GoPro Hero 4 . What We Might Expect. 4K 30 fps. 2K 120 fps. « Wide Open Camera.
Japan mid-tier camera makers face shakeout as smartphones shatter mirrorless hopes | Reuters.
Reuters seems to have gotten this story half right, and half wrong. See below for the details.
The Japan Times has a very different spin on this story saying the smart phone is hurting all of the camera makers including Canon and Nikon. And that mirrorless sales grew January through October, Year over Year. The Reuters story points to a drop in sales up through Christmas. Something’s fishy.
Olympus expects to return to profitability in 2014 (they were dealing with an accounting scandal recently). And Canon plans to re-engage the mirrorless market. In other words, the Reuters story seems all mixed up.
I much prefer mirrorless cameras. First, I mostly shoot video and need an electronic viewfinder, and second, since I often shoot 3D, I am carrying not one camera but two or three pairs of cameras. Mirrorless cameras are smaller and lighter, their lenses are smaller and lighter and cost less too.
It’s not just for the pretty 3D pictures of falling snow flakes but also learn more about snow flakes in a way that leads to improved forecasting of snow conditions: Can we forecast the perfect ski day?☃ | Microryza.
This web page at the University of Utah illustrates the 3D camera used now.
In the past week or so, Youtube has made changes that broke the playing of 3D videos in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Videos appear to display properly in Chrome and Opera browser.
In IE and Firefox, 3D videos display like this, rather than in the full size of the viewer:
Al Caudullo (3DGuy.tv) has found a work around: Go to each of your 3D videos on Youtube, and edit the “Tags” section and add:
yt:crop=16:9
I did this for all of my 3D videos and this did fix the problem.