Archive for October, 2008
October 13, 2008
One of the newest cameras to be put out by Sony does double duty as both a camcorder and an ordinary camera. It is called the Sony Cybershot T-550 and it is capable of shooting in high definition.
The camera is quite sleek and flashing looking. It is made out of high quality black plastic and metal parts.
It almost always takes a superb shot. It has a 10.1 megapixel function with a double anti-blur feature.It also has a function called theDouble Anti-blur with Optical SteadyShot so you are never looking at double people or snaky light trails ever again.
The 3.5 inch LCD touch screen allows for complete ease of functionality of the camera. To help keep everything in focus there is also a face detection function which makes sure that people’s faces in the scene are in the sharpest focus possible and that each shot has perfect exposure.
This ensures that you end up with fewer spoiled shots.
How do you like the sound of a camera that can shoot video and capture clean crisp images at the same time? You can get images that are 1280X 720 out of this camera without having to interrupt your video shooting.
The Cyber-shot T500 features Face Detection, ensuring that people’s faces in the scene are in sharp focus and with perfect exposure for fewer spoiled shots. Up to eight faces can be tracked at a time, making the T500 ideal for capturing large groups of friends and family.
The camera can also shoot 10.1 effective megapixels so the images that you end up with really are of a highly graphic, professional quality. If you are planning to shoot landscapes or celebrities and sell them to magazines
You can take it to sporting events or stadiums and get exactly the pictures you want using the 5X optical zoom. The lens capable of doing this is the Car Zeiss Vario Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom.
The camera is also beautiful to look at with an extra large 3.5 inch Clear Photo LCD Plus touch screen. This makes it a joy to look through when you are trying to frame or focus and image.
Shooting could not e simpler because it has several shooting modes including the regular features that all Sony Cameras come with including High Sensitivity, Auto, Soft Snap, Twilight, Portrait, Twilight Portrait and Landscape.
There is also a very High Speed Shutter function that captures more elusive images such as the Snow, Beach and Fireworks.
The Cyber-shot T500 will be available from October 2008. There is no information about the price for now but you can estimate it to be around five hundred bucks. It might be as low as 350 depending on where you buy it from but top of the line Sony cameras are already in the 450 to 600 dollar range in most camera stores.
October 10, 2008
the Red One Camera. This is a compact and durable camera that has a high resolution lenses that can capture anything. It was originally designed for shooting sports. It was developed by Oakley which is a company that usually makes sunglasses. The founder of that company simply decided that he was sick of tossing out his camera to buy a new one every couple of years and that it was time someone designed a camera that could be upgraded every couple of years without issue.
It is a revolutionary camera that is so good it has already been adopted by Peter Jackson and Steven Soderburgh.
This is because it is the first digital video camera that has a resolution that actually exceeds the detail and quality of 35 mm film. This means that digital video cameras are coming to be very close to traditional cameras. The actual physical resolution of it is 4900 X 2580 pixels which is phenomenal.
This camera is not in the same category as a handy cam. It is a real movie maker. It sells for about $25,000 in total and I t records movies in 4K resolution. The 4K resolution is exciting and high tech because you cannot shoot that high of a resolution with a regular movie camera. It is a real leap in technology. It is literally the wave of the future which is why so many young filmmakers are encouraged to invest in this camera as soon as they can. It is not the usual piece of junk that you are not going to be able to buy cords or battery chargers for in a few months.
However the company also makes a line of cameras that are cheaper called the Scarlets. These can be had for five thousand dollars or less. The cheapest one is the Scarlet which will be released in 2009. The Epic and The Red One are smaller cameras that are available now and you can get them on the company website – www.redone.com.
This camera was also designed to never become obsolete which is partly why it is so expensive. All of the components of these cameras have also been designed so that they can be upgraded with different components. Every camera in the line, whether it be the professional of handicam models is specifically designed so that it can always be upgraded. They are also designed so they seamless integrate with film cutting programs as well as Mac Hardware and Software.
With the price of this equipment being so low everyone will now be able to make a very high quality film that is good enough for professional exhibition.
October 7, 2008
Folding screens are very elegant item and also very useful in open concept dwelling spaces like studios and one room open concept spaces. We can also use them to get some privacy in our home offices. The high tech versions are very elegant and contemporary at the same time.
Folding screens have always been a fashionable decorative piece of furniture but they are usually made of bamboo cane, wood or rice paper. Some are also made of glass or etched glasses. Many of them on the market are just plain slats of wood or just bamboo. Wicker dividers have also been popular as have been ones covered only with fabric.
For centuries this very plain piece of furniture has been livened up with Oriental prints on rice paper inserted into the panels. Usually these are the mass produced prints you see marketed in China town. These prints are very traditional and usually are of cranes, birds, koi fish, carp, waterfalls, mountains and lucky Asian symbols.
The concept behind the new digital panels is the same as the traditional old design. It is just that instead of a plain panel or oriental panel there is now a digital print in the center. The digital print can be traditional or it can be newer in flair. It is just a matter of taste after all. Keep in mind too that the subtly glowing screen can also be a beautiful source of light in any room.
There are a couple of companies offering this type of screen. One of them is Hyundai. This company came out with a cutting edge digital folding screen in January of this year. The latest company to come out with a digital folding screen is Dawoo. This company has invented a digital folding screen that has four integrated LCD panels that can be put on faders, switch images or just stay static as you please.
Keep in mind too that you don’t have to be traditional with the images that you choose. Although the eight lucky horses or nine goldfish screen is traditional you could also have landscape photography, vintage portraits, classical paintings or anime on your screens as well.
Basically you can program the screens on the digitalized room dividers to display whatever different content on all of the panels. You can keep the panels static and or you can program in content those changes at certain time intervals. This certainly would make the wait at the dentist or yoga office less boring. It would be like watching Zen television if you were choosing very soothing images.
You can also have a selection of images and choose them to suit a mood or theme for a party. For instance if you are having a dinner party with red linen and plates you can also “tune” your room divider screens to be read as well.
