facebook had one bullet, and they fired it quickly. Investors at $500mm valuation would not have agreed to selling at a small premium. Hence the offer that made the deal, at a x2 valuation: $1bn.
Researchers are making image sensors that give detailed readouts of not only the intensity, but also the incident angle of light as it strikes the sensor. This could lead to after-the-fact focusing.
The development of the EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder / Interchangeable Lens) platform has been a long time coming, and in a way, it has been pretty much inevitable.
French by birth and an inventor at heart, Yves Faroudja has devoted most of his professional activities in the United States toward the goal of achieving 35mm film quality in video applications. Over a career spanning nearly four decades, Faroudja has been credited as the inventor of a wide range of innovations, many of which have been licensed to the makers of both production and consumer video electronics. Many of the advances that have brought NTSC closer to RGB accuracy, moving forward into today's adoption of standards for HDTV, can be credited directly or traced to advances developed by Faroudja.
After earning his MSEE degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité, Paris, he worked at ITT Research Laboratories in France and at NATO in Italy until he moved to the United States in the mid-1960s. The company he founded with his wife, Isabell, in 1971, Faroudja Laboratories, holds more than 65 patents on various video processes. Companies that have licensed Faroudja technologies for use in their advanced video systems read like a virtual who's who of video electronics: Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic, Ikegami, NEC, Canon, Grass Valley, Sharp, and Mitsubishi, among others. Among the technologies Yves Faroudja helped develop are line-multiplying technology, advanced NTSC encoding/decoding, video image enhancement, and video noise reduction. Faroudja was a key contributor in the development of several generations of video recorders, including the Sony U-matic 3/4in. broadcast, Hi-8, and S-VHS formats. He is also the inventor of the Reverse Telecine Process, and is often recognized as the world's foremost expert in the area of video format conversion.
Faroudja has been the recipient of three Technical Emmy awards, including the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, as well as many other honors. He remains active in the industry, currently sitting on the board of directors of Tvia.
Grand moment de serendipité cet après-midi, où je suis tombé, en repartant d'un rendez-vous, nez à nez avec Yves Faroudja que je n'avais pas revu depuis 3 ans ! C'est à lui que j'avais présenté la technologie eye-fidelity d'imsense, c'est lui qui m'avait demandé de lui montrer des fleurs, et j'avais pu lui montrer le résultat sur place grâce à des photos de fleurs prises à Giverny 2 semaines plus tôt. Cette rencontre tès marquante m'a servi à maintes reprises quand je pitchais imsense, en raison de l'immense aura qu'a conservé Yves dans le monde du traitement de l'image fixe et animée. Il m'avait été recommandé par LetItWave dans lequel il avait investi et qui avait été racheté par Zoran...
Voir les slides 10 et 11 de http://www.slideshare.net/pdewost/6sight-2009-imsense-presentation
"The desktop version of iPhoto, and indeed all of Apple’s iOS apps until now, use Google Maps. The new iPhoto for iOS, however, uses Apple’s own map tiles – made from OpenStreetMap data (outside the US)."
"Last spring Sam Fiorella was recruited for a VP position at a large Toronto marketing agency. With 15 years of experience consulting for major brands like AOL, Ford, and Kraft, Fiorella felt confident in his qualifications. But midway through the interview, he was caught off guard when his interviewer asked him for his Klout score. Fiorella hesitated awkwardly before confessing that he had no idea what a Klout score was.
The interviewer pulled up the web page for Klout.com—a service that purports to measure users’ online influence on a scale from 1 to 100—and angled the monitor so that Fiorella could see the humbling result for himself: His score was 34. “He cut the interview short pretty soon after that,” Fiorella says. Later he learned that he’d been eliminated as a candidate specifically because his Klout score was too low. “They hired a guy whose score was 67.”"
This retro video shows a demonstration of the animation software Key Frame, which was created by Marceli Wein and Nestor Burtnyk from the National Research Council of Canada. The program, and the computer they’re using, may look archaic by today’s standards, but at the time they were the absolute cutting edge in computer animation. And Key Frame played a pioneering role in the creation of vector art and animation programs, like Adobe Flash and Google SketchUp, that we know and love today.
Photographer Phil McGrew took the striking picture through the rain-soaked window of his apartment, in San Francisco. An incredible eight bolts hit the Bay Bridge during the thunderstorm.
Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire the photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The deal is expected to close later in the June quarter.
Adobe has launched the public beta version of Photoshop CS6, which features a completely redesigned user interface along with new saving features (auto and background), new content-aware features (mov...
While the retina HD display is supposed to be the major "visible" improvement between the latest iPad and its predecessor, such difference does not always look obvious even for Apple fans.
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